Wheat market rises on Argentine weather and cash demand
Chicago markets report that ongoing Argentine storms improve wheat cash demand despite a modest open. May wheat trades around 1.00 to 1.01 then closes firm. corn and oats fluctuate with dull demand but settle firmer for May. Livestock in St Louis and Chicago shows mixed gains with hogs and cattle up slightly and lambs strong. New York stock closes mixed across major issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Marker
Mayr
ST. Louis
Omaha
Neb
To Jay
Fragmentary price list with animal and goods values
A damaged OCR fragment lists varied prices for goods and livestock. Items include cattle or sheep and pelts with inconsistent spacing and punctuation, showing unit prices like 3.09 and 2.50, plus references to colts and lambs and unspecified vehicles or wares.
National Packing Company Details Read In Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Details of the National Packing company formation including a 15 million dollar capital and a plan to merge thirteen earlier acquired concerns were read to the jury in the Chicago packers conspiracy case. Incorporators Louis B. Dailey Kenneth McLaren and WW H Mitchell were identified. Minutes of the March 18 1908 Jersey City meeting were presented along with incorporation papers.
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Chicago
Jan. i
National Packing Company
Armour, Swift and Morris
Chicago Packers
Louis B. Dailey
Kenneth McLaren
Corporation Trust Company of
Jersey City
WW. H. Mitchell
Wilkerson
Arthus Colpy
Basketball trip to Cedar Rapids high game
A local high school team departed at 12 26 pm by train for Cedar Rapids to face the Cedar Rapids high school that evening. Coach Ferguson led players Kiser Simpson Hostetler Davis Dean Abbott Joepke Joyce and Brownlee advertised shoe sale items during the trip.
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Cedar Rapids
Ferguson
Kiser
Simpson
Hostetler
Davis
Dean
Abbott
Joepke
Joyce
Old Puritan Bible Boxes Reflect Colonial Devotion
A vivid look at relics from the Puritan era, detailing ancient Bible boxes used to house family Bibles. The piece notes oak fittings, inscriptions of births and deaths, travel ministers supplied with Bibles, and a 1675 bequest of 250 dollars for Bible raffles among the poor.
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Milton
Commonwealth
Wilde
Plated Jewelry and Oysters In Nearby Notices
A silversmith neighbors a restaurant. The silversmith posts Jewelry of all kinds plated while the restaurant responds with Oysters and Little neck clams plated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boaton
Weeds Cost Iowa Farmers Millions, Panel Says
Iowa rural improvement meeting hears Dean Charles Curtiss claim Americans spend 500 million dollars yearly on foreign travel. Weed costs in Iowa reach 15 million annually, with experts urging better farm landscaping and weed control to keep money in state.
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Iowa
Phose
America
Rural Improvements
Sean Curtiss
A. T. Erwin
L. H. Farnivel
Dean Curtiss
Towan
Professor Erwin
Pammel
Wisconsin
Carolyn S. Forgrave
Town State College
A. V. Storm
Department of Agricultural Education
Storm
Hose Frozen Engine Fire Halts Central Locomotive
At 6 am the Central locomotive No. 924 burned on a spur into the round house near the Fourth street crossing. Fire started in boiler area likely from saturated waste. water froze in hoses, delaying extinguishment. Loss of the locomotive saddles operations. milk delivery by Case and Cage noted at four branches.
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Round House
Fourth Street
Illinois Central Fire Department
Young Mother and Babe Die in Jesup Burial Planned
A Waterloo woman Barbara Diesburg 30 died at home 1108 Jefferson from uremic poisoning and convulsions after being found unconscious. Her baby daughter died at birth. Survived by husband Oliver J. Trierweiler and 11 children, four sisters and six brothers. Funeral from Jesup Catholic church led by Father J. J. Horsfield, burial in Thierweller lot.
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Jefferson Street
O.J. Thierweiler
Independence
Barbara Diesburg
Peter Hemmer
Gilbertvile
Jesup
Peh
Oliver J. Trierweiler
Waterloo
Tonia
Trierweiler
Sacred Heart Church
J. J. Horsfield
Thierweller
E R Moore Enters Race for Republican National Committeeman
Cedar Rapids January 5 E R Moore long noted as governor candidate announces candidacy for Republican national committeeman from Town to succeed E L Hart of Council Bluffs He vows an active fight for the honor. Evening Courier Want Ad.
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Cedar Rapids
E. R. Moore
City in Brief: Local News and Notices
Knox of Des Moines arrives in Waterloo and speaks at Waterloo Business College this evening. Decrees of divorce authorized in two cases. Fire department extinguishes small blaze at 607 Logan. Smallpox quarantine ends for WY. Martin. diphtheria cases continue with Mabie Brackenbury quarantined.
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Knox
Des Moines
Waterloo
Waterloo Business College
Y. M. Buchanan
Chicago
Ella Johnson
Henry Johnson
Andrew W. Bodell
Stella Bodell
Board of Supervisors
William Lytle
W. W. Lytle
College
Monmouth
WY. T. Martin
Linden Avenue
Arthur F. Bathurst
Illinois Central
Mabie Brackenbury
Logan Avenue
Majestic
Waterloo Girl in New Position at Cedar Falls College
Miss Constance Smith of Waterloo appointed assistant in the kindergarten department at Iowa State Teachers' College Cedar Falls. She replaces Miss Ruth Dowell who resigned to head a New Jersey normal school. Smith is a graduate of the college's kindergarten department and studied at Chicago Kindergarten College. Case's creamery butter 10c on wagons.
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Constance Smith
Waterloo
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Cedar Falls
Plorence E. Ward
Aliss Ruth Dowell
New Jersey Normal School
Miss Smith
Teachers’ College
Chicago
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Lamson Bros. & CO
Chicago Board OF Trade
C. S. Bennett
Marsh-Place
Ilinois
South Dakota
Kansas City
Kansas
Lux
Castle
NRL
New York
Minneapolis
Stock Exchange
Canadian Pacifi
Pennsylvania
Reeding
Rock Island
Northwestern
Atchison
Eee
Fewel American Smelter
Union Pacific
Baltimore and Ohio
Southern Pacific
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
United States Steel
Common
United States Steel, Pfd
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
St. Paul
Reese
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Tees Anaconda
Chiaga
Reesipis
Mars
Fevan
WRAXM
Wellington
Yellow Eagle
Arkansas
Straus
Ceeerbeslgls
Wile Array
Case's
Case
Brownlee
Europe
Ames
Charles I. Curliss
Agricultural College
Dean Curiss
Cage
National Jewish Theatre
Ane
Oliver J. Thierweiler
Buchanan
Syndicate
Miss Bradshaw
Fort Dodge
Carrie L. Funke
William Timmons
Olr
North Dakota
Waterton
Cowlstock
Timmons
Penthurst
Kent
Ingland
England
Marguerite Nesbit
Janise Mansfield
Coe College
Wellwood
Wallace Nesbit
Howard and
Henry Files
Ray Larkin
Madison
East Side
Edmund F. Clermont
Case's Creamery
Zil Soinds
Waterloo Shoe Co
East Fourth Street
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