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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1905
Page
9
Two houses offered for rent at 1127 Hershey Avenue and 213 Phillip Street South Muscatine near Kaiser's Mill with barn. Rent set at $4.00 per month for each. For details contact H. M. Bartlett Attorney at Law over the Postoffice.
Journal items note James Mattock Ben Marshal and many residents of Wapello visiting the city. Prominent notices include Wapello residents inviting readers to Globe eateries Bob’s Panitorium and Dad Dolsen’s for drinks, plus an impending Bryan appearance at the Grand Opera House. Community notices cover weddings fairs and a September excursion to Kansas lands.
Muscatine business leaders endorsed a proposed asbestos factory to be built with a $30 000 capital stock and a 60 by 250 foot building. Local investors would provide work capital, with initial employment for several workers, and freight advantages favor western production. The club also invited Muscatine participation in a Wapello fair event as part of a redistricted regional effort.
Fresh oysters on hand. Catfish crappies sunfish carp buffalo pickerel bull heads salmon perch black bass striped bass and other fish priced from 5 to 19 cents. Comrad Koehler at the foot of Iowa Avenue advertises the selection.
Holzhauer Frenzel report from Kansas City with Donavan Commission data shows closing figures for August 29 across futures and options. Prices listed include September and December contracts with fractional percentage changes and bid ask indications for several items.
The Associated Press reports Chicago market wheat prices with details for No. 2 red and hard wheats across several grades. Prices include daily open high low and close for September and December futures, with specific bid levels for No. 2 and No. 3 classifications and white wheat.
Chicago stockyards report: cattle receipts 15,000 steady to 10 cents lower with common grades $4.00 to $6.40. hog receipts 14,000 weak to 5 cents lower with mixed butchers $5.70 to $6.30 and bulk $5.90 to $6.30. sheep receipts 18,000 steady with ewes and lambs at $4.75 to $7.65.
Chicago notices butter prices steady with creameries at 17 21 cents and dairies 16 to 18 1/2 cents. Eggs hold at 13 4/5 to 14 1/2 cents for U S grades. Market reports reflect stable wholesale movement on Aug 29.
Chicago price notes show turkeys at 15 cents, chickens 12 cents, springs 13 cents as of August 29.
York August 29 butter, creams 17 21 cents per pound. Eggs unchanged.
New York August 29 poultry market report shows chickens at 15 cents, fowls 13 a half cents, and turkeys 13 cents.
Local Muscatine market notes show wheat and oats values, corn and barley prices, hay costs, and farm supplies. Retail figures for eggs, butter, vegetables, fruits, and meats alongside live stock bids from Muscatine and Chicago reports summarizing recent trade and prices.
Opening cattle trade shows general steadiness with common to good natives steady and high quality firmer. Hogs receipts about expected. early market steady then weak. Fat western wethers and lambs priced around five dollars and higher. best native and western lots around seven dollars sixty five cents. KC market notes improved demand earlier week but buyers turned indifferent Friday. top last week five sixty, drove to five seventy five.
When eyes are dim tongue coated and appetite poor and bowels constipated Electric Bitters are advertised as a universal remedy sold for 39 cents at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store with claims of quick relief.
The Iowa Central Railway offers daily round trip tickets at one fare plus two dollars to select northern Minnesota and Dakota points with a return limit of October 31. Reduced round trip fares to St Paul and Minneapolis start daily after June 1. For details contact agents or A R Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
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