Market Report From Chicago Hogs and Cattle Prices
Estimated receipts include 25 000 hogs and 11 000 cattle with markets opening steady to weak. Early hogs higher 10 to 15 cents, bulk sales 19.95 to 20.30 per cwt. sows and pigs shown across weight classes. Beef steers and butchers slow to open, calves and feeders strong. cattle volumes and prices per weight listed for various grades. Sheep and lambs steady to higher with typical ranges for ewes, yearling wethers, and feeder lambs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Colorado
John A. Babcock Commission Merchant
John A. Babcock, commission merchant, listed at the U S Yard in Chicago Illinois with offices Rooms 27 29 Main Floor Exchange under the trade listing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Babcock Commission
U. S. Yard
Chicago
Illinois
Close of Grain Features in Market Report
Furnished by E. W. Wagner & Co. Iowa City Iowa with B Hunt manager details. Grain market feature highlights closing prices and shifts for local buyers and farmers.
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E. W. Wagner & Co
Iowa City
Iowa
B. Hunt
War Savings Societies Drive Boosts Iowa Thrift Efforts
The Iowa War Savings committee unsigned says organized war savings societies spread through Iowa cities and towns will lift the state in thrift stamp sales. Hundreds more societies are planned in industrial plants to spur employee saving and cut expenses. Schools continue strong campaigns with week long drives to sell stamps and promote thrift education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowa
Iowa
War Savings Societies
Case Tractor Arrives At Journal Farm Department
A new Case Tractor model 15-27 arrives for demonstration and plowing work. The ad by B F Dixon invites locals to see the machine and its reserve power at 4013 Lima beans thrive in northern and western states with bush and pole varieties noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Dixon
Marion Avenue
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Texas Faces Cattle Shortfall Versus 1916 Figures
Wallace's Farmer notes Texas trails by a million and a half head of cattle compared with 1916. The paper says the state can handle more stock, with Louisiana and Arkansas likely to supply new cattle, though they must be replenished later, possibly from farther north, as demand strengthens the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Wallace
Calf Clubs Start in Jackson County Farms
Jackson County youths, led by farm bureau support and local banks, are forming Shorthorn and Hereford calf clubs for 1914. Thirty-five boys have joined the Shorthorn club while 41 youths participated last season, showing success in breeding and market calves. Each participant drew a calf, cared for it, and sold it in fall with an average cost of 135 dollars per calf and a corresponding sale price at county auctions.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Black Hawk County
Iowa 103
Food Administration
Town
Iowa 105
Kherson
Farm Bureau
Ames
Maquoketa
Jackson County
Hirty
I W W Convicts to Get Bail in Espionage Case
Big Bill Haywood and seven Industrial Workers of the World members will be freed on bonds ranging from 1008 to 15000 as they await appellate court decisions. They are prisoners in Leavenworth penitentiary serving sentences from one to twenty years for espionage. Bonds were set after arguments by Darrow Christiansen and Vanderveer against United States District Attorney Clyne. Slaywood, serving 20 years, will provide the $15000 bond for his release pending appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Big Bil
Maywood
The
Industrial Workers of the World
United States
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Clarence 8. Darrow
Otto Christiansen
George Vanderveer
Charles F. Clyne
Landis
Slaywood
Bootlegger Given 4-Year Sentence in Third Offense
Belvidere authorities impose one of the severest penalties in the state for liquor violations. Frank Barney received four years and two months in jail and a $5,000 fine for his third offense. If the fine is served, it would require 1.08 days of labor on roads or streets.
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Belvidere
Frank Barney
Wheat Guaranty Management by Agriculture Dept
Statements in trade papers claim the Agriculture Department seeks to take over the 1919 wheat guaranty. Officials say the Food Administration Grain Corporation has run the guarantees since the war and should continue, with President naming the agency to handle the 1919 crop.
