Wheat Dips Rally as Seaboard Buying Boosts Prices
General selling in ball lots weighed on wheat while Seaboard buying spurred rallies signaling export demand. May and July futures moved from slight losses to modest gains before closing unsettled. corn and oats followed the trend with export demand later aiding some advances. Regional quotes show varied activity across Chicago Kansas City Omaha and others with livestock markets mixed in Sioux City and St. Joseph.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ball Lotsa
Seaboard
Farmer Burke urges horses over tractors on Iowa farms
The veteran Bennington township farmer Charles H. Burke says farmers should rely on horses for farm power rather than tractors. He notes rising car costs, drought of rail cars, and a shift back to horse power as prosperity wanes. He predicts a farm upswing and stresses keeping money in the local economy.
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Bennington Township
Iowa
Charles H. Burke
Benhington Township
Althe
Ulay
Burke
Farmer
Cattle and Hogs Steady on Open Market News
Chicago reports cattle steady with 11,000 receipts and mixed prices across grades. Hogs steady to 10 cents higher, with 7,272 head sold and top near 86.35 dollars. sheep and lambs also firmer, wholesale bids climbing on strong demand.
Kansas City Livestock Market Reports and Prices
Kansas City Missouri April 26 receipts livestock bids show beet steers down to $8.50 top per 1100 pounds with weaker bids for yearlings and cows. hogs opened weak then steady with 280 to 240 pound butchers at $7.50 to $7.70. sheep steady to lower with wethers around $6.50 to $6.00 and lambs near $10.25. Omaha Nebraska also reports hogs weak to lower, steers at $6.00, beef cattle softer, stockers steady, and sheep generally steady with clipped and woolless lambs priced around $9.50 to $11.00 depending on class.
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Siouxx City
Sioux City
Suierer
ST. Joseph
Staer
Chicago
Sieperar
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
TLE
Texas
Lewes
Omaha
Neb
Stock Market Opens Hesitant Amid Mixed Opening
The broad stock market opened hesitant with gains and losses scattered. United States Steel rose briefly on the prospect of a quarterly dividend meeting, then fell back. European oils led gains while Mexican Petroleum and General Asphalt dropped. Rail shares showed slight declines led by Atchison, and bonds were heavy with notable pressure on Crucible Steel and related issues. Liberty 2% wartime bonds traded at 88.89 with call money at 6 1/4 percent. noon rallies supported major issues including Bethlehem Steel and Atlantic Gulf.
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Associated Press
New York
United States Steel
Royal Dutch and
Shell
Cosden
Mexican Petroleum
General Asphalt
Atchison
Paris
Gernan
Crucible Steel
Van-American Petroleums
Atlantic Gulf
Bethlehem Steel
Chandler Motors
Baldwin Locomotive
Liberty
Central Leather
American Beet
American Can
American Car & Foundry
American Locomotive
American Smelting & Bely
American Sumatra Tobacco
American & Ty Anaconda Copper
Abehivon
Baltimore & Ohio
Chicago, Mil & Gorn Products
General Motors
Great Northern Ore
Goodrich Ci
International Paper
Kennecott Copper - Mexican Petroleum
New York Central
Norfolk & Wastern
Northern Pacific
Pennsylvania Reading
Rep
Iron & Steel
Singlair
Oil & Refining Southern Pacific
Southern Hailwar
Studebaker Corporation Texas Co
Tobacco Products
Union Pacific
United States Rubber
United States Steel Utah Conper
Westinghouse
Electra Willys Overland Til
Central
RLS Pp. Ltd
Oil of N. Am. Woolen
Midvale Steel
Peppies Gas
Mrs A J Parsons Improves After Collision at St Francis
Hopes rise for Mrs. A J Parsons as doctors report slight improvement after a Sunday evening automobile collision with a horse drawn vehicle at 407 3-2 Fifth Street West. Parsons had a restful night and no unfavorable symptoms have appeared, marking a third day of gradual recovery. Also improving are Mrs. Pella Bentley and El L Barthe who sustained injuries, with Barthe confined to bed after being able to move about briefly post accident.
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A. J. Parsons
St Francis Hospital
Pella Bentley
EL. L. Barthe
Fifth Street West
Farmers Protest Rail Livestock Rates Increase
Farmers livestock producers and shippers filed complaints with the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging railways in Chicago raised fixed live stock handling charges from 2 to 3 dollars, a hike they say exceeds authorizing orders from last August and violates the transportation act by inflating interstate rates. The action seeks a 35 percent adjustment and rebuke of the higher fee.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Commission
Bologne Bulls To Be Extinct By 1928 In US
The department of agriculture announced the scrub bull variety Bologna has been found unable to compete with pure breeds and will be extinct in the United States by 1928. The agency compared it to extinct species like the dinosaur and dodo and asked farmers if they have any on their farms.
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Associated Pross
Washington, D. C
Nature
Department of Agriculture
United States
Department
Gerland Flour and Rentals Advertisement Fragment
Fragmentary ad copy notes Gerland Flour and a make good sale. Mentions a five room modern downstairs apartment at 1371 W Th, with immediate possession and $40 price, another four room at 1138 Cleveland with $16. Also references J. T. Knapp Klack Jiank and a stray line about India and Calcutta in port context.
