Daily Market Reports for Chicago and Omaha Livestock
Chicago hog receipts 29 000 moderate activity steady to 10 cents higher. Cattle receipts light, slaughter classes slightly more active. Sheep receipts 19 000 active on native lambs with 25 cents lower. westerns unchanged. Omaha hog receipts 8 990 better grades active to strong. most sales 6.26 to 6.95, top 7.00. Cattle receipts 4 800 moderate. top weighty steers 10.25, fed cows and betfers 6.25 to 7.86. Sheep receipts 10 000 lambs mostly 26 cents lower. natives 13.25 to 13.60, fat westerns 13.50 to 13.75.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Omaha
Kansas City Livestock Markets Report July Cattle and Hog Trend
Cattle receipts 6000 calves 1000 beef steers yearlings and fat stock strong to higher top matured steers 10.00 bulk native steers and yearlings 7.76 to 9.50 beef cows 4.00 to 6.25 top cows 9.00. Hog receipts 9000 opened strong to 6c higher closed 6 to 10c higher top 7.20 bulk 6.90 to 7.15 packing sows 6.35 to 6.50 stock pigs 6.00 to 5.60. Sheep receipts 6000 range lambs around 26c lower Arizona 13.26 best Idahos held at 13.50.
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Kansas City
Arizona
Her Temporary Husband at Fox Theater in Comedy Farce
A First National farce arrives at the Fox Theatre on Thursday and Friday. The plot follows a woman who must marry within 24 hours to gain a fortune and ends up with a revived fiance disguised as the groom. An all star cast including Owen Moore Sidney Chaplin Sylvia Breamer delivers fast laughing complications.
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Sidney Panston
Allstar
Owen Moore
Sidney Chaplin
Sylvia Breamer
Tully Marshall
Chuck Reisner
George Cooper
Compromise Plan on Dawes Report to Be Submitted
Paris plan proposes a two tier reparations framework with a commission overseeing default determinations while a separate body judges voluntary defaults. Herriot and his advisors approved a note outlining French stance on reparations to be presented to Prime Minister MacDonald and then sent to allied powers.
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Dawes
Preas
Paris
Reparations Commission
MacDonald
Great Britain
Herriot
Germany
Russia Expands Eke Export Trade Amid War
The article notes Russia returning to eke exports as a key trade, highlighting a wartime shift from eggs as a major export. It cites prewar figures showing eggs valued at 191% of exports, totaling 8.484 milliards and representing sixty four percent of world egg trade.
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Russia
Silver penny from Edward I era found on Large Law hill
A silver penny dating to Edward I’s reign 1272 to 1307 was recently recovered atop Large Law hill in Scotland, offering a rare glimpse into medieval coinage and local history.
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Edward I
Law
Scotland
Chicago grain and lard prices on July report
Wheat and corn futures listed with multiple hard and yellow grain grades and percentages. No. 2 white and other white grades show varied percentages, while lard closes sharply lower at 10.97.
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Chicago
Wheat on Upward Swing in Chicago Markets
Wheat prices recovered from a weak start as Minnesota rust and foreign buying supported gains. Corn climbed on light offerings with strong finish. oats firmed on rains and provisions followed the grain rally, with September contracts closing higher overall.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Potatoes Trade Fairily Steady Across Markets
Chicago potato market reports steady trading with overall firm tone. Missouri and Kansas supply was light with Ohio and Illinois showing strong demand and prices ranging from 1.95 to 2.10 per unit.
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Chicago
Missouri
Kansas
Illinois
Millionaire's Son Penniless in Cedar Rapids
Henri Van Swanenberg, claiming to be A Van Swanenberg's son from Amsterdam, arrived in Cedar Rapids with twenty seven cents and no pay from a carnival company he joined after leaving Manchester. He traveled from Chicago seeking work, pawned his clothing, and seeks earnings to support a claimed betrothal. He carries letters from Holland's consul general in Chicago.
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Cedar Rapids
Holland
Henri van Swanenberg
A. van Swanenberg
Amsterdam
Manchester
Zwanenbere
Chicaco
Europe
Buhl
Mina
America
Chicago
Carnival
Black bass guards young after hatching unique to New York
The article notes that the black bass is the only fish distributed by the New York conservation commission known to babysit its offspring after hatching, highlighting a rare parental behavior.
