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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1920
Page
6
A scan of classified pages shows Want Ads pricing per word, 1 cent with a 25 cent minimum, and a dense mix of notices. Legal, lost and found, employment, real estate, and auction listings fill columns, including dance school ads and various household needs.
Receipts show 4,000 head of cattle with varied prices and trends. Calves and feeders steady, steers and yearling cattle mix with price ranges around 15.3 to 12.00. Hog receipts 14,600 down, top at 14.78, bulk heavies 14.25. Sheep receipts 1,300 slow, lambs and ewes with lower bids, top around 14.00 to 9.80.
Omaha reports show cattle, hog and sheep receipts with mixed trading. Hog prices steady to lower with bulk around 14.00 to 14.40. cattle receipts 2,200 with cows and heifers 13.00 to 12.00 and steers 9.25 to 13.00. sheep receipts uneven, lambs 14.00 to 17.00, ewes 9.00 to 10.00. St Joseph Missouri notes similar hogs 14.00 to 14.40 and cattle calves 7.00 to 13.00 with lambs 14.00 to 17.00.
Stocks opened higher with gains outpacing losses amid bearish undertone among pros. Mexican Petroleum and Pan American advance, rails rise on western buying, United States Steel small gain, Atlantic Gulf slips from yesterday’s strength. Oils push market forward, motors and equipment follow, sugars textiles leathers and chemicals recover. call money ample, London exchange up modestly. closing strong with Liberty bonds noted later.
Lloyd Atkins, seriously injured Sunday on Rainbow drive, has no internal injuries with a fractured leg as the only hurt. His motorcycle hit the rear of Dr Frank Haffas car which stood still, prompting calls for stricter traffic regulation by police patrols. The incident influenced a board of supervisors to order a motorcycle patrol after Dr Haffa advocated for safer street use.
Chicago May 25 Commission house paying, offerings meager, led to upturns in corn values. Sparse supplies and May delivery deadlines kept sellers cautious while bears held back awaiting larger arrivals. Opening quotes ranged up to 4 cents higher with July near 1.61 to 1.63, closing about 2 percent gains across contracts.
CATTLE receipts around 24 000 show beef steers steady to 20c higher with bulk around 14.25 and prime heavies near 14.00. Yearling heifers around 1460, cows steady. hogs up 10-15c with bids near 12.90 to 14.75 for 200 pounds and over. Lambs sharp, prime shorn at 18.60 to 37.00, fat ewes about 121.15, California spring feed crops noted.
The Cedar Rapids line bridge washout will cost W N company about 15000 dollars per Maurice Welsh. Bridge 524 near Center Point should be ready for trains tomorrow at noon and another near Urbana opened today. Pile drivers work day and night from west and east banks. 200 feet wide stream. 90 piles 40 to 50 feet to rock and buttress. Passenger trains run Waterloo to Urbana and Cedar Rapids to Center Point with no passenger transfer due to high water.
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