Midway Sales Horses Sell for High Prices at Columbus Junction
Two hundred head of horses were sold Thursday March 27 by Midway Sales Company at their pavilion. Carload buyers from Missouri to Georgia attended. Top prices included a bay gelding team at 245 dollars, sorrel mares at 262.50, dapple gray mares at 252.60, and eight males at 2509. Singles topped at 130 for a five year old dapple mare and 127 for a sorrel five year old gelding.
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Martha Butler
Columbus Jct
Midway Sales Company
Missouri
Illinois
Ohio
Tennessee
New York
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Iowa
Maine
Penn
Ft. F
F. D. Smylie
Mgrs
Riverside Water Crisis Prompts Conservation Appeals
Riverside officials warn residents to curb water use as the town’s dwindling well yields about ten gallons per minute despite recent pump repairs. A test well may be drilled on Alphonse Lear’s property in the west, with 400 feet of new 4 inch mainline needed if successful. Milling Company party draws 350 guests at St Mary’s ball with Cedar Rapids visitors J M Piper and R C Booth.
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Yegsy
Alphonse Lear
John C. Dautremont
Leo Schwaigert and Sons
Bernard Dautremont
Iowa City
Anna Kern
Henry Schaefer
Davis
Cedar Rapids
Ernest Hotz
Lone Tree
Albert Weber
Elmo Knittel
Edward Bushek
Mt. Pleasant
Mobile Oil Company
Harley Ford
Robert
Bemidji
Minn
Edwin W. Ford
Ford
Milo Shalla
Wayne Cray
Riverside
California
Lee Schnoebelen
Ruth Pogge
Janet Olson
Market report from Chicago hogs sheep and cattle
Chicago markets show 16 000 hogs slow 10 to 20 cents lower top 8.00 with 240 to 280 and 280 to 330 pound ranges. Sows easing 10 to 15 cents. Sheep 14 000 mostly bids 25 cents lower with choice westerns around 10 35. Cattle 13 800 slow with steers 475 to 12.00, yearlings 9 50 to 12 00, heifers 11 50, primes 12 50, bulk 9 50 to 11 00. Tomorrow's early estimates: cattle 7 000 hogs 14 000 sheep 6 000.
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Chicago
Westerna
Chicago Grain Table Summary
Chicago market notes show grain futures with May July and Sep listings for Wheat Corn and Soybeans. Prices vary across contracts with open high low figures and minor changes noted for each commodity.
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Chicago
Agricultural Price Averages for Corn Oats and Soybeans
Chicago March 31 report shows bid percentages for corn oats and soybeans. Statements include yellow and white varieties with percentages and mixed heavy readings, plus small sample notes and price gauges.
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Chicago
Chicago Produce Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago March 31 production and market update shows produce receipts at 41 375 cases with gains in extra firsts 21 percent and current receipts up 1 percent. Dirties 19 checks 18 storage packed 23. Poultry receipts listed as 12 trucks with varying percentages for ducks geese hens springs and broilers.
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Chicago
Tape Corners to Protect Tablecloth Edges
Instructions suggest applying adhesive tape to the underside of all four tablecloth corners to prevent wear through at the corners. This simple preventive measure aims to extend the fabric’s life and maintain a clean appearance on a dining setup.
Spy Ordered Out Convicted of Espionage in Los Angeles
Mikhail Gorin a Soviet agent was convicted of espionage and freed on probation by a federal judge in Los Angeles He was ordered to leave the United States within 48 hours under probation terms and monitoring by authorities.
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Mikhail Gorin
Los Angeles
Six Musical Groups Enter Ainsworth Contest
Six groups compete in Ainsworth home music contest on April 1. Milo Sorden leads the band performing Balaton Zanthran and First Parade March in its first contest appearance. Miss Sebern directs the glee club with Calm as the Night Go Down Moses and The Year’s at the Spring. Sextette songs include My Faith My Johannes with listed sopranos and altos. Betty Olinger will play Deep Wood on bass clarinet. Twenty three piece band.
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Ainsworth
Girls Glee Club
Milo Sorden
Buelhtel
Glee Club
Miss Sebern
Rahm
Moses
Beach
Faith
Scott
Johann
Grieg
Mildred Pressly
Virginia Miller
Marion Stephens
Marybelle Clinger
Lois Fitzgerald
Connie Stephens
von Glick
Shubert
Franz
Florian
Godard
Betty Olinger
Bennett
Victor Huxley To Open Shop In Wellman
Victor Huxley of Fairfield has rented the Harris MacGugin building and will open a shop selling Goodyear tires auto accessories and electrical appliances. He has lived on a Fairfield area farm and previously ran stores at Belknap Salem and Lockridge. He will relocate his family to the A C Rueggseger house.
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Frank Wilson
Wellman
Victor Huxley
Fairfield
Harris MacGugin
Goodyear
Huxley
Belknap
Salem
Lockridge
A. C
Orville Morrison
Loren van Dorn
A. C. Kraft
Francis Longwell
Carroll Durian
Floyd Griffith
Harold Swartzendruber
George Miller
Minnie Jennings
Adams
Everette Huber
Mercy
Iowa City
Charles Durian, Jr
Arthur Wright
Will Lesbe
Marion
Elmer Yoder
California
Widows of Ex Presidents Still Alive in 1940
In 1940 six widows remained from U S presidents including Mrs T J Preston widow of Grover Cleveland and Mrs Theodore Roosevelt along with Mrs Woodrow Wilson Mrs Benjamin Harrison Mrs William Howard Taft and Mrs Calvin Coolidge.
