Beef Prices Hit New High At Chicago Market
Chicago Aug 28 beef cattle on hoof rose to 16.30 a hundredweight, a fresh record. Corn futures rose on frost fears in the northwest with December futures around 1.09, May near 1.06. Oats firm as markets follow corn, with cash wheat mixed and threshing yields large. Northwest frost fears drive price gains across grains and hogs support higher provisions.
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Chicago
Union Satec
Northwest
Long Commission Co
Minneapolis
Duluth
Winnipeg
New York Stocks Edge Lower Amid Mixed Trading
Market notes show scarce gains with most issues soft. Crucible and U S Steel dip while shipping stocks rise. Bethlehem Steel news adds market effect though no new price fixing updates emerge. Sugar and coffee quotes drift with futures easing as copper and steel outlook remains cautious.
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Stock Exchange
Eel
Crucible
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Washington
Corn and oats market notes lead with high old corn prices
The Daily Market Letter discusses extreme high prices for old corn and cautious selling as frost fears rise. Oats movement lags despite crop size due to cat scarcity, farmer binning, and full country elevators, with September deliveries showing gains on December.
Local Markets and Milling Prices Across Hogs and Grains
Prices paid for mill products and grain include No 2 wheat 2. corn 140. oats 60. new oats 41 50. timothy 20. alfalfa 14. millet 2.50. Milling products list high patent flour 12.40 city straight patent 13.20 hard wheat 17.40 northern wheat 14.40. Bran 1.66 per cwt. corn meal 4.90. shafted corn 1.90. chop corn 3.80. linseed meal 2.85. meal 4.55. various feeds including cotton seed meal 2.70 and Swift meat scraps 4.70. Hogs prices at B Q stock yards by weight: various classes from 12.65 to 18.65. calves 2.10. fat steers 3.60 to 9.80. Poultry and eggs: hens 17. spring chickens 29. ducks 28. turkeys nors. eggs 50. Hides and pelts quoted by OlLes & Rogers with No 1 and No 2 grades.
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Hnollenberg Milling Company
H. BP
Mississippi River
Hough
Wegen
Bernt
Anck Hrothera
Choice
Davia and Cleaver Co
Houst
Elles & R
Olles Ogera
Emblum
Hogs Grower Prices Hit Fresh 25 Cent Rise
After last week’s $2.15 drop, hogs advanced 25 cents on the local market Monday. Twelve farmers delivered products to the city market. BalEd hay sold for $21 a ton, $22 in another load. mixed hay brought $14.40 per ton. New oats sold at 48 cents a bushel, 80 cents in another load. Corn brought $1.80 per bushel and oats straw sold for 3 a ton.
Seed Market Prices and Commodities Listed in Toledo and Chicago
Market notes from Toledo and Chicago detail prime cash prices for Clover, Alfalfa, Timothy, Rye, Barley and related futures with monthly and season dates. Prices show Oct, Dec, and March futures, with Fri Aug 28 dates. The quote section ends with a quip: It is easier to marry a genius than it is to support him.
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Toledo
Chicago
Timothy
Clover
Bears Gain Control Amid Market Sags In Late Rally
New York August 28 Part of that week s late rally in the stock market surrendered Monday as bears again took the lead amid uncertainty over government price control The Russian situation also weighed on bullish effort rubles slumped to a record low and industrials faced a setbackBethlehem Steel and war issue shares drifted while shipping and tobaccos provided some stability Total sales reached 295 000 shares Government bond quotes and money rates were listed with mixed activity
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New York
Bears
Bethlehem Steel
Sean
Aaica
Livestock Market Reports From Major U S Cities
Across Bananar City Omaha Chicago St Louis reports show hog receipts around six thousand at Bananar with steady to firm prices and veering ranges for heavy and light hogs. Cattle receipts near twenty thousand with steady markets for prime and western steers and varying prices for cows heifers and calves. Sheep receipts about six to eighteen thousand with steady to higher bids and lamb values improving.
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Bananar City
Kansas City
Ught
Omaha
St. Louis
St, Louis
Market Summary From Chicago and Other Hubs
Chicago butter markets show little change with receipts at 15 556 tubs creamery extras 41 percent and firsts 39 0 percent. potatoes see lower demand with 75 cars of Virginia barrels at 1 04 25 and Minnesota bulk 1 20 1 22. Kansas City reports butter creamery 38 firsts 37 percent seconds 36. New York butter steady with creamery higher than extras 34 92 score, various egg and poultry figures listed.
