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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1919
Page
5
A cluttered page lists numerous real estate offers and sales notices. It includes many for sale homes, farms, and land plus rental rooms and misc items, with numerous addresses, phone numbers, and firm names scattered throughout in a typical early 20th century ad column.
Officials opened bids for paving on multiple streets including Miles and Logan avenues. The council approved changes to contracts and bonds, authorized license issuance, and referred reports from the municipal court, electrician, police chief, matron, and auditor to committees. City work orders included waiving a bell removal petition and approving street work resolutions.
Chicago grain and provisions report notes wet western weather lifting corn prices after early bearish sentiment. July corn near 1.68 to 1.67, September around 1.60, with futures later rallying though trade limited by a strike. Oats rise with short coverings. hog and grain values lift provisions, especially lard. Chicago cash quotes show varied corn and oat grades, Kansas City and Peoria prices also listed.
Hog receipts reach 18 000 with 5 000 leftovers while prices move 25 to 36 higher than yesterday. Heavy, medium, and light weights show varied gains and hogs top near 20.50. Cattle receipts at 7 000 with steady to strong bids for butcher stock and calves. Beef steers generally slow but some steady gains. veal and stocker steers show activity. Sheep receipts around 3 000 with steady to strong demand and lambs trading up to 19.00 for springs and 15.85 for smaller lots.
Receipts and prices for hogs cattle and sheep at Omaha Livestock Market. Hogs range high 26.20 to 20.45 with weights and sow categories listed. Cattle receipts around 5,500 with varied classes from beef steers to cows and veal calves priced across multiple grades. Sheep receipts 7,000 with lambs and yearlings shown at multiple price points.
Sioux City hogs and St. Louis cattle led sharp price moves with receipts tallied. Regional quotes span hogs 18.55 to 20.70, cattle 9.00 to 15.00, sheep 7.50 to 18.50, plus grain and produce prices from Minneapolis to New York. Also notes on bonds, metals, and local real estate listings.
Hogs receipts 17,000 rising with heavy, medium, light weights quoted from 19.75 to 26.50 for hogs. sows and pigs also listed. Cattle receipts 4,000 plus 600 calves, varying by grade with heavy beef steers up to 15.10 and cows down to 5.50. veal calves and feeders noted. Sheep receipts 5,000 with lambs and yearlings priced. ewes and goats listed with ranges.
New York June 11 Mainten ance of the government guaranteed price of 2.26 a bushel to the wheat producer is absolutely necessary to assure the production needed to care for the world wants, declared Julius Barnes United States wheat director at a conference of 250 grain industry representatives. He warned against unrestrained speculation and noted overseas bread grain movements for the coming year could reach 750 to 800 million bushels with America facing 410 to 461 million bushels of demand, comparing to the 1914-15 export peak of 232.969 million bushels.
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