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WWI
Calf Sale
McLean County, Illinois
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

[McLean County, Illinois, in the World War, 1917-1918; by Edward E. Pierson & Jacob Louis Hasbrouck c 1921]
(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

CALF SELLS FOR $20,500 At the annual sale in Chicago of the American Guernsey Cattle Club on May 16, 1918, a cow consigned from Drew Ten Brook of McLean sold for $1,000. The cow had dropped a calf only three days before, and this animal was put up at the auction and sold and resold until it brought a total of $20,500, which sum was donated to the Red Cross according to announcement made before the sale began. The calf finally became the property of a man near Chicago.

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