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Sirs: Your excellent weekly published this week a letter from one August Wagner of Columbus, Neb., containing a mass of misstatements reflecting on the flour millers of the state which we wish to emphatically controvert. You have been grossly imposed upon. . . . We have kept an accurate weekly record of wheat and wheat products prices for years and keep in close touch with the mill prices to retailers over the state all of the time. When wheat on Aug. 3, 1929, was $1.44 per bushel, Chicago option, Omaha cash was $1.34 to $1.40 per bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour...
Columbus, Neb...
...contrary, a corporation of comparatively modest size. To this conclusion Special Assistant Attorney General John H. Amen objected on the grounds that Mr. Sheets had said much about oil resources, little about financial resources. After further hearings in other cities, the final argument will take place at Omaha, Neb., which is in the same judicial district as St. Louis, where the original suit was instituted in 1906. Because the case comes under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law it must be tried with judges from the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
...months. Howard returned to Papillion, entered politics. Only straight Democrat running against the American Protective Association, Populist ("Demopop") and Republican candidates, he was elected to the State legislature in 1895. From 1896 to 1900 he served as Probate Judge of Sarpy County. He purchased the Columbus (Neb.) Weekly Telegram, edited it. In 1917 he had one term as Nebraska's lieutenant governor, returned to journalism, made the Telegram a daily in 1922. In 1923 he was elected to Congress, sold control of the Telegram, though he still writes for it daily and receives an editorial salary. In Congress: most...
...these "motor vehicles" more than one-third are motorcycles. Although Berlin is as populous as (and more extensive than) Chicago, in pleasure cars she ranks down the scale with Omaha, Neb., which has 44,525. Chicago has 405,000 pleasure cars, almost ten times as many as her German twin in population...