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Newspaper
Monroe Evening Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1950
Page
4
Classified lines show INFORMATION rate per Un and a note on saving fuel costs with Homeguard insulation, claiming payback in three to five years. A Homeguard bag covers 27 square feet at three inches thick for 98 cents. Also advertised are a Brandivans davenport convertible to a full bed with innerspring, with tape trim options, from Haworth's.
Classifieds list livestock offers including disabled cows high prices Pigs registered Holstein bull and Chester White gilts Angus and Hereford yearlings and steers. Also autos trucks and farm equipment notes with dealers and phone contacts across Monroe Madison Cedar Ville Lamont Durand Juda New Glarus and Freeport with brands Packard Chevrolet New Holland and Ferguson machinery.
Classified notice lists Byles Forga tractor by Minneapolis Moline on rubber with cultivator and 3 bottom plow in A-1 condition and mentions Arthur H. Stauffacher via phone 939-F Monroe. Also promotes brand new tractors and balers priced 100 to 400 under list with Time payments, used New Holland and 41 B John Deere, Melvin Waelti route 2 phone 912 Juda, McCormick baler model 45 traded in for a New Holland, late 1948 New Holland baler used through 1949, 32 horsepower engine, plus a 28-50 John Deere threshing machine and several used tractors, phone 229 Monroe.
Classified items show a married man seeking farm work with Fred Altmann in Monticello and varied livestock prices from heifers to medium and good beef cattle, feeding steers, and yearlings. Grain trading with modest moves on soybeans and lard, Illinois economists noting October May price rally factors.
US livestock markets show salable hogs around 4800 head with barrows and gilts 25 to 50 higher week over week while sows gain 50 to 75. Cattle totals near 300 with steer and heifer prices volatile. cows up 25, fat beef bulls down 50 to 100 cents, feeders steady to down. Notable high weights include seven loads of choice fed steers 34.50 to 28.25 per cwt and Nebraska lots at 30.50. overall ranges reflect mixed demand as warm weather impacted runs and later cold snap steadied receipts.
Stock trading at New York exchanges showed a generally higher market with modest gains across most issues. Chrysler stood out with a one point rise amid earlier strike disruptions, while radio shares jumped before profit taking trimmed highs. Turnover was about 700000 shares for the two hour session as prices held for International Telephone Studebaker Goodrich Safeway Stores and American Broadcasting.
Arthur E. Palmer of Freeport, aged 50, was badly hurt when his tractor tipped backward while climbing a 30 degree ramp. Orie Goodrich of Cedarville rode on the tractor during the incident, with Palmer reportedly towing the implement up the incline and becoming pinned beneath the heavy vehicle.
Fashion pattern ad for a versatile dress pattern from Marian Martin. Lists sizes 14 16 18 20 with size 16 requiring 3s yards of 39 inch fabric. Includes complete illustrated chart and step by step guidance and asks readers to send twenty five cents to the Pattern Dept at 232 West 18th Street New York.
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