Daily Market Reports Chicago Hog and Cattle Prices Report
Hog receipts 68 000 and cattle 15 000 point to weaker cash tones across the board with hogs 5 to 10¢ lower, big packers inactive, butchers paying 7.30 to 7.35 for 240 to 300 pound hogs and 7.00 to 7.25 for 150 to 225 pound averages. Cattle see slow killing classes, few fat steers above 10.50, top steers around 10.85, yearlings scarce, stockers and feeders steady, cows 4.50 to 5.75, bulls uneven, shipments meagre. Sheep receipts 17 000 with fat lambs steady to strong and bulk fat wooled lambs around 18.00 to 18.70, clip lambs 12.25, yearling wethers 11.00, ewes 8.00.
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Chicago
Sioux City Livestock Market Report January 15
Cattle receipts 2 500 slow market with killers 10 to 16 lower stockers steady fat cattle 6.50 to 11.00 bulk 6.50 7.75 fat cows 4.00 7.50 canners 2.00 2.76 veals 5.00 11.00 bulls 4.25 5.50 feeders 5.00 6.50 stock yearlings 3.00 7.25 hogs receipts 14 000 active 5 to 10 lower top 6.90 bulk 6.65 6.85 lights 6.40 6.75 butchers 6.75 6.90 mixed 6.65 6.75 heavy packers 6.40 6.65 sheep receipts 1 500 market steady.
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Sioux City
Kansas City Livestock Market Reports for Jan 15
Cattle receipts 12,000 with early sales desirable beef steers around steady and later trading slow. Hogs receipts 20,000 weak to 100 lower with packed top 7.10 and bulk 6.86 7.15, stock pigs steady. Sheep receipts 7,000 lams steady to 15¢ lower, early top 13 20, other sales 12.85 13.00 with sheep steady and a few ewes at 7.90.
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Kansas City
Omaha Livestock Prices Mixed as Hogs Cattle Sheep Trade Totters
Hogs receipts 20 000 slow market with early sales 10 to 15 cents lower. Bulk 220 to 325 lb butchers 6.85 to 6.90, top 6.95. 180 to 210 lb 6.70 to 6.85. packing grades mostly 6.50. Cattle receipts 10 000, market moderately active. best weighty steers around 9.10, yearlings 8.25. vealers 25 to 50 cents lower. stockers and feeders steady. cows 4.00 to 6.25. vealers 9.00 to 9.50. Sheep receipts 14 000, market fairly active. fat lambs steady to 12.75–12.85, top 13.00. light ewes 7.59 to 7.75. feeding lambs slow.
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Omaha
Estimated Livestock Tomorrow Hoes
Estimated livestock tomorrow lists cattle at 11 000 and sheep at 15 000 with total value around 6 900. The brief entry notes the prices and quantities of cattle and sheep for the market day.
Journal Observation Appears in Merchant Messenger
A brief note states a person saw the merchants in the Journal. It records a casual claim about finding an item or reference in the newspaper and notes a conversational tone between the observer and the merchants.
Chicago grain price report dated January fifteenth
Chicago markets list wheat prices across grades with No 1 hard at 1 14 and No 2 hard 1 12 percent. Corn values show No 2 mixed at 77 75 percent and yellow varieties around 76 78 percent. Oats rye barley and seed prices follow with Timothy at 6 50 to 8 50 and clover seed 18 00 to 23 50. Lard at 12 25 and rib prices averaging sixty pound at 9 87.
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Chicago
Grain Prices Rally in Chicago Trade on January 15
Chicago trade notes corn and oats hitting season highs as buyers push May futures up while wheat gains on bullish weather signals. Traders report light incoming corn supplies, cautious selling, and a late session rally before settling. hog price declines weigh on provisions.
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Chicago
Com
Northwest
Meditation move to avert threatened railway strike
In London on January 15 a meditation movement is begun as the trades union council seeks council intervention. A meeting of the council is summoned and a meditation committee may be appointed to consult both sides and start negotiations.
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London
Council of the
Trades Union Congress
Boy Dies in Accidental Hunting Incident
Clyde Hightower age 14 of Keithsburg NL died in a local hospital after being accidentally shot by younger playmate Marvin Keener at the Keener home. The gun was reportedly loaded despite warnings and Hightower sought to take the weapon when it discharged.
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Burlington
Jan
Clyde Hightower
Kiethsburg
Marvin Keener
Keener
Keithsburg
Hightower
Plans to Reorganize Equity Association
Plans for a complete reorganization of the Equity Cooperative Exchange on a new basis under a Minnesota charter. State officials are reported to have approved the plan outlined in Paul P. Moore’s annual address at the Tri-State Grain Growers convention in Fargo, North Dakota.
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Associated Press
Fargo
N. D
Equity Cooperative Exchange
Minnesota
Paul P. Moore
West Branch
Iowa
Tri-State Grain Growers Convention
Britain Recognizes Greek Government
Athens dispatch reports that Great Britain has recognized the Greek government. The British charge d affaires here was officially advised by the London foreign office.
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Athens
Great Britain
London Foreign Office
Public sale dates listed for Crawfordsville area farms and auctions
A long list of auction dates and sellers for January and February near Crawfordsville Washington Keota Ainsworth and Wellston. Items include closing out sales real estate stock and Chester White Broad Low Sale with multiple addresses and distances from nearby towns.
