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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1913
Page
9
Chicago markets opened mixed with corn and wheat declining under heavy local selling and lending-house unloading. December corn eased to 69 to 68 c while wheat stayed easy as supplies rose, pork and lard quotes rose slightly with steady hog and cattle estimates for tomorrow.
Chicago Aug 19 light hogs held firm while heavy hogs moved slowly. Cattle steady with fair demand. large sheep offerings pushed prices lower. Hog receipts about 12,000. cattle 4,500. sheep 28,000. Kansas City reports hog receipts 7,500 with higher prices. cattle 20,000 steady. Prime fed steers 8.40 to 8.85. packers and butchers 8.20 to 8.60 for hogs. lambs 5.25 to 7.50 for westerns.
Reports from South Omaha and St Louis and St Joseph outline cattle, hogs, and sheep receipts with steady markets across regions. Also listed are New York poultry, Omaha grain quotes, and Midwest cereal prices including wheat corn oats and rye with closing notes on raw sugar in New York.
Reports of a Mexican crisis drove early stock selling with American Smelting and Mexican related shares leading declines. Copper and railroad stocks bore the brunt as prices drifted lower before noon, then steadied into closing with firmer inquiry from shorts and minor recoveries in Reading and Steel.
Chicago market notes on August 19 show butter steady with creamery prices 26 to 27 cents and receipts near 10 977 cases. Figs firmer with ordinary firsts at 16 to 19 cents and firsts 19 22 cents. Cheese unchanged. potatoes firmer with Minnesota and Ohio at 45 55 cents and Jersey cobblers 88 to 90 cents. Poultry unchanged. New York reports butter firm with 12 796 tubs received, cheese firm with 7 231 boxes, eggs firm with 18 310 cases. Kansas City shows butter and poultry unchanged.
An old notice promotes classified want ads in The Journal, offering real estate, insurance, buying, selling, or trading messages. It emphasizes accuracy and clarity, claims delivery to over 7,000 homes daily, and lists contact options with small per word pricing for each insertion.
For sale list includes a well located house with yard cement sidewalks shade trees and a big barn priced at 1 750 with easy payments option. Also several farms offered including 644 acres in central Minnesota for 5 000 cash first payment 880 acres in Red River Valley Minnesota for 15 000 cash first payment Two sections corn stock and dairy farm 35 per acre 600 000 population 95 miles from Twin Cities near railroad station Write Geo Ofum 424 New York Life Building Minneapolis Minnesota Box 304 Davenport Iowa.
An assortment of sale notes lists cheap goods including a gasoline engine, dynamo, buggy outfit, cutting machines, harness, and wagons with long payment terms. Also offered are marsh land in southern Wisconsin priced 30 to 40 dollars per acre with good farming potential and nearby amenities, plus two Arkansas land outfits promoting two crop land in the St Francis Valley and Osceola listings with rental yields.
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