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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-05-26
PRINT PAPER


The shortage of paper, makes pub
fishers weep; and prices, they caper
still higher each week. The publish.
er's logging around in the, mart; the
publishers begging, with aches in his
heart; for paper imploring, he's down
on his knees; and prices are soaring
like kites in the breeze. And Uncle
Sans printers use paper as junk;
through summers and winters the doc.
uments punk that,no one confesses to
reading, 1 wot, come forth from the
presses as mountains of rot. Oh, I'm
Gle Sans spelling the paper we need
for news hot and boiling, the stuff we
would read. He's blowing the Doodle
on volumes of slush, on endless flag
poodle that not worth a rush. His base
merits are crowded-admit it he must
with printed stuff shrouded in cobwebs
and dust. Reports" and such litter are
there by the stack; it makes man Bit
ter, sends pains up his back. And new
stacks are added to them every day
big tones that are padded with bun
combe and whey. His presses are creak-
ing, they groan and complain, with
publishers shrieking for paper in vain.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-05-26

Des Moines Capital: President Will
son is observed with the idea that
somebody is trying to steal his job
or take his authority away from him.
1t is likely that if the president We're
in normal condition of health he
would not feel that everything done
was aimed at him. He is a pcevish,
sick man and the country deeply re-
grets that he is not in good health.
The presidential office needs a strong
man at this time. 3
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-05-26

c. w. Lindgrcn, of Ida county, IS u.s.
ing space in this issue to tell the breed
ers of Aberdeen cattle that he will hold
a sale of thirty-eight females and elev-
EN- bulls at Ida Grove sale pavilion on
Friday, June 4th. This is a sale that
should interest buyers of Crawford
county, and we would like to see a
number go up to Ida Grove and attend
the sale. The offering is well bred. Ev-
cry female of breeding age will have
calf at foot or will be well along in calf
to the service of the great herd bull
Black Beal. a McHtnry Blackcap.
Largely the sale is an offering Of Black
caps and Trojan Ericas. Look the adj
up, to be found on one of the farm
pages, and plan OH attending the sale.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-05-26

So far no nation that paid it's coal
beavers, more than it's school teachers
ever rose to leadership in the affairs
of men.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-05-26

Davenport Democrat: Germany is
planning longer working days so as to
catch up. while we talk of shorter
ones so as not to get too far ahead.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-05-26

The stock brokers are awful blue
about the business future. They al.
ways are when they want to buy stocks
cheap.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-05-26

Council Bluffs Nonpariel: If Mr..
Wilson could just find Carranza now
he might be in a frame of mind to
salute the American flag.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-05-26

Pointed toed shoes might be handy
in kicking a book agent out of doors,
but it would be difficult to find other
practical uses for them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
JULY CONTRACTS
 FEATURED WITH SHARP ADVANCE
Liverpool M a TX ct Was Strong and Higher on Rain News From
 This Side
By Associated Prsss

New York, July 20.-July contracts furnished the principal feature in a rather small cotton market today by advancing to 42.5o, which was a new high record for that delivery, but not equal 10 the May contract which sold at 429S, nor the March delivery. which touched 43.16, the latter being the highest price ever reached by futures contract. The buyers of July today were mostly local shorts and spot houses who found very little for sale, notwithstanding the arrival of cotton here from Norfolk and the issuance of twelve notices. It closed firm at the top of the day. Later months opened twelve to twenty points higher and fluctuated rather narrowly during the day, with the close six points higher to five lower. Early in the session October sold at S5.31, December at 33.50 and January at 32.62, represent ing about fifteen to twenty points net advance on Liverpool. trade and New Orleans buyig due to reports of heavy raiIsi in parts of the eastern and central belt which gave rise 10 fears that Wednesdays weekly government report would refer bullishly to condi- tions in those sections.
 There was, however, active reaction ary selling on all upturns and this, with the weakness in exchange and the fact that the wage award by the labor board seemed to have little eff feet on sentiment caused frequent pe- riods of weakness throughout the day, especially in the afternoon. The Liver pool market was strong and higher on rain news from this side and the weak ness in sterling exchange.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Coffee Market
 By Associated Presa

