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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
8
Classified ad lists a Jersey cow for 25 dollars and a work harness for 8 dollars. Terms require 2 dollars down and the balance in weekly payments. See Reliance on Co. Office over Post Office.
Names and movements across Muscatine include G W Blatchford from Iowa City, Mrs Nora Smith from Hick, Mrs Grace Hawkins leaving for Fredonia, and many residents visiting or conducting business. A G A R cake sale, local lectures by Wm J Bryan August 36 at Grand Opera House, general admission 50 cents.
Channel cat 12 1 4 cents, striped bass 10 cents, sun fish 4 cents, carp 5 cents, buffalo 8 cents. List includes black bass 12 ½ cents, salmon 12 ½ cents, pickerel 9 cents, crappies 10 cents, bull heads 10 cents, white perch 6 cents. Source: Conrad Koehler.
A five room house and a full lot are offered for 800 dollars if taken soon, per G M. Titus.
A 15 cent sheet music sale promotion lists many popular titles including Moonlight Serenade Sweet Adeline In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree and Teasing with a broad mix of two step waltz and patrol francais tunes. The ad notes quantities S copies for $1 and promises latest songs in the sale.
Kansas City and Chicago markets show varied wheat oats and pork prices with daily receipts and projections. Futures note mixed highs lows and closes across Sept Dec and May contracts with details on pork lard ribs oats and corn, plus car counts and Northwestern receipts.
Tomorrow at 3 30 p m the Clinton Independents face the White Sox at the fair grounds. A big baseball game attracts attention and starts promptly. Union.
Pickerel smoked sturgeon large dressed spring chickens delivery every day Phone 297 Boston Fish Market know for fresh catch and prompt home delivery in the city.
Cattle receipts 6000 steady to 10 cents higher with good to prime at 5.40 to 6.19, poorer runs 4.00 to 5.25, stockers 2.25 to 4.00, cows 2.25 to 4.25, Texas cattle 3.50 to 4.50. Hogs receipts 21000 strong to 5 cents higher with mixed butchers 5.75 to 6.20, good heavy 6.00 to 6.15, rough heavy 5.65 to 5.90, light 5.75 to 6.25, bulk 5.90 to 6.15. Sheep receipts 10000 up 10 to be higher 4.50 to 5.50, lambs 10 to 15 cents higher 5.25 to 7.75.
Butter is steady with creameries at 17 20 cents and dairies 16 to 18 cents. Eggs remain steady at 12 44 to 15 cents per dozen. Chicago market summary for August 17.
Chicago or Market report from August 17 shows poultry steady with turkeys at 15 cents and chickens at 11 cents. Spring chickens bring 13 cents at the line.
New York butter and eggs hold steady with creamery butter at 21.21 percent on the street and official prices unchanged. Egg prices also unchanged.
New York August 17 poultry prices show chicks at 13 14 cents, fowls at 12 12 1/2 cents, turkeys at 12 1/2 cents. St Louis August 17 produce notes wheat at 79 3/4 cents, corn at 50 1/2 cents, oats at 25 cents.
Peoria August 17 corn futures No 3 54 cents. Market quotes across commodities show mixed levels with readings for Am sugar and other listed stocks: U S copper and Reading gauge, Penn and R I prices, steel and gas indicators, with Oct cotton around 10.30 to 10.57 cents.
A compact listing of wholesale and retail prices across grains vegetables fruits and meats. Includes wheat oats corn barley rye hay butter eggs poultry and several fish with ranges and per unit quotes alongside live stock market levels and flower market prices.
Hog run estimated at 35,000 with largest receipts in years. Prices mostly 10 to 15 cents lower and many unsold. Trade slow for butcher stock and feeders with common lots weak. Sheep hold steady to top end as North Dakota wethers bring around 5.50 and natives 7.75, with western lambs steady and feeders at 6.35.
Aug 17 report notes John Hooley’s Muscatine business visit and Nellie and Ethel Trautman shopping in West Liberty. Mrs. Mary Huskins from near Lone Tree visits Columbus Junction and Mrs. Jarrard. The pickling station handles up to 1490 bushels daily. Several residents have lost pets recently. Mary Umscheid enjoys eastern travels. New arrivals Miss Rose and Miss Elizabeth Saracen plan Chicago trip with Ann Hooley. Families in Cedar River area report heavy water. various visits and local movements noted.
Miss Bessie Baker returned from camping at Columbus Junction hhautauqua. Mr. and Mrs. David Landis of Davenport visited with R. T. Shannon and family and other relatives in Nichols and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Schofield of Davenport spent several weeks with Mrs. W. M. Bottomley and family.
An item notes that joyful beginnings rely on a stable base. however, even minor gusts threaten the superstructure. The text uses metaphor to warn that without solid support, confidence may collapse under pressure.
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