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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1911
Page
2
Kansas City market report notes heavier beef steer receipts last week with gains up to 10 to 15 cents. 16,000 head run today, prices range from 5.60 to 6.50 for steers, cows 4.75 to 5.40, bulls up to 4.25, veals to 8.75, heavy calves 5.50 to 6.50, stockers 4.50 to 5.50, feeders 5.00 to 5.90. Quarantine section appears.
Hog prices ranged 5.40 to 5.85 with a top at 6.20 while hogs showed a solid week despite a 10 cent drop on higher receipts. Total hogs near 60 000, with 9 000 today signaling decent weekly receipts. packers active at current prices. Sheep and lambs moved modestly, lambs 5.85 to 6.10, yearlings near 5.75, Colorado lots frequent as market steadies. J A Rickhar t, Market Correspondent.
Chicago on January 16 reports a sharp drop in butter and eggs after recent high costs. South Water Street brokers grimly note prices fell from last year with eggs quotes ranging from 28 to 29 cents for firsts and 15 to 17 cents for seconds, while butter dropped 6 to 9 cents a pound. Creameries list extras at 28 cents and 23 cents for dairy prices, with packing stock lower, signaling a broad market decline for produce.
South Water Street commission houses wobble amid bankruptcies and heavy stock. Cold storage eggs and butter, aged two to four years, flood markets as creditors dragged by slumping prices. Spring weakness in dairy spreads to cheese poultry and potatoes with storage butter in excess of demand.
Des Moines liquor dealers claimed victory by 467 valid signatures in a late count of a malct petition. The official canvass showed 7,817 valid names after adjustments, with potential legal challenges expected as board actions proceeded this morning.
In the Southern District of Iowa the court orders trustee John Rhynsburger to sell the Bruinekool bankruptcy estate at public auction for cash at the bankrupts late business in Pella Iowa on January 21 1911 at two oclock in the afternoon Des Moines Iowa dated January 9 1911
Sioux City warehouse sustained a twenty five thousand dollar fire after a fierce blaze fought by firefighters. In Fairfax, farmer Thomas Mulle died and his wife and five children were seriously injured in a gasoline lamp accident. A bandit robbed six people in East Ottumwa, taking twenty two dollars and a watch. Brighton eyes a condensed milk factory if area farmers pledge 800 cows. Clinton children burned in a Monday fire. Snow disrupted Southeast Iowa travel with ten inches at Burlington. Seventy delegates to the Iowa Marble and Granite Dealers convention meet in Des Moines midweek. Iowa Falls eyes hydroelectric power on the Iowa River for Steamboat Rock water works and city lighting. Tuberculosis poster campaign to place 20 000 ads on billboards nationwide.
Township clerk calls for bids on public highway work in Lake Prairie township for 1911. Contracts to cover eight hours per day with options for man and team or multiple teams, divided into four parts. Bids due January 21, 1911 at 10 a.m. The trustees may reject any or all bids. Names of officials: CIAs Porter Township Clerk.
A snippet describes a medicinal folk remedy from England using a live snake drawn across the throat nine times, then killed and the snake’s skin sewn into a silk bag worn around the neck. The note names Avarica, Slowes-Yeps, and Barnes with a curious pig anecdote from Roaton Transprint.
Chicago architect Eugene Hewerd envisions aerial traffic over major cities with rooftop landing pads and tall beacon towers. He cites a 22 story Chicago hotel example and proposes layered streets with elevated routes to regulate sky traffic and prevent chaos overhead.
The new Blackstone theater in Chicago features the finest stage curtain in the United States possibly the world a solid imported tapestry costing 15000 before duty. Only two curtains rival it globally Milan and Russia none in Paris England or other major houses. Woven at Aubusson near Paris the 3014 by 42 feet curtain was designed by M Le male in Montmartre and began weaving last June. It partly reproduces a Napoleon III tapestry now in the Louvre showing dancers on a green in Louis XII era.
Plans by Dr. Z X Snyder at Colorado normal school in Greeley require girls to swim in the Poudre river each morning before breakfast and walk two miles to chapel. He proposed buying a two acre riverbank tract to build a swimming pool, and students are already planning bathing suits. He cites fitness and bodily care as reasons for daily swims.
The Chilean maritime province of Entre Rios has equipped two floating schools to enable island residents to obtain an education.
Warverd professor Thomas Nixon Carver argues against large mass families and cheap labor aims. He says reducing family size among workers would raise wages by making labor scarcer, while advocating larger families in employing classes would lift wages and shrink profits, altering the distribution of men.
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