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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1909
Page
9
A scrambled OCR of a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway timetable lists No. 142 and No. 108 Chicago to Kansas City services, local freights, and southwest limited routes with arrival and departure times. The fragment mentions east and west bound trains, connections, and miscellaneous notes.
Passenger and freight schedule fragment listing trains to Muscatine Wilton Davenport and California routes with connections at Elrick Junction and Wapello. Mentions train numbers 500 502 504 506 and west east directions and summer changes. Local freight details and Saturday Sunday notes included.
An Ontario based drug company claims a harmless, prepaid cure for bed wetting and urinary control issues. The notice urges readers to request a free, discreet package and share the remedy with neighbors and friends.
Chicago Mercantile notes show Wheat futures easing from early highs with December prices around 1.06, Corn fluctuating near 57 to 60, Oats near 40, Pork and Lard higher amid steady hogs. Live Stock receipts at Chicago market: cattle steady, hogs steady to firm, sheep and lambs firm with feeding grades strong, fog delaying some sales.
New York markets show poultry prices steady with chickens at 12c to 22c and turkeys at 12 to 17c, dressed poultry firm. Butter barely steady with receipts around 2,200. eggs slow at 5,200. grain markets report wheat at 1.17 and corn around 6.84. St Louis wheat at 1.07 and corn at 67c. Peoria corn No 3 at 55c.
Hogs multi grade ranges with Choice heavy at 7.85 dollars and Choice High at 7.70. Rough heavy 7.25, Stags 7.00. Choice Steers 5.00 to 6.00. Cows and Heifers 3.00 to 3.30. Lambs 5.00 to 6.00.
The International auction sales close with show cattle selling at high prices including a Colorado Shorthorn calf at 50.40 per head and Kansas Hereford calves at 50.50, most calves 20 to 20.00, feeders 5.30 to 6.00 per cwt. Noted buyers included James W. Wadsworth. Steel market dull with best at hand 8.00, mags unchanged to 8.40. Sheep and lambs firm on local demand. week shows gains 15 to 26c for sheep, lambs steady. Week five days saw cattle up 23,600 and hogs down 35,200 year over year, sheep down 22,000. Steers in narrow outlet, prices mostly 4.75 to 6.00, some 7.00 and one load 8.00. Choice heavy steers held firm but declines 15 to 25c for most under 7.50. Butcher stock firm, cows and heifers 2.50 to 4.40, canners and cutters steady, bulls steady. Feeding cattle focus on show feeders with dull on open market but Thursday basis. Hogs steady to slightly lower. heavier hogs at Thursday prices, lighter hogs down about Se to lower. Fog alters railway timings for the day.
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