Chicago Livestock Prices Ahead of Slow Market
Chicago buyers faced a slow market on hogs cattle and sheep with midsummer levels. Hogs traded mainly around 10 to 13 dollars per hundredweight, top bids to 13 for select 180 to 210 pound hogs. Cattle offered contain a range from light yearlings to heavy slaughter steers with cut cattle steady to higher. Sheep receipts reached 12 000 with fat lambs active and generally 15 to 25 cents higher on quality lots.
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Chicago
Chicago Gash Grain Wheat Report
The Chicago grain market shows varied futures levels across wheat corn oats rye barley timothy and clover. Notable figures include SG hard at 104 and SG 85 to 92 for oats, mixed grains 98 to 101 for corn, and timothy from 410 to 470 with clover 2050 to 2875.
Toledo Seed Market Clover Prices and Dates
Seed market brief lists clover and timothy prices with cash and installment amounts. Entries include October and December values for clover cash and cash impor ts, and fresh al sike with new cash 1790 and October 1309.
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Timothy
Alsike
Livestock Receipts Forecast for Tomorrow in Chicago
Chicago August 24 estimated receipts show cattle 500 hogs 4000 sheep 5000 with holdover hogs at 4000.
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Chicago
New Orleans Memphis Bus Service Inaugurated
Tourists can travel to and from New Orleans via a new bus service to Memphis with connections to other parts of the country. The Memphis line links to trans continental routes, expanding regional travel options.
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New Orleans
Memphis
Tenn
Trans-Continental
Gloria Grey rises from West tour to Fox feature film
Gloria Grey, born in Stockton, rose from Gus Edwards Revue on a West Coast tour to star in Fox pictures. After trying studio rounds she landed a featured role in Westerns and serials, later joining Universal for The Hound of Silver Creek with Edmund Cobb and Gladden James.
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Gloria Grey
Hollywood
West
Gus Edward
California
Gloria
Stockton
Miss Grey
Edwards
Motion
Fox
Universal
Eoach
Fred Humes
Hayden Stevenson
Blake of
Scotland Yard
Silver Creek
Dynamite
Fox Saturday
Edmund Cobb
Gladden James
Little Billy
Red” Jones
Frank Lice
Pest control pitch for Meyers Red Fox Poison Kernels
An advertisement touts Meyers Red Fox Poison Kernels as a ready to use pest control for rats and mice. It promotes two sizes 35c and 75c offered at drug stores with claims of quick effect and no fuss.
Wellman and Surrounding News Notes From Iowa
In Wellman Iowa August reports cover James Wagamon’s appendicitis operation in Iowa City, with steady recovery. Several families take trips to Montana Colorado Wisconsin and Clear Lake, while others visit relatives and handle farm rents. Threshing ends, crops show good yields, and local weather hints point to an early fall with potential frost risk.
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Roy Durian
Clear Lake
Des Moines
Ora Grimm
Wellman
Greenvalley
F. E. Skola
Kalona
Willard Bell
Keota
Eriardley Bell, Jr
Darwin Hicks
Marvin
E. L. McRoberts
Columbus Junction
McRoberts
S. C. Love
Dexter
John Love
Jesse Turnipseed
Davenport
Tri-City
la Monte Fleming
la Monte
Jefferson
Town
M. W. Wagamon
James Wagamon
Local Readers and Travel Notes From Iowa and Illinois
Tom O Flaherty traveled to Chicago on Saturday evening with stock and reports strong prices. Mr and Mrs Ralph Hicks visited his mother aged eighty four over the weekend. Ralph and family reside in Cedar Rapids. Miss Margaret Taylor of Iowa City vacations with her sisters Mrs Lloyd Blummenstein and Mrs Glenn Blummenstein.
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Tom O'Flaherty
Chicago
Ralph Hicks
Hicks
Ralph
Cedar Rapids
Margaret Taylor
Iowa City
Lloyd Blummenstein
Glenn Blummenstein
Wayne Area Socials and Farm News Report
Wayne Ia August reports sparse local activity with a Ford coupe purchase by the Erickson family. Visitors include Marshalltown’s Abrams and Council Bluffs Moorheads. Cattle shipped by Swedesburg Shipping Association and Alfred Ericksons's Illinois trip noted.
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Wayne
Erickson
Forest Davidson
Mt. Pleasant
J. O. Abrams
Marshalltown
R. W. Carson
Loren Moorhead
Council Bluffs
Prices and prosperity compare to forty years ago
The speaker notes higher present prices and a thriving economy with cars, tractors, education, and wages, yet laments a lack of local fractional ownership and awaits hearing Al Smith. The piece contrasts current abundance with past scarcity while predicting crop prospects and national growth.
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al Smith
HASKINS Notes of visits and travel around Cedar Falls
Mrs John Godlove correspondent reports Aug 22 visits by Mr and Mrs L Bemis and Martin to Cedar Falls for Ill father age 85. Lois Godlove and Charles McCreedy stayed with home folks. others travel to Fairfield Davenport Muscatine and Oxford. Dale Ebner finished Parsons college work and Hazel Booth back to Davenport.
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Myral McCreedy
Hazel Booth
Ella Merchant
Fairfield
Oxford
Dale Ebner
Parsons College
Davenport
Wisconsin
Elizabeth Wallace
Muscatine
Arnet Mathers
West Chester man notes chautauqua crowds and calf prices
Dayton reports large crowds at the chautauqua grounds in West Chester Ia. He describes the program as a good outing for those with time and recalls meeting a farmer with a week old calf asking $20 while calves elsewhere sell as low as $2.50.
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West Chester
Fall Bulbs and Plan Updates From Local Garden Center
Beautiful tris and mother of pearl iris promise delight. Grape hyacinth, bleeding heart, and early blue flowers ready for planting. Fall bulbs for spring bloom arrive now. Order at store 35 or 30 kinds. Plan spring gardens this fall with Ever Green spray for insects and a full garden tool department.
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Firestones
Oldfields
Oldfield
Triangle Auto Supply CO
Chicago Gash Grain
Toledo
James Ek
Helen
Joe Nick
Schroeder
F. Schroeder
Jack Kelly
K. C
Iowa
Max McCrabb
Kinross
Calvin Griffith
Helen Birkey
Russell Winegarden
Russell
Wellman Savings Bank
Evening Journal
John May €& Son
Lester R. Lease
Madison
Karl Steele
KE. Madison
Washington Dairy
GOOD
Geo
Ww. Stewart
J. D. Dayton
Beautiful Tris
Warren’s Seed Store
Awashington, Iowa
West Side
Geo. W. Stewart
Poland
China
Crandall Motor Co
BUICK
Ritchey Buick Co
Caldwell
Journal Office
C. E. Griffin
R. L. Badger
Fusehold
E. 2Nd Street
Washington Produce Markets
Iowa Livestock Commission Company
John A. Babcock
R. L. Gibson
W. S. Reister
E. 3Rd St
Eggs and Poultry
Reister
E. Wash. St
Washington
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