Des Moines Market Report Lists Iowa Minnesota Hog Prices
Interior Iowa and southern Minnesota hog markets report 13 600 hogs in 24 hours ending 8:00 a m steady to higher than Tuesday with active demand. Quotations cover light to heavy weights and pigs, sows and broilers, with prices per hundredweight and tracking of weights and grades. Also notes shipments of potatoes and U S farm products along with regional grain prices and trackers.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Chicago Livestock Prices and Volumes From Aug First Week
Chicago market roundup shows hogs mostly 10 cents higher with 16 000 head received. Light weights sold up to 5.16, heavy 4.70, midrange 4.75 to 6.10. cattle steady with steers strong, cows and heifers mixed. sheep steady 5.25 to 6 for lambs, ewes 1 to 2.5.
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Chicago
Healdovers
Butter and Cheese Product Mix and Stock Levels
Summary of 2014 butter mix with 11.22 percent tube creamery extras and standards 20 percent. Includes ex tra firsts 19 to 19 percent, firsts 18 to 18 percent, packing stock 106, and special 10 to 21 percent. Eges 7,801 cases current 12 to 14 percent, fresh extra firsts 19 percent, fresh firsts 16 percent, dirties 16 to 12 percent checks 9 to 11 percent. Cheese young Americas and Longhorns 12 to 13 percent brick fancy 11, daisies and prints $3 to 13 to twins 12 percent to percent. Live poultry turkeys and hens.
Grain Table Shows Mixed Chicago Market Quote Readings
Open high and low prices listed for wheat corn oats rye with contracts Sept Dec and May. Data entries include fractions and percent values across WHEAT CORN OATS and RYE for Sept Dec and May contracts.
Cash Grain Close Report from Chicago Market
Wheat prices mixed with several grades around 56 to 57 percent and notable weevily and hard varieties. Corn shows multiple yellow and mixed quotes near 33 percent with substantial car counts. Oats hover around 17 to 19 percent with barley trading 30 to 36 percent. Wheat 62 cars, Corn 92 cars, Oats 200 cars.
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Cash
Chicago
Chicago Seed Market Bids Learn Prices and Grades
Seed market report from Chicago on August 10 lists red clover grades from fair to fancy with prices 7.50 to 12.50 per unit and sweet clover at 31 percent. timothy ranges from 2.65 to 2.99, with good, choice, and fancy classifications for each commodity.
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Chicago
Keota Girl Weds Dunlap Iowa Man
Miss Helen Katherine Korf of Keota marries Mrs Richard Giles of Dunlap in Oskaloosa at First Presbyterian Church on August 4. A pink and blue display with pink roses accompanied a three course dinner for fifteen at Hotel Downing. The bride, a Keota High School and State Teachers College alumna, taught in area schools. the groom is Dunlap High School athletics director. They plan a brief wedding trip and will reside in Dunlap after September 1.
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Keota
B. F. Korf
Helen Katherine Korf
Richard Giles
Dunlap
Iowa
First Presbyterian Church
Oskalopea
Hruce
Hotel Downing
Bruce
Oskaloosa
Homer Kurtz
Wayne
John Robert
Mary Giles
Joe Giles
Dallas
M. Roberta
Charles
Deg Moines
Giles
Korf
State Teachers College
Monroe
Central College
Pella
Local visits and friendly gatherings across West Chester and McComb
Verdi J Longer Corresponder notes relatives visiting in McComb and morning Sun, and a string of Sunday visits from West Chester to Iowa City, Chicago and Kamp Rosy. Families including Bealers Musils Puckett and others share camps, picnics, and model farm tours concluding with a Sunday school class outing at Kamp Koay.
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Josephine Puckett
Oklahoma
Ed Miller
Ruth Mary Dunbar
Mary Mickey
George Clapper
Fred Longers
James Uaird
Mike Lewis
Fred Longer
Kamp Rosy
West Chester
Ferguson
Eastwood
Kamp Koay
News Notes From Our Neighboring Communities
Joe McClelland visits in our city while Brighton trucks haul cabbage for the canning factory. Crawfordsville area farmers show progress with fencing, hay, corn crops, hogs, lambs, and alfalfa harvests as they rebuild after a fire and praise thriving farm homes.
