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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1929
Page
20
Local ad lists coal and wood orders with a phone contact 1750 and mentions stamp-based payment option. Clarifies pricing and order method for home fuel supply.
A jumble of item listings shows seed potatoes and fruits with prices, musical instruments for sale, radios, strawberries, berries, trees and nursery stock. Mentions Tewanna Nurseries Shenandoah towns and various plant varieties and fruit trees offered for sale. The text reads as partial notices and ad snippets with missing context and punctuation.
Meyer’s Nursery advertises a sales room at 223 West 4th offering potted plants in bloom cut flowers and nursery stock. Prompt service notes 14 years experience and a contact via Robert Pett L G Postomica Box 321 Waterloo phone 47-W. Also listing seed, corn varieties, and garden items from Sut tan’s Seeds Grow 3 Tris onion sets and other garden produce with a Sixth and Water Bills address.
A dense rural classified listing with numerous livestock offerings, bales, and secondhand goods. Read includes Shorthorn cattle, Holstein Friesian bull, horses, buggies, bicycles, hay, and household items. Also contains official notices about bonds, executors, and bank receiver actions.
The Kansas City market shows grain receipts at 9 500 head with 1 200 directs, top corn at 11 25 for 210 lb, and 11 15 for 180 980 lb weights. Cattle receipts 2 700 with beef steers and yearlings noted, vealers weak to lower, stockers and feeders mixed. Sheep receipts 450 with fat lambs around 16 75 to 18 40 and ewes up to 10 80.
Chicago March 30 Wheat moved down on rain forecasts across the wheat belt with weak export demand noted. Corn and oats showed mixed or slight gains despite early declines while shipping demand remained active and farmers held back.
Chicago markets report for March 30 lists prices for flour butter lard potatoes and meat products from Waterloos markets. Grain and corn products alongside cattle hogs and hides show varied bids with specific ranges for prime hogs lambs veals and packers. potatoes imports and local stock details noted.
Peoria and St Paul report mixed grain quotes with No. 3 yellow and oats listed, while St Paul notes cattle receipts and price ranges for steers, fat cows, calves, hogs, and sheep. Minneapolis shows wheat prices and futures for No 1 northern and durum varieties with delivery months noted.
Pursuant to a U S court order dated March 5 1929 trustee in bankruptcy Joseph B McKay MeKay announces sale of all W D Hoyt Company assets. On April 1 1929 at 1 L oclock a m Winthrop Iowa stock will be offered at its location. On April 2 1929 at 11 am Manchester Iowa stock will be offered at its location. Lots 4 and 5 block 5 Sheldon Harris addition Manchester Iowa also to be offered. Inspections anytime before sale date. Trustee reserves right to withdraw property if bids unsatisfactory.
Kansas City market report cites wheat receipts at 209 cars with No 2 dark and No 2 red pricing around 1.02 to 1.07 per bushel and No 3 hard near 1.12. Corn receipts 744 cars show No 3 white and No 2 yellow trading around 0.83 to 0.90. Oats receipts 14 cars indicate little change with No 2 white around 0.30 to 0.34 per bushel.
Omaha grain prices for March show wheat futures unsettled with No 2 red and No 2 hard red listed. Corn prices list No 2 white and No 2 yellow bids with varying bids including 83 35c. Oats show No 2 white and No 3 white quotes.
Chicago Minret notes prices reduced but large markets fail to clear. Production rising and some receivers ship to freezers. Butter to market rushes on. Supplies mainly top quality scoring 80 or more with unusually tight price spread between scores.
The Board of Trade quotes for March 30 show No 2 wheat at $L20y and No 2 corn mixed at various prices. Oats No 2 white 4Ba dse, No 9 white 46 47c, sample grade 44 45c. Rye sales unavailable. Barley at $56 6ee. Timothyseed 5.10 5.70, cloverseed 23.50 31.50. Provisions list lard 12.05 ribs 19.50 bells 14.25.
Harvest three months away and a massive exportable surplus of domestic wheat looms with estimates around 250 million bushels. US supply hits a record high as prices slump with wheat and corn down. government July crop report expected to show winter wheat acreage down about 10 percent or less.
New York market notes show steady butter and egg receipts with varied packing figures and freight terms. Chicago reports include butter receipts, cheese prices, and poultry items with multiple grade categories and per unit prices.
Chicago reports demand for hogs steady to strong with light and medium weights trading around 11.60 to 11.80 per cwt. Presale supply about 4,000 head with similar held over, while cattle and sheep markets show mixed declines and slight gains across various weights and categories.
East St Louis market reports hog receipts around 3100 with prices steady to uneven, butchers and sows varying. Cattle and calves show declines from week ago, with mixed yearlings around 14 dollars and steers near 11.15 to 19.00, while sheep receipts total about 160 with lambs and mutton prices fluctuating. Minneapolis shipment notes include patent barrels and grain prices in a separate brief.
Iowa packing centers quoted hogs at 11.95 to 12.10 for higher grades with some 14.00 on select loads. Receipts included 3,000 hogs with 406 direct, cattle receipts around 150 calves and yearlings. Sheep and lamb markets showed active fat lambs with top bids near 16.75 and ewes about 11.00.
Easy demand in foreign exchanges with rates shown for Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Switzerland Spain Greece Poland Czechoslovakia Jugoslavia Austria Roumania Argentina Brazil Tokyo Shanghai Montreat and other currencies as of March 30.
A clash erupts as Amorien American’s National City Bank bucks Federal Reserve limits by funding stock market activity, prompting congress and reserve officials to reassess credit and the role of banks in speculation.
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