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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1936
Page
6
In Chicago on April 17, shorts covering after anticipated moisture failed. Wheat led gains, rising about one and a half to two cents, corn up fractional to a cent, oats steady to fractional higher, rye unchanged to half a cent.
Cattle 50 steady week no changes choice steers 1100 lbs up 9 to 10 dollars. Calves 100 steady week steady choice to prime 9 to 10 dollars. Sheep and lambs steady to 25 cents higher with clipped lambs 8.50 to 9.50. Hogs 500 10 cents lower week to date, assortments weighed around 250 300 lbs at 11.00 to 11.15, 1220 250 lbs 11.10, 160 4220 lbs 11.10 to 11.15, Yorkers 1600 7180 lbs 11.00, Pigs 100 130 lbs 10.75, rough 8.25 to 8.75, stags 7.00 to 7.50.
Butter the market steady with extras and standards at 33 cents. Eggs steady with extra firsts at 19 and current receipts at 18 cents. Live poultry market steady with heavy hens over 5 pounds at 24 cents.
Van Wert Reds announce 2 p m Sunday tryouts at the fairgrounds diamond. Players sought for infield and outfield positions as intensive workouts begin for the first game Sunday April 26 against the Lianos of Defiance. locals beat Defiance last season in a standout game.
Mayor John H. Morrison fined H. B. Lee and Martin Kinsella five dollars plus costs after guilty pleas to drunkenness. Lee, 47, of Fort Wayne, paid and was released yesterday. Kinsella, 66, of South Walnut Street, was released today after making payment arrangements.
Police Captain Louis J. Caden indicted on five counts of bribery by a Cuyahoga county grand jury. He faced arraignment in Cleveland as prosecutors alleged he solicited and accepted two automobiles and 26 000 in protection money from two collectors.
San Francisco Junior College begins a fingerprinting course taught by Maurice Akers. A separate dispatch notes Stuart Harnall, 19, found a ten ounce gold nugget on his father’s Ararat area farm, with an older nearby nugget history and gold valued at about $35 an ounce.
The New York stock market ended irregularly lower in moderately active trading. An event listing notes a Lincoln School Auditorium benefit on April 20 featuring the W. W. High School Band with admission prices of 0 and 25 cents for general and ring side seating.
Scores report American Association games include St. Paul 7 over Columbus 6 and Louisville 8 over Milwaukee 3. National League results show Cincinnati 7 over Pittsburgh 4 and New York 7 over Brooklyn 6. American League wins include Boston 10 over Philadelphia 4 and New York 6 over Washington 5.
Notes list games between St. Louis and Pittsburgh New York and Boston Philadelphia and Brooklyn Cleveland and St. Louis Chicago and Detroit Washington and Boston at New York plus an ad about Times Classifieds urging readers to check ads for quick sales.
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