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Newspaper
Van Wert Times
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1936
Page
6
Corrected daily market items show prices and notes for eggs and poultry including heavy fowls Leghorn fowls and broilers. Corn rye oats wheat soybeans and hay offerings list No 1 and 2 grades with minor entries for straw and alfalfa. Prices include No 1 Wheat 2 50 No 1 Oats 2 50.
Pittsburgh hogs 1400 head with 900 directs active and firm to strong. cattle 150 head steady with good steers at 8.00 to 8.75. Cleveland cattle 100 head steady week down 25 cents. best steers 11.00 to 11.00 pounds and up. calves up to 11.00 for top grades. general price ranges listed for heifers cows and mediums.
The House naval affairs committee voted unanimously to authorize the Navy to recommission the old dirigible Queen of the Skies Los Angeles and put it into immediate flying condition.
H J Bostler age 60 head brakeman on a Wheeling and Lake Erie freight train was killed and four other trainmen injured when two freight trains sideswiped near Oarville Ohio today.
Thelma Gardner was elected president of the Girls Athletic Association for next year at Van Wert High school. Other officers include Jill King as vice president, Maxine Wherry as secretary treasurer, and a slate covering pep soccer basketball volleyball swimming tennis bowling bicycling skating hiking and more with Enid Cress and Joan Coup land among nominees.
James J. Braddock the heavyweight champion visited Joe Louis at his training camp to celebrate Louis 22nd birthday. The scene drew mixed opinions from boxing insiders about manager Joe Gould's tactics during the newsreel sequence. Frank Boucher named head football and basketball coach at Wooster High School succeeding Jameson who stays as physical director.
New York stocks started in a narrow range with trading moderately active in shares, noting firmness in bonds while cotton futures and the dollar held steady. Ohio State University announces acting chair appointments in Education and English departments. In Mansfield, Charles A. Wilson 23 is sentenced to life in the Ohio Penitentiary for the killing of Jean Moorhead 17. In Belleville, Patrick Barty 94, long noted as Canada's oldest tramp, gets ten days in jail for a drunken charge.
A radio listing notes furniture items available through the Times Want-Ads service. The spots cover programs on WJR and WLW with 5 Sengei and 10:30 Ghost Stories on WIR, and advertise sale of miscellaneous pieces via the paper’s classified ads.
Audrey Smith and Cyrena Gaston were recognized as honor students upon completing elementary school in 1932 in Prankfort Kas.
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