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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1905
Page
8
Small Jersey Cow 25 dollars Large Jersey Cow 220 to 230 dollars Horse harness and buggy gear offered with set double work harness. Terms require 2 dollars down and one dollar weekly payments. Sale hosted by Reliance on Co. Office over Post Office.
A sequence of local events promotes St Marys Hill festivities tomorrow evening with street car routes on Front and Chestnut streets for excursionists. Also noted are a lawn social by the Pres Guild at B Kempers and a Bryan lecture with 200 reserved seats at 50 cents extra.
Local notices announce St Marys festival plans for tomorrow evening with ice cream and sodas at Tase Kourakos, an Aug 23 Banner Lodge excursion, and M E excursions to Davenport and Rock Island with stops. Also listed are bilious fever cases at Chestnut and West Fourth streets, a Bryan lecture ticket sale, and a St Marys supper fund at 6 pm for 25 cents.
Parker Amusement Company sails from Muscatine praising Cedar Falls police protection as the best. An aged Cedar Township resident A Cone dies at home at 90, an longtime Muscatine inhabitant.
The Muscatine county Sunday schools plan a convention at Atalissa on August 30 with a program featuring Rev J W Potter and Dr J T Martin. Local leaders from Muscatine and area will speak on teaching, study, and preparation, followed by sessions on home study and Sunday school methods.
Wilton Iowa reports a flurry of visits and departures with Grace Bunker returning to Davenport after a visit, Chicago guests Darlene Stone and Mrs. Stone, and many locals including families from Muscatine Davenport Durant Rock Island and Eldon stopping by. Read of numerous visits to relatives and friends and travel to Iowa City Stockton Moline and surrounding towns.
A horse driven by James Miller collapsed and died yesterday north of Webster City Iowa as F A Sackett drove a car to pass. Officials say the animal was probably frightened to death.
D J Dwyer of Wilton reports sale of three farms since August 1 1905. Kirk Milnes farm in Cedar County sold to James Snow Iowa City at 100 dollars per acre. Ira Derby 80 acre Wilton Township farm sold to Mr and Mrs George Klein at 112 percent per acre. T J Whitmer East Hill farm 80 acres Cedar County sold to William Leech Cedar County for 8600 dollars.
Chicago and Kansas City markets show mixed gains in wheat and corn with Sept contracts leading. Hogs and cattle receipts rise across Kansas and Omaha as Minneapolis and Duluth track livestock, while Chicago Produce lists grain prices and cash bounds for wheat oats lard ribs rye barley flax and timothy.
Chicago live stock market report shows cattle receipts at 26 000 with prices steady to ten cents lower. Good to prime cattle fetch 5 50 to 6 00 while poor to medium cattle move lower.
Livestock prices show fed cattle and stockers trading from $3.00 to $6.25 with mixed and butchers ranges. Receipts total 35 000 head with declines of 10 cents, sheep receipts 24 000 with 10 to 20 cent drops and lambs 5.25 to 7.50, reflecting softer demand.
Chicago market reports steady butter with creamery prices at 17 to 20 cents and dairy at 16 to 18 cents. Eggs hold firm between 12 and 16 cents as buyers and sellers absorb current demand signals.
Chicago August 21 poultry prices steady. Turkeys quoted at 15 cents per pound and chickens at 12 to 13 cents. spring chickens around 13 percent? The brief market note records steady prices for turkeys and chickens in the Chicago market.
New York prices August 21 show creamery butter at 18 21/32 to 21/32 cents, dairies 17 21/32 to 19 1/32 cents, renovated 15 to 19 1/2 cents, factory 15 to 17 cents, imitation creamery 18 19/32 to 19 1/4 cents. Eggs Western firsts 21 cents, seconds 18 15/32 cents.
New York August 21 poultry market reports mixed prices with chicks at 12.5 to 15 cents, fowls 12 to 13.5 cents, and turkeys 13 to 17 cents per pound.
St. Louis Produce Market reports Aug 21 with Wheat Sept 7 1/2 cents, corn 50 1/2 cents, oats 25 cents.
Peoria notes corn trading with No. 3 priced at 54 cents.
New York Produce Market reports Wheat Sept running at 86 4 6 cents and Corn at 59 4 cents on Aug 21 with steady price levels across commodities.
Architectural Record Magazine argues American landscape lacks cohesive layout despite abundant stage properties. It cites owners seeking ready made estates, American architects needing landscape design lessons, and gardens often showing indiscriminate planting and overemphasis on blooms over mass foliage.
Commzender Cameron attributes the Kongo's minimal seasonal fluctuation to its basin spanning both sides of the equator. While rivers south of the line surge with the rainy season, the northern tributaries reach minimum volume, balancing the overall flow.
William Webster Hoopes, a Philadelphia member of a noted family, killed himself in Fairmount park after a three day pause in a death by own action contract. The pact, tied to love for his six year old daughter, connected to Joseph A. Thompson, brother of mill ionaire William R. Thompson of Sparkill and relative of the Pittsburg Thaws, who also took his own life.
The golden crested wren is the smallest British and European bird. It weighs about eighty grains, needing seventy two to make a pound. Feathers measure about three and a half inches, wings span around five inches, and the body length is roughly one inch without plumage.
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