Wheat Market Ends Higher Amid Uncertain Open
Chicago April 21 The wheat market opened unsettled with May at 1.25–1.26 and July around 1.05–1.06, closing firm near highs as traders cited skeptical views on domestic crops and bearish industrial demand. Corn fell slightly then steadied, oats and other grains followed a similar pattern with mixed bids from Indiana and neighboring lines. Chicago cash quotes show No. 1 wheat around 87–89 cents with related prices listed for futures and nearby markets in Omaha and Minneapolis.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Exart
Indiana
Omaha and Sioux City Livestock Receipts and Prices
Omaha receipts total 11 032 cattle and sheep with bids for 180 to 240 pound butchers from 7.75 to 8.00, top 8.10. 250 plus pounds 7.00 to 7.75. Cattle steady to strong. hogs down about 40 cents. lambs up about 25 cents. Sioux City receipts 1 590 cattle and 9 000 hogs with hogs 7.25 to 7.65, cattle 6.00 to 8.50, veals 5.00 to 7.55, sheep 7.80 to 7.85.
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Omana
Sioux City
Ila
Stock Market Opens With $45 Million Dividend Boost
The ticker shows Western Shares rising on the intercity commission’s approval of a $45 million stock dividend. Steel stocks like Jones and Republic slip, while oils such as Cosden and Phillips Petroleum gain modestly. Call money opens at 6.5 percent as overall market sentiment remains heavy despite some gains.
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Associated Press
New York
Interstate <Commerce Commission
Manhattan Elevated
Southern
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Kansas City Southern
Cosden
Union & White
Philips Petroleum
American Tea National Biscuit
Adams Express
Altha
Wns
Prices and markets across wheat sugar butter eggs and pork
Wheat prices list No 1 hard winter at 1.14 and No 2 around 1.39 to 1.40. Sugar and flour notes from New York and Chicago reflect raw sugar and butter levels. Receipts show eggs steady at 29 to 30 cents firsts, poultry values ease, and local Waterloo market reports record creamery butter and hay prices.
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Ben New York
Chicago
St. Louis
St. Lesis
Kansas City
London Ankles Win and Waterloo Job Relief
A mixed report from London notes Angl o American appeal driven by American chorus girls and Anglo American diplomacy. The piece also covers Waterloo's Greater Waterloo association job department aiding unemployed residents with a turnover of 15 placements from 20 applicants, to ease hardship amid winter damage cleanup.
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Waterloo
Unemi
Greater Waterloo Association
Wasterloo
Hogs and Cattle Prices Slip in Chicago Markdown
Chicago traders report yesterday's hogs down 25 to 60 cents with light and heavy cuts mixed. Cattle receipts at 12 000 show slow but steady demand for beef steers and butcher stock and veal calves weaker while sheep and lambs hold near prior levels with varied prices across weights.
East St. Louis Livestock Report Highlights Cattle and Hogs
East St. Louis market totals show cattle receipts at 2500 with steers strong and cows steady, prices for Angus yearlings and light yearlings mixed. hogs receipts 22900 with generally steady prices and heavy weights around 3.00 to 3.50. sheep receipts 1500 nominally steady with lambs largely unsold and direct-to-packer movement.
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East ST. Louis
Kansas City Livestock Prices Fall Across Markets
Kansas City market report shows receipts of 4500 cattle 1000 hogs and 5000 sheep. Steers down 52 cents to 152 lower with best canoes at 900? cattle. hogs active down 15 to 25 cents with top at 5.10. Sheep light demand with ewes and wethers steady to weak and lambs near 10.35 top.
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Kansas City
Colored Society Launches Drive for New Members
The Waterloo branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans an immediate membership campaign to enlist Waterloo residents of all races. The group aims to foster civic pride and duties of citizenship while opposing lynch law and mob violence, with ministers and public men already on board. The NAACP will work with the Greater Waterloo Association on civic projects.
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Waterloo
National Society For the Advancement of Colored People
America
Greater Waterloo Association
Rain and Rheumatic When Fish Are Biting in Cedar
Col Alvah Page, Waterloo veteran fisherman, jokes about rain causing stiffness as he returns to the Cedar River. He recalls angling since 1858 on a day that yielded bass and memories of fireworks, selling catches to buy celebration items. Also mentions Stephen Arnold Mitchell winning a debate at Creighton.
