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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1905
Page
10
Two five room houses offered at four dollars per month each. No. 1127 Hershey avenue and No. 213 Phillip street, South Muscatine, below Kaiser's Mill, include a barn at the Phillip street site. For further particulars contact H. M. Bartlett, attorney at law, office over the post office.
Baseball tomorrow at the fair grounds Morrison Independents vs White Sox. Band concert at City Railway Park with sacred music. a pleasant place to spend an hour. F T Kelley relocates to Muscatine as National Biscuit Co representative. Pepper of The Little Homestead Theatrical Co plans appearance next week. Cherry shoe store ends August clearance sale next Thursday.
Multiple short items note 20th anniversary cigar praise, cafe coffee at Globe Restaurant, sales ads, and public notices. People visiting or staying in town include B A Black, Reuben Stafford, Ira Reeves, S M Kile, Philip Rohrbach. Events: Commercial club meeting, band concert, YM C A memberships, and upcoming baseball at the fair grounds Morrison Independents.
Warkets report wheat and corn prices with mixed Sep and Dec contracts from Chicago and Kansas City. Lard and pork products show steady to firm quotes, with car counts for wheat corn oats received today and estimates for tomorrow. The page credits Holzhauer Frenzel and Donovan Commission Co with market data.
Chicago markets report wheat and oats prices with No. 2 red at 82 to 82 1 2 cents and No. 2 hard around 81 1 2 to 90 cents. Pork and rib futures listed, corn and flax quotes noted. Muscatine and Omaha markets show hogs, cattle, and prices, with various retail rates for produce, eggs, butter, and dairy products. Local live stock figures include hogs and cattle ranges and flower and fish prices in the region.
Chicago markets show cattle receipts at 500 with steady values across grades. Hogs receipts reach 11 000 with mixed butchers at 5.75 to 6.30 and bulk sales 5.90 to 6.25. Sheep receipts 3 000 with steady prices from 4.50 to 5.60 and lambs 5.50 to 7.60. Butter and eggs steady with creameries 17 21c and dairies 16 18c. Poultry market firm turkeys 13c, chickens 11 to 14c, springs 14c.
New York Produce Market reports wheat for September at 87% to 87 1/2 cents and corn at 60 1/2 cents.
New York August 26 butter prices unchanged and eggs unchanged as market quiet from daily trading.
New York on August 26 reports poultry prices with chick ens 14 to 15 cents a pound fowls 12 to 13 half cents and turkeys 13 to 17 cents a pound.
St Louis market notes show wheat for September at 78 18/ cent under, corn steady, oats at 25 cents. Bargain prices listed for August 26 with regional market terms.
Peoria market notes corn No. 3 sells at 55 cents.
New York reports on August 26 indicate declines in bank activity with loans down 1,493,600 dollars and deposits down 7,466,800 dollars. Reserve fell 2,244,200 dollars and surplus decreased 377,500 dollars while Ex-U S deposits dropped 374,400 dollars.
An advertisement claims a vast conspiracy of coughs and colds targeting you, urging use of Dr King's New Discovery sold for 5 cents and 1.00 at Havercamop's Prescription Drug Store.
Fragmentary OCR item shows livestock weights and prices for hogs and pigs, with figures like 170 and 3.00, but exact context and full details are unclear.
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