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Chicago
Neean
Virginia
Jersey
Minnesota
Springs
Kansen City
Kansas City
New York
Carthage Woman Weds In St Joseph
Miss Evelyn Bush and J Byron Hunt both of St Joseph Missouri were married August 16 at 8 15 p m in the parsonage of the First Presbyterian church St Joseph by the pastor They will keep house with relatives until Sept 1 when the groom who is drafted expects to join the army Mrs Hunt is daughter of C A Bush of Chicago and lived in Carthage with her grandparents The groom is deputy county clerk and during his absence Mrs Hunt will act as deputy Also notes on local residents travels and a fall from a ladder at the fairgrounds and other community items
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Carthage
Evelyn Bush
J. Byron Hunt
St. Joseph
First Presbyterian Church
Hunt
C. A. Bush
Chicago
J. L. Rand
Carthage High School
Elmer Beckman
Camp Point
J. P. Beckman
Hancock County Journal
Harriet Gibson
Mack & Mack
W. T. Booth
Davis
Keokuk
Farwell
Bowen
J. A. Califf
Mississippi Valley Telephone Company
Q. F. Berry
Lake Cooper
Hamilton
Old Settlers
Plymouth
Morgan Powell
Fair Grounds
Louw Wieder
Beulah
Alma Goessling
Gilman City
Ralph Eckles
Caswell Hubbard
The
Dime Savings Bank
Denver
Walter Cuppert
Damon Johnson
Joseph
M. M. Johnson
da Waggoner
Centralia
J. 5. Shipton
William He
Carthage Fair Opens With Big Entries Across Livestock
Carthage August 28 Hancock County Fair association opens the second annual fair with larger entries in livestock poultry and farm products than last year. Officials include superintendent W D Egbers races E M Robbins marshal E A Wilcox permits and privileges E E Cox grandstand W E Lyon liberal arts building John Felfrich gates W O Kunkel marshal Fred Johnson and an auditing committee Leo Helfrich J Burdette Miller Charles C Wetzel. Today is Children's Day with free admission for under 12 accompanied by parent or guardian and prizes for jacks and mules grade draft horses and ponies. Harness events and other races listed with prize money and eligibility notes.
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Carthage
Hancock County Fair Association
W. D. Eg
E. M. Robbins
E. A. Wilcox
E E. Cox
W. E. Lyon
Liberal Arts
John Felfrich
W. O. Kunkel
Fred Johnson
Irving Mayor
J. E. Woodburn
Franklin Hartzell
R. C. Crim
L. L. Chevilton
Hancock County
Horses and Mules Price Report From St Louis
HAST ST LOUIS Aug 28 Horses Eastern chunks g140 160 od southerns 2125 150 extra heavy arm 160 200 Mules 16 hands 200 275 18 to 16% hands 165 200 14 to 16% hands 110 186
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ST. Louis
Funeral services held for Mrs George C Legg in Lewistown Mo
Funeral services for Mrs George C Legg aged 81 were held in Lewistown, Missouri, with burial in the city cemetery. Born Elenora Reese in Baltimore in 1836, she moved to Missouri as a child, married in 1855, and had ten children, 27 grandchildren, and 16 great grandchildren. She joined the Christian Church in 1861 and remained a devout member, leaving a life regarded as a rich Christian heritage.
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Lewistown
George C. Legg
Robinson
Canton
Legg
Elenora Reese
Baltimore
Lewis County
Kansas
William
Jennie Marks
Charles
Harry
Addison
George
W. B.orter
E. L. Newton
W. A. Klinberg
Anna Savage
Long Beach
Cal
Mary Dalgarn
Davenport
George Reese
Williamstown
Christian Church
Antioch
John Shanks
Missouri Methodist Conference to Convene at Richmond
The Missouri conference of the Methodist Episcopal church south opens in Richmond on September 5 with Bishop E R Hendrick presiding. The quadrennial session will meet in the new church and run several days as delegates are chosen for the general conference. It is one of Missouri’s largest ecclesiastical gatherings.
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Richmond
Missouri Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
E. R. Hendrick
Kansas City
New Methodist Church
General Conference
Missouri
Pike County Plans Big Fair in 1918
Bowling Green Mo August 28 A larger Pike County Fair is promised for next season by the Pike County Fair association Aeroplane flights and a fine racing program will be offered The 1917 fair closed Saturday and was considered a success despite rain on opening day Hundreds of out of town visitors spent the week in Bowling Green
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Bowling Green
Pike County Fair Association
DEDICATE CHURCH OF UNION BAPTISTS DEDICATE CHURCH
Palmyra Aug 28 dedication of the Union Baptist church on the Philadelphia Palmyra road drew over a thousand Baptists from Marion Shelby and Monroe counties. Monro City Palmyra Hannibal sent large delegations. The event marked the third church home for Union township Baptists since 1834. A big basket dinner fed about nine hundred guests with country ham fried chicken and forty pies. Manetta Manetta of Chicago visited Marion county relatives. Sunday night services at the Christian church featured Salmon and a special orchestra.
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Palmyra
New Union Baptist Church
Philadelphia
Palmyra Rock
Milles
Marion
Shelby
Monroe Counties
Monroe City
Hannibal
Union Township
Pahayra
Dan Moss
Miss Manetta
Chicago
Marion County
The
Christian Church
Rev
Barbee
Find Bodies in City Reservoir Monday
Springfield Illinois Aug 28 a 24 hour search for William Cummings seven and his brother Thomas five missing since Sunday noon ended with the older boy found floating in the city reservoir water and shortly after the younger boy was found with a grappling hook both brothers were the children of Mr and Mrs Thomas Cummings of this city.
