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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
43
Readable fragments show rail and industrial stocks with preferred and common listings. Entities include Chesapeake & Ohio Great Western Illinois Central Iowa Central Wabash Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific, with percentages noted for preferred holdings and various railway and industrial stocks.
New York money on call easier at 2 1 2 percent with closing offered 2 3 4 percent for time money up to six months. Prime mercantile paper at 4 1 9 7 5 percent. Sterling exchange strong at 488 15 for demand and 48 10 for days. Government bonds steady and railroad bonds irregular.
May 27 reports show London tin rally after a sharp drop with spot price at £129 1s and futures £127 15s. Copner gains, lead and spelter mixed, local tin and iron markets dull with prices around 28.45 28.65c and 52s 1d London iron, while foundry quotes run around $19.50-$20.75 for northern and southern grades.
July wheat opened higher at 73 7/8 cents, rose to a day high then settled up 4 cents. Corn moved up on bullish crops and firm cables, oats steadied on East crop prospects. July pork and lard advanced 2 cents while ribs fell 2 cents as packers bought.
The article lists cash quotations for flour and commodities including No 2 spring wheat at 78 79 cents No 2 corn 46 cents yellow and No 3 white 3 cents No 2 rye That rye and oats figures are unclear The report covers fair to good pork lard and various boxed meat cuts with prices and shipment totals for flour wheat corn oats rye barley, and related market data.
Cattle receipts and prices listed with ranges for primes to canners. Hogs show 223000 today and 28000 tomorrow with mixed and heavy grades. Sheep and lambs traded lower with good to choice wethers around 4.50 to 5.20 and spring lambs near 7.15.
South Omaha market update shows cattle receipts around 4.00, with native steers to 4.70 and cows up to 4.25. Hog prices near 5.79 to 5.90, pigs 4.00 to 5.50, bulk sales 5.75 to 5.80. Sheep receipts total 12,000 with fed muttons 5.73, wethers 4.50 to 5.25, ewes 3.75 to 6.40, lambs 5.75 to 7.25. market steady.
C H Boyles resigns at Alhambra with D A McDonald replacing him. Myrtle M Brockway succeeds Mary E Mosby at Baldwin. Pensions awarded to John Brown White Sulphur Springs and Lucretia Ratchand Kalispell. M W Perkins appointed forest ranger for Montana.
German scientists report animals drink alcohol after smelling it and can become habitual drinkers. Tales include baboons in a native village and an orangutan on a ship, both shown pursuing liquor. Mouse and cat anecdotes end with the mouse dying contentedly after a final drink.
A historical notice from Chicago dated May 1 depicts rising rents and landlord pressure as tenants face eviction or payment demands. Poetic lines express tenant distress with recurring refrain Move or pay, Move or stay, highlighting urban housing tension.
A mixed Butte classified column lists office rooms for rent at 14% North Main Street and furnished room requests on the west side. It contains sales offers including furniture for four rooms at 52 West Mercury, and a $50 seven room frame sale at 849 North Main. Also notes loan services from multiple firms and various assayers and dye house ads.
Kansas City livestock quotes list native and Texas cattle with steers and cows trading from 2.75 to 4.40 per hundredweight, bulls and calves at mixed values, hog receipts around 5.00 to 5.80, and muttons and lambs from 3.70 to 6.00, with market slow and weak. Reeded figures indicate heavy volume and mixed packer demand.
The report shows Consols for money 14, Consols for account 913-16, Anaconda 44, Atchison 774, Atchison preferred F, Baltimore & Ohio 1, Canadian Pacific 131%, Southern Pacific 5244, Union Pacific Baty, Union Pacific preferred 8, United States Steel 82%, and United States Steel preferred 4%. Bar silver steady at 24 3 4 cents per ounce. Money 3 4 percent.
The U S circuit court of appeals denied Walter N. Dimmock s petition for a rehearing in the San Francisco mint appropriation case. The court found no error in the district court s judgment and affirmed the lower court s decision. The text ends with a quotation from a Chicago Tribune cartoon caption.
Washington on May 21 reports the treasury balance with cash at 223,600,054 dollars and gold totaling 5,393,859 dollars as of today’s statement.
Advertisement notes Milo B Stevens & Co offering free consultation on patents with no allowance or fee. Mentions 1864 establishment and address 817 Fourteenth Street Washington. Also lists carpet cleaning service by G E Shale manager at Montana and Porphyry with telephone contact.
Special Dispatch to the Standard notes new postmasters appointed in Montana as of May 27. The dispatch highlights the selection process and the counties affected, signaling a shakeup in rural mail service and local administration.
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