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Wilfred Smiths
Chester
Heritage Jokes and Jests From a Father to Child
A wry exchange on heredity features a father explaining to his child that traits come from both parents. The quip frames heredity as a humorous culprit, crediting the mother for good traits and the father for flaws.
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Pater
Farmers Holiday Notes and Date Shuffle in Des Moines Talks
County officials explain the August 15 farm holiday date after a July 30 Des Moines meeting. The plan to set an earlier date August 8 aims to shield farmers from speculators while expanding organizing, with support from Easter and local committees as threshing ends. The piece urges petition signers to push cost of production plus fair profit and notes upcoming speeches by Charlies Hearst and Ed Eicher at Rubio and Kubio meetings.
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Kaster
Des Moines
Washington County
Easter
Green
Farm Holiday Association
Farm Bureau Picnic
Charlies FE. Hearst
Ed Eicher
Washington
Mr. Pleasant
Bieber
Chimney Swifts of North America Noted Birds
Chimney swifts in North America are described as small sooty brown birds, the commonest of North American swifts.
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North America
Crawfordsville Manners Report A Busy Weekend
A crowded Crawfordsville band concert drew locals despite muddy roads. Prize winners in the drawing contest included Robert Howell, Mrs. Georgia Williams, Mr. Lee Walker, and Mrs. Howard Williams. Visitors from Columbia Missouri and other towns joined residents for services and social visits.
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Crawfordsville
Robert Howell
Georgia Williams
Lee Walker
Howard Williams
John Wooley
Columbia
Taylor
Lorene
N. Y. Taylor
Olds
United Presbyterian Church
R. J. Ferguson
Earl
Mise
Jennie Clemens
Chapman
Neb
Lenox
Cleanfield
Wayland
Fred Shaffer
S. W. Shaffer
Mt. Pleasant
Ed Widmer
Ed Miller
Marie Kreig
Burlington
Dr. N
George Lee
Donald
Winfield
Mise Ivan Bowers
Morning Sun
Robert Huganomar
Doris Jean
Illwyn
Swedeshire
William Hagie
Howard
Robert
Helen
Richard
Hagie
A. B. Hightshoe
Ottumwa
Methodist
Ray Hightshoe
Denver
Colo
Geo. Yeager
Forrest Davidson
Iowa City
Marence Moorhead
R. C. Holmes
Outlaw Raid Seizes Maltrata Throne of Tunnels
In Vera Cruz, armed men seized Maltrata and the entry to the British owned Mexican railway tunnels in a raid. Federal troops retook the town and killed the band’s leader and several others, and the mayor was killed in the assault.
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Mexico City
Maltrata
Vera Cruz
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Dew
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Nebr
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W. S. Reister & Sons
Chicago Grain
Verdi
Joe McClelland
Wellman’s
Winnie Palmer
Miriam
Our City
C. G. Meek
Fred Genkins
Brighton
Brighton Canning Factory
John R. Williams
Mt. Pleasant Fair
Claud McCoy
John R
Russel
Rawfordsville
Dad
Cythe
Russels
Shaffer Bros. Store
Wilbur Rose
Marshal
Rose
Macon
Morris
Wilbur
Latimore Davis
Will Mayhews
Ohio
Socciety
ARS
R. J. Rowan
Ainsworth
Homer
Birney
Scott Furniture Co
Thomas Simpson
Hampshire
Farrow
City
Manners
Johnson's Grocery
C. L. Gorham
Ralph Miniek
S. F. Wenger
United Brethren Church
Cottonwood
Wenger
Olive Moore
Haskins Presbyterian Church
John Bullers
Williamsburg
Harvey Wooley
Will Wooley
Griswold
Journal
Journal Building
Frank L. Wilson
Kutseed
FOX
J. Z. Hinshaw
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