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Department of Agriculture
Food Administration
Grain Corporation
Secretary of Agriculture
Food Administration Train Corporation
Food Administration Grain Corporation
Lithuanian Towns Revolt Against Bolsheviks in March
Advices from Kovne report Sumi lichai Trakai and Landvarva towns rose against Bolshevik rule on March 28. Soviet troops were driven out and their offices destroyed. Bolshevik forces were disarmed and many killed in the turmoil.
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Stockholm
Sumilichais
Trakai
Landvarva
Kovne
Rural school loses adopted French pupil Yvonne Le Brech
Miss Effie Van Sickle at Enterprise school in Dutch Creek township reports Yvonne Le Brech, a French war orphan supported by the school, has died. The letter from Mrs Veuve Le Brech asks the school to consider Gaston Le Brech as a replacement if American friends have not adopted him.
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Effie van Sickle
Enterprise School
Dutch Creek Township
Veuve le Brech
Cherbourg
France
Yvonne
Dutch Creek School
Thenterprise School
Gaston
Srief
Gaston le Birech
Weuve le Brech
Good Roads Bill Passed by House in Des Moines
The paved roads bill cleared the Iowa House 66 to 41 with 1 absent after an amendment extending county option provisions. The plan uses federal aid and automobile tax revenue for 75 percent of hard-surfacing costs, with 25 percent from benefitted property. County apportionment follows area. The 41 dissenters include Allyn Anderson Bradley Coakley Edgington Epps Finch Findlay Finley Francis Garber Gilter Gunderson Hook Justice Kellogg Kern Krouse Langfitt Larson Long Miller Mills Morrow Neff Newton Oertel Parsons Rogers Sayers Scott Sterling Sutherland Ulstad Vance Van der Ploeg Wallace Wilson Windett Young.
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Des Moines
Iown
House of Representatives
Williams
Pottawattamie County
Slosson
Worth County
House
Allyn
Anderson
Bradley
Coakley
Edgington
Epps
Finch
Findlay
Finley
Francis
Garber
Decatur
Gilter
Gunderson
Hook
Justice
Kellogg
Kern
Krouse
Langfitt
Larson
Montgomery
Long
Miller
Lucas
Mills
Morrow
Neff
Newton
Oertel
Parsons
Rogers
Sayers
Scott
Appanoose
Springer
Sterling
Sutherland
Ulstad
Vance
Vander Ploeg
Wallace
Wilson
Windett
Young
Revolution at Petrograd Propels Russian Rail Strike
London reports a Petrograd revolt against the soviet government with a major railway strike in the Petrograd region. The wireless dispatch blames the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries for provoking the stoppage, alleging disruption of transport and bread supply. It also brands the SRs as agents of Denikin, Kolchak, and allied imperialists.
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London
Petrograd
Mensheviki
Mensheviks
Denekines
Kolchak
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Chichester
Journal’s Farm Department
Fair
the Bank and
Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
Mutual
W.S. Reister & Sons
Washington, Iowa
Haywood
Belvidere (I
Wasttiington, Iowa
Agriculture Dept
Yvonne LE Breech
Enterprise
Drug Sherman’s Store
Senate
Suth
Erland
Jarrow
Pathfinder Jr
Orion King
King the Col
John Krebs
Riverside
Mexico
Hamilton Bros
Keota
J. W. Brewer
Louisa County
Columbus Junction
Dame
Secret
Orange Blossom
Cecelia
Mina
Consignors
Duncan Bros
Columbus Jet
John Jenkins
M. L. Blankenhorn
Letts
Helmick & Son
Evergreen Farm
Uppermill Farm
Wapello
Crawford Bros
Mt. Union
J. L. McClurkin
Morning Sun
Williams & Son
Grandview
Fair Acres Victor
Fair Acres Gloster
Avondale
Villager
Village Cumberland
True Cumberland
Callant
Scotty Milne
A. H. Pickford
Sale Mer
Wapello, Iowa
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