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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1923
Page
2
Demand for sheep and lambs remains healthy with fat woolled lambs at 12.60 and clipped lambs around 11.08. Cattle values decline with 9,500 head noted and hogs down sharply while sheep and lambs rise 10 to 25 cents under broad demand and active trade.
J C Underwood, a southeastern Wyoming ranchman now in Omaha with two loads of yearling steers and heifers, declares that Wyoming raised ten times as much corn this year as he ever did before.
The December statement by Carl B. Gray of Union Pacific notes the rail system carried the highest business volume in history with a surplus of cars, especially box cars in the west. It cites a national program to reduce idle equipment, speed up freight movement, and stockpile coal, with 134,036 new freight cars and 2,963 locomotives added in ten months. The roads are investing over a billion dollars in 1923 for equipment and improvements to spur prosperity.
A brief note wonders if a mother would appreciate gifts such as sewing baskets a comfortable chair and a decorative reading lamp suggesting practical and thoughtful presents fit for a Homemaker era reader.
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