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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1920
Page
3
A garbled Saturday market report lists wheat, corn, oats and other grain items with scattered prices and vessel terms. Mentions May 26, various futures and cash quotes, and regional references like Peoria and New York, with mixed legibility and missing context.
Kaollenberg Milling Company dictating market rates for hay and grain including Wheat No.1 tested at 60 pounds or better 2.80 per bushel Rye 1.75 Oats 1.00 to 1.05 Yellow corn 1.95 Market Lot prices list oats straw 10? 3.3 Clover hay 30 to 36. Baled timothy 33 to 38 Prairie hay 81.3 Alfalfa hay 33 Baled fodder 12 to 14. Choice hogs weights from 120 to 250 pounds priced 11.90 to 14.70. Poultry Butter Eggs milling products and various feeds listed with prices. Notes on market trends cite declines in hides and general price pressure from Washington and press.
On Saturday New York stocks showed rail shares as the sole notable strength amid an otherwise quiet session with under 300000 shares traded. Gains were driven by favorable crop reports and a liberal government stance toward transportation firms, while Union Pacific Norfolk and Western Missouri Pacific and Lehigh Valley posted notable losses. The day featured a new round of discount increases by the local federal reserve bank after market close. Bond trading was heavier than stock trading, with steady gains in government issues and modest progress in convertible rails.
Markets in New York showed easing conditions in coffee sugar and grain trading. Prices for creamery products and dairy items appeared higher on some lines while general stock levels and government bonds remained firm, with Montreal exchange rates noted and transportation notes mixed.
Liberty bonds final prices listed for Rta GLO first 45 at 87.50 and second 44 at 87.14. Other series show mixed quotes including 448 91405 and various 8 percent returns. Market notation appears jumbled but notes victory percentages and bond classes.
NEW YORK May 30 The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies shows a reserve excess of 24,228,800 dollars beyond reserve requirements. This marks an increase of 16,648,460 dollars from the prior week.
Chicago and other markets show varied movement with higher calves and steers, weaker cows, and steady to lower lambs. Hogs remain steady with top around 14.85, cattle demand mixed as week closes, goats scarce, and spring lambs facing price pressure.
New York May 30 A captive park bear has the legal right to claw anyone who comes within its range, under a ruling by the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court. The court denied damages to Blanche Gir, 13, saying her chase was a rolling ball too close to the cause and that the clawing could not be charged to park management.
Geneva May 29 audience cheered in a Serbruck theater while a python slowly crushed trainer Fraulein Ciro a Hungarian girl. Her peril drew shrieks yet spectators believed it part of the act and roared. The manager fired at the snake on stage after it tightened its coils.
President Wilson commuted to expire at once the five year sentence given to Mrs. Kate Richard O'Hare of St. Louis for violating the espionage act. She was convicted for a Bowman North Dakota speech accusing mothers who sent sons to war of “brood sows.”
Washington May 30 William C Frierson of Chattanooga Tenn now an assistant attorney general was nominated by President Wilson to be solicitor general of the United States and Mrs Annette Abbott Adams of San Francisco now United States attorney for the northern district of California was named an assistant general
A compilation of Q and A items covering tariff mistakes, maple sugar output, Jacob’s ladder uses, war risk insurance claims, New Thought origins, papal bulls, elephant tusks, citizenship after prison, France time notation, soft shell crabs, Iceland transport, safe ladder angle, internal revenue costs, Arab support in Jerusalem, the March blizzard, pocket veto, and leading presidential possibilities. The quiz cites various officials and regions, presenting concise historical and factual summaries.
The term aims atn-ganeche is French for left hand and names a dagger held in the left hand to parry an opponent’s thrust. About 185 million people speak English worldwide, over half in the United States, more than any other language.
In midsummer a new generation is started about every eleven to fourteen days. Spring and fall slightly extend this period. Eggs are laid in batches averaging around one hundred twenty and hatch in under twenty four hours.
The third Sunday in June is Father’s Day noted for honoring living fathers with colored roses and deceased fathers with white roses. Congress recognized the observance with a bill in 1914.
Wisconsin owns the western Lake Superior islands once settled by French missionaries around 1680. The Q&A covers vingt-et-un as the French term for the card game similar to twenty-one, its pronunciation van tay yon with the final n nearly silent. It also notes Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp and a 1919 war-related adjournment, plus a remark by James W. Cobb of Tuskegee, Alabama.
A compact Q and A style record covering topics on smallpox vaccination timing boundary lines US Canada length German debt and value, Gordius knot origin, Pan American rail project, and early viscose artificial silk origin with named authorities and dates.
A query asks where the Apostles Islands are and notes that W. A. T. A. is a name of a group. The fragment indicates an inquiry rather than a full news item and lacks clear event details or entities beyond the location group reference.
Reed cannot locate the gentleman. Jumbo the famous African elephant died crossing a Canadian railroad track. He stood 1114 feet tall and weighed six tons. The skeleton is in the Smithsonian and mounted in Barnum's white room at Tufts College.
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