Bears Dominate Corn Market As Wheat Declines
Chicago markets see bears controlling corn amid favorable crop outlook and lower food costs. December drops to about 1.13, May near 1.10, with new Texas supply adding pressure. Wheat slips below 2.00 for first time in downturns. September holds at 2.00. Oats sag as threshing yields remain strong. Provisions rise on top hog quotations. Cash grain prices list No. 2 red corn around 2.16 2.23, soy and other grains noted with slight ranges.
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Chicago
Bears
Texas
RIES
New York
United States Steel
Great Northern
Stock Exchange
New Haven
New York Central
Delaware & Hudson
Reading
Union Pacific
Hogs Continue Skyward Climb Across Markets
Chicago reports rising hog prices with a record top at 18.25 and strong demand. Cattle and sheep receipts varied, with mixed prices and notable gains in hogs and steady or higher tones in cattle, while Kansas City and St. Louis markets showed mixed grain and livestock futures.
Reorganization plans for army outlined in orders
Washington August 16. Public general orders detail a complete army reorganization from divisions to armies. Regular divisions, to 25, are numbered with 76 to 91 for national army divisions. national guard units 26 to 75. Infantry divisions include multiple brigades, machine gun battalions, field artillery, engineers, signals, trains, hospitals, and ambulances. National Guard trains reform at camps under divisional bases with brigadier general command.
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Washington, D. C
France
United States Army
National Guard
National Army
Tivo
Army
Man Camps
Sath Camp
Kansas City Livestock Prices Aug 16 Hogs Cattle Sheep
Hogs receipts 3,500 with prices 10 to 20 cents higher. Heavy bids 27.80 to 28.15, pigs 14.00 to 16.00, packers 17.50 to 18.10. Cattle receipts 6,000 with prime fed steers 13.75 to 14.00, dressed 11.00 to 13.25, western steers 9.25 to 13.25, cows 6.00 to 10.00, heifers 7.50 to 12.50, stockers 7.00 to 13.00, calves 6.50 to 12.50. Sheep receipts 1,000, lambs 16.00 to 17.00, yearlings 19.00 to 19.50, wethers 9.50 to 11.50, ewes 9.00 to 10.50.
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Chicago
Omaha
Omaha Neb
Kansas City
Livestock Prices Mixed as Receipts Rise at St Louis Market
Hogs receipts 4,000 with various classes quoted from 12.00 to 18.45 per cwt. Cattle receipts 4,500 with steady to firm bids. native beef steers 7.50 to 14.50, yearlings 8.50 to 14.00, cows 6.00 to 10.00, feeders 6.50 to 9.50. Sheep receipts 2,500 with lambs 10.50 to 16.00, ewes 8.50 to 5.95, canners and choppers 4.50 to 5.50.
Prices Slide Across Butter Cheese Poultry and Sugar
New York markets report firm butter with multiple receipts and varied price quotes for creamery and extras, firsts and seconds. Cheese irregular receipts and state whole milk flats show mixed ranges. Poultry prices for live birds and dressed meat move little. regional quotes exist for Virginia and Minnesota. Sugar remains nominal in New York with refined steady at 5.45 dollars per 100 pounds and London money shows 14 and a half percent.
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New York
Waterloo Markets Prices and Goods Listing
A fragmented Waterloo markets page lists wheat oats meal corn and various farm goods. Prices show premium hogs at 16.50 for 150 175 lb hogs, steers around 10.50 to 11.50, cows and heifers roughly 6.00 to 7.00, hides and cured hides noted, and hay straw and produce items with assorted wholesale and retail values.
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Eserewer
Bank Clearings and Instrument Records for Aug 1917
Waterflow bank clearings for the week ending Aug 16 1917 totaled 2 495 295 with a daily split of 399 289 72 333 786 79 and 366 762 60. Instruments recorded include deeds mortgages chattel mortgages and notes with week ending Aug 15 1917 totals and year over year comparisons. Contents cover bank clearings, deeds, mortgages, chattel mortgages, and livestock hides pricing.
