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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1920
Page
12
Chicago markets report corn firming despite ample movement, with January delivery strengthened by limited railroad stock and cold weather. Oats rise on corn strength as Great Britain hints at first export interest. Provisions mixed, hogs lifting corn while packers sell. cash quotes show No. 2 mixed corn at 1.52 dollars and oats at 87 to 88 cents.
Wheat receipts 339 cars vs 76 a year ago. No. 1 northern cash $2.80 to 2.90. Corn No. 3 yellow $1.40 to 1.41. Oats No. 3 white 81 to 82 cents. Flax $5.09 to 5.14. Flour 50 cents lower. standard flour $14.25 a barrel in 8 pound cotton sacks. Shipments 68,800 barrels. Barley $1.18 to 1.45. Rye No. 2 $1.67 to 1.68. Bran 43.
New York copper quotes steady with spot electrolytic and firsts quoted near prior levels. Antimony at 10.75, lead softer with February at 8.80, zinc in East St. Louis delivery at 9.30.
New York stock exchange activity was the smallest in weeks with scarce selling pressure. Motors oils steels and utilities led gains of 1 to 5 points as rails showed little movement. Bond yields edged down with total par value of 13.8 million reported and 500,000 shares traded.
Directors of the Barnes King Development company announced a dividend of 20 000 dollars equivalent to 5 cents per share payable February 15 to stockholders of record January 25. This is the twelfth dividend and brings total distributions to stockholders to 400 000 dollars.
Mercantile paper 3 per cent in New York with sterling demand at 366 and 366 1/2 cables. Francs demand 11.75, cables 11.73. Guilders 387.80, cables. Lire demand 13.84, cables 12.82. Marks demand 158, cables 160. Time loans strong at 7 per cent for all dates. Call money easy high rate 7 per cent, low bid 6 per cent, offered 7 per cent, last loan 6 per cent.
Bar silver in New York at 31.32 percent with Mexican dollars at 1 percent. London quotes show bar silver at 79 percent per ounce and money at 3 percent. Discount rates list short bills at 5 percent and three month bills at 5 percent.
Hogs receipts 46,000 with market strong to higher. Bulk to top at 15.50, heavy to 15.40, pigs 13.75 14.65. Cattle receipts 18,000 market slow. beef steers 9.50 19.50, heifers 6.75 14.25, cows 5.50 6.75, veal 17 18.30, feeder and stocker prices mixed. Sheep receipts 12,000 market strong. lambs 84 lb and up 17.50 19.90, ewes and culls 5.50 12.50.
South St Paul market notes show hogs at 25 cent higher with 11,000 receipts and a range of 14.90 to 15.10 for bulk. Cattle receipts 4,100 with steers 6.50 to 17.50 and cows 6 to 11.75, calves up to 17.75. Sheep receipts 2,200 with lambs 7 to 18.50, wethers 9 to 11.25, ewes 5 to 10.75.
New York reports Liberty bond quotations at 2 55 p m with mixed results across issues. First 4s at 92.06, second 4s 92.36, first 445s 92.36, second 44 18 92.36, third 44s 1.76, fourth 445 30 and Victory 3% at 98.46 and 98.44.
The Success mine near Wallace Idaho may resume at once. Secretary-treasurer Herman Rossi said 600 tons of zinc concentrates are on hand and orders to reopen are expected soon. Ore now can be mined profitably. a Western Metal contract at Salt Lake underpins the sale.
In a Joyland tale illustrated by Neva Harrison, Dicky chats with the ancient Grandfather Clock. Squeedee the elfin sprinkles time magic, the clock recalls dusty hours, laments modern factory-made timepieces, and muses on how people once measured day by shadow and sundial.
Dicky and Squeedee discuss how people once told time before noon and at night, learning about candle burning and hemp rope methods. The old clock explains Alfred the Great’s system and other ancient ways, then chimes at the hour as the fairy spell ends and Squeedee vanishes.
Seattle police report a spate of taxi robberies beginning with Hazel Thompson who, after alighting from a streetcar near her home, was robbed of 25 dollars by two Black men who had stepped from a taxicab and paid the driver. They hailed another cab and fled. the driver said he did not know they were robbers.
Washington Jan 20 Coal production rose rapidly causing several western and northwestern mines to close for lack of orders the Geological Survey reported for the week ending Jan 10 Railroad officials said there is no car shortage at mines only requests for equipment to move export coal.
Raymond B. Fosdick resigns as under secretary general of the League of Nations and American representative in the league machinery. Friends say the U S has not accepted the league, leading to his decision to quit.
The post office department offers a reward for the dyed hair train robber who held up four mail clerks on an eastbound mail train near Richmond California Saturday night. Description has been broadcast to post offices and peace officers nationwide.
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