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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1921
Page
12
Denver live stock market receipts show improvement in all classes with generally steady prices. Hogs sold 8 cent range gains amid large hog run, cattle demand remains solid with top cows hitting $7.00 and best feeding steers up to $7.75. sheep trading waned with fat lambs around rising bids and feeders trading slowly.
The week opened with grain price declines but on the 29th exports pushed values higher. War finance bill sentiment lifted prices, with milling and flour demand improving. Cotton and wheat futures rose in Chicago Minneapolis and Kansas City while live stock fell sharply led by cattle and hog declines. An Fairfield Connecticut fire killed seven in one family including Felix Yackimovitch and six relatives.
The article recounts Czecho Slovakia's bold monetary deflation after 1918, converting Austro-Hungarian kronen to new coins, funding the new republic with gold taken from vaults in Vienna, and urging farmers to plant sugar beets to boost exports. It contrasts with global inflation and notes patriotic gold contributions and a strong gold reserve.
The Living Age notes M. Millerand's election reflects a push to amend the French constitution to grant real governing power to the president. Socialists and radicals warn of a shift toward monarchy, while ultra conservative royalists applaud the change. Presidential selection may also shift from Parliament to direct national choice.
London experiments indicate Jamaica could supply vanilla flavoring extract. Wild pimento leaves yield high eugenol, enabling crude vanilla production. Eugenol to vanillin midway product possible by fermenting the leaves, offering economic and commercial value.
Dr OH J John reports intravenous glucose treatment for pneumonia in the American Journal of Medical Science. More than two doses daily were rarely needed, with comfort, sleep, reduced temperature, increased kidney and skin elimination, and slowed heart rate with higher pulse volume observed.
Read of a national park conference set for Des Moines January 1921 led by John Barton Payne and Gov. Harding. The meeting aims to classify and standardize parks nationwide, promote state park laws, and discuss funding, administration, and public use across national state and local parks.
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