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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
8
Chicago and Omaha stockyard notes show hogs and cattle receipts with prices varying by weight and quality. Hogs in Chicago around $12.50 to $14.75 for various grades. cattle steady to mixed with steers $8.25 to $18.20 and cows $4.75 to $6.75. sheep and lambs trading around $7.50 to $17.25, with listings for feeder and stocker categories and regional price spreads.
In Chicago and Minneapolis trading Dec 17, corn led gains aided by sterling strength and talks of the Edge foreign finance bill. Oats rose on export demand, while hogs and fats fluctuated. Prices ranged with mixed old and No 2 yellow corn around 1.53 to 1.55 in Chicago futures. oats about 0.84 to 0.87.
Jimmy Bronson, overseas boxing director for the Y M C A, promoted and refereed bouts at Palace de Grace and Cirque de Paris. He fought in over 100 matches in Allied theatres, officiated for the A E F and inter allied tours, and knew European champion Carpentier. Bronson hoped to see Bob Martin meet Carpentier. a hand injury blocked that bout. Spokane dispatch notes another man frozen to death as Pacific Northwest storm, fuel shortages, and miner strikes ease slightly as weather improves.
A Chicago bulletin from Ban Johnson announces that resolutions adopted by the league directors last Wednesday have been rescinded by the newly elected board. The piece then shifts to a profile of Georges Carpentier, praising his fame in France and England, his charm, education, and boxing prowess, noting his national hero status and popularity among Parisians and sports fans.
Chicago December 17 potato arrivals totaled 30 cars as prices show weak to stable trends. Northern whites quoted around 2.90 to 3.05 per cwt with western rurals and runsets in the 3.50 to 3.65 range. Creamery receipts and ordinary firsts noted at limited movements with sporadic bids.
Liberty bonds quoted at 2:55 pm today show First and Second 4s at $93.52 and $93.60 respectively, Third 4s at $91.02, Fourth 4s at $91.50, Victory 3s at $98.96 and Victory 4s at $98.88, with First 4s $99.50 and Second 4s $91.58.
Prof. Copenhagen reports that Litvinoff, the Russian soviet representative, says Lloyd George’s call for peace with General Denikin and Admiral Kolchak is an offer to counter revolutionists. The Soviet government has no plan to negotiate with Kolchak or Denikin directly at this time.
CLEVELAN MIDDLESBOROUGH England Dec 16 Its is announced here that a local engineer has succeeded in extracting commercial alcohol and its derivatives from cure It is claimed that in the process which requires the use of gas is applied to all coal carbonized in Great Britain an estimated yield of fifty million gallons of motor spirits will be obtained annually revolutionizing the supply and cost of liquid fuel
In December 1916, Cornellis proposes adopting pololien interprolizerate ayert for graduate athletic program. Details remain sparse in the fragmented press note.
The University of Oregon football squad plans to travel to Los Angeles by special car on Saturday for a New Year’s Day game against Harvard. The team is expected to number about 24 players and coaches for the trip.
The notice urges re election of all officers of the War Finance Corporation including Eugene Myer Jr as managing director Louis B Wehle as general counsel and RH Burklin as secretary treasurer with the date December 17 announced.
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