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Newspaper
Daily Captial News
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1927
Page
7
Markets from CHICAGO show corn up due to heavy rains stalling field work. Wheat and oats gain with corn strength while provisions rise on higher hog values. Lambs and sheep fall slightly. Kansas City closes with cattle steady and hogs and sheep unchanged.
Hogs 13 500 with price gains 15 to 20 cents. light hogs 9.40. 200 250 lb hogs 9.25 9.40. 250 300 lb hogs 9.25. sows 8.10 8.15. calves and pigs mostly higher. Cattle 5 000, calves 2 400. natives 15 25 cents higher. westerns 10c higher. cows and yearlings up to 25 cents. vealers 25 cents higher. best weights 702 lbs cows to 8.50. bulls 7.25. sheep 5 500 with lambs lower. ewes 5.00 6.00. fat lambs 16.00 16.50.
Cattle trade active with fed steers and yearlings up to 12.00 and higher, heavy steers scarce. Slaughter cows steady, bulls firm to higher, vealers weak to steady. Hogs 8,000 head, gains 15 to 25 cents. stock pigs up to 9.00, weights 170 to 230 pounds common, packing sows 7.65 to 8.15.
Wheat receipts at Kansas City show prices ranging from No 2 hard 1 10 to 1 54 and No 3 1 88 to 1 48 with futures closing July 1 31 4 and December 1 58 5 8. Corn prices rise 2 to 8 cents with No 2 white 95 to 96 and September 97 3 8. Oats hold steady with No 2 white 50 to 4. Rye and barley also listed with modest shifts.
Wheat No 2 red quoted 1.49 to 1.50. Corn No 2 mixed 97 to 99. Oats No 8 white 48 1 2 to 50. No 4 white 45 to 46. Wheat futures July 1.44 5 8 bid, September 1.44 asked. Corn futures July 97 7 8, September 1.02 7 5.
In St Louis on June 18 egg prices held steady for fresh firsts at 18 1 2 cents, butter and creamery extras unchanged and 1 2 cent gains seen in hens. Springs and turkeys showed minor movements while ducks and geese remained steady.
Hay receipts total 116 cars with prairie pricing about 50 cents lower. prairie No 1 ranges 12.50 to 14.00 per unit while timothy sells 15.00 to 15.50. Alfalfa choice new trades 17.00 to 18.00 and clover mixed light fetches 14.00 to 14.50.
June 18 kansas city market prices show butter creamery 48 cents packing 25 cents butter fat 85 cents premium extra 8 cents and poultry values including heavy hens 17 cents light hens 14 cents springs 27 cents roosters 11 cents old ducks 5 cents young ducks 20 cents geese 8 cents with potatoes northern whites 8 20 to the market ends abruptly.
Congressman W L Nelson chronicles his flood district journey by river through Southern Arkansas and Louisiana. He describes levee breaches at New Orleans Caernarvon crevasse, storm damage to plantations and mills, displaced residents, and the resilience of Gulf Coast communities facing the disaster.
In St Louis on June 13 the market lists Minnesota russets at 4.75 to 5.00, new potatoes 4.50 to 5.00, and hay timothy No 2 at 17.00 to 19.00. No 2 light clover mixed 17.00 to 19.00, No 2 heavy clover mixed 18 to 19.00, and new alfalfa at 25.00 to 24.00.
Classified notices list a lost pocketbook possibly on Ten-Mile Drive with contact Laura Small at 471 Green. Also offers a Dodge Touring and a Star Coupester 1925 model for sale with phone numbers. A wanted ad seeks a lunch counter girl offering fifty dollars per month at Pacific Rest.
An OCR fragment advertises beauty culture courses from a St. Louis college and offers easy payment catalog sales. It also notes a Jeffer son City business opportunity with potential $5,000 yearly net income, plus several four and five room modern properties for sale with low down payments and monthly terms.
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