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Black Hawk County Abstract Co
Waterlow Bank
Fisotrag
Chattel Mortages
Philanthropist A Slimmer Dies in Dubuque at 82
Abraham Slimmer born in Germany in 1835 dies at Dubuque Iowa from ptomaine poisoning. He amassed wealth in land and cattle in Waverly before moving to Dubuque where he donated over a million dollars to charity, funding hospitals and Jewish and nonsectarian homes and endowments across several cities. He deeded his Dubuque home to the Humane Society.
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Dubuque
Abraham Slimmer
Slimmer
Waverly
Europe
Chicago
Milwaukee
Humane Society
Od Folks
Cedar Rapids
Orphans’ Home
Des Moines
Omaha
Miamedes Hospital
Flat Jey
Germany
Mr. Slimmer
Oberstitzke
America
Arkansas
Mrs. Collar 96 Dies at Cedar Falls
Mrs. Diantha M. Collar aged 96 dies at her Cedar Falls home at 12 30 pm after residing in the city for 25 years, coming from New Mortford. Grandson James Collar, about 22, is sole heir to an estate valued around 150 900. He served with Company F First Infantry I N G on the Texas border last summer but left after enlistment expired. He is certified as eligible for the new national army by Black Hawk county district board.
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Cedar Falls
Diantha M. Collar
Co. F. First Infantry
Texas
Black Hawk County
National Army
Two Killed as Excursion Wreck Sparks Inquiry
Chicago today launched an investigation into a wreck that killed two and injured 21 when a limited electric train on the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee line collided with a trainload of excursionists at the Great Lakes naval training station. A coroner's inquest is set for tomorrow, and States Attorney James C. Welsh will lead an independent probe. The disaster occurred as bluejackets staged a sham battle before thousands on parade grounds.
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Chicago
Every Penny Aids in This Relief Work
Sylvia and Paul Smith Jr contributed 91 pennies to the V Chest in the tepee of the Big Chivi, bringing the total to 6474. The Millina Penny fund, raised by American children, sends every penny to feed Belgian and French babes, as hungry war victims await aid.
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Sylvia
Paul Smith, Jr
Toda
Millina
America
Belgium
France
Waterloo
Europe
Smokers for Sammies Fund Drives Support for Soldiers
A faded wartime appeal urges residents to donate to Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund to send tobacco to American troops. The notice explains each dollar buys four packages valued at 46 cents, with a postcard for soldiers to reply. It notes volunteers from the town may soon face service and frames tobacco as a morale booster amid winter and long days in the trenches.
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Pews
Tha Lamoker
Thant
Fan
France
Tog
Jones
Boys In
Jonderstand
Two Board Members to Be Arraigned on Bribe Charge
New York dated August 16 reports notices served on Louis I. Cherey former chairman and Dr Samuel J A Bernfeld member of local exemption board 99 removed by President Wilson to appear in federal court plead to indictments. They are charged with accepting a 200 bribe to issue a draft exemption and with demanding 300 to declare a man unfit for service. Kalman Gruber known as exemption blank distributor faces arraignment as co defendant.
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New York
Louis I. Cherey
Samuel J. A. Berofeld
Wilson
United States
Bernfeld
Cherey
Kalman Gruber
New
National Army
Gruber
Brilliant Attack at Dawn Over Belgian Front
Paris reports a dawn assault in Belgium with British help, capturing all objectives between Steenstraete and Dixmude, taking 120 prisoners including an officer, and advancing on the right bank. Meuse and Champagne see heavy artillery, while Lowremont yields seven prisoners amid broad Allied pressure along the front.
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Paris
Belgium
Steenstraete
Dixmude
Steenbeke
Ailles
Hurteblse
Champagne
Meuse
Lowremont
Yipres
France
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Polygon Wood
Ypres
Strbeke
Berlin
London
Vendin Te Vieil
Loos
German Fire Sets St Quentin Cathedral Ablaze
British gains described as small. Germany reports a second great barrage on an 11 mile front in Flanders and claims French shells set the cathedral at St. Quentin on fire, burning since yesterday evening.