New York. July 20.Whle early deveI- opments in the coffee market were not so bearish as on the previous day, part ly because of special Santos cable re- porting the market 50 to 1J0 reis higher after the opening, the later trading re-. suited in further decentralization which became -ather acute near the close leav- ing final prices at the bottom and 25 tn 40 points under the previous night A late special Santos cable reported the market unchanged to 250 reis lower. which furnished the basis for the late selling here. Firm offers were very weak
 One shipper at Santos reduced his of- fers 7sc and the cheapest 3s and As, prompt shipment, were 15c. American credits. santos 4s were also offered at be and Rio Is as low as 11@1l 10c, while Santos 4s and 5s were quoted at i47sc. all American credits. The market opened fairly steady and unchanged to six points lower. It then advanced on coy- ering and September reached Il 40c. with December 11.5oc or 20 points over the previous night from which there was a break in the last hour of 5D to 60 points Closing bids: July, 12c. September, loS1c. December, f0.94c March, He: May. II 05c
 The local spot market was quiet, with Rio 7s quoted at l2szal3c and Santos is nominal and unquoted. Receipts at the two Brazilian ports, A,0oo; Jundiahy re- ceipts, 1000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
New Orleans Cotton


 New Orleans, July 2o.--Wet weather continued over great portion of the belt and the cotton market today stood at small gains. The demand was fairly well filled at times by realizing sales from the long side and by moderate new selling encouraged by favorable accounts concerning the Texas crop. that state not having had as much rain of late as ore eastern sections of the belt.
 Opening higher, the market improved with several small recessons. until it stood 20 to B points over the closing quotations of yesterday. and October traded at 3460c From this there was q gradual sag until on the close tho active months were only 6 to IS points up. Tn the early trading the market was active, the very good Liverpool stifnu lating new trades on the long side. Pri- vate reports told of much rain in the belt and the weather map, when it was posted, was wet in the central and east ern divisions, while the western division received widely scattered showers. The forecast pointed to no improvement call ing for showery weather east of the Mississippi River and partly cloudy to showery weather west of it.
 Highest prices came after the forecast. After the middle of the session prices sagged off almost to the level of yes terday's close, but toward the end the tone steadied on expectations of another unfayorable weather map in the morn ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
POPULAR SHARES TENDED DOWNWARD
 ON WALL STREET
Popular Shares Irregular at the Start, But Became Firm to Strong
 Later
Bv Assoeisted prexs


 New York, July W-Prlces of popular shares tended irregularly downward at the outset of todays contracted stock market session, becoming firm to strong at midday, but losing some of this ad- vantage on realizing sales in the final dealings
 Publication of the railway labor boards wage terms and the decision of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to reduce it's working force by some l2,0a0 men occasioned moderate selling of rails at the opening. but relations held within fractional bounds
 Later when call loans were freely of ifered at the fixed rate of s per cent; pools in steels, equipments and motors experienced little difficulty in elevating their favorites by one to three points, the advance in a few instances extend ing beyond these limits.
 Tobacco, food and chemical issues inl- proved on covering of contracts and the shorts in American wooden also found 1t advisable to settle. Buying of woolen was accompanied by reports that the eompanys New England mills soon would resume normal operations.
 Banks with extensive western and southwestern connections were the heav- jest lenders of money on call and few time loans for moderate amounts were made at Sia per cent on prime collateral. Commercial banks were reported to have negotiated renewals at shade under recent quotations.
 There was less pressure upon the for eign exchange market but rates on Lon don continued to favor this center. French, Dutch and Spanish bills react ing.
 Trading in bonds was l:.sht but broad, embracing many issues, though mainly at irregular changes. Swiss govern ment ss made a new high record at lo51s Total sales, par value, S, $50, 900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Daily Financial Gossip
By HOLLAND

Wyo. To the unscientific eye it has the appearance of a rock
 However" said pr. Acheson, this
 is not an ordinary piece of rock. We
 now know that upon heating the rock
 to a high temperature petroleum oil
 is distilled from it. This oil is very
 volitile and usually has strong odor.
 Nevertheless if a piece of the rock is
 held to the rose, no odor is perceived.
 Having said this, pr. Acheson lighted
 A match and held it to the piece oi
 stone The stone began to burn and
 from it eminated distinct hydro-car- !
 bon odor. "rhe fact" he said, that
 there was absolutely no odor before heating indicates to me that the rock
 as it was taken from the earth does not contain any petroleum and yet 1t
 has within it's body the necessary
 elementary substances for the forma .
 ton of petroleum.
 In view of the great interest that exists at the crescent time throughout the United States and Europe occa- stoned by the question of the supply of the future requirements of the world of petroleum this piece of stone has, as I have experimented with it. per suaded me that we have at last a starting point for the proper investf- sation that will lead up to the synthe- tic production of petroleum. The dew elopments in synthetic work in the past twenty years have caused me to believe that man is capable of ereat-
 ing artifically any product that he finds on the earth with the single exception of elementary substances, such as the metals and gases"
 There are today in the United States many thousands of chemists who are trained in acute observation and l
 do not doubt that should the United States bureau of mines send out
 samples of oil shale to the chemist with the suggestion that efforts be made to duplicate natures work in a short time the production of petroleum, synthetieally manufactured, will be established.
 Last spring Sir E. Mackay Edgar predicted that within ten years the United states would be buying five hundred million barrels of oil from Great Britain. Whether this predic- tion be true or not, unquestionably
 the United States will be buying oil in vast quantities from other nations unless we learn how to produce il synthetically. If it should happen that within ten years the United States is blivine five hundred million barrels of oil that means the export of five billion dollars annually. In few years that sum would be sufficient to pay the war debts of the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the gov ernment bureaus should utilize the in formation in their possession so as to stimulate active work by our research
 chemists in the hope that there may be a quick solution of the problem of synthetic production of petroleum"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
SLUMP IN EXPORT
 DEMAND DEPRESSED
 GRAIN IN CHICAGO PIT

