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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1907
Page
5
Antique Morris chair described as similar model with reversible loose cushions and quartered oak. Finished with polish on Pee Prive. Price listed as $7.00. Local sale note appears in brief classifieds format.
Extension table described as solid oak with a quartered polished round top in a sale listing. The item is identified by a model or seller tag as AEG or similar. The price noted is $15.75.
A kitchen cabinet pantry table bundle is advertised as the finest gift for a wife. The item promises to reduce daily kitchen work by saving steps and enduring pleasure for her, year after year.
Cedar Rapids ministers debate inviting Reverend Billy Sunday to speak, after a petition signed by about two hundred fifty residents urged the ministerial union to invite him. The resolution passed unanimously though some ministers questioned the plan. No date is set, but officials hope for a visit within six months at the earliest.
A humorous advertisement notes Electric Bitters as a superior cure for female weaknesses back and kidney trouble. It claims a ton of gold could not buy a better relief and promotes Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as the seller priced at 50 cents.
Columbus Junction residents report departures for Texas and California as families plan new homes and weddings. Arthur Noland and J H Wilson head to Texas with goods and build a house, Pearl Klotz travels to California to wed L P Palmer, with stops through Denver Longmont and family visits along the way.
One glance at our window tells the story with a Candy Kitchen scene at a car switch.
Sunday school teachers of the United Brethren church met at Mrs. A. J. Neidig’s Mulberry avenue home to discuss arrangements for the Christmas program. The celebration will be held the night after Christmas with each class presenting its own program and a unique overall presentation anticipated.
Teachers of the Sunday school train their pupils for Christmas at the church with many remarks among the children indicating a royal observance. The evening will reveal the numbered parts as each child is called to perform.
Funeral services for Henry Heath were conducted at his daughter Mrs A C Timberslake's home in Seventy Six township at nine this morning led by Rev P M Conant. Pallbearers included W M Riggs David Legler Adam Wigim Rudolph Alterkruse Anderson Chapman and J B Downer. Interment followed at the cemetery near Atalisesa.
One of the largest donations to the Sunday fund came from twenty-one girls employed at the Giesler Stewart Button company who contributed forty five dollars in total.
The hundredth anniversary of John Greenleaf Whittier's birth was observed today in schools and literary societies nationwide. Commemorations took place in Boston and many other communities as students and groups celebrated his literary contributions.
Markets page notes car arrivals today with Wheat at 51 cents, corn 100, oats 405. Estimated cars tomorrow show wheat 28, corn 225, oats 160, hogs 31,000. Spot values list corn No 2 yellow 65c, No 3 new 63c, No 3 yellow 56c, oats No 3 white 59 52c.
Wheat prices at Chicago today show No. 2 red 97 99 cents, No. 3 red 96 98 cents, No. 2 hard 1.00 to 1.03 dollars, No. 3 hard 97 1.02 dollars. market activity reflects typical mid December trading.
Chicago Il Dec 17 cattle receipts 4000 steady beves 215 to 610 cows heifers 120 to 450 stockers feeders 220 to 415 westerners 210 to 470 hog receipts 17000 bid higher mixed 435 to 485 light 435 to 475 heavy 430 to 485 rough 430 to 445 bulk sales 465 to 480 sheep receipts 12000 steady sheep 290 to 460 yearlings 450 to 525 lambs 375 to 630
Chicago on December 17 sees poultry markets steady with turkeys 8 to 11 cents per pound chickens 9 cents springs 8 cents.
Butter steady for creamery 20 to 28 cents adjusted to 19 to 28 cents. Dairies 17 to 25 cents. Eggs steady from 18 to 25 cents. Chicago market notes on late market trading and price ranges.
New York butter prices firm for creamery firsts at 20 21 cents with imit. and exes unchanged. Market notes indicate stable tones across the dairy goods segment on December 17.
New York market report notes dressed poultry weak with chickens 12 to 14 cents, turkeys 12 to 17 cents, and fowls 9 to 12 1/2 cents per pound. Prices reflect current market conditions as of December 17.
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