Chicago Market Report Hogs Cattle and Sheep Movements
Opening market shows estimated receipts hogs 14 000 cattle 1 060 sheep 2 000. Second report notes market steady to slightly lower spots. good and choice cattle 260 to 300 lb aver 6.90 to 7.50 top 7.19. desirable 160 to 190 lb aver 6.50 to 6.85. Packing sows 6.50 to 6.65, some heavy slaughter pigs near 6.00. Estimated holdover 5 000. receipts 1 000. Market closing active and unevenly higher week’s start. beef steers and yearlings shown at 11.00 and below, desirable steers 12.25. Bulls 25 to 50 up, vealers 50 higher. Day’s receipts cattle 47 520, calves 770, hogs 57 688, sheep 10 574. Shipments cattle 3 726, calves 249, hogs 8 500, sheep 466. Wheat near 1.03 July 1.09 May 1.08 1.09. Corn near .74 May .74 July .76. Oats around .43 May .46 July .44. Cash bids: wheat 1.50 with tone one lower. corn 2.50 two lower. oats 1.00 one lower. Estimated livestock Monday hogs 69 000 cattle 25 000 sheep 32 000.
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Chicago
Corals Feed on Animal Food Says USGS Scientist
A USGS affiliated scientist reports corals are carnivorous. Beef juice crab meat and fish were offered and the outer tentacles of the colony extended then the stimulus spread through the colony causing the specimen surface to open like a flower. No pure vegetable food was eaten by the species tested.
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United States Geological Survey
Closing Out Sales Announced For December Dates
Sale dates list four closings in Ainsworth and surrounding area. Schwab Bros. Farm and Closing Out Sale in Ainsworth on December 11. Mrs. Medes Belle sale nearby on December 12. Mrs. Grace Wallace Stewart sale seven miles northeast of Washington on December 18. Chas. W. Prebyl sale seven and a half miles north of Washington on December 19.
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Schwab Bros
Ainsworth
Medes Belle
Button Factory
Grace Wallace Stewart
Washington
Chas. W. Prebyl
Crawfordsville Social Hour club shares gifts and wins in basketball day
Dee John Strain visits Crawfordsville while Mrs Artie Wells and others host a Christmas sock doll and picture book project for Perkins hospital. The high school teams host Cotter and Olds in a double header, with Crawfordsville girls winning 26 to 13 and the boys’ second team losing 16 to 9.
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Crawfordsville
Dee ’ John Strain
Burlington
C. A. Sprague
Essa Harper
Washington
Artie Wells
Myron Hayes
T. M. Rickey
Ed McFarland
Robert Wells
Perkins Hospital
Marion Neal
Corning
Dale Wagner
Mt. Pleasant
Low Wesleyan
Cotter High School
Carter
Daisy Kemps
Doris Tobb
Irene Edwards
Mary Roberts
Mildred Willey
Anna Arthur
Mary Borders
Clara Patterson
Icy Edwards
Mirian Sipe
Fisher Edwards
Hope Huston
Young Worker Ideal Shifts From Labor to Large Pay
A columnist notes that many youths seek high pay with easy tasks, criticizing the modern attitude toward work and the expectation of comfortable salaries without strenuous duties.
Local gatherings and notices across Ames and Fairfield
Richland reports a Monday opera house lesson on decorative stitches by Miss Owens with six school districts attending. Nearby, the Methodist bazaar and supper run Saturday. Wm. and Mrs. Hyzer hosted a Thanksgiving dinner. John McClure, Civil War veteran, died after a lingering illness leaving a widow and four married children. Vernon Hague plans northern Iowa campaign HQ from Algona with Fairfield as state headquarters.
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Richland
John McClure
John Millis
A. M. Barker
Lenmore
Cal
Barker
Mills
L. P. Hinson and Son
Michigan
Smith W. Brookhart
Algona
Iowa
Fairfield
Hague
Return of the ex-kaiser provokes wartime memories alas
The Weekly Slip Horn editor rails at Bill Hohenzollern possibly returning to Germany. It recalls World War I, Belgium, Lusitania, the Paris peace talks, and public reactions. It argues against nostalgia for neutrality and mocks postwar woes while urging memory of unity and sacrifice.
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Bill Hohenzollern
Germany
Belgium
France
Versailles
United States
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