Prohibition Seen as Success by Bishop Nicholson
Bishop Thomas Nichol son of New York, head of the Anti saloon League of America, told the annual convention that prohibition has brought bank prosperity life insurance gains and falling unemployment as proof the policy works. Wayne B Wheeler outlined a hard line enforcement program.
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Washington
Broadway
Thomas Nicholson
New York
Wayne B. Wheeler
League
Obituary for Miss Alvina Goeldner of Keota Iowa
Miss Alvina Goeldner died at home near Keota on January 8 after a brief heart illness at age fifty eight. She is survived by siblings Ferdinand Goeldner Mrs Mary Axthelm Herman and Rose Goldner, many nephews and nieces, and was a longtime member of the Presbyterian church. Funeral services were held Saturday at the Presbyterian church in Keota with a quartet of women providing music and pallbearers named Chas Smock G L Holmes P Haupert F Klein M McGraw Evard Bower. Burial followed in Keota cemetery.
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Keota
Alvina Goeldner
Miss Goeldner
Ferdinand L. Goeldner
Sigourney
Mary Axthelm
Herman
Rose Goldner
Tallyrand
Keokuk County
Presbyterian Church
I. T Hawk
Zinc poisoning risk from food stored in galvanized buckets
Caution is urged against letting food sit even briefly in a galvanized iron bucket. The zinc coating can dissolve, potentially contaminating the food and leading to zinc poisoning.
Farewell Party for Mr and Mrs Erwin Rickey in Pilotsburg
On Wednesday evening the Pilotsburg Ladies Aid Society hosted a farewell party at the Charles Rickey home for Mr and Mrs Erwin Rickey who plan to move to Dock Island this week. Wayne Stransky remains ill and cannot attend school while Ellis Rickey is at Ames this winter. Carl Oldfield helped his brother.
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Pilotsburg
Chas. Rickey
Erwin Rickey
Ames
Wilson Ashby
Carl Oldfield
Market Prices for Hides and Pigeons
The listing shows rates for hides and birds with unit prices. Beef hides and horse hides are cited at 82.50 per unit while references include Ib sources for geese swan pigeons and other ornamental birds. The fragment notes multiple animal hides and prices without full context.
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East
Washington
Local Social and Farm Note Roundup
Lyle butcher this week. Allie Maas visited Muriel Stransky last Sunday. Joe Vodichka bought hedge posts of Wilson and is hauling them home. Mariella and Richard Scott are well again after scarlet fever. The LA 8 met with Mrs Sadie Rickey last Tuesday. After the meeting the ladies enjoyed refreshments. Next meeting with Mrs E W H and Miss Esther Ashby. Mrs Lee Cummings visited her mother last Tuesday. Fred Mouser sold cattle to Chas Rickey. Frank Stransky delivered hogs to Farmers Union shippers Saturday at Wellman.
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Fred Mouser
Chas
Rickey
Frank Stransky
Farmers’ Union Shippers
Wellman
History's detail deepens interest in the last century
The piece argues that only in the past hundred years has history accumulated enough detail to become deeply engaging, suggesting a shift in how events are recorded and understood over time.
Clay Clay Notes and Rural Visiting Mostly Local
Warren Morgan of Clay and A R McClure of Richland attended the Farmers Mutual Insurance Co annual meeting in Washington where Morgan was elected Clay Two director, succeeding his father A J Morgan who served eighteen years. Mrs Oak Buckles of Kansas City visited relatives near Iceland with Vera Woodford. Harvey Hoskins returned from a Minneapolis business trip. Elwood Johnson resumed work in Pueblo after holiday time with P B Johnaott and family near Rubio. Bruce Fox and his wife called on Ella Wagener at Roy Robinsons home.
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Clay
Warren Morgan
A. R. McClure
Richland
Washington
Farmers Mutual Insurance Co
Warren
A. J. Morgan
Oak Buckles
Kansas City
Eli Emry
Iceland
Vera Woodford
Harvey Hoskins
Minneapolis
Elwood Johnson
Pueblo
Colo
P. B. Johnaott
Rubio
Bruce Fox
At Han
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Daily Market Reports
Sioux City Livestock
Kansas City Livestock
Omaha Livestock
John A. Babcock
Main Floor Exchange Commission
Illinot
Beach-Wickham Grain CO
Chicago Board of Trade
Equity Association
Crawfordsville
Elias Williams
MccCoy and Rose
C. L. Gray
J. E. Myall
Glen Miller
Haskins
R. F. Hamil
Mike Trier
Keota, Ta
E. W. Harrison
Real Estate
Ed Beranek
Riverside
D. H. Coffman, Ainsworth
Lambert and Sigafoose
H. T. D. Henderson
Henry Witting
Chas. Bohac
Ainsworth
John Anderson
Ed Hotle
C. R. Richards
C. E. Griffith
Wellston
Sebe Jones
Fred Cannon
P. W. Palmer
James K. Helmick & Son
Columbus Jct
Chester White Broad Low
R. H. Paul
Rathmel and Wells
Nicholson
W. S. Reister
East Third St
Mutual
Lee
R. L. Gibson
Luce
Rainbow Orion
Major Sensation
Pathmaster
Supreme Col
Supreme Pathmaker
High Sensation
Keota, Ia
Kreascha, MccNurten
McGraw
Dr. Edwards
J. B. Cox
Reid
Jakesville Gang
John Deere
Deere and Muncer
Jake Hendrickson
W. H. VanHorn
Dean Curtis
Chester
McNurlen
C A. Lacey
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