Chicago. July a.-Shutting off of ex- port demand had a depressing effect on the wheat market today
 Corn finished 1kc to 2l4c down and oats off ssc to 1kc- In provisions the outcome varied from 25c decline to an advance of 2lzc
 Bearish sentiment regarding wheat be- came emphatic after reports were cir culated that the British government had withdrawn from the market and would remain out for ten days or more A sharp decline in exchange rates on London tended further ot weaken values and to eurtail buying. As a cure, sultry weather likely to increase black rust damage was not market factor except at the opening. Later, however, owing to fresh reports of crop injury by black rust and by Canadian drouth and heat, some limited upturns in price were brought about.
 Predictions that there would be no rail strike counted against bulls in corn. Leading commissions were conspicuous in the selling, which appeared to be largely due to setbacls in the value of wheat
 Rapid progress of the harvest did a good deal to ease the oats market Provisions were dull and lower with grain. notwithstanding higher quotations on hogs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Sugar Market Qv Asen.s.xl a


 New York. July 20-The local mar ket for raw sugar was weak again today and prices were tsc lower to the basis of 16kc for Cubas cost and freight, equal to 17.56 for centrifugal The business reported included about 17,000 bags of Cubax for July ship ment to a local refiner% with outport options at 16S4c. cost and freight; II .ooo bags of Cubas for late July shipment and 10000 bags for early August at 16iac. cost and freight, and 10, 900 ba gs of Porto Rico afloat at 17.56, C. i. f.
 The easiness in raws had no effect in refined and prices were unchanged at 22 to 22.50 for fine granulated. There was no improvement in the demand which IS only of small proportions
 The continued weakness in raws led to further selling pressure in sugar futures and as the demand was light. prices broke quite sharply and al the close showed declines of thirty-nine to seventy, or at practically the lowest point of the, day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Liberty Bonds
 M Assnniatad Press
Money Market
 pu Asxoefafed Prasa

Money, July 20-Mercantile paper .A@ as per cent; exchange, irregular; sterling 6n-day bills,s S.7Sss commer- cial 6o-day bills on banks. 37SSs; com mercial 60-day bills, 3.7Ss; demand, 3.SsA cables, S.S3$4. Francs, demand. SIT cables. S19 Belgian francs, de- mand 5.76; cables, 5.7s Marks, de- mand, s4.60; cables, s4.70. Lire, de- mand, 5.76; cables, 5.7s. Marks, de- mand 2.55; cables, 2.56. New York exchange on Montreal 12 S-16 per cent government bonds, irregular; railroad bonds, steady. Time loans strong; 60 days, 90 days and six months, F per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21

