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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1906
Page
16
New York trading opens with heavy selective buying as speculative demand returns. Weaker advances in high grade issues contrast with gains in cheaper railroad and industrial stocks, while Union Pacific and Amalgamated Copper support the list before a late-day softening.
Copper prices rose in London with spot at £78 10s and futures at £77 while local quotes showed stability. Lead advanced to £16 15s in London and £5.70–5.86c locally, with spelter steady around £27 6s 6d abroad and £6.4–6.5 locally. Tron fell overseas as standard foundry firm, leaving domestic trends unchanged.
Wheat drifted lower in Chicago with a brief May gain early, then fell as commission houses and bears pressed prices. Liverpool market eased slightly amid mild winter belt forecasts. May soybeans and corn closed near steady, while provisions dipped on broad selling pressure.
The report lists prices for flour and grains including No 2 spring wheat No 1 SWARAIge No 2 red corn No 1 yellow and No 2 oats with mixed decimals and percent signs. Also listed are flaxseed northwestern pork lard ribs and shoulders with per barrel and per hundred weights figures. It ends with shipment data for wheat corn oats rye barley and barley with bushel counts and totals.
Cattle receipts 22 000 slow market cows and heifers 1.36 to 4.75 stockers and feeders 2.40 to 4.50 Texans 3.60 to 14.50 Hogs receipts 35 000 market work mixed and butchers 5.40 to 5.66 good heavy 5.50 to 5.65 rough heavy 4.50 to 4.55 veal 4.96 to 7.50 pigs 4.99 to 5.50 bulk 5.50 up Sheep receipts 22 000 market weak sheep 3.75 to 5.85 lambs 5.90 to 7.50
South Omaha cattle receipts 3,500 with steady to higher prices. Native steers 3.80 to 5.40, cows and heifers 2.50, calves 2.50 to 6.00, bulls 2.25 to 3.50. Hogs receipts 8,500 with higher prices heavy 5.40 to 5.50, mixed 5.40 to 5.45, light 5.30 to 5.42, pigs 4.50 to 6.10. Sheep receipts 800, market steady with yearlings 5.80 to 6.15, wethers 5.50 to 5.75, ewes 4.75 to 5.40, lambs 7.25.
Kansas City cattle receipts reach 10 000 with a slower market. Native steers bring 3.80 to 6.00, cows and heifers 2.60 to 4.60, stockers 2.06 to 4.60, bulls 2.00 to 5.85, calves 3.47 to 4.25. Western fed steers 3.50 to 5.75, western fed cows 2.00 to 4.00. Sheep receipts 5 000 with steady demand. muttons 4.50 to 8.00, western lambs 5.00 to 7.00, range wethers 5.50 to 6.50, fed ewes 4.10 to 5.25.
Classified ads describe word insertion rules for the Standard Want Page. Advertisers pay regular rates and reply cards are available at the Standard office for pickup.
Public notices and classified snippets reveal employment requests and business notices in Butte and Anaconda areas. Entries include sales offers, jobs for girls and young men, stenographer positions, a barber, and mining stock requests amid police arrest reports and jail escape mentions.
London January 4 wool sales offered 11,819 bales with merinos selling freely to all sections. Crossbreds remained firm though inferior lots moved slowly. Scoured wools were in strong demand for Germany while home buyers took large lots. Americans bought a few superior merinos and very light crossbreds.
New York market update lists raw sugar values at 15 to 16 cents for fair refining and 96 test centrifugal 3.16 cents, molasses sugar 24 cents. Refined sugar steady with crushed 5.40 cents powdered 4.10 cents and granulated 4.70 cents. Coffee market quiet with No 7 Rio in focus.
Wool market in St Louis reported steady prices with medium grades for combing and clothing, light fine at 21 to 26 cents, heavy fine at 14 to 16 cents, tub washed and spotless grades noted.
Three robberies in two nights hit New Egypt. The American hotel was broken into and silverware stolen. The burglar was struck by an iron money bank and blood stains noted. Dr Howard Allen Ivins Davis and Daniel Bussom homes were ransacked with jewelry and cash taken at Allen home. Police puzzled. outside detectives possible.
New York money on call steady at 4 4 percent with bids 4 44 percent. Time loans easy with 0 and 9 days and 6 months at 4 percent. Sterling exchange softer in bankers bills around 487.10 to 487.15 for demand and 483.70 to 483.75 for 80 day bills. Bar silver quoted at 65 49. Mexican dollars unavailable from readable text.
Parkersburg judge issues injunction against William Brown forbidding him from wooing or making love to his wife Maury E. Brown. Mrs. Brown had filed for divorce and sought protection from her estranged husband. The order bars Brown from entering the premises where she lives.
John O Grady known as the armless wonder ran amuck this morning and whipped two full grown men with two hands each while he has only stumps of upper arms. He was being escorted to the county jail when the incident occurred.
Bridgeton New Jersey January 24 D Arthur Ungaro a self styled artist violinist and engraver living among socialites is sought by police. A diamond stud vanished from a boarder’s room and nearly $500 worth of stock missing from a local jeweler where he worked. Officers have not captured him.
Uniontown Pennsylvania reports Justice M D Clifford was ordered to court over selling cigarettes to a boy who appeared underage. The purchaser George Nackle claimed he is 19 with a long black mustache and testified from Jerusalem. he said he was given money to buy the cigarettes after the finder noted his youth.
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