Holding Farm Land Despite Price Dip
Washington report surveys farm land values show most farms hold onto land despite a prolonged price decline. Prices rose overall to a record high, with gains in several states though Nevada and Utah lag. Farmers view farmland as a safe investment, and activity remains low with cautious credit and few speculative sales. Foresee a stable to slightly down market in six months and modest declines over five years. Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Arkansas showed percentage gains.
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Washington
Agricultand
Alller
Nevada
Utah
Minnesota
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Boy Gives Bicycles to Admirers in California
An 11-year-old boy at Woodrow Wilson School donated his bicycle to every classmate who praised it, after police Lieuten Roy Beecher described the gift routine in DAILY CITY California. The gesture illustrates a rare act of sharing amid a school community’s attention to a single bicycle.
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Daily City
Califon
Woodrow Wilson School
Roy Beecher
Juvenile in Detention Over Stolen Bike Conversion
Beecher stated a boy admitted giving away 15 bikes but all were stolen. Police detained the juvenile at Hillcrest Detention Home and began tracing parents who received the bikes. He noted none reported or retrieved the bikes and some fathers helped repaint them. The piece also cites employment rates for men over 14 and women over 65, and the grizzly bear population.
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Ant
Beecher
Hillcrest
Gillette
Peraui
Vendo-Pack Corporation
Olive Street
St. Louis
Naumbor
Rantoul Social and Community Notes Spread Across Week
Residents attended a Lawrence Kansas State versus Kansas University basketball game. The Rodgers family visited from Bartlesville Oklahoma. A death in Independence Missouri prompted trips for burial. Local gatherings included dinner guests, a Boy Scouts soup and chili supper that raised 35 dollars for Tiniel farms, and relatives visiting with extended family in town.
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M. L. Schwartz
Frank Nelson
Donald Rodgers
Gene Bush
Chester Jackson
Lawrence
Kansas State
Kansas University
Dayton Rodgers Land
Bartlesville
Oleda
Rodgers
Willie Grimm
Frank Doncaster
Independence
Lewis Wlarbin
Carl Grondorf
G. R. Springer
Martha Coffman
Wellsville
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National Society of Crippled Children and Adults
United States
U. S
Ree Pape
Worlzer Pianos
Saunders
Rantoul
Gale Gilbert
Hye
John G. Kaiser Drug Store
Masonic
Walker
Herald
Richardson
Kamnss
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