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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
6
Anica Carskaddan and I Pepper are listed as attorneys at 122 West Second Street Muscatine Iowa with Iowa telephone contact. The snippet presents a law firm card noting legal representation services.
Mason City Iowa December 29 Milwaukee officials exonerate its engine blame Rock Island engineer for failing to heed continuous signals and losing control of train at Plymouth Junction Christmas Eve. Passengers warned in smoking car as Rock Island wrecked depot damage and two men lightly injured. locomotive headlight smokestack and boiler front damaged.
In Muscatine at the German Werhodist par sonage the marriage of Mrs. Chas Stickney of Muscatine to Cary P Rhodes of Wapello was performed by Rev. W G Schultze. The bride’s sister Mrs D R Foster and husband attended. The couple, former Columbus Junction residents, will reside in Wapello where the groom operates a barber shop.
A variety of social notes from Wilton Iowa recount visits by Misses Helmick Hubert Wetfeld Muscatine Yankton and others. Attendees include attorney F Ari Martin visiting Muscatine and families from Cedar Rapids Davenport Ames Atalissa and Maquoketa continuing holiday travel and local engagements.
Chicago and regional markets report mixed commodity activity with wheat, corn, oats, rye, and livestock prices. Wheat futures show slight shifts, cattle and hog markets display strength in hogs and thinning demand for cattle, while dairy and produce prices hold steady amid holiday trading.
New York markets report steady butter with steady receipts and creamery shifts. Eggs show strength with several grades listed and varying prices. Poultry dressed prices ease for chickens fowls and turkeys noted. Grain markets: wheat and corn prices for December shown in New York St Louis and Peoria with slight declines noted.
Livestock auction results show hogs at 8.00 for choice heavy and 7.85 for choice light, hogs at 97.50 for Ronga heavy, Milne slabs PFA with choice steers at 5.00, cows and heifers around 3.50, lambs at 5.00, and veal soles at 4.50. Market details include various classifications and prices across stock categories.
Hogs sold at 8.75 dollars, highest since February 1893, with 12,000 head receipts. Packers pushed prices down late. cattle trading dull, best steers at 7.10. Sheep and lambs uneven, fed western lambs at 8.25 and natives at 8.40, natives 5.85. Week totals show cattle up 1,300, hogs down 48,400, sheep down 23,100 vs prior week. cattle up 4,100, hogs up 41,000, sheep up 113,709 vs last year.
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