Live Stock Prices at South Omaha Feb 18 1936
Receipts show cattle 7 500 head with steady opening bids for beef steers and yearlings but overall slower movement. Hog buyers active with prices steady to 10 cents higher. lamb bids steady to 25 cents lower with fat lambs at 9.50 to 9.90 and feeder lambs at 9.60 to 9.75 while aged sheep stay steady. Trade reflects a softer trend in stockers and feeders and weaker demand for plain cattle sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Stock Yards
Omaha
Feeder Lamb Prices Mixed in Market Report
The report lists various feeder lamb prices by quality and weight. Good to choice lambs span $9.75 to $9.25 per hundredweight, medium to good from $9.50 to $9.75, and fair to heavy grades around $8.00 to $9.25. Rangers and other lots show similar ranges with earlings noted at $7.00 to $8.00.
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Seveee
Sulla
Oenesee
Lambs Rangers
Rangers
Earlings
Door Knob Collection Tours World In Movie Studio
A film studio houses a 500 knob collection spanning China Italy Russia France and more. The exhibit showcases world travel across two years with priceless pieces and replicas where official fixtures could not be obtained. The set is used in many productions to furnish period scenes and historic dramas.
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Moving Picture Studio
China
Italy
Russia
France
England
Germany
Americas
Auto propelled ferry used in Utting Bavaria
A vintage Popular Mechanics description explains a foot driven ferry that uses the rear wheels of autos and trucks to rotate paddles and push the craft across the river. The ferry has no motor or fuel needs, and the owner spends nothing on esousine or oil.
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Utting
Bavaria
Germany
Popular Mechanics Magazine
New Island Industries Survey Indicates Development Potential
A survey by the Wanolulu Chamber of Commerce examines New Island Industries possible revival including taro production. Taro historically valued for poi, a staple in Hawaii before annexation in 1898, is highlighted as part of the industry’s food value and potential growth.
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Wanolulu Chamber of Commerce
Amons Thendustries
Hawaii
United States
25 000 WPA dollars fund dog heaven in Memphis
Government officials announce 25 000 WPA dollars will create a canine haven in Memphis with a modern palace like dwelling for homeless hounds. It will feature ample food and shower baths for dogs and will be ready soon. In parallel, the government plans a 1936 program to plant 400 million trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Hector
New Deal Acts As Judge Jury In Administrative Law Rise
Washington report shows about 25 000 administrative laws created by New Deal bureaus and orders. Executives act as judge and jury with no court appeals. 12 000 executive orders issued in under three years. Civil service payroll up 80 percent. total employees 796 207. No comprehensive tally exists for bureaus or their reach.
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Washington
Democratic Congress
Congress
Roosevelt
Civil Service Commission
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
CCC
AAA
HOLC
Federal Treasury
Garet Garrett
Saturday Evening Post
Farm Income Rise Led by Crops Outside AAA
A Washington survey shows the 1935 farm income rise totaled 844 million dollars, with 448 million from crops and livestock outside AAA control. Within AAA control 396 million in income plus 480 million in relief payments. overall farmers earned 81 million less than 1934 due to fewer beneficiaries and wartime scarcity actions.
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Washington, D. C
AAA
New Deal Costs Double Receipts Across Early Fiscal Year
The Roosevelt administration warned of a balanced budget but has spent nearly twice the revenue in the first six and a half months of the current fiscal year. Treasury reports show expenditures totaling 4 027 531 597 and revenues at 2 029 208 404 from July 1, 1935 to July 14, 1926.
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Washington, D. C
United States Treasury Department
Short Quips on Love, Humor and Human Nature
The passage collects aphorisms and satirical lines about love, friendship, voting, disposition, Adam and the first man, circus work, geography and spelling, fools, language of music, infants, murders, bridge, political office, marcel waves, power and arrogance, forgetfulness of wives’ birthdays, and a closing remark on the best way to do something.
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Adam
Jud Tunkins
Marcel
Vitamin K Arrives as Poultry Remedy in Tit-Bits Feature
Tit-Bits Magazine reports Vitamin K appears among alphabet vitamins used to prevent anemia in chickens. It notes Vitamin A in liver and greens, Vitamin B in yeast and yolk, Vitamin C in fruit and veg, and discusses unclear vitamins D E F G I and I with varying certainty.
Firemen Live Longer Than Clergymen Study Shows
A five year mortality study reports clergy die at 10.33 per thousand annually while firemen show 6.71 per thousand. The finding notes firemen face danger and higher premiums yet live longer than clergymen per Collier's Weekly supplied by H W Meyer of Santa Ana California.
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H. W. Meyer
Santa Ana
Calif
Collier's Weekly
College Athletes Live Longer Says Metropolitan Study
A Metropolitan Life Insurance analysis of 4 976 intercollegiate athletes over 20 years finds college athletes outliving average men of the same age. Baseball players show the highest mortality, followed by crew, track, and football. Benefits noted for men who earned letters in several sports.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Georgian Bishop Museum Leads Pacific Expedition collects vast specimens
The Bishop Museum in Honolulu ranks among America's top scientific institutions and sent a 9,000 mile Southeast Polynesian expedition. Eight scientists gathered over 40 000 insect specimens 4 566 plants 125 000 land shells rocks fossils and marine organisms. In the year 24 572 visitors explored the museum and its priceless Polynesian relics.
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Bishop Museum of
Honolulu
Polynesia
Unique Business Women Form 400-Member Association
A group of notable businesswomen linked to the Flavhalian islands production scene forms a 400-member association and reports a one million flower-breath production in the prior year.
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Flavhalian Islands
Ow's Ver MissisGeorge Jawin About?
Cartoon dialogue from Punch features a husband and wife exchange with dialect humor. The caption highlights the wife’s chatter as a running joke, implying she is telling tales or gossip while the husband protests. The snippet reflects era humor and speech style.
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South Omaha
New Island Industries
New Deal
Liccert & Myers Tosacco Co
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