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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1920
Page
14
A flood of classified listings includes two Burroughs adding machines for sale, cattle in Wyoming, rent and sale notices, homesteads, auto training schools, matrimonial ads, and land investment offers. Items range from real estate to sewing machines, job inquiries, and investment schemes with phone numbers and addresses.
Department of the Interior Land Office at Cheyenne Wyoming announces James H Willadsen of Granite Canon Wyoming filed intent to make final three year proof to establish a homestead claim on lots 4 2 8 NE SW SE etc in Section 30 Township 138N Range 69W 6th Principal Meridian. Witnesses named Steven H Willadsen Andreas H Willadsen George Miller Rudolph Gale. Proof set for March 2 1920 before Register and Receiver WILL REID.
A playful ad line features farm fable dialogue and an offer for sale items at O Connell s with phone numbers 273 274. It notes availability for Saturday and Sunday.
Henry Willis of Sandy Point Texas reports relief from a bad cough after trying Foley's Honey and Tar. He spent four to five dollars on other medicines before using one bottle that provided relief. The ad claims the remedy is non opiate and effective against flu symptoms.
Workmen installed a master electric clock in the city and county building facing Carey avenue. The clock will regulate nearly twenty clocks across the building. Sidewalks are being completed with cement work underway. Judge Frank Housman and Judge W H Edwards have moved into their new offices. The police department is slated to move once steel work is set, possibly by week’s end.
H. J. White of Loveland Colorado yesterday afternoon claimed a Ford found weeks earlier and held by the police. He drove it away after getting it running, saying he had abandoned it near Archer due to frost and intended to return for it. He learned it had been brought to Cheyenne and came to retrieve it.
Market report shows May corn around 1.31 to 1.32 with slight variation and July corn near 1.28. Oats futures for July show mixed percentages around 78 and 71 with uncertain quotes and typed anomalies in the record.
Chicago market update lists Corn No 3 mixed at 1.4144 and 1.42 percent, No 3 yellow at 1.44 and 1.44 percent. Oats No 2 white 85 86 percent, No 3 white 84 85. Rye not quoted No 2, No 8 4.55. Barley 1.30 1.50, Timothy seed 142 44, Glover seed 345 59, Pork nominal. Lard 19.80, Nubs 17.25 18.25.
Minneapolis grain prices list several commodities with bids and quotes for February 21. Flour 13.25 per barrel in 98-lb cotton sacks, barley 4.17, rye 1.51 to 1.53, bran 43.00, corn 1.40 to 1.41, oats 0.80 to 0.82, flax 5.41 to 5.16.
Omaha Livestock reports Feb 24 hogs at 15 to 25 cents higher with top at 14.25 and a bulk around 13.85 to 14.15. heavy and packing sows varied from 12.25 to 13.60. Cattle receipts 300, week comparison shows heavy steer and good to choice stock down about 250 points with bulls weaker and yearlings steady.
Sheep receipts 300, down versus last week. Slaughters and feeders steady. Lambs 750 higher on the day, yearlings and ewes 500 higher, feeding grades 250 higher.
CHICAGO February 24 hog receipts eight thousand dollars market strong to four hundred fifty higher than yesterday's average bulk fourteen dollars to fourteen ninety top fourteen ninety heavy thirteen eighty four thirty, medium fourteen twenty to fourteen seventy, light fourteen fifty to fourteen ninety, light light fourteen twenty five to fourteen eighty five, heavy packing sows smooth twelve seventy five to thirteen forty, packing and rough twelve fourteen to twelve sixty five, pigs thirteen twenty five to fourteen sixty. Cattle receipts one thousand compared with a week ago steers above thirteen fifty three or higher and mainly twenty five to seventy five cents lower, others mostly steady, butcher cows and heifers about steady, canners twenty five cents lower, Bologna bulls road quarter higher, dairy cattle mostly twenty five cents lower, stockers and feeders twenty five to forty cents higher. Sheep receipts four thousand compared with a week ago good to prime fat lambs twenty five to fifty cents higher others little changed fat sheep and yearlings twenty five to seventy five cents higher. Leader WANT ADS are result getters.
A Vermont man from Bennington cites Foley Kidney Pills after falling victim to lumbago last year. He reports severe back pain that made dressing difficult, then says the pills alleviated the pain within days and he has been free of lumbago since.
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