Hogs top price at Chicago market amid best day trade
Washington county's Fae Edmondson shipped 142 prime hogs from his Ainsworth farm to Chicago. The 272 pound average hogs sold at 5.25 dollars per cwt with no hogs sorted out. The May to July farrowed herd averaged nine pigs per sow. Also a light humorous note on Paul Buckley misplacing galoshes on a snow patch near a lemon mer ingue pie.
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Chicago
Fae Edmondson
Washington County
Ainsworth
Paul Buckley
Coon Rapids
Paul
Free license offer on leap day from clerk in Independence
Clerk A. G. W. Blank of Independence offered free marriage licenses to brides who filed applications on February 29, leap year’s extra day. The unusual promotion aimed to attract applicants and create a wedding day buzz.
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A. G. W. Blank
Independence
Ruth Barfels Named Stewardess for Transcontinental and Western
Ruth Barfels a Grundy Center young lady and registered nurse will begin work as a stewardess for Transcontinental and Western Airlines after a short training course in Kansas City. The position requires a nurse, a requisite for airline hostesses.
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Ruth Barfels
Comely Grundy Center
Transcontinental
Western Airlines
Kansas City
Miss Barfels
Geronimo! Epic Tale of Last Indian Uprising at State Theatre
The State Theatre screens Geronimo an epic saga of the last Indian uprising through Saturday. Preston Foster Ellen Drew Andy Devine and William Henry lead a strong cast with Ralph Morgan Chief Thunder Cloud and Gene Lockhart. The film follows the Apache leaders raids in New Mexico and Arizona with romance and high suspense as a West Point lieutenant pursues Geronimo after his fiancée and mother are wounded.
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Geronimo
United States
Great Southwest
Preston Foster
Ellen Drew
Andy Devine
William Henry
Ralph Morgan
Chief Thunder Cloud
Gene Lockhart
Marjorie Gateson
Kitty Kelly
Ulysses S. Grant
New Mexico
Arizona
Whit
Washington
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