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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1900
Page
13
The Muscatine based H J Toner & Co reports Chicago prices for wheat corn oats and hogs with receipts and openings. Dairy eggs butter and cheese quotes. live stock and carload estimates for tomorrow plus Liverpool wheat and miscellaneous commodity prices. Local staples include potatoes cabbage lemons bananas and hardware lumber prices with market tone described as unsteady to strong.
The brief notes price moves across grains and provisions show a mixed market. Chicago reports moderate flour demand with steady prices, corn and oats down, rye steady, and fair selling for barley. New York notes flour weak, No. 2 red wheat around 74 3/4 cents, corn easy at 41 cents, oats mostly steady, with options trading softer.
HOGS Market active and firm up to 5 cents. sales ranged from 4.10 to 4.72 percent for various hog categories. CATTLE Market fairly active with prices steady to strong. ranges include 6.25 to 6.60 for choice to extra steers and 2.00 to 4.85 for cows, heifers, and bulls. SHEEP Market fairly active with prices unchanged. Westerns 3.60 to 3.80, Natives 3.40 to 4.85, Western Lambs 5.00 to 6.25, native Lambs 4.50 to 6.25.
Muscatine Iowa January 16 markets show coal at $4.00 per ton and grain oats and corn mixed with shippers paying lower rates. Wheat bids range 50 to 60 cents per bushel, corn around 26 to 44 cents, oats 20 to 21 cents. Live stock includes hogs 3.50 to 3.75, sheep four dollars per cwt, calves 4.50 to 5.00, and dressed poultry and fowl at common grocer prices. Hay ranges from 4 to 9 dollars per ton.
Last night at Muscatine Lodge No 5 10 0 BF officers were installed for the ensuing year with N O J O C Hr aott V V G ieo Scholten Recording Secretary Henry Heinz and others named. The meeting closed with a caution to speak only if you have something to say.
A Detroit notice promotes Dr Dix Tonic Tablets claiming rapid cures for grippe related heart, kidney, paralysis and nerve issues. It offers a free mail trial to grippe sufferers with testimonials from Hardy Morehead, Frank Barbeau, C. M. Boyd, and Wm. Simpson and urges immediate requests.
The Muscatine Academy of Science held a meeting to decide on buying an equatorial telescope from Mogey Company for 300 dollars with full accessories. They also approved a death resolution for Mr Walton and ordered Webb's Celestial Objects as a reference book. Bert C. Benham was elected a member.
Muscatine Iowa January 1 1898 The Muscatine Ministerial Association and pastors urge a uniform Sunday school hour after morning preaching for three months to avoid youths attending multiple schools and missing worship. They note morning services could start at 1030 and end before noon, leaving 12 to 1 for Sabbath schools and families lunch after 1 30 or 2.
A birthday surprise for a young lady was held at Park Avenue with games and refreshments and all attendees left happy. Charles L. Breckon preached at the M E church on The Ten Tribes of Israel arguing the Anglo Anglo Saxon race fulfills prophecy and the sermon drew a large, attentive congregation.
The Gulf Coast between Mobile and New Orleans offers mild climate and pure air with ample hunting and fishing. First class accommodations available at moderate prices. Reachable by Louisville & Nashville routes with through cars from northern cities. Write Geo B Horner D P A St Louis for folders.
Bilkins questions Wilkins about attending a masquerade ball. Wilkins recalls a prior foolish night spent with his wife where he wasted the evening and twenty dollars when masks were removed. This casual exchange appears in a weekly column.
Arabella compares two suitors, praising George as a fine lieutenant despite losing an arm in Cuba while noting Harry as an agent of a hated trust. The dialogue frames a dilemma between a one-armed man and an octopus in a satirical tone.
Beattie, jeweler and graduate optician, changes noted. Beach leaves S. L. Cohn firm after a service period. Mrs. Fahey and son John sail on the Firefly to meet Emerson Bowman and Tim Fahey, who may need hospital care for appendicitis. Wilton train delayed by an engine hangar-pin fault. repairs finished in the round-house. Frost loosens ground. wagons sink in holes. wood shipments down across the river, with weather changes feared. Judge McCoy and Cunningham seek county records on cross-county tax matters. Two injury settlements listed in nearby towns. amounts range from 4 000 to 10 000 dollars with doctor bills.
The Republic promotes its Semi-Weekly Republic and Sunday Magazine, touting broad political coverage, nonpartisan reporting, special features, fashion illustrations, and a combined yearly rate of 1.50 if ordered together. Includes subscription details and a note on exceptional height statistics for men.
Thoroughbred men require fitted garments in fine fabrics by skilled tailors. Winter overcoats and sack suits in Oxford, Cheviot, Vienna, Kersey and Melton materials sold at reasonable prices. Repairs and cleaning services also available. Ladies jackets altered to up to date styles.
Jas H Cosgrove is listed as a merchant tailor with shop upstairs at 110 E. 2d St. The ad repeats the same name and location, emphasizing bespoke tailoring services.
The advertisement notes renewed interest in winter overcoats with several left at a notable reduction. It teases more bargains to come as cold weather returns.
Store urges customers to renew wardrobes with new shirts and neckties. Highlights fancy hose at 15c, shirts from 75c, and neckties at low prices, inviting shoppers to compare with older stock.
A rich donor who recovered her hearing through Dr. Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums contributed $10,000 to his Institute so that deaf people unable to afford the drums may obtain them free. Address 3204 The Institute 780 Eighth Avenue New York.
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