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T. J. Preston
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Calvin Coolidge
Music group roster and campus update from Riverside note
The piece lists band members by instrument including Marion Stephens and Mabel Thoma on clarinets Lois Pearson and Jean Wood on saxophones and other players. It also reports a family returning from Montgomery Alabama and local travel notes plus a Riverside county school of instructions gathering with D R Thoma as instructor and a Burlington carpenter’s work trip.
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Marion Stephens
Mabel Thoma
John Dea
Arthur Young
Max Owens
Betty Olinger
Lois Pearson
Jean Wood
Martha Davis
Hazel Hurt
Beverly Butterworth
Lois Fitzgerald
Lewis Beenblossom
John Walker
Limer Kiene
Robert O' Connor
Bar Miller
Julia Koehler
John Koehler
Helen Pearson
Marth Mec Innis
Billy Ray Stewart
Harry Burmeister
Billy Acheson
Montgomery
Ala
Little Davi Robert Evans
Delbert
Margaret Acheson Hyans
County School of Instructions
Riverside
D. R. Thoma
Lloyd Coon
Jimmy
Burlington
Coon
G. F. Trotter
Cedar Rapids
Bill
Ottumwa
Panama jungle escape ends with Maj Randall bailout
Maj Russell E. Randall of Swampscott Massachusetts executive officer at Albrook field Ancon Canal Zone bailed out after a flight over jungle terrain. He then hacked through 25 miles of dense undergrowth to reach the airfield exhausted but unharmed.
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Panama
Russell E. Randall
Swampscott
Mass
Albrook Field
Ancon
Canal Zone
Gratitude in Reverse Tries Police in St Joseph Robbery
A man in St Joseph turned in an alarm near a fire box at the request of a trolley motorman who had just been robbed of 20 dollars. Police and firemen arrived and arrested the man.
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St. Joseph
Midway Sale Co Hosts Weekly Journal Sale Date
Midway Sale Co Columbus Junction runs a weekly journal sale every Wednesday with a community sale each Friday featuring varied food items and bargains across the market. Local vendors participate, drawing shoppers to the Midway location for routine finds and special weekly offers.
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Midway Sale Co
Columbus Junction
Frider “Ty Food Varad
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Jay Brewer
Hadley Waltman Prighton
Amos Stout
Mose Levy
Iowa Ave
Gale Hesseltine
Call
Clifford Campbell
M. Akrteod
Belden Ave
S-M-T
M. Batt
S. Srd Ave
Hattie Wagner
West
Monroe
Whittaker
Farmers Cooperative Exchange
Washington
Porter’s Elevator
West Chester
S. C. Wittmer & Son
Havre
Community Feed Store
Wharl Frey, Haskins
O. F, Frey & Son
Noble
the Evening Journal
T. H. Lowry
Armstrong
M. A
East Second Street
Gopher & Vanguard
Wade Garaner
Eeclipse Lumber Co
Vangard
Gopher, Columbian and
van Guard
Oetjen Seed Co
Farrow
Henry Kiene
Crawfordsville
Cetjen Seed Co
St. Marion Ave
North Marion Ave
North 5Th Avenue
George J. Breitenbach
South Side
Tucker Chevrolet
Kberosene
Washington Oil Company
Gotseed
IFOR
Jim Hotle
Gamble Store
Sltudio
Dick. Ittead
Henry Field
Timimothy
Gamble
Martin's Modern Cleaners
Dave M'Laughlin
Iowa Southern Utilities Co
Timothy
Yaro Sojka
Quaker O
Peters Hardware
Herman Bork
Vanguard
Elmer Steele
Martin's
The
Eclipse Lumber Co
Country Club
Nice
Bill Shannon
Journal
Willits Motor Co
Ce EE
Smart & Parrish
Harold Griges
Wilbert Rose
United Mattress & Upholstering Co
Washington Tile Factory
Widmer & Busby
New Hampshire Reds
Jakers Hatchery
Vanguard Seed Oats
Geo
Sojka
Harry Kleese
Complete Tire
Pickens
BISON
J. F. Rittenhouse
Midway Pavilion
Paul Klotz
H. M. Duncan
EK. H. Dunlap
Wapello
Chicago Livestock
Chicago Grain Table
Tiiknaii
Gorin
Reister Bros
Red Comb Feeds
Green Gable
Jamesway Poultry Equipment
Dr. Salisbury Poultry Health Service
MacGugin
L. M. Downing
A. J. Nichols
South
Nels Westermark
Tom Duncan
Isaih Yoder
Kalona
Vella Maplethorpe
Ella Yoder
Major Randall
Aovee
Washington Dairy
Morning Sun Rendering
Geo. J. Breitenbach
S.ta Ave
Livestock Sale
Towa
Choise
Hampshire
Berkshire
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