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New York Conservation Commission
America's Remarkable Progress Across a Century
President Mead credits America’s growth to strong national character and shared ideals. He highlights wealth, deposits, railroads, telegraphs, and newspapers, arguing progress rests on people not just resources and urging adherence to guiding principles for future strength.
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Walter W. Mead
American Bankers Association
Lafayette
America
United States
New York
Liverpool
Savannah
Sioux City Stock Yards Set Record in First Half of 1924
The Sioux City stock yards reported a record six months with over 2,548,600 cattle hogs and sheep passed through. Hog sales topped 2,000,000, ranking only behind Chicago Saint Louis and Omaha markets. Total receipts for 1924 are expected above 3.5 million.
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Sit Erry
Sioux City
Chicago
G&t
War surplus picric acid aids farms across states
More than 45,000 farmers in 28 states used war surplus picric acid to clear 250,000 acres and remove stumps from 86,000 acres. The US Bureau of Roads reports nearly 8 million pounds applied, saving farmers about 750 thousand dollars and expanding cultivatable land nationwide. France marks a weekly school holiday as 1923 comparisons show gains in market activity. Sioux City accounts for about half of the national increase.
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Grm
America
New York
United States
Bureau of Roads
Sioux City
Movies Remain Ames Students Popular Amusement
A Rural Sociology survey at Iowa State College shows movies as the top recreation for 2886 Ames residents with picnics trips and theaters following. Swimming leads preferred amusements among nearly 400 schoolboys, girls, and their families, with comics and wild west films highest among youth.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Goiter Linked to Snow Water in Shoal Lake Supply
Winnipeg report finds goiter among 600 school children traced to snow water from Shoal Lake. The lake covers about 50 square miles and feeds the municipal supply 40 miles northeast. Dr Duncan McRae says iodine should be added to the water. 300 children aged 12 to 14 were found with goiter.
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Winnipeg
Man
Shoal Lake
Duncan McRae
Jodin
Slogan Prompt for Customers to Mention Journal Ads
A shopper reminder urges telling merchants I saw your ad in the Journal. It emphasizes using the newspaper ad as a prompt to confirm awareness and prompt a sale.
Osage Orange Planters Tied to Barbed Wire Invention
Davenport Iowa July 8 An Illinois farmer Jacob Haish of De Kalb credited with first conceiving the idea of planting osage oranges to form thorn like barbed wire and later twisting thorny vines onto wire He patented barbed wire on January 20 1874 after experiments begun in 1873 leading to a national standard in fencing.
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Preas
Davenport
Iowa
Illinois
Jacob Haish
de Kalb, Tit
Here
Haish
Osage Orange
Altho
Harsh
Yakaloes Seen as Future Meat Source in Alberta Park
In Wainwright Alberta a new livestock breed named yakaloes blends buffaloes and yaks. Superintendent A G Smith notes yakaloes have strong beef traits and good rustling nature. The herd in the park totals 6000 buffaloes with 1500 calves born this year raising hopes for meat supply.
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Wainwright
Alta
National Park
A. G. Smith
Wainwright Park
Westera Prairies
Longevity Record Told From Taytay Rizal Province
In Taytay near Manila, Rizal, records show six centenarians died between Oct 1923 and Apr 1924. Benita Gonzaga reportedly reached 140 years at death, with other long lived residents noted in Father Dumandan's record.
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Manila
Taytay
Rizal
Philipine Islands
Father Dumandan
Benita Gonzaga
Long-Lived Villagers Attributed to Simple Diet
The article notes residents Tomasa Vivencio aged 123 and Maria Roxas aged 129, with Father Dumandan attributing their longevity to a diet of fish vegetables and fruit, the staple foods of the community.
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Tomasa Vivencio
Maria Roxas
Father Dumandan Save
Krull Named Zoology Head At Evangelical College Naperville
W H Krull longtime University of Iowa graduate assistant in zoology has been elected head of the zoology department at Evangelical College in Naperville. He studied sphenodon a near extinct lizard like animal in New Zealand and earned a BA at Upper Iowa and Cornell. He holds an MA and is pursuing a PhD.
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Iowa City
Iowa
W. H. Krull
University of Iowa
Evangelical College
Naperville
Ll Krull
New Zealand
Krull
Cornell College
Upper Iowa University
Argentina Holds Key Share Of South American Telecom
Forty two percent of South America’s telephone equipment is in Argentina and the total line length represents fifty one percent of the region’s total.
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South America
Argentina
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