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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1919
Page
8
Across Omaha and St Joseph markets on August 11 buyers pushed hogs and cattle higher. Receipts varied as hogs topped near 21.50 with weights grouping around 20.60 to 21.50, while beef steers and cows showed strength and wide range values. Sheep and lambs also traded firm with lambs around 14 to 16 dollars and ewes up to about 9 dollars.
Chicago August 11 persistent selling driven by possible widespread railroad tie up depresses corn prices. September 190 to 191 a bushel December 153 to 153. Oats down 1 to 1.5. Provisions mix with 20 cent decline to 40 cent rise. Stockyards strike settlement supports hogs amid cereal weakness. packers buy.
Chicago and Omaha grain bids list mixed corn prices from No 2 to No 6 categories with oats, barley, timothy, clover, and lard notes. Minneapolis shows No 8 yellow corn bids and No 3 white oats with flax values recorded.
New York market report shows unsettled butter with creamery higher than extras and eggs fluctuating. Arrivals include 66 carloads of potatoes and various regional lots, with prices noted for Irish Cobbler and California bone white potatoes.
Finely garbled figures show percentages and dollar values from a financial snippet. Reads like quoted rates: fourth' 4 percent at 98.48, Victory d s 499.865, Victory 4%8 at 90.82. Exact entities and meanings are unclear due to OCR.
Reports note efforts to combat the use of habit forming drugs as a practice alleged by several newspapers to be widespread within the republic.
Mexico City reports forecast the second annual convention of the Industrial Congress of Mexico to meet September 14. The gathering is described as the most important labor and capital representation event in the republic, with plans to discuss new labor laws and related issues.
Miss Miyorko Kobashi editor of Fujin Shuho the Woman's Weekly will travel to the United States in August for a three year study of journalism programs at leading American universities. She aims to lead the journalism course at Tokyo Women's University upon return and urges Japanese women to pursue adaptable vocations such as journalism. She plans to attend the Washington labor conference next October and the international women's council in Berne next spring.
Tokyo announces Tsunetada Kato formerly minister to Belgium will be high commissioner to Omsk the seat of the Kolchak anti Bolshevik government Great Britain and France already have high commissioners at Omsk the United States to follow developments as the alliance line shifts in Siberia
An ambassador to Japan has departed for Omsk on a special mission to investigate political conditions and is expected to report to Washington on whether the Kolchak regime should be officially recognized. Also advertised are highly improved farms near Buhl selling for 175 to 300 dollars, with payments and rent considerations highlighted by Gates Realty Co.
July 19 marked Mexico’s reopening of postal connections with Germany, mirroring the resumption of relations between the United States and Germany. Classified ads note job seeks for saleswomen at Hart’s, a Perrine Hotel chambermaid, a blacksmith at Midland Bridge Co, and clerical work by an ex service man in Shoshone Idaho.
A notice offers a general transfer business that can handle any amount from a single package to multiple cases. The firm will pick up at any location and deliver to the railroad, inviting interested persons to call for a discussion.
A dense business directory excerpt lists J H Dodd real estate, Casper Nygard, J F Burton, Taylor Cummins, Jas W Orr, and others. It notes office locations at Ban Pal building, Cotillion Hall, and various Twin Falls Idaho addresses with telephone numbers. Names repeated suggest a directory of legal and professional services with practice areas in civil probate and general law.
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