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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1914
Page
11
Dec 18 weather shows a broad high pressure zone over the north and moving east, bringing cloudy skies and a chance of light snow tonight. Temperatures steady with highs near 30s and lows in the 20s across Davenport and surrounding areas.
Market wires report Liverpool demand exceeding supply with foreign buyers showing strength in wheat and oats. US and European receipts highlighted. Chicago and Kansas City grain quotes noted with uncertain weather affecting futures. Primary data from Button, Collins & Streazel and other exchanges included.
Cash grain quotes from Chicago and St. Louis markets show bids for Wheat, Oats, and Corn with various No. 2 and No. 3 white and yellow grades. Prices include No. 2 yellow at 68 to 88 cents and No. 2 white around mid-60s, with other labeled standard and special grades noted but specifics obscured by OCR garble.
Grain prices listed for Wheat and Corn with no. 2 yellow and white varieties. The fragment shows pricing and stock symbols, indicating a market update from Omaha Nebraska.
Grain market brief notes steady to mixed prices across wheat and corn futures. Manitoba grades quoted with No 1 and No 4 positions. Manitoba logistics referenced. Antorlean mixed futures around $4.11, with quiet corn activity and soft daylight tonnage mentions.
Fragmentary grain market notes from Peoria listing odd terms and dates with unclear figures. Contains garbled entries such as whitey and standard references, insufficient data to determine prices or commodities precisely.
Chicago market news reports much larger hog receipts than expected causing price declines. Cattle were steady or weak and trade in sheep and lambs was active but with limited demand. Source notes indicate a cautious tone in mid December trading.
Chicago and St Louis market reports show cattle receipts near 44,000 and 7,500 hogs with steady to firm bids. Native beef steers bring around 7.50 to 12.00, cows, calves, and bulls vary, muttons around 4.50 to 8.85, and hogs near 6.16 to 7.35 per hundredweight amid active trading.
Kansas City market report shows hog receipts around 5000 with steady demand. Prices listed for various hog types and weights, plus cattle receipts near 1600 with steer and heifer prices, cows and stockers also noted. Additional quotes reference yearling and feeder categories with price ranges.
Hogs receipts 7,800 head with a steady market. prices led by $7.05 to $7.15 for select lots and $6.95 to $7.40 for others. Cattle and calves receipts 600 head with steady tone. cows and heifers around $5.00 to $6.50, yearlings $7.00 to $7.50. New York poultry market shows weaker tone with Western chickens 12 to 14 cents, fowls 11 to 14 cents, turkeys 16 to 19 cents, fresh fowls 17 to 19 cents.
New York dairy products market data from December 18 shows butter and creamery items with steady to rising quotes. Receipts include 6 818 tubs of butter primers, creamery extras and firsts listed with varying prices amid a generally steady market.
garbled market notes show Chicago Produce Market figures with unclear butter and potato mentions and a London silver price line from Associated Press. The text includes stray figures and misread names, but indicates commodity pricing mixed with currency percent notes and lease references.
New York stock dealings opened weak and slipped further as heaving selling pressed many major issues. Early gains faded, Amalgamated, Atchison, Gren, Northern, Lehigh Valley and others fell while steel issues showed relative steadiness amid light offerings and possible short selling. The interstate commerce commission ruling easing some railroad demands appeared to cushion losses. Bond markets remained heavy with new lower records set in early trading.
At noon the sugar market showed no change to seven points higher with spot market steady. Centrifugal sugar quoted at 2.25 dollars per hundredweight and molasses sugar at 62 cents. Refined grades unchanged as warehoused. In Kansas City butter and creamery products listed with prices for grades and seconds, poultry and turkeys noted with varying rates.
Associated Press leased wire from St Louis reports poultry values with small changes. Ducks and country products show minor shifts while grains and produce listings remain largely steady in early December market bulletin.
Muscatine market items include Buff Rock and turkey listings, feed and grain prices, hay, cane sugar, vegetables, fresh meats and staples. Local farm goods and prices for corn, oats, rye, cabbage, cucumbers, carrots, turnips, peppers, sugar, and meat cuts are shown alongside warehouse items and odd notes. The snippet also notes a Woodmen meeting in Amarion schedule.
A quarantine permit allows a public auction at the old Henry Wildasin farm one mile south of Wilton and eleven miles north of Muscatine. The sale details outline the location and timing for the transactio n.
Auction listing from Geo Kane notes Tuesday sale of 6 horses and mules 2 gray geldings mares aged 3 to 9 years, 21 head of cattle including 4 good Jersey cows 2 Poll Angus heifers and 3 yearlings, 18 Chester White hogs 1 boar and 18 sows plus breeding stock, farm implements nearly new and grain seed stock with 3000 bushels corn in crib 13 bushels seed corn and other equipment. train stops at farm with Muscatine departure time 19:00 and return stop at farm 4:00.
A garbled society page lists lodge and chapter invitations, meetings, officers, and social groups. It mentions HINGTON CHAPTER No 4 BR and Stated convocation notes, Demolay Commander, Court of Zono e, Banner Lodge No 10, Degvee of Honor Sewing Society, and Musquotine Tribe No 3 with dates and contact lines faded.
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