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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1920
Page
8
Chicago hogs lower with estimated 14 000 today and 16 900 tomorrow. Beef cattle steady to weak with veal calves at 15.75 to 17.26. Sheep and lambs show gains and declines with ewes and culls in the 6.00 to 13.75 range.
Hogs receipts 11 500 mostly 25 cents lower top 18.26 40 medium weight 13.35 18.60 light weights 13.25 13.50 light light 13 13.36 heavy packing sows 13 18.25 packing sows rough 12.50 13 pigs 12 14.96 Cattle receipts 1 4200 generally steady beef steers medium heavy weight choice prime 19.75 15 medium 11 13.75 common 9 11 light weight good and choice 11.75 14.50 common and medium 8.50 11.25 butcher cattle heifers 6 75 11.50 cows 6 50 11.26 canners and cutters 5 25 6 50 veal calves light handy weight 14 15.50 feeder steers 7.75 12 stocker steers 6.76 Sheep receipts 11 500 market steady lambs 84 pounds 18.25 20 culls and common 12.2 17.75 yearling wethers ewes medium and choice 11 13.25 culls and common 6.50 41
Chicago market notes butter steady with receipts at 11,061 cases and firsts around 64 to 64 1/2 cents, ordinary firsts 50 to 52 cents, while poultry prices rise for alive and springs to 32 cents and fowls to 37 cents. Potatoes weak with 64 car receipts, Northern bulk and sacked white at 4.35 to 4.50, Western Russets at 4.65.
New York market report shows Liberty bonds trading with varied prices across series. Fat bonds quote around 3% to 4% yields, with first and second issues near $90.30 to $90.66, and Victory series around $97.76 to $97.80.
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Chicago trading notes a bear tone in corn after a Justice Department report on foodstuff seizures. May corn dips to 132 3 8, July 129 8 8, oats down, hog prices fall, and rail privatization rumors boost distribution hopes. Prices for mixed corn, oats, rye, barley, and seeds listed. pork, lard, and ribs reported nominal to $20.27, $17.50-18.50.
Stanford University officials say about 76 students now receive outside aid in the form of fellowships and scholarships totaling roughly $25,000, announced by the registrar's office.
Lansing Michigan Attorney General Groesbeck will decide whether a Michigan primary election law amendment requiring affidavits of political affiliation applies to the presidential preference primary. The measure was enacted by the last legislature amid a political situation.
The text notes Henry Ford as a candidate for nomination with appearances on both Republican and Democratic ballots. It mentions petitions circulating to place Herbert Hoover on both the Republican and Democratic ballots, and raises whether the amendment affects the presidential preference primary.
Marines of the American Legion Guard held a ceremonial burial of the Dragon Rum in China. The event featured a borrowed Chinese dragon, a funeral dirge, and a decapitation display inside the beast. All American reservations in China remain dry while wider region continues to allow alcohol.
J Swine hurne told the Musical Association in London that women are naturally mechanical and not truly musical, arguing that the belief they share the same brains as men is unfounded and that women are nowhere in science.
Historical critique argues that scientific training has long excluded women while praising male gifts. It claims girls are taught music while boys are neglected, impeding broader artistic development.
Ketchikan Alaska residents form an airplane transportation company to buy five passenger seaplanes for passenger and light freight service across the region. Miners could travel from Jere to Hyder, a new mining camp, in about one hour by air, replacing the current 18 hour boat journey.
A former bar keeper with 27 years in the trade advertises in a daily paper, seeking kitchen or general housework work in San Francisco. The note notes that long experience in the old profession might help fill gaps in household help. A 1919 progress report shows rail injuries down from 1918 by 25,930 and 1,107 fewer deaths.
Madison firm Boyd and Gale, located at 921 Second South, offers power lighting plumbing and refrigeration services through its office in Wauchope. Joel Homer is listed as attorney.
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