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Newspaper
Sioux City Register
Location
Sioux City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1924
Page
7
Cattle and hog sales posted gains with steer and yearling prices up 15 to 25 cents. Top 1500-pound steers reached about 11.00, with many sales at 9.00 to 9.25 for butcher stock. Corn fed cattle ranged 6.00 to 7.00, grass cows steady around 3.50, veals and feeders active, and hogs opening higher with packers buying.
Cattle receipts 17,000 with active market for steers and yearlings showing gains up to 1 35 per 100 pounds. top prices around 11.50 with several loads at 11.30. best stockers around 11.15. Hogs steady to higher with bulk 9.25 to 9.50 and outsiders at 9.50 or better. Native lambs up to 12.75 to 13.00 with some sellers at 13.50. cull natives 8.50 to 9.00. sheep steady with sound range ewes around 5 37. Receipts 37,000. market wet with best kinds up 40c to 1c, packers up 0 to 35c. slaughter pigs higher but grades slower.
Indianapolis July 28 Indiana farmers will receive a one cent rise in wheat prices as announced by the Indiana Wheat Growers Association. The move supports grower returns amid market pressures affecting local agriculture.
Milwaukee on July 23 reports corn at 1.11 and 1.10 percent alongside bid asks. Market notes include prices for two-year and 114y bonds and a minor imts listing at 33 cents.
Sioux City police and friends enjoyed their 14th annual picnic at the Interstate Fair grounds. The event featured a Tennessee quartet and minstrel program, speeches by city officials, free confectionery, and a concluding dance.
Art Nehf of the New York Giants delivered a standout performance following his dramatic World Series clash with the Yankees. Critics reassessed him as he ascends to the league’s southpaw rankings.
The article previews an exhibition match at the Coun try club on August 10 featuring Cyril Walter and Wobby conikshank against Rudy Knepper and Mike Shearman, drawing Sioux City and nearby towns. It also notes a chaotic scene at a lake beach where a swimmer’s pants ripped, and mentions weighty boxing talks involving Kid Sullivan and other fighters moving toward Chicago and New York stakes.
The sugar cane juice making up about 80 percent of the cane’s weight is clarified by the addition of Temas.
Receipts by day show cattle hog sheep and other livestock with totals for 1924 and 1923. Hog sales range across days with bulk sales concentrated on Tuesday and Wednesday and prices from 5.75 to 10.00 per cwt. Previous weeks figures and weekly totals are noted for comparison.
The Sioux City receipts show corn and oats activity with shipments noted and representative cash prices for wheat corn and oats across No 1 and No 2 grades. Chicago futures closed strong with bullish wheat due to poor Canadian prospects and May corn hitting the highest price since World War II days as oats and provisions rose with grains.
St Joseph Missouri July 2s hog receipts around 3,500. Market shows sharp uptrend with top hogs selling near 10.00 per hundredweight and bulk sales around 9.50.
South St Paul Minnesota July 25 cattle receipts 6600 market fed steers and yearlings steady stockers and feeders higher calves lower hogs 146100 market butcher and bacon hogs 60 cents higher packing sows up 25 cents top 8.60 bulk 8.25 9.25 pigs 37.50 sheep 1100 market strong and higher.
The document lists multiple grain items with grades and prices such as Chi-eaco cash wheelbarrow data showing No 2 red at 135% ample grade, No 1 hard 1.34, No 2 hard 1.34 to 1.45, No 3 hurt 1.54, No 4 hard 1.32 to 1.44, No 1 northern dark 1.43, Corn unchanged, No 2 mixed 1.10 to 1.04, various yellow and white corn prices, oats and their discounts, oats white grades, sample grades, and Timothy and Clover values.
The St Louis cash market shows Wheat prices mixed with several grade differentials and reductions noted for No 1 red and hard yellow, while Corn remains steady to lower with multiple mixed grades trading around 1.08 to 1.11. Oats hold steady to lower with No 2 white and No 3 white quoted in mid to upper 50s and 60s.
Kansas City reports mixed grain prices with wheat falling 1 4 cents at various basis points and corn largely unchanged with minor shifts. Oats show no sales and prices remain nominal.
July 28 Deans note minor moves in grain markets with wheat largely unchanged around 1.22 dollars per bushel. Several prices and bids appear in cryptic form showing compact shifts for various futures and months, including quotes near 1.23 and 1.21.
