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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1920
Page
8
Hog prices show steady to 25 cents higher for 250 pounders and heavier with bulk around 12 to 13 dollars. Sheep receipts about 3,000 with prices uneven. choice handyweight shorn lambs at 16.76 dollars, bulk around 15 to 16 dollars. lambs and ewes noted with 12 dollar range for choice ewes.
Fragmentary report shows unsettled markets with 28 856 cases and firsts noted. References to poultry prices 43 and 34 cents, potatoes receipts 48 cars, and storage packed. Mentions ordinary firsts and unchanged prices for old and new stock.
Final prices on Liberty bonds reported in New York show various issues trading with the following levels: 3 44s at 91.70, first 4s at 84, second 4s at 84, first 4% at 85.50, second 4% at 84.10, third 1448 at 88, fourth 448 at 865.04, Victory 8% at 96.20, and Victory 4% at 96.08.
In Alamogeeo Mich May 20 a circuit court ruling by Judge George W Weimer allows a wife to sit on the same jury as her husband in Michigan. Aaron Westcern was accepted as a juryman and when Mrs Westcern was called the judge indicated he might reconsider but she was eventually accepted.
Associated Press reports in Honolulu that Japanese American groups consider confronting fellow Japanese from Hilo and Hawaii. Nakamoto urged abolishing foreign language schools and said traits among some are tied to hereditary training.
Market in turmoil as fears of end to rail traffic curb unloads push grain prices down. Widespread belief in relief measures boosts panic selling. corn leads declines with oats and provisions following. Chicago and Minneapolis quotes show sharp losses across cereals, with cash wheat at 2.81 to 2.90 and corn near 1.95. A separate note reports cotton from a state experiment farm selling at 85 cents a pound, aided by irrigation yields of a bale per acre on a small plot.
Washington May 20 census Bureau figures place Denver as the nation’s 27th city with a population of 256,369, up 42,988 or 20.1 percent since 1910. Other gains include Tacoma 96,965. New London 25,680. Elizabeth 98,682. Englewood 11,617. Garfield 19,381. Hamilton County Ohio with Cincinnati 493,672. Dallas 158,976. Titica 94,136. Altoona 69,381. Rockford 65,651. Malden 49,403. Ambridge 12,730.
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