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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1911
Page
9
Weather in Argentina souring wheat prices as supplies rise and demand weakens. Corn gains marginally on commission-house buying while wheat slips. May contracts edge lower then recover slightly. Domestic weakness in yards tilts sentiment, pork and lard futures also soften amid overall pressure on grains.
Market bulletin outlines open high low and close figures for May and December contracts. Notes include corn and oats with partial price data and percent changes, reflecting a volatile trading period amid limited readable detail.
F M Baker conducts a public sale on the old John Baker farm ten miles south of Tipton and 414 miles southeast at Rochester. The sale includes 29 horses, 218 hogs, 49 cattle, 80 bushels of corn, a buggy, harness, manure spreader, and other articles. Terms require cash under $10 and credit up to one year for larger sums with bankable notes at 6 percent interest. Auctioneer Gene Fagan. Clerk W D Harris.
Market page lists grain bids for multiple grades including corn and durum. Prices shown include No 2 yellow corn around 1.02 to 1.05 per bushel, No 4 spring durum around 0.90 to 0.93, and white and yellow corn variants with various small differences. figures reflect late season bids and unsettled margins typical of Chicago cash grain trading.
Daily movement of grain shows wheat at 0 cars with 4 contract grade, corn 390 cars with 0 of contract grade, and tote receipts higher than last week. Kansas City and St Louis markets list mixed prices and futures with notes on wheat and corn futures, while overall hay and items in St Louis steady with modest price points.
Omaha Nob Dee l Wheat and corn prices show slight fluctuations with several grades listed. Quotes indicate mixed movement for No 2 white and yellow corn and various wheat futures across the market, reflecting modest trading activity.
Liverpool grain market closes show mixed futures with spot prices steady. Corn and oats listed with January and May futures, while winter patents and other contracts move modestly. High variability evident in price quotes and dates.
Peoria grain market notes offer a compact ledger of corn and white varieties with mixed quality labels and numeric codes. The fragmented text lists No 2 white No 4 yellow standard and mixed categories, with unclear weights and terminal markings, reflecting a rough OCR capture of commodity prices.
Minneapolis Minnesota dated December 11 reports results with trading notes on grain prices and receipts. References to buyers sellers and auction activity include figures like 90320 and mentions of northern buyers and No 2 northerns.
Chicago Produce Market and New York Poultry Market notes show mixed prices and varying yields. Entries list poultry and eggs with percentages, and produce items including cheese and daisies. Kansas City Produce reports butter, eggs, and stock numbers with prices in cents.
Chicago market reports show cattle receipts near 38 000 with prices down 10 cents. Western feeders and calves range around 4 to 6 dollars. hogs steady to slightly higher. sheep and lambs weaker with notable volume around 43 000 for sheep. Kansas City also reports cattle receipts about 15 900 with varied prices across steers, cows, and calves.
South Omaha market notes show steady cattle and hog trading with receipts around 6 400, heavy and mixed classes priced near 6.00 to 6 00, lambs and muttons listed, and Western steers around 2 50. St Louis and St Joseph reports mirror steady to firm tone with cattle, hogs, and sheep receipts and varied price ranges.
A garbled stock list from New York includes Amalgamated Comper and American Beet Sugar along with American Car and Foundry American Sugar Refining Anaconda Mining Atchison and Baltimore and Company, with several names incomplete or misspelled. The fragmentary items suggest a market listing but fail to present prices or full company names.
Masonry and social orders list regular meetings for Muscatine lodges. notes include Bossier, Muscatine Lodge No. 804, Court of Moromore, Muscatine Tribe No. 95, and Order of the Western Star chapters with meeting times, locations, and contact names. Also ads for services, real estate, and legal notices appear among the notices.
A fragmented Brooklyn and regional market page lists train lines including Canadian Pacific, Chesapeake, Illinois and Michigan canals, and Northern Pacific networks with various interboroughs. It features a dense price table for live hogs, beef, pork, veal, poultry, and farm goods with mixed North American farm product pricing and rail-linked exchanges.
Reports credit AM OR-OU with improving reflex nervous cases and various symptoms such as weak circulation fatigue insomnia and appetite issues. It is touted as a tonic builder restoring strength and vitality, especially in aged persons, and is sold at A. W. Morgans Rexall Store at 107 West Second in Muscatine.
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