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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1905
Page
13
Chicago reports a terse market note with opening and closing figures for the day and a hint of the day’s high and low, omitting full data. Financial desks await fuller detail as the session progresses.
The Chicago Produce Market lists grain and livestock figures with bids and closes for wheat corn oats and related futures. Chicago Live Stock Market shows cattle hogs and sheep receipts with price ranges and noted changes.
Chicago market shows turkeys at 14 11ic and chickens at 12c with springs at 14c. New York markets report butter at 174 to 21c per unit and eggs unchanged.
New York market report shows poultry prices on August 1 with chick en chicks at 13 to 16 cents, fowls at 13 to 14 cents, and turkeys at 1 cent per pound range. Indicates local trading activity and price levels for poultry categories.
New York produce market notes on August 1 show wheat for September at 89 1/2 cents and corn at 59 1/2 cents. Traders eyed futures as commodity prices fluctuated amid early summer demand.
Peoria Produce Market reports No. 3 corn at 54c. St. Louis market lists wheat September at 81 8 1c, corn at 49 1/2 cents, oats at 26 1/4 cents. Prices reflected on August 1 listings from both cities.
The snippet lists daily high low and close percentages for multiple companies and sectors including Sugar, So. Pac, St. Paul, Mo. Pac, Union Pacific, Copper, Reading, Penn, IL & N, Atchison, Colo. Fuel, Great W, Mex. Cent, and others. Figures show values around 60s to 180s with many fractional marks, indicating varied performance and dividends in a compact ticker-style summary.
The meeting supported forming a working committee to push a new rail line to Dubuque with guarantees for city use and future access. Speakers argued the route would attract factories, boost jobbers, and bring solvent investors, with Burlington and Muscatine offering safeguards and aid.
Malone and Company launch a massive 8 o clock tomorrow morning sale offering deep price cuts on the entire stock of high class dry goods carpets and furnishing goods. The store aims to clear stock and advertise broadly to nearby towns promising goods at near raw material cost and stressing honesty on ticketed prices.
A fragment references a phrase about a cigar man and coats described as worth more. The wording is fragmentary with no clear event or individuals beyond the generic labels.
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