Rent Payment Ultimatum Prompts Office Visit
A notice urging tenants to stop paying rent and visit the office to learn about houses purchasable with their rent money. The directive emphasizes immediate action and relocates to housing options.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
19
A notice urging tenants to stop paying rent and visit the office to learn about houses purchasable with their rent money. The directive emphasizes immediate action and relocates to housing options.
Chicago markets show wheat near 106 106% open and close estimates while corn trades around 58 61 and oats around 39 42. Pork lard ribs hogs and poultry prices listed with daily and tomorrow’s car receipts and commodity bids from H J Frenzel.
Wheat futures opened and closed near 1.05 to 1.06 per bushel with May at 1.05. Dec contracts showed 58 cent range and May at 61. Park-Jan traded at 21.37, Lard-Jan 12.39, Ribs-Jan 11.12, Rye cash 72 to 74, Barley cash 52 to 56, Timothy Dec 3.75, Clover March 14.90.
Schedule excerpt from the Rock Island system shows main line trains and locals with numbers, routes and times. It lists Davenport Chicago to Kansas City and Fort Worth connections, westward California Special and local freights with departure and arrival times for the era.
Chicago prices show No. 2 red wheat at 1.19 to 1.21 dollars per bushel, No. 3 red 1.12 to 1.17, No. 2 hard 1.07 to 1.09, No. 3 hard 1.02 to 1.06, and various white and yellow types listed. Oats quotations include No. 2 white at 42 1/4 to 44 1/4 cents, No. 3 around 40 to 41 1/4 cents, and Standard about 41 1/2 to 42 cents.
Cattle receipts 29 000 steady with beef cattle 3 85 to 9 15 stockers and feeders 3 10 to 4 7 mountain cows and heifers 2 10 to 5 65 western cattle 4 00 to 7 40 Hogs receipts 35 000 down 5 to 19 cents light 7 70 to 8 20 mixed 7 75 to 8 35 heavy 7 95 to 8 40 rough 7 95 to 8 10 good to choice heavy 8 10 to 8 40 bulk 8 10 to 8 30 Sheep receipts 22 000 strong sheep 2 75 to 5 00 lambs 5 25 eers
Butter steady at creameries 26 1 2 to 32 1 2 cents per pound and dairies 24 28 cents. Eggs steady with 4,400 receipts at market, firsts 28 1 2 cents and prime firsts 30 1 2 cents per dozen.
Poultry prices in Chicago on December 1 show firm overall movement with turkeys at 14 cents, chickens at 12 cents, and springs at 12 cents per pound. The report notes steady trade conditions for the day.
Effective Sunday at noon a revised timetable lists departures and arrivals between Muscatine and Garden City Grandview Wapello Fruitland and Elrick Junction. The schedule shows arrivals at 5 Roundhouse 5 Frutian 6 40pm and 48pm, with late night returns to Muscatine by 2:45am and 5:07am.
New York markets report poultry prices with alive birds noted for December 1. The brief entry lists current rates and market activity for poultry in the New York area.
Historic timetable shows stations including Garden City Grandview Wapello Muscatine and Frttland with arrival and departure times from early morning to night. Connections noted: Train No 4 links with Iowa Central at Firick Junction Train No 5 connects at Wapello with Iowa Central at Elrick Junction and Train No 6 with C R J P from Wapello.
Effective June 6 1909 the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway lists eastbound services to Chicago Kansas City with Southwest Limited and Local Passenger trains and Local Freight runs. Daily schedules show Nos 112 105 103 and x201 along with times for each service.
New York butter receipts total 5,600 with held creameries at 28 percent 326c. Egg stock remains barely steady with 8,200 receipts. Market tone steady as traders note unchanged prices and stable supply.
New York N Y Dec 1 Wheat December at 1.15. Corn listed at 70 5 8 cents.
St Louis on December 1 reports Wheat for December at 1.07 dollars per bushel Corn at 62 cents and Oats at 39 and a quarter cents.
Peoria Illinois December 1 No. 3 new corn priced at 55 cents per bushel in the local market report.
Live stock and hay markets listing hogs choice heavy 7.85 light 7.70 rough 7.25 stags 7.00. steers 5.00 6.00. cows 3.00 3.50. lambs 5.00 6.00. Grain and feed prices for corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye. hay prices. eggs, butter, produce, and meats with assorted per unit quotes and retail figures. Also includes vegetables, fruits, and seafood prices from Muscatine Produce Co. Markets.
Chicago market reports prime heavy hogs at 8.50 a hundredweight, near year’s high, with early demand urgent on packing and shipping. Prices rose up to 5c above Monday before weakening at close. Cattle outlets started strong but demand cooled. steer sales fell about 19c from Monday, best trades around 7.50, while quality remained common. Sheep and...
Lamb demand started strong with 10 15c gains but end of market slipped. Top native lambs reached 7.80. Cattle, hogs, and sheep week comparisons show mixed shifts. steers weak then steady, cows and fat cattle firmer, hogs close weak, sheep and lambs solid with prime natives at 7.85 and western lambs around 7.66 to 7.75 ground.
A Canadian firm claims a strictly harmless cure for bed wetting and nocturnal urination problems, promising a free prepaid Big Package to readers of The Journal. The notice urges sending for the remedy and to share the discovery with others.
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