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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1913
Page
9
Bullish cables lift wheat as light offerings and strong demand brace the market. Weather in the southwest stays warm with scattered showers. losses in December futures temper gains later, while hog cholera reports affect corn state firmness. Receipts and shipments data from Hutton & Culling outline primary wheat, corn, and oats movements across major markets.
Chicago cash grain quotations show No 2 red wheat around 88 88 to 89 cents and No 2 yellow corn near 7 1/8 to 7 3/4 cents. St Louis and Omaha markets list mixed bids for wheat corn oats rye with various No 2 white and No 2 yellow values. quantities and prices span several futures and cash terms including Timothy, Clover, and pork related items.
Liverpool grain market notes steady wheat futures with No 1 Manitoba at 79 8 4c and No 2 Manitoba around 7a. No 8 Manitoba 2kd. Corn spot strong with American mix, kilndried at 64 td. Futures: Kansas City and Galveston prices cited. Cash grain details include No 2 hard 81K bbc and No 3 ard 8OG SlGc. Closing futures show Sept Wheat 81 8i M0, Corn Sept 76c, Dee 70KS.
New York Produce Market data shows buttereadly receipts at 11,785 tabs and Cheese-Firm receipts at 1,992 boxes. Esgs-iregular receipts total 47,541 across the period, with August 20 noted for the listing.
Chicago and Kansas City live stock markets Aug 20 show light offerings and good demand. Hogs receipts 21,000 in Chicago with prices 6-10c higher. cattle receipts 18,000 with steady to slightly lower. sheep 21,000 with prices higher. Kansas City reports hogs steady to higher. cattle steady to lower. sheep 7,000 with gains. St Louis receipts show cattle steady. hogs up 40c. sheep steady to higher.
South Omaha Nebraska cattle receipts total 300 with market steady prices for native steers cows and heifers and calves. hogs at 7,200 head with market higher led by heavy and best cuts. sheep receipts 9,000 with steady demand for yearlings and lambs. St Joseph Missouri cattle 1,400 head steady. hogs 8,000 head higher. sheep 1,000 head higher with lambs up to 7.60. New York poultry market weak for dressed and steady for fresh. Chicago produce steady for butter eggs and cheese. potatoes light receipts. Minnesota Ohio prices steady. Jersey potatoes and poultry steady. New York raw sugar steady. Kansas City butter, eggs and poultry unchanged.
Muscatine markets show hogs priced at 8.25 to 8.75 and cattle at 6.00 to 8.50 per hundredweight. Cows and helpers run 5.50 to 6.00 while calves and lambs fetch around 6.00 to 7.00 with other items listed in wholesale poultry section.
Relief from alarm over a Mexican crisis provided market strength in New York trading. The session was quieter after yesterday’s heavy offers, with gains in Reading and Lehigh Valley while Southern Pacific and Union Pacific drifted. Bonds steadied and overall prices moved gently higher, with trading not large but selective strength in key rails and Mexican Petroleum.
The Journal urges readers to use Wants to reach over 7,000 homes daily for real estate, insurance, stock, boarding, or lost and found items. Ads cost 14 cents per word per insertion and can be placed by calling the Wanted Department at 26 or 27.
A dense OCR of market data shows railway stocks like Amalgamated Copper and American Sugar, then Cotton O and Telco lines, plus diversified listings for Chicago lines, steel giants United States Steel and General Electric, and a long commodity section with oats barley feed wheat and produce prices. The piece mixes bond and stock quotes with farm product prices including eggs, butter, cheese, oranges, apples, and vegetables.
Minneapolis grain market reports mixed prices with corn and wheat bids and monthly futures. In Budapest Count Stephen Tisza, Hungary’s prime minister, dueled Marquis Pallavicini, a Austrian army lieutenant, with both slightly wounded in the head. the quarrel stemmed from accusations of witness influence in a recent suit. Today’s duel marks the third for Count Tisza this year.
Public auction on Sept 3 at 2 pm offers a 153% acre Muscatine county farm on the Davenport Muscatine Interurban with car switch, depot, and nearby church school store. Features include a modern furnace home, horse barn, dairy, piggery, deep well, and plans for an elevator. Investigate this rare opportunity, 10% down day of sale, balance March 1, 1914.
Muscatine retailer promotes durable rugs window shades and curtains with low prices. Also lists multiple farms for sale in Minnesota and a local combination bookcase and library table sale. Owner contact and interurban location mentioned.
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