Live stock market summary from Chicago bids May 21
Receipts hogs 17 000 incl 2 500 direct with slow uneven demand. Prices mostly 10 cents lower. hogs 186 to 210 pounds 6.70 to 6.90, heavier 240 to 270 pounds 6.60 to 6.70, packing sows 5.25 to 5.80. Cattle receipts 6 000 with steers and heifers weak. calves at standstill. Slaughter cattle and feeders show 5.25 to 8.75. vealers 7.25 to 9.00. Sheep receipts 8 000 and market steady to unevenly lower. spring lambs 10.00 to 11.50, ewes 1.75 to 3.00.
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Chicago
California
Des Moines Hog Receipts Drop at 17,000 Head
Combined hog receipts at 23 yards and 7 packing plants in interior towns and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ended 8 am totaled 17,000, down from 25,100 last week. Trade was slow and mostly steady to lower with light market activity. Prices for 220 to 260 lb hogs ranged from 5.60 to 6.25 for good and choice light weights 140 to 160 lb.
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Des Moines
U.S
Towa
Minnesota
Hog slaughter weights and pricing quoted for bulk shipments
Quotations cover weights from 180 to 350 pounds with ranges for light to heavy hogs and sows, plus pack ing sows. Prices vary by weight class and quality. Long haul shipments with high shrinkage or hogs overly filled may detract from quoted levels and shipping-point priced hogs are excluded.
Chicago Production Receipts Report With Grain and Poultry Figures
Chicago May 2 report shows receipts for butter and poultry categories with percentages for extra firsts and seconds. Beef, poultry and eggs remain steady with listed car lots and per item figures including fowls springers leghorns ducks geese and standard classifications.
Haskins and surroundings show local activity and farm life
May notes describe filling station upgrades at Ainsworth, 65 acres of corn, tractor farming by neighbors, and daily labor around Haskins. Mentions of residents like Lawrence Wheeler in Scranton and Dr. Mahn moving to Kilgore, plus markets and crop prices in the region.
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C. A. Walker
R. C. Walker
Ainsworth
D. W. Griffith
Earl White
Mr. Pile
Spencer
Lawrence Wheeler
Scranton, Pa
Grain market summary from Chicago May trading
Chicago May grain quotes show wheat May opening 82 1/4 with highs near 82 1/2 and closing around 82 1/2. May wheat futures at 86 1/4 to 86 3/4 range. July and September terms show mixed gains and losses with corn May at 57 1/2, near unchanged. Reports indicate slight volatility across old and new crop contracts in thin trading conditions.
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Chicago
B&h Hi
Cash Grain Chicago May 21 Market Close Report
Cash grain quotes from Chicago show Wheat with mixed and hard classifications around 83 to 84 cents, Corn with mixed and yellow varieties mainly near 56 to 65 cents, and Oats listed with white grades around 29 to 23 cents. Trade notes include sample grades from 40 to 53 and several fractional price indicators.
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Chicago
Market prices for grains and hay in Toledo
May 21 prices show Clover domestic prime old at 14.75 and prime new 14.00 with prime choice values 14.25 and 14.00 for old. October and December futures noted with 14.25 and cash hay timothy at 1.25 per ewt. Wheat at 87 cars and oats at 14 cars appear as shorthand listings.
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Clover
Prime Choice
Lio
Wisike
Hay Timothy
Wayne Community Notes Reflect Quiet Week and Planting Progress
Floyd Reschley has been ill for a week as Wayne records show a school closure Friday with a well attended program and picnic. Local residents visit Moorhead home and neighbors call on Thursday and Sunday afternoon. Corn planting nears completion while families from Morning Sun Crawfordsville Muscatine and Stanwood visit.
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Elza Crawford
Iowa City
Horace Crawford
Mary Lillian Moorhead
Stanwood
Joe
Helen McCoy
Willard Davis
Reid Buffington
Columbus Junction
Dayton McNeil
Crawfordsville
Albert Owens
Cotter
Moorhead
Pensions for Revolutionary War disabled officers and soldiers
On August 26 1776 Congress offered pensions equal to half pay to officers and enlisted men disabled in the Revolutionary War with proportionate pensions for partial disability. An act granted pensions to invalids passed in 1785, but the first service pensions were granted by the act of March 1818.
Personal effects of Harry Ross to be offered at auction
Auction of personal equipment and tools including brushes belonging to the late Harry Ross at 603 West Jefferson Street. Proceeds to settle estate debts. Items include various hand tools, hardware, and miscellaneous goods from his shop. Auction details to be announced.
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Harry Ross
Jefferson St
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