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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1920
Page
19
In Chicago market notes, hogs fall 15 to 25 cents from Thursday bids while cattle show weakness. Receipts reach about 6,000 hogs and 7,000 cattle with demand muted by rumors and rain. Poultry stays steadier, and butter and eggs drift lower amid grain-led shifts, as traders eye future corn movements. General tone reflects cautious activity across beef, pork, and produce sectors with wholesale prices mixed.
Feeds and commodities prices advance and slip across Peoria Minneapolis St Louis and St. Louis markets with mixed grain quotes for corn oats and wheat. Livestock receipts rise in East St Louis Kansas City and Omaha with cattle hogs and sheep showing varied demand and prices.
Reports from St Louis and Kansas City show poultry and butter prices steady while eggs rise. Liberty Bonds quoted in New York with varying maturities. Boston notes indicate weak West demand and unsettled goods markets. Currency rates and commodities including potatoes sugar and silver traded across New York Chicago and London.
An OCR fragment lists assorted market items and prices in Waterloo including butter creamery blocks and tub butter, potatoes, beef cattle categories, hay and straw, hides, and weights. It records varied prices and quantities across livestock, dairy, produce, and cordage, reflecting a mid century market section.
Livestock market report shows 13 000 receipts with varied cattle and sheep pricing. Cattle receipts 2 500 with ranges for beef steers from 11.75 to 14.50 and beef cows 7.00 to 8.00, veal calves 5.00 to 15.00, stockers 7.00 to 10.00, feeding cows and heifers 5.50 to 8.50. Sheep receipts 200 steady.
Receipts in hogs at St Joseph Missouri on March 26 were 900 with top prices at 15.80 and bulk around 13.40 to 15.30. Cattle receipts reached 700 with steers up to 3.50 to 3.20 per hundredweight, cows and heifers 4.50 to 3.60, calves 6.00 to 3.00. Sheep and lambs were strong with lambs 18.75 to 19.75 and ewes 10.0 to 15.00.
New York March 21 heav y dealings in motor shares and specialties opened the stock market. General Motors issues rose after yesterday's close with the old shares up 16 points to 400 and the junior issue gaining 2 points. Stutz Motor jumped 13 points to a new high of 295 as oils steels and equipment gains followed. Profit taking pulled General Motors back to 487 while allied issues fell 3 to 7 points before another rally.
Report notes a secretive gathering of twenty one hats and coats at the Hotel Russell lobby as guards surveil doors. A Courier reporter awaits release while forty four businessmen arise with perfect alibis, leaving the mystery unsolved and prompting questions about what occurred behind the opaque doors.
A digest of mixed 1919 era items includes Chicago banks denying a 4 million loan to the city, Belgian forces and German relations under strain, Armenian massacres alleged by Archbishop Kholn, and a London note on armistice tensions. Also reported are engagement news for Lady Cynthia Curzon and Lieut. Mosley, a Cortalles police barracks blast, and U S positions on German troops in the Ruhr. In Los Angeles the submarine H-1 sank after being freed from rocks, while a beet sugar probe is ordered by the DOJ. Local notices urge voter registration for March 29 city election and report church and social events in Orchard Iowa with births, visits, and health updates.
Local residents report family events and church activities. Names include Mrs. Carl Habervora, Rev. Henry Horton, and Mrs. J. D. Cwan with various relatives noted. A Men’s Cemetery association meeting occurred at Cheehitrel with elections and dues.
Fragmentary text indicates changes at a local elevator with Dilmore opening a route operator Henry Wald to run Washlahop. Details are incomplete.
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