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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1912
Page
9
Local ad notes top prices for butter and ooga from Mark Bros Grocers at Cow Sth and Mulberry, phone 1304. Chaudoin offers the Hot Point Electric Iron with a five year guarantee. The Concrete Co promotes £60 concrete chimneys and references 507 East Gx for best results.
Chicago and Kansas City grain and livestock markets react to reduced European supply and weather risks. Prices edge up for soybeans and corn while wheat advances on export demand. Cattle and hog futures show mixed to firmer tones as buyers weigh near term supply versus global demand. Benchmark quotes and receipts indicate a cautious market, with some months showing steady gains and others slipping before late session fluctuations.
For sale two story frame house with six large rooms and a good barn. Includes a wood shed chicken coop and a 14 by 16 foot corn crib. All-wind condition and fruit trees. Owner will sell for considerably less than actual value. Showings arranged soon.
Kansas City market figures show cattle and hogs with mixed bids. Trade includes prices around $4.60 to $8.60 for various cattle classes, with livestock counts listed in thousands. figures are partially legible and reflect diverse prices and lots across market stands and packing houses.
Market notes from South Omaha and St Louis listings show cattle receipts and varied prices. Native and stocker cows, feeders, and bulls display broad quotes with prices around 4.50 to 6.50. hogs and pigs noted with several dollar ranges. Mixed lots and heavy weights appear, with scattered market commentary and receipts figures.
The St Joe market shows active receipts with 000 head of cattle and hogs traded. Beef and dairy items reported. prices include $6.30 for drovers and midwest buys. Poultry steady with turkeys and dressed hens indicated. potatoes and other produce noted with regional receipts across Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin markets.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions New York related produce and beds, with broken phrases about dates and numbers. The readable content is unclear but indicates a list-like notice of items and quantities, lacking coherent event details or outcomes.
The market showed unexpected strength with broad buying, leaders like Copper and Western Railroad in notable demand. Call money moved higher, with dull Holiday trading, yet early gains persisted as Amalgamated and other favorites advanced. The session closed firmly, ending the year with strength rebounding from earlier weakness and a surge past prior levels.
Market notes from New York and St Louis list sugar prices around 2.73 dollars per unit and poultry items such as fowls and chickens with assorted weights. Kansas City and St Louis markets include butter and wool items with several price entries and unclear spellings.
Market listings show livestock and poultry rates with prices for cattle cows and steers, sheep, lambs, calves, and various poultry items. Prices are given per head or per dozen in a compact historical market column.
Public sale of a large eastern Town property with a nine room house hot and cold water barn cattle sheds wells and orchards, plus a fenced farm in cultivation and a 150 by 150 foot city lot with fruit trees. Also a complete molasses making outfit and terms to be announced on sale day.
A fragmented OCR style inventory lists poultry ducks pigeons and various meats. It shows prices for spring chickens ducks turkey parts and other farm staples along with retail quantities for items such as oats wheat bran cornmeal and butter. The page also mentions potatoes onions celery grapefruit oranges pears bananas and mixed fruits with per pack or per dozen pricing cues.
Society card notices list regular meetings for Masons and related orders in Bloomington area. Entries mention Iowa Socom No 2A Fy and ASE, Washington Chapter No 4, Webb Council of Loyal and Select Masters, Masonic Hall meetings, Mel Norte and other lodges, with officers and meeting times on second Fridays and other monthly dates. Banquet spaces include B.F. Badman’s Grocery Store and Queen’s meeting places. details include contact names and phone numbers for officers and secretaries.
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