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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
12
Cheyenne is the Wyoming capital and largest city. It sits at the junction of two transcontinental rail lines and the Lincoln and Park to Park highways. A municipal water works draws mountain water 25 miles away. The town is a division point for air mail and lies beside Fort Russell. Cheyenne serves as a major jobbing center.
Daily market items cover stock and bond quotes, grain and produce prices, live stock reports, wool trends, and other related financial news. Highlights include price movements in equities, treasury yields, commodity futures, and notable shifts in market indicators from exchange desks.
New York traders pushed prices higher led by rubbers textiles shippings and rails with gains of two to five points amid renewed demand for motor shares as automaker plants resume activity. Stude baker led advances to a new recovery high while copper and other issues showed strength despite some liquidation. Chicago grain prices and meats also listed with no dramatic shifts.
The market shows prime mercantile paper unchanged. Exchange rates: sterling 3.68% demand, 8.63 cable. francs 5.98 demand, 6.00 cable. Belgian francs 6.28 demand, 6.30 cable. guilders 1.90 demand, 32.00 cable. lire 3.60 demand, 3.52 cable. marks 1.88 demand, 1.39 cable. Greek drachma 7.30 demand. Montreal discount 145 percent. Time loans steady, call money steady high 7, low 7, ruling 7, closing bid 6, offered 7. Last loan listed.
Metal prices steady in New York on January 6 with domestic bar silver unchanged and foreign market values at 6853 Mexican dollars and bilr noted.
Grain market data from Omaha on January 6 lists wheat prices for No 1 hard at 1.70 to 1.71 dollars, No 2 hard 1.69 to 1.71, No 3 spring 1.58, sample spring 1.44, and mixed grades 1.59 to 1.66. Corn prices include No 3 white 0.69 to 0.594 dollars, No 4 white 0.55 to 0.56, No 2 yellow 0. Glo, No 8 yellow 0.58 to 0.60, No 2 mixed 0.61, No 3 mixed 0.59 to 0.60. Oats show No 2 white 0.484 to 0.44 and No 3 white 0.44.
Cattle hogs and sheep updates from Omaha Chicago and Denver report receipts and prices. Hogs in Omaha 9000 head mostly steady to 10 cents lower with top near 9.26. cattle in Omaha 4300 head steady to 26 cents lower. Denver notes strong hog demand with top near 9.50 and best cows 7.00. Chicago markets show hogs steady to 1.00 lower. cattle generally steady. sheep and lambs higher with top lambs around 12.165. Six-minute totals reflect mixed regional movements and strong demand for good fat lambs.
New York January 6 1921 The Investor and Trader reports total annual U S income about 78 billion dollars roughly 700 per person up from 17 965 billion in 1900 The article lists wealth assets production railroad mileage oil coal iron ore copper and farm products among the indicators and references historic corporate milestones starting 1492 and 1776 завершено.
Weather data for 24 hours ending 6 pm includes temperature highs 66 at 6 30 pm and a low of 27 at 6 pm with mean 42. Precipitation since January 1 is 0.02 inches and normal 0.06 inches. Wind SE SW NE average 9.3 miles yesterday. Relative humidity 65 47 24. Clay normal climate.
Chicago January 6 a conference to act on a plan for a national live stock and meat council to promote meat consumption will be held February 11. Officials from livestock organizations packing industries and state and federal agricultural departments are invited.
The secretary of the interior has authorized Western States Oil & Land to take oil from its well on section 6-39-78 in Salt Creek. Proceeds will be impounded pending a government lease. once issued, the government will release funds after royalty deductions.
The corner stone of the Roosevelt Memorial Home was laid at 28 East Twenty-sixth Street New York to honor Theodore Roosevelt. The Women’s Roosevelt Memorial association sponsors the project to inspire American youth and memory of the late president. Present were Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt widow Theodore Roosevelt Jr Mrs Douglas Robinson and Major General Leonard Wood with Ambassadors Jusserand De Marchienne De Alencar and General Nivelle.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson spoke for the Roosevelt family promising furniture and furnishings from the old Roosevelt home for the house. At Oyster Bay friends laid a corner stone and visited the president’s grave, wreaths placed on the tomb at Gifford Pinchot’s instigation. An organization named the Roosevelt Pilgrimage will visit the grave each year.
The eight year old Botsford will spend half the year with his father A M Botsford and half with his mother now married to Botsford’s friend Raoul Fleischmann. Botsford accepts the arrangement after learning his wife loved his friend. The wife moved from New York to Reno for divorce and married Fleischmann, Botsford’s former college classmate.
Dublin dispatch reports that on January 6 General orders will release prisoners in Ireland. Details remain sparse but authorities confirm imminent liberation actions affecting multiple inmates. Local coverage notes political implications and potential crowd response in Dublin.
Freeman's Journal states directors Hamilton Howards and Martin Fitzgerald will be released from prison tomorrow for medical reasons. Fitzgerald and Howard were sentenced in December to six months for spreading a false report aimed at causing dissatisfaction.
In Washington on January 6, Senate debate about American relief in Europe, sparked by Senator Reed’s charges that Hoover diverted relief to the Polish army, featured defenses from Senators Hitchcock and Kellogg. Hitchcock credited Hoover with a world remarkable achievement and said US relief was not given to Polish forces, citing vigilance by American officers to keep civilian use intact.
In Houston on January 6, bankruptcy hearings began against the General Oil Company and a $20,000,000 trust company. Federal Judge J C Hutchison blasted opposing attorneys for a prior injunction that he said muzzled Cox and associates from claiming the firm represents the company. Cox and associates, who formed the company, back the bankruptcy bid and oppose M McDonald, the receiver appointed by District Judge J D Harvey. The motion picture industry pledges $2.5 million to aid starving children in Europe.
A rare plant on display at Washington botanical gardens is dubbed the mother in law plant. Contact with its spines causes the tongue to swell and render the victim speechless for about nine days. The specimen pictured is likely unique in the country.
Nathan Behrin official reporter for New York county supreme court breaks his own shorthand record with 279 words in one minute during a New York State Shorthand Reporters' association contest. His prior mark stood at 278 words set in 1913.
London January 6 Vickers Ltd a leading English armament maker expects large armor plate orders from Japan in the coming year The firm has been told by the British government to keep its armor plant available for eventual use Douglas Vickers MP spoke at a stockholders meeting noting the plant is costly to maintain and asking government aid to share the burden.
Caribbean region debate grows as congressmen back governmental purchase of twelve Pearl Islands. The islands, seen as crucial to Pacific access near the Panama Canal, are currently Panamanian owned.
In Chicago on January 6 the Koo Koo Klan asks the courts to assist a membership drive. The group cannot hold meetings with fewer than four members and currently has only three. Its members are inmates serving jail sentences for nonpayment of alimony.
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