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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1920
Page
3
Chicago reports mixed corn trading with weak sentiment from foreign sales and weather, while railroad strike fears and a Canadian wheat rise provide support at times. May futures drift with nearby months around 1.26 to 1.36 as traders gauge livestock and grain supply signals.
Scribbled market sheet shows wholesale prices and items like flour butter oranges potatoes cattle hogs hay hides and skins. A mix of prices and product names appears with incomplete spellings and stray letters across multiple lines.
New York reports butter gains with creamery grades rising and high receipts, cheese and milk flats steady, and packing stock mixed. Chicago shows higher butter and eggs with live poultry upticks, while St Louis lists poultry and meat prices, metals edge steady, and mercantile paper firm at four percent.
Livestock receipts show 25 000 hogs and 24 000 cattle with prices mixed. Hogs steady to 10 cents higher. fat hogs and sows range 13.65 to 16.50 per cwt, feed hogs around 14.00. Cattle across weights show prime to common values from about 9.30 to 17.75, veal calves 17.75 to 19.50, feeders and bulls varying with weight. Ewes and lambs also reported with mixed margins.
Trader notes from Tansee City Hob., St. Louis and Omaha report cattle hogs and sheep receipts from Feb 2 with varied price ranges. Beef steers, cows, calves, and feeders show mixed values across markets while hogs trend higher in some regions and lower in others. Sheep and lambs also feature diverse prices amid differing regional receipts.
J P Stowell and his sister Alice found a man’s head and body partly submerged in a lake near Westlake Park. The 25 year old stocky man, identified only as Aliso, muttered briefly before collapsing again as police arrived. Detectives Williams and Ballestelo took the case.
The piece argues the investing public strike is the riskiest threat to railroads. It says dividends and adequate earnings are needed to restore investment in railroad stocks, and that Congress must ensure rates to encourage renewed investment to resolve the railroad crisis.
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