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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1920
Page
3
A tangle of advertisements and notices seeks buyers and investors for tires gas saving devices and oil land ventures, plus sale offers for furniture and inventory. Local publics seek stockholder action for Lackawana Oil Shale Products Co as it proposes a capital increase from 1 million to 5 million dollars.
The State Leader advertises its WANT AD page for buying selling exchanging renting or letting employment or vacancies and notes Joe Martin with a quip about pets.
A letter from Luxor Pa. details relief from backache weak kidneys and liver after using Foley Kidney Pills. The writer Willie Garter recalls sleepless nights and dizziness improving as toxins are removed from the system. Sold everywhere.
Beef steers and stockers gain 25 to 90 cents while heifers rise 75 cents. bulls and feeders up 25 to 50 cents. Hog receipts around 14 000 with steady to strong tone, top 15 50. bulk hog prices 15 25 to 15 50. 250 lb plus 13 85 to 14 65. Sheep receipts 6 000 with lambs mostly 4 dollars lower and sheep steady. Corn and oats show mixed quotes with wheat 2 85 No 9, corn No 3 4 82, oats No 2 white 4 42. R
Omaha Neb May 1 reports show receipts of 8500 with market steady to slightly lower. Cattle prices mostly 25 to 40 cents higher for yearlings and fat stock, heavy beef cattle steady, stockers weak. Sheep receipts 250 with wool lambs about one dollar lower and sheep around 25 cents lower than week ago.
A special meeting of Kinney Oil & Refining Company stockholders will be held at the 512 First National Bank Building Cheyenne Wyoming on Saturday May 8 1920 at ten o clock forenoon to consider issuing preferred stock of about three million shares of common stock at the rate of one share of preferred for ten shares of common Transfer books close April 8 1920 Dated April 2 1920 John D Clark president H T Severns secretary
Minneapolis May 1 flour prices hold steady as Bran trades at 52 dollars per hundredweight with no change reported. Market notice notes stable values amid steady demand for grains and bran.
Chicago livestock report shows 4000 cattle received with beef steers steady to strong and sales totaling 10 500 to 13 75. Bulls and calves are weak. all other classes remain unchanged.
A quirky historical note explains potatoes used for payments including shoes and wages, with a 12 000 potato cost to refurnish a noble estate wrecked in war. The item also advertises Foley products and Union Trust Co. and cites the first women’s hospital on the Pacific coast in San Francisco, 1875.
Bayonne, N J Mrs AMA Bleeva describes severe periodical pains, backache, headaches, dizziness, and weakness before using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports improved health, strength, and ability to work after treatment and urges others to try the remedy. The ad invites readers to write for information about women’s ailments.
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