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Springfield
William Cummings
Thomas
City
Thomas Cummings
Strikers Open Fire Near Middlesboro Mines
Reports from Middlesboro say strikers fired on non union labor from nearby hills after operators tried to resume mining. No injuries reported.
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Lexington
Middlesboro
Child Dies While Visiting in Bowen Illinois
Lois Bottorff two and a half years old daughter of Mr and Mrs O W Bottorff of Kewanee Illinois died in Bowen at 4 PM Monday from cholera infantum while visiting grandparents Mr and Mrs Lou Potson. Potson ill with stomach trouble not expected to live. She took sick Sunday. funeral arrangements to be made after Mr Bottorff arrives. She leaves a brother Roy eight. Potson has five daughters and one son and several Bowen relatives. Potson aged sixty five, retired farmer, longtime Bowen resident.
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Roy
Mr. Potson
Ira Smith
Bowen
Jaquith
Ralph Brinkley
Arthur Potson
Kewanee
William
Quincy
Men to Report for Second Call Palmyra Aug 28 1917
Palmyra Missouri reports the second call for physical examinations listing numerous local residents from Hannibal Mar ywood Ely and Palmyra. Examinations begin 7 30 a m on August 29 and later August 31. names include Emmett Parr Edgar Yount Walter Dunston Homer Lawler and many others.
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Palmyra
Local Board
Emmett Parr
Hannibal
Edgar L. Yount
Robert Paul Bird
James Edward Davis
Monroe City
Ray William Crane
John Francis Conney
Elmer Crane
Nelsonville
Walter David Dunston
Fable Arasmus Masterson
Ely
Joseph H. Averkamp
Fablus Township
Walter Dudley Johnson
James Warren Moore
Fred R. Payne
James Harvey Francis
Barry EH. Nolin
John Clifton Hollyman
Frescoe Turner
Warren Edgar Bolton
Thad Richardson Smith
Homer Lawler
Ira Franklin Depp
Dolph Glascock
Freda Jones
Olie Ray Hancock
Oliver O. Caster
Willam D. Keller
John Ralph Simon
Donald Thomas Hufty
Emmett Clarence Churchill
Maywood
Marion Brower
Edward Roscoe Moore
William Boulware Calvert
Warren
Jeremiah Tucker
Fred Smith
Wilburn Warren Crane
Ernest Brummer
Otis Buckner
George McPiks
Thomas Clemena McKenzie
John J. Meinhardt
Fred Clark
Philadelphia
Fred McCue
Carl Joseph Schneider
Marence Co. Brown
Harry Edward Bode
Harry R. Boetter
Alva Brown Mosley
Marion H. Stewart
R T
Carl Frederick Keley
Durham
Alfred Rockenback
Earl Johnson
William HH
Washington
Alvin Martin Geist
Harry Ray Harrail
Henry H. Hillyer
Roy Trawer
Lonnie A. Fitchner
Charles Wm. Schnitzer
Egbert Ward Nowlin
Oscar Romanta Crane
R 3
Charles John Bower
Jesse Ray Sparks
Brice M. Moore
Allen Francis King
Homer Duvey Cort
Edbert Gilmore
William Blanel
Frank J. Lewis
Harry J. Sullivan
Audrain Ward
Walter I. Tattman
John Wm. Lloyd Schneider
Percy E. Ewing
James A. Tankard
Orville G. C. Chatfield
John W. Aldrich
Ira Virgil Bolton
Naisonville
John Barney Ostendorf
Taylor
Burt Elsworth Sommers
Ira E. Brown
Thomas M. Whalen
Joseph Carl Snyder
Paul Anthony Walterschein
Wm. A. Diemer
Robert Wade Perkins
Frank Lewis Wiehe
Charles Ernest Warner
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Potson
Thomas H. Ferrell
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Roy Bernard Pollard
Roy M. Miller
Lewis B. Young
Adlai
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Henry Allen
Hereman
Raymond Happel
R 1
Allen Thoman Stewart
Leo W. Saltzman
Ray Watson
Paul W. Pullman
Douglas Smallwood
Paul James
Fred A. Fink
Jesse H. Trenton
Chas. D. Crouch
Drix Turner
Jesse O. Gibbons
Palomyra
John George Kaiser
Mike Herman
David Redd
Coleman Hendricks
John Cook
William F. Thomas
Samuel Freeman White
Walter H
Alonzo True
Lawrence S. Miner
Rudolph Meyers
George R. Lennox
Ernest H. Helwig
Vincent Grummer
Percy Banks
Everett Taylor
Norman Brummer
Chas. E. Anderson
Nelsonsville
Clarence Stonefield
White House Shoe Shop
Giles Bros
West Side Square
Fiat
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H. P
H. P. Beiler
Surrey
Harrow
A. E. Nelsch
State St
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