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Newspaper
Creston Daily Advertiser
Location
Creston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1925
Page
2
The March 26 report from Chicago lists open high low and close figures for WHEAT CORN OATS RYE and meat cuts including LARD RIBS and BELLY prices with May July and Sept contracts. Trading ranges show modest movements across wheat corn oats rye lard ribs and bellies.
Chicago market notes show alive poultry higher with varied prices for fowls springs roosters turkeys ducks and geese. Butter eggs and cheese prices move up or steady in New York markets with receipts and quality grades listed. live and dressed poultry demand remains firm in Kansas City.
Red River Ohips 1.20 1.30, turkeys 33, 1926 springs 53, ducks 27, geese 14, hens 25. Butter 49 4, eggs 28. Potatoes 10 to 15 cents lower. Hogs and poultry prices reflect slight changes as markets close in St Louis on March 26.
Chicago market notes list wheat as No 2 hard at 1.69 and mixed corn grades from No 2 at 1.10 to No 6 at 0.98. Yellow and white corn and oats values shown with various percentages, rye and barley bids, timothy and clover seed prices, and lard ribs bellies quotes.
East St. Louis March 26 horses good to choice drafts bring 150 to 200 dollars while good eastern chunks sell 75 to 100 dollars and southern horses 30 to 45 dollars. Mules 16 to 17 hands fetch 175 to 225 dollars, 15 to 16.2 hands 125 to 190 dollars, and 14.3 to 15.2 hands 80 to 125 dollars.
New York reports March 26 coffee prices with Rio No 7 and Santos No 4 futures showing ease. July contracts trade near 17.90 and December around 16.41 while spot levels remain steady.
Chicago livestock receipts on March 26 show hogs slow with 23 000 head and mixed declines from Wednesday. Cattle receipts 14 000 with mainly lower prices on medium and heavy steers while fat cows ease. Sheep receipts 10 000 with fat lambs steady for the day. Tomorrow's estimates: hogs 15 000, cattle 4 000, sheep 11 000.
Receipts 10 000 cattle and sheep and lambs in Omaha market slow to 25 cents lower. Good to choice 200-300 lb butchers 13.25 to 13.50, top 13.55. 160-200 lb 12.75 to 13.15, 140-160 lb 12.50 to 12.75. Cattle: receipts 4 800, feeders uneven 8.75 to 10.50, cows 6.25 to 9.25, canners 2.75 to 4.25, heavy bulls 5.00 to 5.75. Sheep: receipts 12 000, lambs mostly 25 cents lower, handyweight 15.00 to 15.50, top 15.75. heavies down to 14.00. feeders 25 cents lower, shearing lambs up to 15.40.
Minneapolis on March 26 reports flour prices advancing with family patent flour at 9.05 to 10, bran at 23.50.
Night dispatches report T. C Campbell alias V. C. Page pleaded guilty to cheating by false pretenses and received a seven year prison term. Other items note J. N. Darling’s improving condition, a $15,000 bridge appropriation between East and West Okoboji lakes, a unified road bill plan, Senate confrontation with Brookhart, Paul Hiltman’s electrocution, a record heat 78 degrees, a divorce suit over alienation of affections, 100 percent stock assessment at Commercial State bank, and Polk County’s use of fingerprint evidence in a booze case in Des Moines and nearby locales.
In New York on March 26 Liberty bonds closed with Liberty 3s at 101.10, First 4s at 101.26, Second 4s at 100.30, Third 4s at 101.19, Fourth 4s at 101.30, U S Treasury 4s at 100.20, and U S Treasury 4 1/2s at 104.27.
Raw sugar in New York traded unchanged at 4.71 with duty paid. Refined sugar also stayed firm with fine granulated at 6.00 to 6.20 per unit.
In St. Louis on March 26 hay prices showed movement with steady tones. No 1 timothy quoted at 21.00 to 22.00, No 1 light clover mix at 18.00 to 19.00, heavy hay at 15.00 to 16.00, and choice alfalfa at 81.00 per 30,000 units.
Omaha market notes show wheat at no hard 1.62, No 4 oats 1.61, corn No 4 yellow 1.18, No 2 oats mixed 96 498 oats No 2 white 45.
Toledo market note lists Crover seed cash and March 16.50 Get. 13.10 Timothy seed cash and March 2.80 Sept. 3.26 bid May 2.90 with March 26 date.
Hogs receipts 3500 steady to 15 lower with top 13.40 and bulk 12.00 to 13.40. Cattle receipts 2500 steady to 15 lower with steers 8.75 to 10.40 and top 10.50, cows and heifers 3.25 to 10.50, calves 4.50 to 9.50, stockers 5.00 to 8.25. Sheep receipts 7500 slow with lambs 14.25 to 15.65 and ewes 8.75 to 9.75. Fred D. Martin of Des Moines visited Creston today for business.
Des Moines March 26 report notes a detective testified a fingerprint on a bottle resembled the defendant. The Des Moines Register item mentions a gambler losing $400 in a related event and outlines the ongoing case developments.
A robbery occurred last Monday night at a cigar store in Council Bluffs with the bandit taking between 2000 and 2500 dollars from occupants. The article notes Howard Coyle was shot and wounded in the incident on March 26.
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