G A R to Hold 75th Encampment in Columbus
The Grand Army of the Republic prepares for its 75th national encampment in Columbus Sept 14 to 19. An estimated 400 to 500 Union veterans, ages 93 to 110, are expected to attend, with auxiliary groups adding about 4,000 more. Gov Bricker, Commander Nixon and Rownd named as honor guests.
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U. S. Marine Band
Women's Relief Corps
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Daughters of Union Veterans
Federated Patriotic Societies
John W. Bricker
William W. Nixon
Topeka
Kas
Robert M. Rownd
New York
Closing Out and Hog Sales Chronicle
Midway Safe Co in Columbus holds weekly auctions every Wednesday with a broader community sale each Friday at City Feed Yard. September 11 marks a closing out sale 7 miles south of Washington. Harold Spiedel and Audley Gault host sales including household goods on September 13 postponed from Sept 9 due to rain. October events include hog sales by Ka lona Berkshire and Knotek Bros River side Duroe, plus Penning rooth Brothers Poland China sale in Wellman Poland.
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Midway Safe Co
Columbus
City Feed Yard
Washington
Harold Spiedel
Audley Gault
Lexington
Amanda Schulty
Exec
Harold J. Horak
Kalona
Berkshire
Knotek Bros Dominate Duroc Awards at Iowa State Fair 1941
Knotek Bros of Washington county led the Duroc division at the Iowa State Fair swine show with 36 prizes. Their boars and gilts earned junior and reserve titles, including junior champion boar and champion barrow, with a strong showing across top prizes. An October 8 sale at the Knotek farm between Washington and Riverside will feature many of these winners.
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Knotek Bros
Washington County
Duroc
Knotek
Washington
Riverside
Market Report Chicago Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Chicago markets show hogs at 180 to 240 pounds 12.00s with top around 12.30 while 240 to 270 pounds bring 11.75 to 12.16 and 270 to 300 pounds 11.85 to 11.90 light sows up to 10.90. Cattle receipts 9,500 with medium and heavy steers steady and several loads 11.75 to 12.55 for weighty steers. Calves 800 and heifers around 12.50, best shipper bulls 9.35. Sheep 3,000 with spring lambs steady natives 11.75 to 13.04 and native ewes 5.75.
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Chicago
Cash grain quotes from Chicago market update
Luup data shows corn mixed grades at 75 to 78 percent, oats ranged from 47 to 50 percent, with white oats around 49 to 50 percent, and soybeans at 1.94 with yellow variety noted.
Grain table shows fall in wheat and corn quotes in Chicago
Chicago grain table lists futures for wheat corn oats rye with May July Sep and Dec contracts. Prices show slight declines for wheat May and corn Sep, while oats and rye hold near prior levels with small day moves.
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Chicago
Chicago Produce Market Report Sept 9
Market steady for produce and poultry with mixed receipts. Produce receipts total 9,249 cases including extra firsts 30 to 31 percent and fresh graded firsts 23 percent. current receipts 27 percent and dirties 25 percent. checks 24 percent. Poultry market also steady with 41 trucks received.
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Chicago
Eggs Heavy Breed Hens Leghorn Hens Sweet Cream Old Roosters
Local poultry list notes heavy breed hens and leghorn hens alongside sweet cream and old roosters. The fragment outlines common farmyard fowl and dairy terms without a narrative context.
New Fiction On Public Library Shelves
Public library adds a mix of historical and contemporary novels and short stories. Westchester Revolution themes appear in Hough and Forester while McKay and Gallico offer adventure and travel tales set in early America and wartime Europe.
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Cronin
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Aydelotte
Cherokee Strip
Ellsberg
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Jordan
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Brooks
Kingdom On Earth
Char
Slater Votes Bonds For Power Plant
Slater voters approved a $65000 bond issue for a municipal light system by a decisive margin. The 192 to 69 vote follows the town of 550 people where Iowa Electric Light Power Co of Boone operates without a franchise after a renewal was refused three years ago.
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Boone
Seemingly Unfinished War Time Column Opinion
A wartime column argues that Britain Allies and Axis want America to admit more immigrants after the war. The piece contends Europe aims to offload excess populations to the United States, turning America into a world wastebasket unless U.S. leaders curb this impulse before peace.
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United States
Europe
America
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