Chicago market report shows hogs steady to higher and cattle easing
Chicago markets report for August 12 lists hogs 8 000 and cattle 3 000 with 10 000 hogs traded and prices rising up to 14.90 for top hogs while 170 to 250 pound steers range 14 60 to 14 90 and calves 600 head at 15 to 16 dollars. Cattle trends show fed steers and yearlings mostly 25 cents lower with bulk 13 75 to 16 00 and highs to 16 50 on select lots, while sheep buyers steady with fat lambs and native spring lambs around 13 dollars to 13 50 and some higher for clipped natives.
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Chicago
Chicago Produce Market Receipts and Car Load Data
Market totals show combined receipts of 9 562 cases for produce with 48 9 current receipts and 37 9 dirties while poultry reports 2 cars and 12 trucks. Market conditions described as unsettled with lex horn springs 25.
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Chicago
Lexhorn Springs
Chicago Grain Table Reflects Mixed Open and Close
Grain quotes from Chicago show Wheat futures with Sep 113 and Dec around 145, and May near 146 with July at 144. Oats trade near 68 with Sep and May around 67 to 68. Rye prices listed for several months, with futures around 98 to 103 depending on contract.
Heinz Seeks 800 Workers for Muscatine Plant
The U S employment service launches a drive in Muscatine and surrounding counties to recruit 800 workers for the Heinz plant. Area director George D. Haskell says production will begin by Sept 1 and recruitment should be finished by then. A 30 day capacity run is expected amid a local labor shortage.
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HEINZ
U. S. Employment Service
Muscatine
H. J
Haskell
Heinz Company
Ond
Muscatine County
Burlington
Tri-Cities
War Bonds Fund Submarine Tactics and Torpedoes
The message explains how War Bonds fund U S. submarine efforts in the Pacific. It notes torpedoes cost up to 12000 dollars each and carry about 500 pounds of TNT to strike Japan's supply lines. The appeal urges more bonds to supply "tin fish" torpedoes for fleet use.
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Japan
Pacific
Hirohito
U. S. Treasury Department
Netherlands promotes domestic sarong industry in Java
The Dutch government encouraged local sarong manufacture in Java by establishing weaving schools and small prison-based factories to rehabilitate convicts as skilled workers. Dutch fabric makers in Holland then moved to the Indies, fostering a developing textile industry there.
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Indies
Java
Netherlands
Holland
Chicago Cash Grain Prices for Oats
Oats offered in mixed lots at 70 percent and 68 percent with 72 percent and 69.14 percent in some samples. A special white oat lot priced at 70 percent.
Balsa Tree Described As Wild and Plantation Varied Growth
The article calls balsa a tree weed that grows sparsely in the wild but appears in Ecudor plantations. It matures in five to seven years and stays useful until about age twelve, after which it becomes too heavy for its用途. Logs are felled in moist lowland forests and floated by rafts to sawmills.
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Ecuador
Black Pottery Culture of China Unearthed
The Black Pottery Culture, also known as Lung-shan, arose among Neolithic Farmers in eastern China's river valleys. They built walled villages, used the potter's wheel, created jet-black ware with incised designs, and crafted shell tools alongside common stone and bone tools.
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China
Lung-shan
Great Plain
Land on Earth: 57,510,000 Square Miles of Land
The article states Earth contains 57,510,000 square miles of land. It presents the figure as a factual measure of the planet’s surface area.
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