Fire swept the residence of Mrs. Frank Moss, colored, at 711 West Seventh Street before she awoke. Moss escaped by leaping from a second story window as flames engulfed the structure and the building collapsed at midnight. Patrolman George Cane discovered the blaze.
At Wembley world power conference engineers from Britain and the United States declare the U S has the most available hydro electric power and will become the greatest world power. They note America’s surplus capacity versus coal oil and hydro for rapid expansion and future wartime leverage.
The article compares U S and foreign power output, noting 1921 totals of 41 000 million kilowatt hours for the United States and lower figures for Britain Italy and Switzerland. It explains the super power system linking producers to balance supply and demand, reducing waste and conserving coal and oil. It argues this gives the United States economic and strategic advantages.
Chicago grain traders opened with an uneven trend. Wheat fell on heavy selling after improved crop prospects. Canadian rains and cooler weather cited as favorable. Spot corn rose due to tight supplies and strong cash demand. New crop months slipped on weather gains. oats also declined. provisions trade opened unchanged with few sales.
Chicago grain prices moved mixed with July and September contracts showing small changes. The report notes one and one half cent shifts in several futures, with slight upticks and downticks across September and December positions reflecting early trading activity.
Minneapolis markets report cash futures for July with various grades of wheat and corn prices. No. 1 dark northern spring ranges from 1.58 to 1.47 per bushel while No. 2 and No. 3 grades show declines. corn No. 2 and No. 4 white available around 0.50 to 0.60 per unit.
A curious note reports that certain plants possess the ability to photograph themselves when prompted. The claim suggests an early curiosity about plant responsiveness and self recording behavior.
Fairfield Jefferson county will not hold its county fair this season citing past financial difficulties. Two fairs will occur in Mil ton and Van Isuren county with one regular county fair at Keosauqua in September. The region also reports oat losses from a July storm and dairy cattle shows planned for fall.
Wesley-Bert LeRoy Ash 40 died here. Born in Kossuth county he married Elfreda Shaw in 1914 and is survived by his widow, parents, three sisters Mrs James McDonald Highmore SD Mrs George Gunder Algona Thelma at home and five brothers Orval Niagara Wis Guy Floyd Marion and Glen at home Also Monticello J A Doutrick former Monticello resident died at Pasadena.
Obituaries and funeral notices from Calhoun to Humboldt recount burials and survivors. Henry Taake killed by shotgun in Elkader. Michael A. Goetz World War veteran buried in Wesley. Kate Louise Beasley and others noted. Dates scattered, extensive survivor lists. News item summarizes local memorials and cemetery burials across communities.
New York brokers push prices higher as heavy volume broadens gains across rails and industrials. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western hits a yearly high while General Electric and American Can top moves. Sinclair rises amid a $1 million judgment against the firm. Opening quotes show widespread gains across major issues.
Maj Petro Zanni, Argentine aviator, presses on toward Rome after weather disruptions near Lyons. Zanni began from Amsterdam Saturday, reached Paris Sunday, and arrived in Rome by 5:25 p m today. Americans preparing at Brough to depart for Orkneys then across Atlantic with Locatelli located near Marseilles.
St. Louis Browns rookie pitcher Lefty Wingard rode six straight wins to begin his rookie season. He hit a rough patch with five straight losses after his early success.
A compact note references Ady and the vast British empire spanning about 12 million square miles, suggesting reflection on naming and reach of empire.
Corrected schedule lists arrivals and departures for multiple lines at Sioux City including St. Paul Minnesota Chicago Omaha and local connections. Contains numerous times and routes such as S C St P Ld, Great Northern, Milwaukee and Illinois Central with notable services to Omaha Chicago Des Moines and Lincoln Express. Indicates daily except Sunday operation.
Notice is hereby given that a plat and schedule are on file in the office of the city clerk showing the proposed assessment against ing and adjacent property along a street from West Third to the Sioux City Service Company right of way for paving. The schedule lists property owners, total cost, and amounts assessed per parcel, and may be seen until August 0th, 1924. A. Gatinbey, City Clerk. Daily.
Chicago hogs receipts 37000 with holdovers. light weights 356. Cattle 17000. sheep receipts noted. Also notice of assessment on Isabella Street from West Fifth to West Sixth for paving work in Sioux City Iowa with an August 1924 deadline to file errors or be waived. City Clerk F A Garnsey notes publication by The Sioux City Daily Registr.
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