75th Ward Anniversary Highlights Ward’s Mail Order Beginnings
The 75th Ward celebration recalls Montgomery Ward founding the first mail order business in August 1872 with $1600 capital. Ward started in a Chicago room with one assistant and handbill catalogs, aided by the National Grange which named Ward the Official Grange Supply House as the business expanded.
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Montgomery Ward and Co Through Growth and expansion
The firm grew from a mail order pioneer to a national retailer, reaching 400 employees in 1887 and exceeding 1 million dollars in sales. By 1916 sales reached 50 million, 1920 passed 10 million, and by 1930 expansion included 500 stores and a billion dollars in annual combined sales with 175000 employees.
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Grains Open Mostly Lower on CBOT After Crop Forecast
Chicago opening on the Board of Trade shows grains easing as a government forecast places corn at 2.404 billion bushels, a shade above expectations. Prices listed: Wheat Sep 2.78 1 2, Dec 2.80 2 79, Corn Sep 2.69 2 59 1 2, Oats Sep 1.21 1 4, Lard Nov 23, Mar 27.60 90.
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Market Quotation Report Signals Partial Market Turnaround
New York September 1 stock market resumes recovery amid varied leadership. Short covering and quick buying support gains while speculation in commodities lingers. several rails rise on inter state fare boost from the ICC. Major movers include U S Smelting Youngstown Sheet U S Steel Chrysler U S Rubber Goodrich International Harvester United Aircraft AT&T NY Central Southern and others with mixed action elsewhere.
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Local Market Prices And Grain Figures
Daily corrected local market list with prices for corn meal in 5 and 10 lb bags, white and yellow varieties, grain bids for No 2 Red winter wheat and various corn types delivered in city, barley and feeds per 25 or 100 lb bags, egg mash, cracked corn, broiler and turkey feeds, butter and butterfat wholesale and retail ranges, oleomargarine retail, and a note that American cotton goods are widely known in East Africa.
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Baltimore Market Report Cattle and Produce Prices
Markets list price ranges for apples, fishery yields, poultry, eggs, and dairy with specific varieties and sizes. Cattle and bull prices show declines vs earlier in the week, stockers and feeders scarce, calves active with mixed lots, while receipts and demand vary by category in Baltimore.
Meat market report shows steady hog and cattle prices
Hog prices rose 75 cents to 1.25 higher with strong demand for good and choice barrows and gilts. Cattle and calves were mostly steady to up a little with best steer and yearling prices around 27 to 34. Sheep and lambs showed steady to mixed movement with native spring lambs around 25.25 and stock sheep lighter. The automotive industry remains the main user for gasoline and related metals.
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Boston Rabbi Seeks Help for Son Held in Paris
Grand Rabbi Jacob I. Korff announced he will ask the State Department to intercede for his son Rabbi Baruch Korff. He is detained in Paris by French Security Police over an alleged Jewish underground plan to bomb London with propaganda leaflets.
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U S Moves Balkan Issue to U N General Assembly
The United States reportedly moved to drop the Balkan question from the Security Council agenda so the five permanent members can permit the General Assembly to act on the problem.
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Eggs and live poultry prices in Winchester area markets
Agriculture Department markets report Federal State graded eggs at 0.61 to 0.63 per dozen for U S Grade A extra large and 0.55 for Grade A medium. Live poultry prices show heavy breed hens 26 27 cents per pound, Leghorn hens 20 21, heavy breed broilers 35 36, Leghorn broilers 26 27, old roosters 12 13, guineas young broilers 50 and old 25 cents per pound.
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Guards on duty at the White House count 88
A historic inquiry notes that eighty eight guards are on duty at the White House. This figure reflects the security staffing level present during the period described.
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