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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
8
Local items report Samuels dipped caramels and Vielenlehner corn cure advertised. Harris of West Branch in Muscatine on business. Roach and Musser Sash and Door sells black wood at 4 dollars a load. Insurance ad and several visitors from Chicago and Letts. Nine and seven room houses for sale. Babcock buggy loads arrive. Banquet by Musquitine Tribe No 95 on Feb 13th. Floy Murphy returns home from Eldon after visit.
The annual banquet of the local Y M C A physical department will be held Tuesday March 31 in the gymnasium. Fred B Barnes of New York City will deliver the principal address as international secretary of the Y M C A physical department. Local Auxiliary members may serve the supper.
Invite to visit the shop as a temporary hub offering coffee and biscuits. Patrons are encouraged to drop by on any day of the week to connect, browse, and enjoy light refreshments in a casual in-store setting.
Chicago Board of Trade notes grain and livestock prices with May and Sep futures for Wheat Corn and Oats and May July contracts for Pork Lard Ribs and Hogs. Cash receipts show Wheat Corn Oats and other commodities moving through Chicago market channels.
Chicago cattle receipts 6000, higher ranges $3.90 to 6.10 for beef. cows and heifers $1.85 to 4.75. stockers and feeders $2.70 to 4.80. Hogs receipts 36000, weak. light $4.20 to 4.42, mixed $4.20 to 4.40, heavy $4.20 to 4.47, bulk $4.35 to 4.80. Sheep receipts 12000, weak. ewes $3.20 to 5.30, lambs $5.60 to 6.90, yearlings $5.40 to 6.25.
Butter quotes were steady with creamery at 22 to 32 cents and dairies at 21 to 29 cents. Eggs were weak selling for 18 to 19 cents.
Chicago February 15 markets report poultry prices steady with turkeys and chickens firm. Turkeys at 12 cents per pound, chickens 12 cents, springs 32 cents.
New York poultry prices show firm movement on February 13 with alive chickens at 12 cents per pound, fowls at 14 to 14.5 cents, and turkeys around 14 percent. Dressed birds remain steady with chickens at about 10 and fowls near 10 to 13 percent, while turkeys list around 14 percent.
New York February 13 wheat for May delivery at 1.01 and corn at 69.16 cents. The market report lists prices from the New York Produce Market with May wheat at 1.01 dollars and corn at 69.16 cents per bushel.
St Louis market notes report wheat May at 90 3/4 cents, 690%c, corn 57 cents, oats 50 4 1/2 cents.
In Peoria on February 13 the corn market shows No. 3 grade priced at 52 percent.
Aberdeen Wisconsin wires that Jimmie Butler of England defeated Al Smith of California in the fifteenth round last night. Farm loans for March 1st settlements noted with F. S. Pentzer at 109 E. 2nd Street.
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