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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
9
Weather prospects and strength in corn markets used to rise with limited trade. Opening quotes showed slight gains in January and May months with little sustained demand and few purchase orders amid steady offerings.
Chicago grain and provisions market figures show receipts and shipments by Mutton & Frenzel with daily and weekly comparisons. Wheat, corn, and oats prices and volumes are listed alongside regional exchanges and note reduced activity on late holidays.
Chicago and Kansas City markets show prices for dairy and poultry items with Wisconsin cheese and potato goods in focus. Buyers held steady on quantities while carloads and sacks carry varied totals, including poultry and milk product valuations and noted market activity.
The Market opened weak with broad declines across sectors. International and domestic stocks fell one to two points on renewed selling pressure as traders anticipated further revsions, with leaders like tech and commodity shares retreating amid softer overseas cues.
Markets report a smaller hog supply and tightness in prices as demand stabilizes. Chicago and Omaha cattle and hog receipts show mixed bidding with higher carcass values and steady to firm live quotes. Lambs and calves price ranges noted, while sow and pig markets reflect cautious demand and limited slaughter space.
In a partial illustration of resource importance, the text argues that meatless and wheatless days each week would save millions of pounds of meat and billions of bushels of wheat. It portrays the United States as a great nation essential to world democracy and asks if Americans should observe meatless and wheatless days without hardship.
On Tuesday December 11 1917 a sale offers 35 head of cattle 9 hogs eight spring and summer calves etc. Livestock include horses mares and colts with weights ages and driving needs. Machinery lists binders plows rakes cultivators wagons and implements. a 1947 model noted. Terms of worms and lions on grounds. auctioneers Tolm Osmer and Emil Webbles.
Amstardam reports Von Hindenburg sees Allied Supreme War Council as sign of German victory and criticizes U S efforts to raise a large army. He predicts U S will stay home, calls American methods advertising and questions transport logistics and aircraft production. He favors elastic defense on the Western Front and doubts large Russian offensives.
An official report from Washington describes bleak conditions in Austria Hungary. It notes harvests down from previous years, near total scarcity of many necessities, and prices for clothes and footwear driven up by requisitions.
Nichols High School issues open challenge to any second team in the vicinity to face their squad. Arrangements for games and dates can be made by Robert Nolan, secretary, at Nichols. The notice appears in the Pennsylvania public safety bulletin urging frugal living for wartime effort.
A public sale begins at 10 o clock Thursday December 13 featuring 12 head of horses and colts 20 head of cattle including 13 spring calves with the remainder cows and calves The auctioneers are Gows and Gibson Albin Teander Mekieo ler and others listed from the Conesville area northwest of Columbus Junction
Mixed classified items include land offerings near Lowiett County and Cedar Falls with 130 acres pasture and meadow plus water rights, farm equipment, and vehicles. Also contains wartime dispatches referencing Ireland, Bohemia, Hungary and troop movements with descriptions of conscription, resignations, and unrest across Europe.
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