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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1920
Page
6
Waterloo Courier lists Want Ads with prices and classifications. Public notices include lodge announcements and personal thanks. Lost and found items, job offers, real estate listings, and miscellaneous sales fill the page.
Irregular stock session on January 21 sees a mix of reversals in General Motors and other major issues, with rails holding and some steel and shipping shares uncertain. Liberty bonds posted varied prices as the market closed heavy, while frigid banking rates remained near low renewal levels.
Chicago reports a new upturn in corn prices amid unfavorable weather and a cautious demand. May and July futures showed gains early, later eased by profit taking, while oats rose with corn and provisions remained weak from continued exchange pressures. Swine estimates boosted market rally as arm swine numbers fell versus last year.
New York society woman Miss Charlotte Deisfield, noted for suffrage and war work, will hold city government office under Major F. H. lan Guardia, president of the board of aldermen. Her father is Lewis J. Delafield, of the law firm Delafield & Longfellow.
Chicago market report shows hog receipts of 18 455 with prices mainly steady to 100 lower than yesterday. Cattle receipts around 10 000 with slow trade and mixed ranges from veal to feeder steers. Pigs and sows traded amid varied quotes reflecting current demand and supply conditions.
Hogs receipts 10000 higher closing bulk around 15.26. Cattle receipts 6000 higher with top beef steers 15.46 to 17.50 and veal calves up to 14.00. Sheep receipts 2000 higher with lambs 16.65 to 18.78 and yearling wethers 14.25 to 16.65. Breeding ewes 8.00 to 14.50. Feeder lambs 24.50 to 17.7.
East St Louis livestock prices and receipts for January 21 show 19000 cattle 315.05 top, hogs 315.05 bulk 15.30 15.50, sows 1136.60, cattle receipts 5000 strong demand with steers up to 17.50, veal calves 13.00 18.75, stocker and feeder prices listed, sheep receipts 1200 lambs to 19.80, yearlings 13.00 18.36, ewes 8.50 11.75.
Omaha and Sioux City livestock markets report Jan 21 receipts: Omaha cattle at 7,500 with varied grades and prices from 9.50 to 17.76 for beef steers and 7.00 to 13.25 for cows and heifers. Hogs 21,000 with light to heavy ranges from 14.60 to 16.20, bulk sales around 14.35 to 15.00. Sioux City hogs 16,000 with light at 14.60 to 15.40 and heavy at 14.20. Cattle mix includes choice fed steers 16.00 to 18.00 and fat cows 8.50 to 13.00. sheep receipts 1,500 with higher pricing but no clear range listed.
Hogs receipts reach 10 000 with top bids around 6.66 to 6.50 per cwt. Calves and calves prices listed near 1.00 to 1.75 each. Sheep and lambs show values around 10.00 for ewes and 18.75 for other categories. Market report from St Joseph Missouri dated January 23.
Prices for butter eggs and poultry across markets show mixed changes. New York reports steady butter with higher creamery and packing stock prices. eggs rise with multiple firsts and averages listed. Chicago notes unchanged butter and higher hatching, with live poultry and fowl prices steady to higher.
New York on January 21 reports futures ended easy across contracts with January at 37.78 and March at 36.76. May and July futures showed varied levels, while spot cotton traded quiet with middling around 38.75.
Mercantile paper and government bonds show firm 6 percent Sterling rates. 60 day bills trade around 1.07 with regular and irregular bonds active. Short time loans are firm with low call money and a steady closing bid.
Migrating Mallard duo from Kingsville, Indiana, trapped and released near Louisville, dies after a rifle shot by Deputy Sheriff Edward Volz on the Ohio River, one duck bearing an aluminum band with a Bible verse from Thessalonians.
A message directed to Bort in Box 48 Kingsville Ont asks for the trapper to be sent. The note was completed by Mr Volz yesterday. The band did not include the trapper’s name on the tag.
Pasadena California Will C Wood state superintendent of public instruction told the Pasadena Teachers Institute that chores are the most needed activity for modern youth He also said children should face temptation to build character and resist it rather than be shielded from it.
Mayville Kentucky report notes Ernest Mesfeury of Manchester Ohio files in a local case. He seeks the arrest of a person identified as No 1 in connection with alleged trouble. Details are incomplete due to fragmented text.
McHenry seeks arrest warrant after wife leaves him and returns to her first husband in Ohio. He notes the case should fall under Ohio authorities. Real estate transfers list transfers in Waterloo with owner changes and valuations, including Mary L. Boysen to Johanne Thomsen and Albert Fuchs to EV. Cady. Advertising is always NEWS.
Incorpora tors listed in Waterloo Iowa include William Forbes T L Forhan Louis E Cohen Virgil Curtis I M Scane B B Hunter George Hall J E Sweeney all of Waterloo Iowa in a published filing.
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