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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1947
Page
4
Walter Haddinger of Monticello Wisconsin reports a new four foot model F combine with a 30 horsepower Wisconsin air cooled motor plus a 22 horsepower Wisconsin air cooled motor with clutch and starter. Also included is a used F-20 tractor with cultivator. Located at Disch Hardware New Glarus Wisconsin.
Sale totals show 6,000 hogs and 9,000 cattle with 800 calves. Hogs sold unevenly but mostly steady to 25 cents lower. top hogs at 28.50 with various weight ranges listed. Cattle mix steady to higher with good steers and heifers up to 33.50, top 34.00 for superior steers. veals steady to 18.00, slaughter calves down 50 cents to 1.00.
Chicago receipts show heavy sausage bulls and live poultry with FOB prices for fowl, roasters, and leghorn broilers across multiple price points. Eggs and butter receipts listed with quality grades and current quotations. Midwest rains pressured corn and grain futures while wheat, corn, and oats fell on the Board of Trade, with activity and brief rally attempts noted.
New York trading opened lively but faded as the market stayed in the red for the sixth straight Monday. Professionals trimmed commitments amid doubts on exports and labor, while good earnings failed to lift many issues. Major decliners included U S Steel, Bethlehem, General Motors, Studebaker, and Phillips Petroleum.
Harold Williams and his sister spotted a forked two headed rattlesnake in a berry patch at Logan West Virginia. Williams captured the queer reptile with a forked stick despite pleas. The animal died days later in captivity.
William Worley and daughter Mrs. Elsa Oswald visited Mrs. Charles Phillips a Pinehurst Sanatorium patient at Janesville on Thursday. Donald Lahr of Racine is visiting his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Lahr.
Advertisement for pattern 9254 by Marion Martin features no shoulder seam in the top and no side seam in the skirt. Striped or abs pattern options offered with a full sew chart. Sizes 12 to 20. size 16 requires 3% yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 25 cents to Monroe Evening Times Pattern Dept in New York.
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