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Col
Alvah Page
Waterloo
Col. Page
Semny
Tas
Isaak Walton
Black Hawk Creek
Hudson
Wiley
Fifth Streets
Stephen Arnold Mitchell
Creighton Literary Society
Creighton Unive ! High School
Omaha
Neb
Indemnity Funds Slow Cattle Tuberculosis Oversight
The Evening Courier and Reporter reports that the cattle indemnity fund has depleted, halting inspection work. Despite prior one million dollar annual allocations, bills to economize reduced funds, delaying indemnity payments and preventing toxin testing as owners with tubercular cattle refuse access without compensation. The government cannot kill cattle without indemnity, previously paying roughly one third of animal value to owners.
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Ueno
Waillace
Cattle Congress Directors to Run Belgian Horse Show
International Belgian Drift Horses show management will be handled entirely by Cattle Congress directors this year. E S Esw secretary will oversee operations at the Willy Cattle Congress linked exhibition with a larger event anticipated due to improved conditions. Rail officials report normal horse car supply and a 50 percent freight refund on inbound and outbound stock, encouraging out of state breeders to participate.
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Willy Cattle Congress
E. S. Esw
Cattle Congress
American Association of Breeders of
Arms Palace
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Middle West
Livestock Indemnity Fund Exhausted as Slaughter Continues
Washington April reports that House members from agricultural states will push for a federal appropriation to cover indemnity claims for cattle slaughtered to curb disease. Secretary Wallace asks for a $400000 deficiency appropriation to fund operations through July 1, as the current $680000 fund is exhausted.
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Washington News Bureau
Waterleo Evening Courier
Washington, D. C
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Use Reserve Bank Profits to Aid Livestock Raisers
Chicago April 21 A proposal to direct the secretary of the treasury to turn over 100 million dollars of Federal Reserve profits to federal land banks for loans to cattle producers is urged by W P G Harding and Everett J Brown. The plan aims to prevent livestock losses and boost consumer benefits through increased production. It follows a suggestion from M L McClure of the National Livestock Exchange presented at the International Farm Congress.
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Associated Vrass
Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Land Banks
W. Ph. G.harding
Everett J. Brown
National Livestock Exchange
Brown
M. L. McClure
International Farm Congress
Neighbors Help After Colt Attack Near Cascade Iowa
Cascade Iowa April 21. A colt driven by Charles Haul bolted when a bird startled it and was killed after being butchered by its own motion. Neighbors later aided Mr Hamil whose spring work was disrupted. He has started farming anew with help.
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Cascade
Charles Haul
Hamil
National Dairy Market Conference Set for Chicago
A national dairy marketing conference will be held in Chicago on May 3 under the American Farm Bureau Federation. Sessions will focus on cooperative distribution of milk and milk products.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Acre price cited for Dittmer farm near Gladbrook
Ed Dittmer's farm site near Gladbrook is reported sold. C F Touchey of Dyersville paid 314 dollars per acre for the property, described as one of the best improved around Gladbrook.
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Gladpreen
Ed_ Dittmer
Gladbrook
C. F. Touchey
Dyersville
Log Cabins and Indians in Waterloo In 1855 Pat McGarvey Came Here
Pat McGarvey, longtime Hagie township farmer, recalls arriving in Waterloo with his family in 1855 from the eastern United States. He later settled east of his current home, became Black Hawk county’s largest landowner, and built a 720 acre farming operation focused on cattle feeding and livestock marketing. He notes past hardships, praises Angus cattle, and expects a favorable year for beef and pork prices amid cheap feed.
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Waterloo
Pat McGarvey
Pat
Hagie Township
United States
Galena, Jr
Dubuque
McGarvey
Gay
Cedar Falls
Carthrine McGarver
John McCullion
Old City Run
McGarvers
McCullions
McGarvey Greis
Black Hawk County
Eagle Township
McGarveer
Blackhawk County
Towa
Chicago
Caulle
Mr. McGarvey
Beeves
Calyves
Fred
Wife Retire Too That Is Horse of Different Color
A Waterloo farmer faces a retire or stay debate with his wife. She delivers a sharp ultimatum insisting retirement must apply to both, or they will share the burdens together. The anecdote ends with the ongoing farm life and busy chores continuing despite the debate.
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Onn
Waterloo
Eggs and hens yield up this spring says East Eagle man
B. B. Fritsche of East Eagle notes a large egg and poultry supply this spring. He buys most of the eggs farmers bring in and says he has never seen as many eggs as now. He attributes the rise to farmers tending flocks more and increasing yields.
