13 Apr 1892
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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1892
Page
1
An assortment of notices and ads mix health remedies with promotions for expos and rail excursion deals. It touts Ayers Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and tonic, cites professional milestones, and offers a Hot Springs excursion at half fare. It includes testimonials and requests debt settlements.
The Duluth grain investigation reports lax car cleaning earlier but improvements followed. It rejects evidence of a narrow elevator railroad conspiracy, notes night shipments by two elevators totaling about 250000 bushels, and cites heating and loss of grain. Recommendations urge track scales, annual bin tallies, and public warehouses with non mixing storage, plus weighing on ground floors and actions against wheat gambling. The report costs 3407.96 dollars.
Trades unions in St Louis back the People's party platform. Reports note burglaries in La Grange post office, manslaughter sentence reductions, and coast defense armor shipments. Other items include Oklahoma exodus, raft disaster near Louisville, Vienna fires, and rail-wide nine hour day drives.
Long Iowa item list reports Dubuque resident Michael J King dead at 84 and John Steiner missing, fires causing damage in Clinton, and suicides in Mount Auburn. It notes a deadly accident at Ottumwa and a prison sentence for a Rockford chicken thief. Also covered are storm, floods, county court cases, railroad wrecks, and national legislative actions across April.
The navy department directs the Yorktown and the Adams from San Francisco to Puget Sound with Behring Sea as their ultimate destination. The move indicates heightened naval readiness and projection into northern waters.
Hogs higher with one load of good quality at 4.60. Cattle steady with fair demand for fat cows, few holdovers sold. Prime steers 3.60, good steers 3.60 to 3.90, prime cows 4.00, good cows 2.00 to 2.50, stockers and feeders 2.50 to 3.00. Sheep mixed loads at 5.21, muttons 6.50, lambs 9.00 to 55.60. Receipts hogs 70, cattle 6, calves 10, sheep none.
Minneapolis wheat prices show mixed bids with bids around 8c per bushel for track No. 1 hard and No. 1 Northern at 7.2c. Prices closed higher at 9.1340 for top grades, with April 12 reporting amid low trade conditions and market confusion in the 808 lows area.
Chicago live stock market shows cattle weak and featureless while hogs run strong with higher, heavy and mixed prices around 4.45 to 4.70. sheep firm. Receipts list cattle 700 hogs 8 06 sheep 1,600. Market data from Chicago Grain and Provisions dated April 11 1892 shows open prices for wheat corn oats and hides with May June futures and July options.
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