Market News Chicago Livestock Highlights July 8
Chicago livestock market report shows hog receipts at 27 000 with mixed tone. Hogs 250 lb and up mostly 10 to 25 cents higher. lightweights up. top hogs at 10.00. Cattle and calves steady to higher with heavy steers and yearlings leading gains. vealers and sheep also showing price movements.
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Veale
A. H
Harry) Herbold
Pritchard Commission CO. Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Washington County
Livestock Market Summary Including Sheep Lamb Prices
The report lists bids for slaughter sheep and lambs from 12.00 to 15.35 per cwt with light and handyweights around 12.00 to 15.35, culls 9.75 to 12.00, ewes 4.00 to 6.75, and feeding lambs in the 1.25 to 13.60 range. Highs for good yearlings reach about 11.50, with fat ewes 5.00 to 6.50 and range feeders at 61 lbs 13.60.
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Oregon
Open High Low Close Wheat and Other Commodities
Commodity price table shows wheat corn oats lard ribs rye with July and Sept contracts. Values include opening high low and close figures across wheat corn oats lard ribs rye for July Sept and Dec months.
Chicago Cash Grain Market Prices Snapshot
Chicago market rundown lists Wheat across grades 1 red 1.47 to 1.53 and 2 red 1.47 percent, Corn values for yellow and mixed grades range from 1.08 to 1.50 with various numbers, Oats and Barley shown with ranges, Timothy and Clover priced from 4.50 to 30.00.
Bethel Social News Covers Visit and Birthdays
Bethel residents recount a Tuesday evening visit by Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Letts and Mary Gale. Margery and Mary Walker celebrate their seventh birthday on July 5 as families gather at the homes of Virginia Benson and Velma Keller and others share a Sunday together.
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Bethel
Floyd Letts
Mary Gale
Dawson Home
Margery
Mary Walker
Dell Walker
Virginia
Bernice Benson
Will Stafford
Velma
F. J. Dawson
Bernice
Ellis Keller
Bobby
Sunday School, July 10 Program Not Announced
Community updates note the July 10 Sunday School program to be announced Sunday morning. Sympathy extended to Walter Brown and family after a fire destroyed their home, with no serious injuries.ouple of local visits and holiday activities described including a Fourth of July gathering and family dinners.
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Cbffaid Brown
Walter Brown
Brown
Dell Walker
Rothlisberger
Bernice Dawson
Lorene Putman
Ocean Salts Could Form Thick Layer Over United States
A historic note posits that if all ocean salts were spread across the United States a single layer would cover the land to a depth of roughly one and a half leagues, illustrating the vast mineral content of sea water.
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United States
Grains of Gold and Purina News From Warren’s Seed Store
Leo Hoover purchased 625 pure bred Star mating day old chicks from Farris hatchery Barron Strain Leghorns. Preston Wolf reports an 8 pound catfish catch and seeks bait details. Ben Whitlock is away in St Louis at Purina Mills. Paul Lytle promotes Purina feeds to customers. a carload of Purina feeds expected soon. Warren’s Seed Store offre a selling note from Washington IA with salt orders, Purina feed requests, and poultry care tips including 20th Century Tonic and gypsum use.
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Leo Hoover
Farris Hatchery
Ben Whitlock
St. Louie
Purina Mills
Paul Lytle
Purina
Ben
Fatella
Garden Seed Catalog Excerpt Lists Varieties Planted Now
The note lists vegetable seeds and grains ready for planting including Special Beans Chinese Cabbage Beets Radishes Lettuce Carrots Cucumbers Peas many kinds of Beans fine Turnip Seed several kinds of Sweet Corn Buck wheat Millet Sudan and more.
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Sudan
Route Three Farm Visit Notes A Day of Work and Dinner
A July diary entry recounts a morning after a hail storm with farm visits on Route 3. Harold Wilson’s barn is inspected, J. S. Crawford’s team of horses is noted, and Steve’s family farms 110 acres of corn with 200 hogs and a Red River special threshing machine bought. Dinner with Alvin C. Hasty lasts two hours and fifteen minutes, with humor about aging drinks and a well of 77 years. The Te Bockhorst family and Will TeBockhorst attend, with a Muscatine reunion of 62 people reported and details on hay and corn. John Heck faces appeals for medical rest but hopes for a quick recovery.
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Harold Wilson
Steve
Nichols and Shepard
Red River
Mr. Hasty
Leo Te Bockhorst
Richard
Robert
Bob
Leo
Will TeBockhorst
Will
Tine TeBockhorst
Muscatine
Davenport
Walcot
Washington
Kalona
L. F. Dann
Lawrence
John Heck
Havre Community Notes and Local Visits
Havre and surrounding residents report visits and social activities. Mr and Mrs Clemmon attended a funeral in Crawfordsville while the Havre Co-operative Shipping Association hauled hogs to Chicago. Local residents host visits, church group gatherings, and travels to nearby towns including Marshaltown and Muscatine.
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Havre
Glen Pratts
Mac Been Blossom
Will Stafford
Mr. Clemmon
Crawfordsville
Leanna Donaldson Attends Davenport Celebration
Leanna Donaldson attended a celebration held Monday in Davenport marking a community event with attendees from local groups and supporters.
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Leanna Donaldson
Davenport
California Western epic at Fox Theatre starring Tim McCoy
The film California a historical Western from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars Tim McCoy as Captain Gillespie U S M C in a tale set during California’s conquest by Americans. Dorothy Sebastian plays a Spanish senorita torn between love and loyalty as she loves and shoots an invading soldier.
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California
Tim McCoy
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Fox Theatre
Peter B. Kyne
McCoy
Ciar
Captain Gillespie
Dorothy Sebastian
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North Iowa Ave
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Neay
Earl Nelson
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N. Y
Bobbie
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Stockwell
R. J. Dawson
Will Clemens
Rupert
Idaho
J.W. Meyer
C. Rothlisberger
Burlington
Grace Heselttine
Margaret Dawson
Rennie Dawson
Donald Brown
Phyllis Ann
Ray Lambert
Marvin
Chas. Brown
Wellman
Lambert
Glenn Wilson
Mrs
Tarold Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Preston Wolf
Warren's Seed Store
Washington, Ia
Art Dawson
Carey
Ames
Hail District
Warren’s Seed
Washington, Iowa
Wm. Koening
Walter Gardner
Sam Sage
David Ferguson
L. F. Sigafoose
Hazel Keller
Sam Wittmer
Riton
Wisconsin
Raymond Witting
Ilinois
John Krause
Florence Gardner
Iowa Live Stock Commission Company
Towa
Peter Kurt
Causcade
Iowa Leave Stock Comm. CO
Evening Journal
Journal Office
Rawleigh
W. T. Rawleigh Co
Dept
Freeport
Ill
Journal
Washington County Hospital
Walter Little
A.C. B
Clayde Knapp
Angus Bull
J. H. Jones
Studebaker
Studebaker Garage
Westphal
East Side
Fries and Broilers
White Oak Poultry Farm
Wed& Frid
Charles Vincent
Fri
Sation
C. A. Ruebsam
Plymouth Rock
T. B
Evergreen Farms
Gray and Pierce
S. W
Columbus Junction
Old White Way
Jersey
Geo. W. Stewart
Paige
Hugh A. Piper
Call 88
Fremont
President Polk
General Kearney
Kit Carson
Pio Pico
Baptist Church
R. A. Beauchamp
Washington Rendering Works
Mabchester
Washington Produce Markets
Ibs
Pritchard Com. CO
Iowa Livestock Commission Company
Union Stock Yards
John A. Babcock
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