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B. B. Fritsche
East Eagle
Farmers Give Hor ope 600000 Bushels Corn
Chicago April 21 The last car load of corn for the American Farm Bureau federation gift project has been gathered. Four hundred and thirty-one carloads, over 600000 bushels, were contributed by American farmers to feed hunger stricken areas of Europe. Distribution by state is listed with Illinois 147 and Ohio 67 among others. It is estimated the gift would reach half way round the world when placed ear to ear.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Europe
Illinois
Ohio
Minnesota
Iowa
South Dakota
Missouri
Netraska
Kansas
Colonaoo
Record Cow Produces Six Calves In One Year
Oshawa Ontario April 21 Six calves in less than one year is the record set by a cow owned by William Hepburn farmer near here On April 26 1920 she gave birth to triplets two bulls and a heifer This was repeated on April 9 this year with a pair of bulls and one heifer all alive and thriving The cow died shortly after the last set of triplets.
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Oshawa
William Hepburn
Here
Hazleton farmer conducts corn variety experiments
Independence April 21 Paul Sprags of Hazleton township on the M O Weston farm is carrying on extensive corn variety tests with several farmers cooperating. The item notes local agricultural experimentation and collaborative farming efforts in the Hazleton area.
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Independence, Ja
Paul Sprags
Hazleton Township
M.O. Weston
Weekend Visits Highlight Washburn Social Roundup
Joe Stiels of Vinton and the Stiels and Thamey families visited relatives in Washburn and Waterloo this weekend. Mrs C J Poyner of Waterloo spent Wednesday with her mother Mrs Gil Hangon. A box supper and music program is planned at Sand Hill School Friday evening. Marie Swift visits Waterloo while Louis Kemp and Marie Kemp of Gilbertville stay here briefly. Durger is listed as ill. The piece notes the first use of Uncle Sam to symbolize the United States in Troy New York in 2012.
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Washburn
Joe Stiels
Vinton
Ton Stiels
Sand Hill
G. Hanson
Waterloo
Louis
Marie Kemp
Gilberty Tie
Marie Swift
Hi Faintesh Durger
Homme
Aick
Uncle Sam
United States
Troy
N.Y
Local Dairymen and Producers Move Toward Joint Creamery
Water loo Cooperative Dairy is forming with local distributors and producers after a meeting led by W A Went worth of the Iowa Dairy council. The tentative contract aims to unite dairy groups while officers of the farmers association report strong backing and hopeful plans for the new creamery’s funding. Orange Co-Operative Creamery plans to join forces with the effort, while Littleton farmers ramp up corn testing to protect seed quality this spring.
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Waterloo Co-Operative Dairy Company
Farmers’ Association
W. A. Wentworth
Des Moines
Iowa Dairy Council
Orange Co-Operative Creamery Association
Orange Township
Dollar Wheat Returns in Kansas Brief Revival
A telegram from Concordia Kansas reports wheat in that city selling for 1 a bushel late yesterday the first dollar level since 191. Farmers with grain on hand blame the Wheat-Growers movement to hold prices at 3 for losses. Also reported are brief local notices of Hud son baby dies and Mrs Sargeant age 85 seriously ill in Hudson.
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Lemon Bros. & Co
Concordia
Kan
Readers Praise Cost Cutter Paper in Iowa Town
Letters from readers express strong loyalty to the Cost Cutter paper, praising coverage and value. Mrs. T. J. Lane of Porte City Iowa sends a check and endorsements, highlighting satisfaction with the Courier’s quality.
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iMra
T. J. Lane
Porte City
Ows
Cause of White Diarrhea Among Chicks
The article explains White Diarrhea is caused by bacillus Pullo bacteria spreading quickly among chicks. Prevention after hatch is stressed, with testing antiseptics and alternatives to mercuric chloride due to its toxicity.
How to Prevent White Diarrhea
A reader describes losing many incubator chicks to White Diarrhea last spring. After using Walko ita Diarrhea Remedy, no further losses occurred and 760 healthy chicks were raised, prompting them to share the remedy with others.
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Ethel Rhoades
Shenandoah, Ia
Dont Wait Prevent White Diarrhea In Young Chicks
Advertisement urges farmers to prevent white diarrhea in chicks with a guarantee refund. Promotes a 60 cent or one dollar box sold by all druggists and claims proven prevention.
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