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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1925
Page
10
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Idaho potato shipments eased only slightly from recent highs as 54 carloads moved to outside states. National totals stayed above last year with about 800 carloads vs 625 a year prior. Prices remained steady or up at several markets despite softer local activity and weak demand in some hubs.
Doctors warn vast numbers of men come home fagged out by hard work both physically and mentally leaving families to cope with fatigue and stress. They urge rest relief and workplace reform to protect men’s health and well being.
Wheat trends upward amid export demand optimism and a stronger Sterling steady gains in May and July futures. Corn and oats show mixed moves with corn pressured by rural selling while hog-linked provisions stay steady. Prices for No 2 red wheat and No 2 hard wheat quoted alongside corn, oats, rye, barley, and seed values in Chicago trading.
New York quotations at 2 15 pm show Prairie Pipe Line 117 percent Standard of Indiana 63 percent Standard of New York 45 percent with New Bradford and Salt Creek listed as blanks and Mutual at 14 percent.
Chicago reports sharp price spikes as wheat and rye rally. May wheat delivery jumps 5 percent to reach 193 percent of standard level, with No 2 red winter rye deliverable at once climbing alongside.
Kansas City Jan 22 Wheat prices for No 2 hard 178 to 199 No 2 red 201 to 208 May 182% July 160 160 September 147 Corn bids No 3 oie 122 to 1 219 cents No 2 yellow 125 126 No 2 mixed 121 to 122 May 128 July 129 September 129 bid Hay prices rise No 1 prairie 1050 to 1150 choice alfalfa 2000 to 2450.
Chicago January 22 potato market shows moderate trading and a firm tone. Receipts 6 cars with total U.S. shipments 857. Wisconsin round whites quoted higher at 1.65 to 3.20, bulk and fancy dusties up. Michigan bulk and rotals noted with 1.25.
New York sugar market opens with no sales and a softer tone. Cuban raw offered at last prices around 465, Porto Rican late January clearance at 459. Raw futures ease on liquidation while open interest slips. refined demand remains modest with list prices near 6.10 to 6.15 for fine granulated.
In New York on January 2 rumors hint at a 68 percent silver rate and mixed Mexican dollar activity. Traders monitor shifts in precious metal pricing and currency flows amid unsettled markets.
Washington Jan 22 AP General advances in livestock prices were predicted by J P Swift a Kansas City commission merchant before the senate agriculture committee A hearing on the Copper bill limiting packers private stockyards Swift predicted hog prices would reach 15 cents a pound
Hogs receipts 19 000 steady to higher. 20 to 250 pound butchers 10.10 to 10.50 top 10.65. Desirable 160 to 200 pounds 9.60 to 10.10. Good 140 to 150 pounds 9.25 to 9.50. Packing sows 9.75 to 9.85. Bulk of sales 9.80 to 10.60. Average cost Wednesday 10.18 per cwt. Cattle receipts 4 500. Fed steers slow to weak. Bulk 6.75 to 8.75. Few loads to 9.10, some head 9.50. Bulls 26 cents lower. Stockers and feeders weak. Butcher cows and heifers 4.25 to 7.00. Vanners and cutters 2.50 to 3.75. Bologna bulls 3.75 to 4.25. Practical veal top 10.00. Sheep receipts 6 500. Lambs steady to 1lbe lower. Fed westerns 17.60 to 17.90. Ewes, feeders strong to higher. Feeding lambs 16.75 to 17.50.
Cattle receipts in Kansas City 2 500 with calves 300 slow. Hog and sheep trading mixed across Chicago and St Joseph with tops around 10 70 for shippers and 10 65 for packers in Chicago and steady to firm tone at St Joseph. Lambs weak to 25c lower with fat lambs around 18 00 to 18 25 and ewes around 9 50 to 10 50 in Chicago markets.
Portland market notes cattle and calves slow and weak with 725 receipts. Hogs steady with 2,250 total and 1,800 direct. packing hogs range 9.50 to 10.00, processed hogs 9.00 to 9.50. slaughter pigs 120 pounds down. quality described as medium, average, and choice 9.50 to 9.7.
New York on January 22 reports fras as: Great Britain 4.794 and 4.80 percent cables. France 5.42. Germany 23.80. Italy 414 percent. Belgium 5.15 percent. Argentina 40.25. Brazil 5.60. Norway 15.30. Sweden 26.93. Denmark 17.89. Spain 14.26. Poland 19 percent. Czecho Slovakia 4.00. Yugoslavia 1.68. Austria 0.14. Romania 6.24.
New York reports on copper electrolytic spot at 56.62 and futures 66.75 with overall firm tones. Tin remains steady around 15 while antimony marks 16.76. Lead and other metals show cautious movements amid a steady tron and nearby quotes.
A brief note explains a special arrangement with J P Morgan that allowed setting an artificially low price for old German bonds. The public could not distinguish the loss but bankers could detect the mispricing, highlighting lessons in finance and market expertise.
The piece warns that buying bonds over the telephone invites misjudgment as buyers may assume any bond is purchaseable from anyone. It notes a large German loan issue sold at 92 to yield about 7.7 percent if held to maturity and recalls subsequent cold calls offering German bonds at 90, highlighting potential investor risk and confusion.
Money stayed steady with high 3 percent and low 2 percent, ruling at 3 percent and last loan at 2 percent. Call loans against acceptances ran 26, time loans steady, collateral mixed for 60 to 90 days at 3 percent and 4 to 6 months at 3.44, prime commercial paper at 3 percent.
New York bonds quoted with various yields and prices. In Hooksett New Hampshire the Dundee linen mills resume operations after months idle. Macon Georgia reports the peach growers exchange crafting 1925 shipping packing and picking laws inspired by California to ensure higher quality fruit.
Alliance among many major names shows uneven gains and losses. notable closes include American Sugar rising to 60 percent, Du Pont at 144 percent, General Electric at 312 percent, and Coca Cola around 31 percent while Coca Cola and others hover near fractional shifts.
Delegates from smaller nations debated a six to twelve month adjournment of the international opium conference. They judge a concrete agreement between the United States and opponents of suppression in the Far East as almost hopeless at present.
Seven more hot mills begin operation at Shenango works bringing the plant to thirty five active mills. Five additional mills at the Farrell works are now on the active list.
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