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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1908
Page
9
First Trust and Savings Bank of Muscatine Iowa filed its year end report with the Auditor of State as required by law, closing business on February 14 1908.
The 1908 securities and cash holdings of German American Savings Bank Muscatine Iowa are itemized with assets including discounted notes and bonds, cash on hand, and various coinage. Liabilities show deposits, capital paid in, undivided profits, and amounts owed to other banks and borrowers.
Balance sheet style entry shows Conesville Savings Bank Muscatine County Iowa listing assets and liabilities as of February 410 1908. It details gold and silver coin bullion legal tender and bank notes, drafts, overdrafts, and values of real and personal property with total assets and liabilities figures including deposits and rediscounts.
Bank in Muscatine Iowa files an official audit detailing assets including cash, coins, loans, real and personal property, and deposits. It lists liabilities to depositors and total capital, with sworn statements by President T Maxwell and Cashier L B Smith and notary attestations.
Bank balance sheet dated February 14 1908 for Muscatine County shows assets including cash deposits with Cedar Rapids Nat Bank and Chicago Drovers Deposit National Bank. Liabilities list sight and time deposits with total assets and undivided profits. officials certify honesty of figures. Also notices for Muscatine area social and fraternal organizations with meeting times and officers.
An old advertisement promotes ZEMO a topical liquid from E W Rose Med Co St Louis Missouri claiming it heals eczema and pimples by drawing germs to the surface then destroying them. Sample available. sold by A W Morgan 107 West Second Street and all druggists carry it.
In Harrisburg Illinois on February 25 D H Dillon a former Chicago gambler was chained to a telephone post in the lock up for refusing to pay a fine after fleecing several local youths in a poker game. Police say the punishment was ordered by Judge McKenzie and will continue daily until the fine is paid or he works on the streets.
Lee Hart, a local coal hauler, fatally shot Mrs. Joseph Edwards and seriously wounded her husband in Lamar Missouri. He then killed himself by lying on a railroad track as a fast express train passed. His wife was shot at but escaped with minor injuries.
The market report shows grain prices for May wheat at 94 95, July 88 90, corn 60, oats 52, and live stock bids with cattle receipts at 4,000 and hogs at 22,000. Beef, veal, and lamb ranges listed. poultry steady with turkeys 12 cents and chickens 10 to 12 cents.
Butter in Chicago steady at 20 28 cents for creamery and dairy varieities. Eggs in Chicago steady at 17 18 cents. New York butter and egg market shows butter easier with factory firsts 23 cents and eggs easier with firsts 21 cents and seconds 2 cents.
Chicago market notes grain oats corn and rye futures with March May and July contracts. Prices for pork lard ribs and barley and timothy are listed with opening highs lows and closes for each contract. The report records extensive price data across multiple commodities.
New York poultry market summary for February 25 indicates dressed poultry firm. Chickens bring 11 to 17 cents per pound, turkeys 12 to 18 cents, and fowls 10 to 14 cents per pound.
Peoria market note from February 25 lists corn at No 55 technical grade.
The listing shows commodity prices including corn and oats at several cents, wheat at retail ranges, cracked corn and pop corn prices, bran oil meal shorts and barley per weight, country eggs at market and retail, chop feed hay butter prices, and live-market shippers terms with choices for heavy and light cattle, stags, steers, cows, bulls and veal calves with respective price ranges.
Market rates show lambs five to six dollars and sheep four to five dollars. Fresh eggs at one and a half cents per dozen, butter and packing stock prices, poultry marks listing hens at six to eight cents per pound, ducks geese and turkeys with varied prices. Vegetables and fruits priced per peck, bunch, or dozen with items like cabbage onions carrots and lemons. Meats including beef pork veal and mutton listed with per pound prices. miscellaneous retail items such as sugar flour cheese and canned goods included. Fresh fish and other seafood priced per pound.
Public notices list meetings for G A Knights Post 251 Cole of Honor Muscatine Court 677 and Muscatine Lodge 304 Elks. Posts meet on Tuesdays and Mondays at local halls with visiting members welcome. Officials named include J H Munroe Gus Schmidt H G Schuellig Coster and Dr H Johnson Dean along with E B W Richards.
The BROTHERHOOD OF AMERICAN YEOMEN Muscatine Homestead No 336 meets on the first and third Wednesday evenings in Maccabee Hill. Members in good standing are invited. visiting Yeomen welcome. E C Ingraham is foreman and Mrs KE Ingraham is correspondent at 510 West 6th Street.
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