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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1920
Page
11
Chicago market notes show corn opening higher on cold weather and tight receipts, then retreating as export demand softens. January prices around 1.34 and May near 1.38, closing unsettled, with oats mirroring corn and hog-led provisions lifting. Regional grain and livestock quotes from Kansas City, St. Joseph, Omaha, Minneapolis, and Peoria accompany the day’s activity.
New York reports firm butter with varied creamery grades and high receipts of 9575 tubs. Eggs in Chicago eased with firsts at 68 to 61 6-8 cents. Kansas City notes steady poultry prices. St Louis shows butter at 4 cents creamery and unchanged eggs. overall markets reflect firm dairy tones and mixed regional shifts.
New York reports on coffee and bond prices with Rio No 7 at 16% and various government and corporate bond quotes. The stock market opens strong with gains in steels equipment shippings oils motors coppers tobaccos and leathers. rails remain firm as investors bet on easy money and favorable industrial prospects amid large turnover and short covering. Waterloo market notes and commodity quotes accompany the session, listing grain, sugar, and steel stocks with miscellaneous prices and futures activity.
Chicago reports Friday hogs at 25-35 cents higher with receipts of 16,000. Bulk hog prices range $14.65 to $14.90, heavy hogs up to $14.95. Cattle receipts 2,000 with steer prices mostly steady to down 25 cents. fat cattle mixed. Sheep and lambs show a 25-50 cent gain for good to best type.
East St. Louis market notes hogs receipts seven thousand with varied prices and ranges from light sows to packing sows, cattle receipts reported as zero sales this week, sheep receipts eleven hundred fifteen with modest gains in yearlings and lambs, overall weak to steady trend described.
HOGS receipts 6000 higher with light customers paying 13.90 to 14.40. mixed 14.15 to 14.50. heavy 16.40 to 16.40. bulk at 14.15. CATTLE receipts 730 steady. fat cattle 25 cents higher. best fed at 16.00 to 18.00. short lard 13.00 to 14.00. warmed 12.50. fair beef steers 9.00. fat cows and heifers 8.50 to 13.29. feeders 8.00 to 11.00. veal calves 6.00 to 16.00. steers and heifers 5.75 to 8.0. SHEEP receipts 3000 steady.
Waterloo bank clearings for the week ending June 1920 total 1,702,064.17 with daily sums listed and a corresponding week total of 11,207,665.90. Mortgages filed to date show Shattel Mortgages and Wigele entries with weekly and year-over-year comparisons, including instrument counts and values.
Weekly Grain and Provision Review notes corn futures mixed amid supply and demand shifts in Canada and the United States. Oats reach new highs as export demand strengthens. provisions ease on expectations of January lard deliveries. New York clears house banks show $54.8 million excess reserves over legal requirements, up from last week.
New York Jan 3. Rockefeller contributed 2 million dollars within a 9 million dollar total raised by the Northern Baptist laymen in a victory campaign ending Dec 31. He gave 1,000,100 to the American Baptist Home Mission Society and 1,000,000 to the Foreign Mission Society. These gifts add to 2 million given recently to the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board, aiding a 100 million Baptist foundation and plans for Americanization and minister pay.
In Jessup on December 3 1919 the boards of Black Hawk and Buchanan counties met in joint session at Consolidated School building to hear objections to proposed drainage project No 3 in Buchanan and No 3 in Black Hawk. Present were county supervisors Magee Shirley Strayer McQuilkin Anderson Bailey Thompson Durkett Hordner Wy erick with many claims against assessments discussed and a contract prepared for Walker interests. The vote on assessment changes favored Black Hawk and Buchanan counties with a 6-4 pass for the proposed plan and adjournment to reconvene for contract finalization.
A Hampton man and a former Crex high school teacher wed in a ceremony linked to the local school community. The event highlighted district consolidation among nearby counties, with notes on the bride’s teaching career, the groom’s family, and the broader regional education changes underway.
A Hampton veteran, Cy Roberts, retires after fifty years in shoe repair and related trades. His career spans multiple locations, including a long-running workshop on Fourth Street known as Tammany, with neighbors and patrons praising his steady service and lively forums on public issues.
Cleveland parents hold to belief their son Corporal Harold A. Moorehouse is alive after the Army confirms his death near Ypres. They cite “lost memory” stories, hospital photo matches, and letters from officers as reasons to keep vigil at 248 Arlington Road, Shaker Heights, while reports flow from Camp Sherman, Fort Beaj, Camp Grant, and Fort Sheridan.
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