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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1912
Page
9
The Grossklaus Concrete Co promotes fireproof chimneys promising safety for homes. An ad highlights their product line and directs readers to visit at 507 East See and Streat for demonstrations and purchase.
Chicago and other markets show a dull and narrow day as traders prep for a holiday. May wheat opens down, corn slips, oats steady to firm, and pork lags with live prices mixed across futures and cash grain markets in Omaha and Peoria.
Market report notes opening highs and lows for oats and related grains in Chicago. Brief items show price movement with irregular closes, reflecting early day volatility and trading interest in nearby contracts.
Chicago and Kansas City prices show wheat and corn values with multiple grades and months listed, including No 2 and No 3 hard spring and winter wheat, No 2 yellow corn, and No 2 Northern oats. Cash grain quotes reflect mixed changes, with various price points across wheat, corn, oats, rye, and hay alongside receipts data.
Butter firm and unchanged. Cheese, Quist and unchanged. Eyes week. Fresh gathered ex tras, 33 34e, nearby henery browne, 33 34e.
In St Louis Missouri on December 24 wool prices remained steady with territories and western mediums at 21 25 cents and fine mediums at 19 2de. Kansas City lists butter prices at creamery firsts 21 cents seconds 29 cents packing 21c. The Hey train recorded 44 07 seconds 14m 2c.
New York sugar market remains steady on December 24 with Muscovado at 9 test for raw sugar and 83.42 centrifigal, 98 toat, 5.92 molasses at 94 test 83.17, and Retinad likewise steady.
Chicago and Kansas City markets report firmer cattle and robust hog and sheep trade. Receipts include 39,600 cattle and 17,000 hogs in Chicago with steady to strong prices, while Kansas City notes gains in cattle and stronger hog sales with notable demand for western and southern classes. Lambs show a boom in demand with high price levels noted for specific cuts.
Seattle receipts show 1,000 cattle and 6,800 hogs with markets higher. Cattle ranges include native steers 0.25 to 0.78, cows and heifers 3.66 to 6.65, western steers 5.40 to 8.30, calves 4.75 to 3.75. hogs at 7.15 to 7.85. sheep 3,300 head with lambs 7.00 to 8.10 and ewes 3.79 to 4.90.
The St Louis market reports cattle receipts of about 1,200 head with values showing strength. Texans, steers, cows, calves, and hogs are listed with price ranges across cows, heifers, calves, and mixed stock. Sheep receipts near 500 head show steady to higher tones with native cattle and lambs priced accordingly.
Live poultry in New York markets steady with Western chickens around 12 cents per pound, fowls at 12 to 16 cents, turkeys about 20 cents. Fresh killed western chickens around 12 cents, fowls 13 to 16 cents, turkeys 14 cents. Irregular quotations noted for Dresend Poultry.
New York December 24 The pre holiday market showed weak participation from active speculators with few trades and muted interest in prices. The money market firmed with call money at six percent up from yesterday and bonds steady. A few specialties moved violently while overall activity remained dull with about 7000 shares traded. Reports of subway negotiations added some unusual vigor to local sentiment.
Livestock prices show hogs heavy and light, hogs choice, packing, and calves with varied bids. Cows, lambs, and feeders listed with per hundred weight and plenty of poultry and feed items, including spring chickens, hens, roosters, turkeys, geese, and wheat straw, chop feed, and barley prices, reflecting a busy wholesale market in Muscatine.
The undersigned will hold a public sale at the old Jonathan Meek farm 434 miles north of Letts and 19 miles west of Muscatine beginning at 8 o clock. The notice lists the site near Cranston and details are partial due to the damaged OCR.
Tuesday December 31 1912 sale features 13 head of horses 206 cattle including milk cows calves and greers 70 hogs and a large grain and feed lot with hundreds of bushels of corn oats and timothy hay as well as farming implements like binders plows cultivators wagons and churns Lunch by Ladies Aid of Cranston TERMS cash with 10 down and balance over 16 months on bankable note at percent interest from date of sale
A miscellaneous price list shows per peck per pack per dozen and per pound rates for produce and meats. Items include potatoes sweet potatoes lettuce celery grapefruit lemons oranges bananas and various beef pork and nuts with unit prices and weights.
Fragmentary OCR lists Charles Seiler Oliver S. dolinson Auce Jrenk Beubam Clerk leaving ambiguity about exact identity and roles in a local notice. The readable portions suggest a clerical or municipal context but lack coherent details to determine event, date, or issuing body.
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