Market Dull at Chicago as Receipts Hold Steady
Chicago stock market shows dull trading with receipts heavy from Union Stock Yards. Cattle and sheep offerings rise and fall with weak, lower pricing across beef, sheep, and grain contracts.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1914
Page
7
Chicago stock market shows dull trading with receipts heavy from Union Stock Yards. Cattle and sheep offerings rise and fall with weak, lower pricing across beef, sheep, and grain contracts.
Market notes indicate weak hogs at Sioux City with 8,000 receipts and top at 5.39 while bulk sold around 7.05. Cattle receipts 2,000 with beef and dairy prices easing. veal calves 7.00 to 10.90. Stockers and feeders steady but overall tone bearish due to restricted western Iowa outlets.
Milwaukee market report lists wheat corn oats and flax with spot and future prices. Details include Nakota No 1 northern spot $1.16 and December wheat at $1.15 7-8, No. 3 mixed corn 66 1-2, flax No 1 northwestern $1.45 1-2 to $1.48 1-2. Some items show bid and ask ranges and delivery terms.
Minneapolis market report shows No. 1 hard wheat at 1.15 7-8 dollars per bushel and No. 1 northern around 1.15 7-8 to 1.17 7-8, with other grades ranging from 1.12 3-8 to 3-8 for No. 3. Montana No. 3 wheat quoted at 1.07 3-8.
Washington general orders attack on Tampico as Villa advances from San Luis Potosi without firing a shot. Dispatches report a warm reception for Villa by the people.
City council approves continued construction of the new 750000 gallon waterworks reservoir despite cold weather. Builders outline heated forms, wooden roof, and layered concrete pouring to prevent seams, with floor and walls nearing completion and connections planned to existing mains and old reservoir.
The ceop well at the waterworks station is now pumped by a new electric turbine. An air lift pump draws water from two old wells at the station.
Alphonso Bourne of Moody County, once a resident of Egan and the Black Hills, writes from a field hospital detailing brutal battles with the British expeditionary forces in Belgium and France. He recalls Mons, Le Cateau, Le Verberie, Campagne, the Marne, Soissons, Soisne and Oisne fighting, heavy losses, and a severe leg wound but survival with both legs intact.
Reports from Athens and Washington say the U S cruiser Tennessee was fired on by Turkish forts at Smyrna while approaching the harbor. Officials deny any orders for entry and emphasize presidents orders to protect American interests in the Mediterranean without triggering an international incident.
New York City reports an effort to prove Joseph Ulmann’s American citizenship to avert a death sentence in London for suspected German espionage. Health records search yielded no birth record yet affidavits from doctors and witnesses are sought. If citizenship is proven natives, the U.S. State Department may intervene. Ulmann leads a formerly named furrier firm with ties to major cities.
A fragment notes that Arm went to London to build the business in England but has been unseen since the war began. A brother learned of his predicament and alerted Dr. Griswold about his status.
Record of campaign spending shows Judes Frank B. Smith of Mitchell spending nothing and others detailing amounts: A J Curtis 15 dollars to county central committee. Kauritz Miller 44.76 with 26.50 to fund and 8.25 for printing. J C Hamitel 72.90 with 60 to fund 22.10 printing. John Kurvink 120.35 with 49 to fund 45.28 printing 38.50 gasoline 4 food 20 postage 0.60 transportation.
Florence Wagner reports librarian Nina Jayne of Da kota Wesleyan left this morning for Rockford IA following news of her father’s sudden death. Coach Hubert B. Zilisch will lead high school players to Alexandria tomorrow to face the local eleven in a likely strong game after Mitchell’s scoreless tie with Huron last week.
Dr J W Miffeld of Kansas City captivated Mitchel high students and Elks club women with a travel lecture titled Gersons from the Old Worlds to the Now He urged final voluntary gifts to Christ and noted the need for genuine Christian commitment He praised Scotland England Belgium France and Germany and spoke on parent child relations across nations The gathering included Mrs W G Brackett Mesdames R C Raines S H Scallin and O J Murray with Geo A Silsby presiding
Valparaiso Chile reports German cruisers Leipzig and Dresden entering the harbor to take on supplies. A Port Corral lighthouse watcher saw six cruisers steaming south, with probable ships including Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, possibly Leipzig, though not identified.
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