Daily Market Reports Openings and Livestock Prices
Chicago market snapshot shows hogs receipts 56,000 with holdover 5,487 and cattle receipts 12,000 to 22,000. Prices range with calves and veal notes. lambs and sheep also listed with lows and highs. futures and cash close data for wheat corn oats rye barley across Chicago and St Louis markets.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Mike
Toledo
Poland
McCormick
Janesville
Emerson
Hays
Henry County Fair Elects New Officers At Annual Meeting
MT PLEASANT Dec 7 The Henry county fair stockholders elected officers including President F B Montgomery Vice President Henry Traut Secretary C H Tribby Treasurer W D Worthington Chief of Police Dick Campbell Chief Marshal Howard More Auditing Committee F S Fin ley Frank Price J C Winters Directors John Moore George Bird R P Hobbs H E Virden Newell More Samuel Milligan A S Loveland Ralph Crane Orson Mil ner Clyde Bunker Ross Wright J I Yount Henry Gillis Samuel Lee W T Wright B F Benson Frank Price The fair earned 8240 after premiums and expenses and will see improvements in spring with a 1921 fair planned before the Long State fair. Housemaids in Spain threaten to quit over wage hikes.
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MT. Pleasant
Henry County
F. B. Montgomery
Henry Traut
C. H. Tribby
W. D. Worthington
Dick Campbell
Howard More
F. S. Finley
Frank Price
J. C. Winters
John Moore
George Bird
R. P. Hobbs
H. E. Virden
Montgomery Ward Sales Show Slump in November 1920
Montgomery Ward in Chicago reports a 22.69 percent drop in November 1920 sales from November 1919. November sales totaled 10,889,596 dollars versus 14,084,444 dollars a year earlier. First eleven months show an 8.75 percent year over year gain, with 102,295,244 dollars this year against 94,065,344 dollars in 1919.
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Chicago
Til
Montgomery Ward and Company
Archduchess Sisters Enter Governess Roles in Austria
Several Austrian archduchesses have taken positions as governesses and maids to eke out a living, reflecting hardship among nobility.
Closing Out Sales and Slashed Feeds Prices Across Regions
Farm department items list closing out sales for December 8 to 16 at multiple locations near Washington Brighton Keota and West Chester with details on timing and nearby towns. A broad market report notes widespread price cuts for feeds as demand dips while supplies exceed needs with milled products and mixed feeds fluctuating in price and availability.
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Hotle
Huber & McCall
Washington
Brighton
Oscar Bjork
Grace Hill
C. O. Dayton
West Chester
Keota
E. T. Kauffman
Wellston
Fred B
Titus
L. Bauer
C. S
Willey, Ainsworth
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Minneapolis
Northeastern
New York
Chicago
U. S
Washington High Faces New London in Friday Night Basketball
Washington High hosts New London in the season's first night game at 8 p.m. Friday with a 25 cent admission. New London is strong after a solid last season and Wayland awaits next Friday. Coach Dickinson has cut the squad to twenty, with Captain Davis and others showing well as drills focus on fundamentals and speed. The American Legion also schedules a Friday game at Junction against Columbus Junction, their first of the year amid late-running travel delays.
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Washington High School
New London
Wellman
Wayland Hich
Achool
Wayland
Mt. Pleasant
Davis
Duke
Brown
Swift
Rice
Daniels
Freshwaters
Kiesey
L. McCreedy
Waymack
Dearer Than He Thought Demobilized Tommy Atkins
A Punch magazine caption reflects a demobilized Tommy Atkins gazing at shop price cards. He recalls being told he fought for dear life, but expresses surprise at the cost of civilian life and goods after war.
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Tommy Atkins
London
Edison machine to talk with the departed teased
A Boston Transcript quips about Thomas Edison working on a device to converse with the dead. The joke suggests the greeting may shift from Hello to Hleaven ho as a playful take on spirit communication.
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Edison
Boston Transcript
Poultry Prices Listed for Eggs Ducks Geese and Turkeys
Market page shows prices for eggs fresh laid and dairy products, with per pound bids for old hens and roosters, ducks and geese, and tom turkeys. Figures appear faded but indicate a daily pay schedule in pence or pounds per unit.
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Daily Market Reports
Close OF Grain Futures
Breach Wickham Grain
Morrison
Washington, Iowa
Sohn A. Babcock Commission
Merchan G. & Yard
Henry County Fair Men
Spain
Mutual
W. S. Reister & Sons
Colenso
Montgomery Ward
Teas Blacksmith Shop
Hampshire
C. A. Reubsam
Ainsworth
Iowa
Minnesota Pig & Cattle Co
South ST. Paul
Minnesota
Journal’s Farm Department
Cood
Creest
Texas
Deering
Emerson Gang
Deere
A.c.mcnurlen
Auct
State Bank of Keota
TL. N. Dayton
NEW London High School
D. F. Macon
Moriarty
Cascara
la Grippe
Hill
Duce
Tack Herr
Oildag
John Striegel Jr
Harper, Iowa
Crawfordsville
Sloan
Rablem
Holland
Property Owners Federation, Inc
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