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Immedi
Claveland
J. T. Knapp
Klack Jiank
Retail Butchers Dip Their Ladle in Profit Gravy
Chicago April 26 Retail butchers cling to markets amid lower livestock prices. Steers fall to decade lows while top beef grades rise 1 to 2 cents as demand tightens. Packers blamed for price shifts, noting pork already equaled 1914 levels in wholesale while retail pork remains high. Lard now near 1916 levels. public benefit from the slump remains unlikely.
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iBy
United Press
Chicago
United Press Today
Senate confirms three new wage board members
United Press reports in Washington that the Senate confirmed three railroad labor board members. Hen W. Hooper of Tennessee represents the public, Samuel Higgins of New York covers the managers, and Walter L. McMenntee of Massachusetts represents labor.
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United Press
Washington
Senate
Railroad Labor Board
Hen W. Hooper
Tennessee
Samuel Higgins
New York
Walter L. McMenimee
Massachusetts
Abor
Orange Dairymen Vote to Join Waterloo Cooperative
Stockholders of the Orange Co-Operative Creamery voted last night to align with the Waterloo Co-Operative Dairy company. They require 175 milk producers signed up, excluding Orange township, before consolidation. About 70 from Orange township likely join. Proceeds from sale of the plant will go to the community fund for schools or community needs. The move ends a long local disagreement and aims to create a stronger centralized creamery, led by Black Hawk county dairymen pioneering in cooperation.
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Orange Co- Operative Creamery
Waterloo Co-Operative Dairy Company
Orange Township
Orange
Waterloo
Oan Association
Associa' Hox
Black Hawk County
Black Hawk
Iowa
Muek
Awaiting Start for New Organization in Oranke Township
Promoters push for an early opening as the largest local distributors await the signal to join the new organization and secure supplies through it. The group aims to accelerate startup to begin operations soon.
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Oranke Township
Three-Year-Old Jersey Dairy Champion Dies in Oregon
The world's champion three year old Jersey dairy cow Borthea died at the Perrydale area farm of Frank Lynn near Salen Ore. The animal, owned by Frank Lynn, produced about 4 pounds of butterfat and 7,800 pounds of milk in a year, marking a notable loss for Park County breeders.
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Associated Prens
Salen
Ore
Peony Borthea
Jersey
Frank Lynn
Perrydale
Park County
Borthea
Grove Hill Creamery Burned At Dunkerton Iowa
Fire Saturday evening destroyed Grove Hill Creamery near Dunkerton, Iowa, along with 11 tubs of butter and all stock except coal and a few tubs. Stock was insured but the building was not. A stockholders meeting to decide on rebuilding has been called.
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Dunkerton
Grove i
New Creamery Book Gains Popular Favor
The latest work by Professor M Mortepnen, head of the dairy department at Ames, draws strong praise in dairying circles. Management of Dairy Plants covers topics from organization and governance to creamery bookkeeping for operators, buttermakers, and secretaries.
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M. Mortepnen
Ames
Spraying Hints for Apple Pests and Diseases
Dormant spray before leaf buds open uses lime sulfur 4.44 to 5.44 gallons per 50 gallons water for oyster shell scale scurvy and San Jose scale, avoid Bordeaux. Cluster bud spray at pink bud stage targets curculio spring canker and green fruit worms with 8–16 quarts sulfur 5 gallons water plus 2 pounds arsenate paste or 1 pound dry arsenate. Bordeaux 4-4-50 can be added. Petal drop spray at 95 percent petal fall fights apple scab curculio and canker worm using 5 quarts lime sulfur 3 pounds lead arsenate paste or 1½ pounds lead arsenate with 50 gallons water. Side worm spray three weeks after calyx spray combats codling moth and apple scab using 4½ quarts time sulfur and 50 gallons water with 2 pounds arsenate paste or 1 pound dry arsenate. Hor Teaux 3-3-50 with arsenate is alternate. Apply late first half of August and repeat in two to three weeks if worms persist for second brood codling moth, sooty blotch apple blotch black rot and other fungi, using Bordeaux 4-4-50 with 2 pounds arsenate paste or 1 pound dry arsenate or 4 quarts lime sulfur with 50 gallons water and arsenate as above.
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San Jose
Rural club drive expands across Iowa youth work
A national committee on junior agricultural club work is forming to unite bankers merchants and farm groups to support 4H style clubs for boys and girls. The effort aims to foster ownership personal interest and social educational gains, coordinating with chambers of commerce to involve city youth and rural youngsters in better stock crops and home making projects.
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Entors God Girls Agricultural
State Agricultural College
Ranning
National Committee
Chambers of Commerce
Burglars Trail Pepper to Looted Jowan Jewelry
Burglars who broke into M T McDermott's factory and C E Frederick's jewelry shop last night left no clue for police. Pepper was scattered along their trail to mislead bloodhounds, and several valuable rings and jewels were taken from Frederick's display, while McDermott's safe contents and other valuables were stolen. The break ins occurred between evening and morning with knives and tools used to dismantle locks. A pepper trail and missing jewelry marks the crime scene, while distant notes mention other local notices and deaths in Fairbank Shell Rock and surrounding areas.
