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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1913
Page
9
Chicago markets show mixed declines in corn and wheat amid unsettled weather. Reports detail prices for September and December contracts, receipts, shipments, and visible stock changes, with pork, lard, and butter values noted. The New York poultry market lists regional prices for fresh killed birds and eggs, while cash grain in Chicago shows bid ranges for No 2 and No 1 grades and oilseed quotes.
Chicago and Kansas City live stock reports show light hogs rising while large receipts depress other grades. Hog bulk prices range around 8.60 to 9.85, cattle receipts near 98,000 head with declines of 10 to 35 cents, and sheep prices steady to lower. Chicago hogs and cattle markets mirror national trading with varied regional results.
The record compiles a block list of major American industrials including Amalgamated Copper Anaconda Mining Co American Sugar Refining and United States Steel with price levels and percentage changes. It lists rail lines and utilities such as Baltimore & Ohio Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago Great Northern Interborough Metropolitan and Union Pacific along with New York Central and Norfolk & Western. A market segment follows detailing New York Produce and dairy items with receipts and price quotes for butter creamery products eggs and cheese, reflecting a broad snapshot of stocks and commodities.
Aug 25 trade notes show No 2 hard wheat around 81 to 84 cents, No 2 red near 80 to 84 cents, corn values at 72 to 74 cents for No 2 white, hay priced at 16.50 to 16.00, and closing Wheat Sept around 81 1/4 to 82 1/4 cents with Dec at 85 1/2 cents. corn Sept about 74 40 to 60 54 cents for Dec.
South Omaha Neb August 26 cattle receipts 9 200 head with mixed prices cows and heifers 6 75 to 7 76 western steers 6 25 to 9 00 Texas cattle 0 00 to 7 20 calves 6 00 to 9 50 hog receipts 3 500 head market lower heavy 7 40 to 7 85 light 7 90 to 8 15 bulk 7 80 to 7 90 sheep receipts 21 000 head market steady yearlings 6 00 to 7 % lambs 7 00 to 7 75 St Louis market receipts cattle 6 400 steady natives 9 50 to 9 00 cows and heifers 4 75 to 8 75 stockers 5 26 to 7 50 southern steers 6 25 to 7 75 calves 5 59 to 6 0 Joe market steady hogs 4 500 max 8 80 bulk 8 20 to 8 45 sheep 6 500 steady native muttons 8 25 to 9 00 lambs 6 50 to 7 80 St Joe Lamb receipts 600 steady
Liverpool and Omaha grain quotes show steady to easy futures for wheat and strong spot for corn, with No. 1 and No. 2 Manitobas priced around 7s 0d to 7s 6d. Minneapolis reports varied wheat bids, while New York sugar markets list raw and refinery prices with rough room for futures.
Saint Louis and Chicago market notes show wheat prices for No 2 red No 2 hard and May futures, corn and rye bids in various grades, butter eggs and poultry prices at Chicago, potato prices firming, along with Kansas City dairy and poultry bids, and St Louis wool market steady with ranges for northern and western medians and fine varieties.
Auction style notice shows multiple classified items including an Overland touring car in good condition equipped with top windshield speedometer magneto Presto-Lite tank chains and tools. Also notes a second Overland sale and a 4 acre dairy farm plus sixty acres near Fairport Iowa with a Nash Dusenberry owner contact and references to Muscatine Iowa.
A miscellaneous OCR fragment lists items including cheese lemons oranges butter eggs bananas honey cucumbers and country butter with unit notes. It appears as a rough inventory with inconsistent punctuation and spelling.
Niagara Falls New York August 26 Fred Robertson of this city a chauffeur was killed and W B Sennbaugh a Chicago resident probably fatally injured when their automobile left the road struck the canal wall near the hydraulic canal diving over the wall the car rolled over injured both occupants as they were pulled from the wreckage
A person named Ben Sabaugh landed clear and was rescued in a canal about 22 feet deep. Robertaon, presumed dead, fell into the water and remains at the canal bottom.
Five boys aged from 1 to 15 set out on a trek to Albany bearing a letter of sympathy for Governor Sulzer. They travel in rough outfits with patched knapsacks, planning meals from campfires and sleeping under the open sky along the route.
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