U. $. 2s. coupon .... 100s4 U. s. As, registered ............. 1o5 U. $. As, coupon .............. 105 Panama 3s. registered. bid...... - Panama 3s coupon. bid ..... 77 American Smelting & Refining 5s 77i4 American Tel. & Tel. ev. 6s... e27s Anglo French 5s ....... 999s Atchison gen. 4s ..... 73as Atlantic Coast Line 1st Is .. 71ss Baltimore & Ohio cv. 41ss .... aS Bethlehem Steel ref. IS ...... 79 Central of Georgia con. 5s ...... 77 Central Leather 5s ...... 90% Chesapeake & ohio 5s .... 73ls Chicago, B. & Quincy joint As .. sSss Chicago. Mil. & St. P. cv. 41ss.. 63L Chicago. R. I. & Pac. Ky. ref. 4s.. 64ls City Of Paris 6s. bid ....... 93$a Colorado & Southern ref. Az .. 66h Denver X Rio Grande con. 4s.,. 62 Dominion of Canada 5s Gs31).. s6Ss Erie gen. As 39 Illinois Central ref. As s...... 70 Inter. Mer Marine 6s - S4i5 Kansas City Southern ref. 5s ... sS Liggett X Myers 5s ........... 77is Louis. & Nash, un. As ........ 77l4 Mo. Kan. & Texas 1st 4s.... 53ia Missouri Pacific gen. Is ..... 52 New York Central deb. 6s ..... s6 Norfolk & Western cv. 6s ... ss7s Northern Pacific 4s ............. 7S Reading gen. Is .......,...... 77& Republic l. s. 5s 1s40l. bid. s5
 St. Louis & San Fran. adj es.. 6i Seaboard Air Line adj. 5s .... 3STs Southern Bell Telephone 5st.. s5 Southern Pacific cv. 5s .......s 95N Southern Railway 5s . so Southern Railway gen. As ... STA Texas & Pacific 1st. bid . 7s
 Union Pacific 4se ......-....... S0t4 United Kingdom of c. B. &
 I. 51ss G937) ........... S5x U & Steel 5s . 91 Va. Caro-. Chemical 5s .. 92A Wabash fst s4 Wilson X co. cv. 6s ......... S5M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
spo. Cotton
Marine News
By Associated pr...

By Associated Press
 New Orleans, July 29,-Cieared: Cartago. Bocas Del Toro via CristobaI and Swan Island; Coahoma County. Mobile: Imper- aton tNorwegian), Port Colombia and Cartagena via Port Arthur. Lake Como. Tela: Lake Conesus. Sagua and Cuban ports; Lake Copley. caibarien and Glen : fuegos Lake Fisher. Vera Cruz; Lake Flshian, Tolcahuano. Chile via west coast of South America; Lake Otsquago. Havana and Cuban ports: Te- aucigalpa tHonduran,. ceiba; Wellesley, Belize: Wilhelm, Jebson. Tampico.
 Port Eads, J uly .0.-Arriyed: Baidhili. Mexico; chaimette, Havana; Davo. Sa-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Chicag go Futures
Cash Grain RY Assnniatnd prnsa

Chicago. July 20.-Cash wheat No. I red. s2.Ss; No. ? red, s2so Corn. No. 2 mixed. s1.5s@1.54; No. ? yellow, sf,54@ 1.55. Oats, No. white, 96Q97c; No 8 white, 91@94c. Rye. No. 3, $2.271a barley. $L14@1.1s. Timothy seed, s10 @12; clover seed, $25@35. Pork nom- inal; lard. s1s.95; ribs, s15.50@16.5o.
 St. Louis. July 20.-Cash wheat, No red winter. $2.S0@2.S4; No. 3 red win ter, $2.7S@2.79; December, $2.50A {; March, $262. Corn, No. 9, s1.66; Sep tember s1.52h; December, $1.SSB bid Oats, No. white, 91 11ac; No. 3 white 9o@9o1 lac; September 76Ac; December 7612c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Hubbard Bros. & Go.

York. Members New York Cotton Exehange
 New Orleans Cotton Exchange. New York Produce Exchange. Associated Members Liz.
 erpool Cotton Association. Orders solicited for the purchase and sale of Cotton ani Cotton Seed Oil for future delivery. Special attention and l.Neral terms given for con signment of spot cotton Tor delivery. Cor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
THIRTEEN
Dry Goods

FstuGTHTEu
 New York, July 2O.-Cotton goods were quiet with yarns easier and silks dull. Dress goods were dull. Buyers were laying down orders for spring ginghams on lines where prices are protected or guaranteed. Burlsps wers quiet and slightly easier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Al; stock, 15,sso.

Al; stock, 15.990.
 Little Rock: Middling. 29.50c; re- ceipts, 3e; shipments. ST; sales, S7; stock 16.S67. Total today: Receipts, s,S42; ship ments, 7,512; stock, 609,e77
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21

