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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1910
Page
9
A collage of 1910s era classified requests and market data. Notices seek sales agents for patent remedies, shipping firms advertise services, gun shops and banks list details, while commodity and livestock quotes from Chicago and Muscatine appear alongside prices for grains, meat, dairy and produce.
Quotations furnished by J. W. Wagner & Co. stock market and Chicago Board of Trade. December closing values for corn pork lard ribs and cattle futures. Cash and opened steady receipts totaled 15,000 hogs and 1,000 cattle with light, mixed, and heavy price ranges and estimated tomorrow arrivals. Western live stock receipts show Kansas City hogs and Omaha hogs with cattle counts, while Chicago closes hogs strong and higher than yesterday.
New York markets report mixed receipts and prices across dairy poultry and grain. Creamery products hold at 23 to 23 1/2 cents. state dairies 20 to 28 cents. Poultry alive markets steady with chickens 12 to 18 cents, fowls 11 to 14 cents, turkeys 14 to 18 cents. Dressed poultry weaker with chickens 11 to 17 cents, fowls 11 to 15 cents, turkeys 16 to 22 cents. Wheat May futures at 1.0256 per bushel in New York. corn at 66 2/3 cents. St Louis and Peoria quotes show wheat around 97 1/2 and 48 1/3 to 0 cents for corn No.3 in Peoria.
In Chicago yesterday the cattle market showed a 10 cent advance across medium to good steers, with top bulls and calves posting gains. Demand remained cautious as packers faced limited cattle supply, while country feeding demand stayed brisk and prices held from last week. Beef demand at both local and eastern markets was light, keeping broader shipping needed to sustain higher prices.
Chicago December 30. Opening hog values fell 10 to 16 cents from Wednesday’s averages. Later demand lifted closing bids above session lows. Packers were liberal buyers early. shippers moved about 6,500 and 4,500 hogs remained unsold, mostly in second hands. Prices ranged narrow with top at 7.75 to 7.80 late, good mixed packing at 7.65, and hogs and butchers selling around 7.60 to 7.70. Stags 7.76 to 8.26, boars 4.00 to 4.25.
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