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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1920
Page
5
Widespread help wanted ads from Waterloo area papers list experienced machinists garment workers clerks waiters housemaids cooks drivers and barbers. Numerous postings seek part and full time labor on farms hotels and factories with pay notes, addresses and contact phone numbers.
Public notices show amendments to the Leavitt & Johnson Trust Company articles adding general banking powers dated February 1920 at Waterloo Iowa. Other notices include a district court action in Black Hawk County seeking $2,770.38 plus interest from F. A. Merrick and listing multiple promissory notes and attachments, with a May 1920 deadline and attorney fees.
Qrivago April 23 report notes broad weakness in war market sentiment and grain values. Declines in sterling and New York quotes, warmer weather, and liquidation pressure pushed May and July grain futures down before a partial rally. Weakness spread to oats and provisions amid news of a receiver application for a pacing company in Sioux City.
The report compiles grain and commodity quotes across Chicago and Peoria markets dated April 28 1920. It lists corn wheat oats and coffee prices, along with fat cattle hogs butter lard potatoes and hides with bid and ask ranges and notable price shifts.
Chicago market reports higher bids for cattle and hogs with stronger demand. Beef cattle mostly 25 to 40 cents higher, top yearlings around 14.50, feeders active. hogs receipts about 19,900 with top at 15.50 and bulk 15.25 to 16.50. sheep slow with few sales and lambs around 19.70 to 23.50. East St Louis listings show steers 11.00 to 12.50, hogs 4,000 head lower, lambs scarce.
April market report from Joseph Missouri covers hogs price drops to around 7.40 lower top 915.00 bulk trade 1,200 head up. Cattle and calves mixed with steers and heifers mostly steady to lower. Potatoes in Chicago dull with 20 car receipts and northern whites around 7.15. Sugar in New York firm with centrifugal and granulated at 1.84 and 1.10 per pound respectively.
Kansas City receipts hogs seven thousand with top price near fifteen dollars and light weights selling. cattle six thousand one hundred with steer demand slow but veals and packers strong. sheep three thousand with wool lambs steady to twenty five cents lower. Sioux City receipts twelve thousand with broad price ranges across cattle and calves. mixed slaughter cattle weak and fed yearlings firm. sheep with reduced demand.
Market notes from New York on April 28 show unsettled receipts with higher creamery prices and varied scores for extras and carriage. Packing stock and storage data for butter and milk reflect higher prices for packing stock while poultry rates move with slight declines for bees and steady for dressed stock. Kansas City reports similar adjustments.
Sor yh Lelty reports Liberty bonds trading with varied figures. Second and Third issues show modest changes. Copper, tin, antimony, lead, and zinc prices listed with spot and future positions. market mixed with steady and easy movements.
Fragmentary OCR shows a list of amounts and dates including April 28 and December 1917 with Prime cash values ranging from 5.45 to 34.80. Mentions Feds December 22.25 and April 30.00, plus several years 1914 1917. Data appears garbled and partially unreadable.
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