New York, July 20-(SpeciaD Upon the desk of pr. E. G. Acheson in his offices in this city are several specl- mems of shale which were taken from the shale deposits of the far west. These were brought to him not for the pur- pose of interesting him commercially in any contemplated development of these deposits but because of his eminenee as a man of science and especially one who has achieved great results through the utilization of synthetic chemistry where by he has produced carhorundum and artificial graphite.
 Men of science believe that these shale deposits may be so utilized through the achievements of chemistry as to put an end to all apprehension of the exhaus- ton of our supplies of petroleum. How well Justified that apprehension is may be inferred from a statement which was made by Sir l.. Mackay Edgar in the spring of this year in which he ven- tured the prediction that in ten years the United States would be buying of England five hundred million barrels of oil each year.
 Dr. Acheson IS strongly persuaded, in fact almost convinced, that petroleum can be secured by synthetic chemistry because petroleum is composed of SO per cent of carbon and 25 per cent of hydrogen. These are elementary sub stances. They are inexhaustble natural resources. The oil shales of Colorado. Utah, Wyoming and other western states furnish in Dr. Acheson's view a starting point for an investigation which may at last result in the production of synthetic petroleum. For shale con- tains hydrogen and carbon. Nature has so associated hydrogen and carbon in this rock that so simple an agency as heat will cause their union in such man. ner as to produce petroleum.
 OPPORTUNITY FOR CHEMISTS
 As former president of the American Electro-Chemical Society, pr. Acheson has had opportunity to learn what ths number of chemists in the United States is. They number many thousand and he is convinced if this opportunity were brought to their attention and they were persuaded to make use of the op- portunity that they would in a short time furnish formula by means ot which petroleum could be produced sym thetically The government itself is be- ginning to devote much attention to this subject And already Dr. Acheson has suggested that the government offer through Congress a reward of at least s5o0,0 600 for the discovery of commer> cial method of producing petroleum syn thetically.
 WHAT DIR. ACHESON SAYS
 It may be the better part to quote pr. Acheson, especially as he is giving pro- found thought to the subject. having been himself one of the first to predict that our oil supply will be exhausted within twenty years at the present rate of consumption and production. lie took from his table a piece of rock which he said came from Green River
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Live Stock IJnion Stock Yards.l

(Un,on Stock Yards) Fed steers: Good to choice, s1oooG11.oo: medium to good. 9001sl00J; common to medium. s o0a9.00.
 Grass cattle according to weight. qual- ity and flesh: Steers. ss s00a10oo; fat cows, $7o0@s %: medium cows. ss.ooG7o0; cutters, 5000 600; canners. t4.0og5.oo; heavy bulls, s7.0s @s.Oo; light bulls, s6.OOdI7.o0 oxen, s4o0U 500; fat yearlings. s700QS.0 %: medium yearings. s6.ooqzo0; vealsrs. ss.0oQ1l.00. Hogs: Choice corn fed hogs, 135 to 165 $14; rough hogs. SIP; half fat rough hogs ;yu choice corn fed hogs. % to 135. SIP: light pigs 70 poundr down, $10; best heavy i0; soft and oily hogs from 1 to cents pound sess than above prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Rice Market By Associated Press

New Orleans, July 2o-Rough rice, no sales; receipts none. Clean rice steady Sales; Blue rose, t,1s4 pockets at 540 l1hc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Potato Market

by Nss0tfatod FFe5s
 Chicago, July 20.-Potatoes, weak Virginia, 1925 11.25; Kentucky cob blers, $50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
East St. Louis Live Stock
 Rv Assoniafed Press
By Associated Press

East St Louis, July N.--Cattle: Re ceipts, 50o0 market steady.
 Top steers .....................s 1925 Bulk .......................... 1o.5o0414. % Gamer cows steady at ....... 4.0o@ 4.50 Good and choice vealers........ 13. .00M14.00
 Hogss, Receipts, 10000; market steady 1op .,,.-....--....s.- -................. 1b.70 Bulk light and medium ..... 16. .30Gi16. 65 Bulk heavies .................. 15.S0d16 25
 Sheep: Receipts, 9,00o; lambs e5959c lower; sheep steady
 Top lambs .......................s 145o Bulk ...s...................... 13. 50a14. .5e Top ewes ..,........,............ 150 Bulk ......................... 7.0oQ 7.50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Metal Market

New York. July 20.--Copper. steady; electroiytie spot and third quarter. 1y. Iron, steady and unchanged. Tin quiet; spot. July and August, 5000. AItinmcny, 7.15. Lead. steady; spot. 500. Zinc, quiet; East St. Louis de- livery spot, 7.90@S.0O At London, spot copper, fs1 Is Cd; futures, fs3 17s~ed Electrolytic spot, f109. futures. f1f.. Tin spot f2eS 5s: futures. f27e 5S. Lead spot. f34 5s. futures. f35 los. Zinc spot, f41 15s; futures. f4s los
 Naval Stores
 ey Associated Psess
 Jacksonville, July 20.-Turpentin