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Flanders
St. Quentin
Papal Peace Note Draws Mixed Reactions Abroad
London editorial comment says the pope's peace note favors German aims and is unlikely to win Allied support. Argentine papers share pessimism, noting alignment with President Wilson but doubt the plan’s acceptability. Rome delays publication due to Assumption Day holidays, with release planned for Friday.
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London
Times
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Wal Son
el Diaro
Rome
Naas
Five Men Arrested on Indictments for East St. Louis Riots
East St. Louis Illinois August 16 Five members of the East St. Louis police force and two other white men were arrested on indictments from a special grand jury that probed the recent race riots. Additional white police officers went to Belleville to surrender. Accused are Police Sergeant John Healy officers Fred Otto and Floyd Combs corner newsstand operator Pat Braunager blacksmith J W Andrews and ex officers Con Meehan James O'Brien.
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East St. Louis
Belleviile
John Healy
Trafic
Fred Otto
Floyd Combs
Pat” Joe Braunager
J. W. Andrews
Licensed to Wed in Waterloo and Jefferson
Notices show licenses issued for marriages including Homer H. Bittner of Waterloo to 26 Emma A. Burmann of Waterloo, Orville W. Harris of Jefferson to Jessie H. Smart of Waterloo, with ages 25 and 22 respectively. The item lists resident names and partners as official marriage licenses.
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Homer H. Bittner
Waterloo
Emma A. Burmann
Orville W. Harris
Jefferson
Jessie H. Smart
British ships sunk by U boats in past week report
London reports a drop in British tonnage sunk by mines and submarines in the past week. Fourteen vessels over 1,600 tons and two under 1,600 tons were sunk, plus three fishing boats. A German submarine, the Deutschland, converted to a war sub, may sail for the Pacific. German losses push toward 349 submarines, with newer than mid June models and canal boat types included. Italian losses list six steamers and seven sailing vessels for the week ending Aug 12, with 550 vessels entering port and 608 leaving totals.
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London
Admiralty
Deutschland
Copenhagen
United States
Cerman
Fo Saip
Associated Press
Dontsehland
Pacific
San Francisco
Associated Prasa
Wilhelmshaven
Mediterranean
Germany
Zeebrugge
Rome
Sve
Ambulance Corps Hikes to Cedar Falls
Ambulance company No. 2,1. N. G. hiked to Cedar Falls under Capt. R. W. Smith with a lively march. They returned to camp before noon and prepared for meals. There were no orders received at camp. Some members were released to promote ticket sales for the Hanley lecture at the college auditorium tomorrow night.
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N. G
Cedar Falls
R. W. Smith
Smith
Hanley
College Auditorium
Stern measures planned to halt I W W strike
Department of justice prepared to deal swiftly with I W W activities in the northwest and elsewhere to prevent stoppage of essential wartime production. Investigators operate across states as district attorneys are told to prosecute strike leaders under wartime powers. Officials say harvest, spruce logging, and mining could fall under federal jurisdiction.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Justice
Northwest
Industral Workers of the World
California
New Mexico
Arizona
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
North West
Congress
Department
James Rowan
I. W. W.at
Spokane
Petitions in Court Seek Divorces and Notes Action
Yesterday's docket shows Evelyn B Higgins sues Walter E Higgins for divorce. marriage at Albert Lea Minnesota on May 20 1916 noted. Iowa Investment Corp sues Charles Spengler and Sons for 700 on note, and First National Bank sues for 700 on note. Lottie Grey files affidavit for publication of original notice in a divorce action against William C Grey alleged desertion since October 1915.
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Evelyn B. Higgins
Walter E. Higgins
Albert Lea
Minn
Iowa Investment Corporation
Charles Spengler & Sons
First National Bank
Lottie Grey
William CC. Grey
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