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M.T. McDermott
C. E. Fred Rerick
Jaweler
Janes Black
McDermott's
Frederick’s
Frederick
Mike Gasser
T. McDermott
Grundy Center farmers finish seeding early
Grundy Center Iowa April 26 Ninety percent of seeding is completed favored weather allows early work Oats planted due to lower priced seed more seed corn tests underway and potato planting started on most farms
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Grundy Center
Holstein Secretary to Work Cerro Gordo
Chesley F. Jenness, Secretary State Holstein Breeders association, will leave tonight for Mason City to spend the week in Cerro Gordo county for breed promotion.
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Chesley F. Jenness
State Holstein Breeders Association
Mason City
Cerro Gordo County
Mitchell area obituary notes and society items
Mrs Frances Chambers dies in Minneapolis at 89 and is buried here after funeral at her sister’s home. Attending were Mrs Melendy, Mr and Mrs A D Smith of Fulton, and Mrs Gorton Peay of Little Rock. Other items note Dan Horner’s return after accompanying his mother to Aberdeen and visits by various locals, a wedding of Irene Gibeaut to Ivan Rowe, and assorted travels and family visits in Waterloo Eldora Dubuque and Waverly.
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Fairbank
Toertet Clu
Mies Clare Sutter
G. W. McNeely
Marashalltown
Rice
jNealy
California
Joe Finch
Considine
Tomaha
Wis
Tommbs
Freidlein
Futrhedak
Detroit
Mich
Netroit
John Onr
Prank Osgood
Wiltiarm Ward
Missex O 2
Nanstta Waldmers
Gedare Falls
Arthur Alcott
Jan Jinass
Enti
Mrs. Alcott
Taodiay
Black Hawk County
Arthur Reniley
Lyauster
I. G. Eaton
Wm Hahn
J. H. Jackson
Bugbea
K Hone
Ihoeene
Agnew
B. Elliott
Lester Finch
Maquoketa
Dutaque
Elliott
Finch
Mitchell
Frances Chambers
Minneapolis
Mra Melendy
Melendy
A. D. Smith
Fulton
Mra Gorton Peay
Little Rock
Ark
Dan Horner
Aberdeen
S.2
B. Hood
Spring Grabs
Wie
L. B. Ripley
C. A. Rodemaker
Waterloo
Irene Gibeaut
Ivan Rowe
Floyd
Mamie
Kate Thayer
Eldora
Robert Brown
Frederica
Frederisa
Louis Brase
Florida
Atte
Helena Willieme
Alma Katz
New Hampton
Saturoey
Lon Krienke
Ruth Mass
Dubuque
Edna Rice
Waverly
Mra Lettie Mann
C I. Tibbetts
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Peoria
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Minberfolris
Minn
Toledo
A Timothy
Boas
Elie
Eavees City
BODDS
Liberty Pond
S . Victory
St. Lovie
Tilesine Creamery Butten
Age Creamery
R . Infield Butter
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Percera
Retedi Co
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Tevisaees
di Reese
Monet and Exchange
Sterling
Te Paislex
Montreal
Suugabl
Cubas
Tervecesses BO
Coffea Lo No
Omaha Livestock
India
Catcutta
Addren Communica
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Waterie
Lona
Farin
NEW Crean
Grove Hill Creamery
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Ffarmers
Cedar Valley Fair Association
Loreal Club
Bip
H. M. Nichols
Chickasaw
Maine
Michigan
Poultry Club
Iowa Pig Clubs
Rinested
Emmet
Breeders’ Associations
Waukesha County
Ringsted
Farmers Co-operative Creamery
Emmet County
Fenton Cler
Kossuth, County Dairy Galf Club
C. EB
Bob") Fish
Shell Rock
Heniy Reem Tly
Janesville Dramatic Club
Janesville
Orpheum
Frank Hansen
Roy Williamson
J. O. Loomis
Allison
J. Freeland
Solon
Retta Ensley
Charles Parrish
Cedar Falla
Ella Eastwood
McClain
Water Joo
Shall Rock
McClein
Charles Ressler
Bert Faust
John Anderson
Joseph Cmalick
M. Gmelick
Joseph
Riverside Cemetery
Dave Schroeder
John Isley
Eh. E. Mann
Grund Center Farmers Alarly
Holstein
Cerro Gordo
ST. Ansgar
Ansgar
Marcus
Amiunda Hartwig
Mies Titian Tatrsen
St. Cloud
Mir John Thetton
PLC
Thursds
Scar Mueller
Fanny Bruns
Mueller
Arnold Baldner
Happs Hour Club
Osage
Thi Olsen
Vinton
Aed
Swat
Buffalo News
D. H. Harris
P. W. Belangee
Canada
Loonan Sale
Hudson
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