Market Summary for Hogs Cattle and Lambs in Chicago
Estimated hog receipts 29,000 with 49,399 carried over. cattle 5,000. sheep 7,000. Opening steady for steers and stockers, hogs higher with bulk around 17.65 to 17.75 for butcher grades, pigs 12.50 to 15.50, fat and yearlings up 25. Lambs and lamb buyers bid 25 higher on fat and prime, feeders 10.75 to 12.15. Receipts yesterday total 65,226 hogs, 14,412 cattle calves. shipments 4,956 hogs, 3,051 cattle calves.
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Chicago
Jchicago, MI
Close of grain futures
Grain futures close report provided by FE. W. Wagner and Company Iowa City Iowa with B Hunt manager noting market activity and closing prices.
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Close OF Grain Futures
FE. W. Wagner & Co
Iowa City
Iowa
B. Hunt
Farm Department Dates Public Sales At Lord and Son Farm
A long list of public livestock sales is announced for January to February near Washington Iowa. J M Lord & Son and Grosscup Brothers promote Duroc and Hereford stock, breeding sows and brood sows, beef cattle, horses, and hogs with multiple closing out and public sales dates.
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M. M. Kendrick
Washington
Frank Vohaska
Melo Havel
Ainsworth
Haskins
John Fisher
Cotter
John Colbert
Riverside
Harold Hulme
J. M. Lord & Son
Duroes
John Krebs
Duroe
Elmer Swickard
E. P. Hays
R. F. Smylie
Columbus Junction
L. Fouchek
Grosscup
Grosseup
Red
Mutual
Coakley Sale Adjusted. Move Scheduled for March
The Hiram Coakley sale will be held January 31st. The date was changed from February 6th due to a clerical error in the Sales Claimed column. Coakley has purchased property in town and will move to Washington on March first.
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Hiram Coakley
Journal
Coakley
Washington
Durves Herd Breeding Prices Rise for J M Lord & Son
Fifteen years ago J M Lord of Aineworth sold Durve males for 10 and 12 50 each, a high price for the time. Now the firm can fetch about 100 a head, with neighbor breeders preferring direct purchase and the Lords and Son’s herd among the county's oldest. Last year marked their first sale.
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J. M. Lord
Aineworth
Times
Lord
George
J. M. Lord & Son
Bosley to Move West Virginia Silo Sells Feb 18
Herbert Bosley of near West Chester announces a closing out sale on February 18 as he moves back to West Virginia. He plans to ship his 13 by 30 foot slave silo to his Cumberland Maryland farm. He proves the silo reduces corn use from 14 acres for 85 cattle through winter to 7 acres to mid May. He assets pure bred Poland Chinas will be sold.
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Herbert Bosley
West Chester
West Virginia
Cumberland
Maryland
Bosley
Self Feeder Hog Demonstration Shows Profit in Indiana
Jefferson county farm bureau reports a profitable self feeder hog test fed with skimmed milk bran shipstuff and hominy meal. Ten pigs born March 1 grew to 2160 pounds total selling for 399.60 with feed costs 200 producing a net profit of 199.60 or 19.96 per head.
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Jefferson County
Ind
TrainKills Poor Animals East of Cotter
Wm H Dean suffered a loss when three tall frown mules and a horse were struck by a freight train east of Cotter. The animals were not fully dead when found by his boy, one was torn to pieces. Appraisers set value at 975 dollars and the railroad company is expected to settle.
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Wm. H. Dean
Cotter
Columbus Safeguard
Iowa Farmers Back Hard Surfacd Road Plan
Davenport Iowa January 27 Farmers across Iowa show strong support for the Greater Iowa association road program. Joe R Long state campaign chairman leads a series of meetings statewide ahead of the general assembly session. In Grinnell Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids gatherings about 400 farmers endorsed the project and organizers note cooperation among semi public groups. Long spent ten years studying road questions.
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Davenport
Iowa
Greater Iowa Association
Joe R. Long
Long
General Assembly
Grinnell
McLone
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Market stories would scare grandpa in this era
A fragment suggests an elderly reader, perhaps the grandfather Iona Farmer, would be startled by contemporary market reports and pavilion stories, implying drastic changes from past times and a sense of shock at today’s news.
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Grandpa
Iona
Pales
Remarkable cattle prices at Kansas City sale and International show
The Iowa Agriculturist notes a yearling Hereford bull selling for 24000 dollars at the Royal sale in Kansas City and a carload of prime beef cattle fetching 2525 dollars there. It cites the International grand champion steer in Texas at fifty cents a pound and the grand champion Angus at 250 per hundredweight, marveling at the current market beyond Grandfather Iowa Farmer's day.
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Kansas City
Iowa
Iowa Agriculturist
U S Government Leather Halters to Be Sold at Auction
U S government leather halters new and unused will be sold at public auction on the northeast corner of the square in Washington Saturday at 8 p m. The lot includes 100 halters with leather leads and a cost of 5 00 each. Chas Brown, Auctioneer. 9712
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U. S
Washington
Chas, Brown
Notice to Hunters on Private Premises
We will not allow hunting trapping or trespassing on our premises and no shooting after night around our homes. Names listed include Charles Hersh Floyd C Letts Judge F D Letts Mrs Richard Hughes Kolosick Bros with date February 13.
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Charles Hersh
Floyd C. Letts
F. D. Letts
Richard Hughes
Draft Was Chance To Dust Bad Eggs
Police Surgeon Dawson recalls a post armistice decline in narcotics traffic to Des Moines with dope fiends no longer flocking to the city station. He notes draft suspensions from Wisconsin Minnesota and Illinois reduced the city’s income and kept young men 21 to 31 off the streets. He describes widespread morphine cocaine heroin and opium use among the neglected youths and a wealthy Missouri banker's son who required daily morphine.
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Dawson
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
Camp Dodge
Missouri
Des Moines
Storm of Jobless Is About to Break
Philadelphia reports a nationwide rise in unemployment as the jobless number swells across states. Economic concern grows as factory layoffs, reduced hours, and rising claims push collective hardship higher.
Unemployment figures warn of severe storm of job loss
Nathan A. Smyth of the United States Employment Service warns at a meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science of an impending extreme downturn. He cites 211000 unemployed in 55 cities as of January 21 and reports a collapse of job openings and rising jobless claims across regions. He urges faster separation of soldiers with positions awaiting them and calls for industrial stimulation while criticizing government retrenchment.
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Nathan A. Smyth
United States Employment Service
American Academy of Political and Social Science
Mr. Smyth
Pacific North
Middle
Eastern
Agreement Reaches 100 Million European Famine Relief Bill
Senate and house conferees finalize an administration bill for 100 million dollars to fund European famine relief with no material changes. Amended provisions maintain American purchase of donated wheat where possible and permit relief to Armenians and allied peoples in enemy territories.
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Washington
Senate
House
Penrose
Pennsylvania
America
Strike terror in England cripples British industry
The article describes a vast strike in Great Britain with 149,000 workers out and fears the number could double in 48 hours. Demands include reducing the 47 hour work week toward 40 or 44 hours as tensions rise over economic controls and rent.
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London
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