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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1920
Page
5
Chicago reports that prominent traders may face indictments for price manipulation, weighing on corn as May and July futures decline while a government crop report shifts sentiment. Oats fall with corn, rail strike impact persists, and a grand jury focus casts doubt on market stability.
Collated prices show Clover seed terms for April through December and Timothy Prime cash figures for 1917 to 1938, with gf notes and monthly values. New York Mercantile data lists sterling and franc exchange, Belgian francs, marks, insides, lives, and government and railroad bonds, with time loans and call money rates. It also notes a startling estimate that nearly 1,00,900 cratered starfish destroy craters in Long Island each year.
Two loads of corn sold for 1 855 per bushel on Thursday market. No change in hog prices. Prices on other farm products included baled wheat straw at 9 per ton for four loads, timothy at 28 per ton for three loads and 30 per ton for one load. High point noted for rain season crops but no broader shifts reported.
Swedish geology students on a nine day Iceland trip report discovery of a massive crater be lieved to be eight kilometers long and five kilometers wide. The find marks a notable geological breakthrough and highlights an ambitious field expedition.
New York stocks faced early momentum on April 9 but ended irregular as heavy selling surfaced late. Rail shares rose modestly for the first time in the move, while steel, equipment, motor, and oil issues dominated activity with notable names like Strombe carburetor, Vanadium steel, Baldwin Locomotive, and American Car among others. Exchange rates were unsettled. Bank of France raised discounts to 6 percent. total New York securities sales reached about 1.66 million shares.
Chicago hogs receipts two thousand steady to thirty six cents lower with top at sixteen seventy five. Cattle receipts two thousand ranges from prime to common with mixed demand. East St Louis hogs top sixteen twenty six, cattle steady with prime beef at fourteen twenty five to fourteen seventy five. Kansas City hogs seven thousand with mixed weights, cattle slow with few prices. Peoria hogs three thousand five hundred steady at close, cattle hundred with uneven declines.
Sunday school led by lack of services as a severe storm kept residents home. Monday trains delayed by deep snowdrifts with no freight movement. Notable visits include a California guest and John H. Baldwin from Chicago. Township election results favor Republicans in several posts. Lutheran ladies held a bake sale and Rev. Guy Holmes conducted a revival.
Anonymous reader reports a London murder linked to Ronald Breton in Temple. Journalist Frank Spargo follows clues to a mysterious Mr. Marbury and a well dressed stranger with a gray beard. Inquests reveal hidden names, a safe, and tense testimony centering on Aylmore’s silence and truth.
In a crowded court, Mr Aylmore presses to be heard as the treasury counsel pushes to hear a new witness. A porter identifies the inmate as Mr Anderson of the Temple, revealing a gray-suited companion and linking a midnight entry to a dead man found in Middle Temple Lane, signaling deeper intrigue.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Floyd Deming Sunday evening. Mother and baby are doing nicely. Mrs Katherine Reynolds is visiting relatives in Hull. Snow storm disrupts travel as Mrs Reynolds extends stay with relatives.
A social roundup lists Thomea Elliott resuming school work, Mrs. Wm. Taylor visiting relatives in Quincy over Easter, Mrs. Laura Callowar of Barry staying with her mother Mrs. Kate Tenhaug, John Degit calling in Liberty, and Fay Bennett of Quincy visiting friends. A note from China states English has been adopted as the second official language.
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