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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1915
Page
9
Weather conditions report scattered showers and thunderstorms across the area with notable rainfall in Boston and New York. Pressure generally below normal, high pressure over Alberta, and an eastward movement bringing partly cloudy to clearing weather later today. Temperature and rainfall details are noted for today.
Chicago July grain market notes wheat leads gains as prices firm after early rise. Corn and oats follow wheat with firming trends and provisions held in a narrow range. Toledo Grain Market reports seed prices and cash bids with receipts and shipments data from Hutton, Collies & Crenzel.
Associated Press leased wire from New York reports a lull in rubber, steel, American Can, and Minnil Copper shares during the first hour on the stock exchange. Rubber meeting delayed until late day, causing a temporary setback in rubber stock. General Chemical rose ten points to 280, while bonds moved lower amid broad inactivity.
A scrambled OCR fragment lists various race, color, and odds codes such as carn, yellow, white, and dollar amounts like 1.2533 and 1.704. No coherent event, participants, or outcomes are discernible.
Chicago and St Louis cash grain figures for July 1 show wheat No. 2 red around 1.11 to 1.16, corn No. 2 yellow about 0.75 to 0.76, oats No. 3 white near 0.944, lard at 9.37, pork around 16.80, and barley and clover values. St Louis cash quotes list mixed wheat, corn, oats, and white oats with various No. 2 and No. 3 grade prices.
Grain prices for Wheat Corn and Hay listed for Kansas City with No 9 hard at 1.26 to 1.34, No 2 red 1.18, No 2 mixed 3e, No 2 white 4Awe, No 2 yellow 75e. Liverpool reports Wheat No 1 northern Duluth 11s 3d and No 2 hard winter 11s 4d. St Louis Market notes poultry butter and wash products.
The Iowa State Board of Education announced eleven new members for the University of Iowa faculty for 1915 16. Names include Dr A H Beifeld Prof Ernest Horn Prof Ellsworth Faris J H Scott Henning Larsen and Katherine Rutledge among others with appointments in pediatrics education English home economics graphic arts and more. Also report of a drowning incident at Town City park where Rev CG Allison his wife and infant son Paul faced danger. the baby was rescued and resuscitated with nursing care.
Chicago July 1 hog market shows moderate receipts with slow trading yet ranges hold firm in some categories. Hogs 20 000 head. bulk 7.60 to 7.80. heavy 7.06 to 7.80. pigs 6.25 to 7.70. Cattle 5 000 head steady to slow. steers 6.86 to 9.90. cows and heifers 3.26 to 9.50. calves 7.25 to 10.60. Sheep 15 000 head weak. lambs 7.00 to 10.26.
Hogs receipts 8,000 head. market higher. Bulk 7.60 to 7.70. heavy 7.60 to 7.65. pigs around 7.50 to 7.50. Cattle receipts 3,000. market strong. Steers 7.50 to 9.65. cows and heifers 4.50 to 9.50. calves 6.00 to 10.25. Sheep receipts 3,000. market lower. Lambs 9.25 to 9.80. yearlings 6.25 to 6.53. wethers 5.25 to 6.25. ewes 5.00 to 5.50.
Hogs receipts 6,600 head with higher market. Pigs and weights 6.50 to 7.00, heavy 7.85 to 7.97. Cattle receipts 1,800 head market strong. Steers 7.40 to 9.50, cows and heifers 6.00 to 9.40, calves 6.00 to 10.50. Sheep receipts 9,500 head market lower. Muttons 5.00 to 5.26, spring lambs 7.50 to 10.10.
Receipts at South Omaha total 7,500 head with higher market. Heavy cattle at 7.45 to 7.55, pigs 7.40 to 7.50, bulk 7.40. Cattle receipts 2,700 with steers 7.25 to 9.35, cows and heifers 6.00 to 8.25, calves 8.00 to 10.00. Sheep 10,000 receipts with yearlings 6.40 to 7.60, wethers 5.85 to 6.60, lambs 9.00 to 9.86. New York poultry and produce markets noted with live Western broilers 23 to 24c, turkeys 11 to 12c, dressed poultry 18 to 22c, butter 28 to 46c, eggs 18 to 23c, cheese steady.
Kansas City market data from Associated Press Leased Wire lists butter creamery at 27 cents, firsts 25 cents, seconds 2.30, and other dairy items. Poultry prices show hens at 12 cents, roosters 9 to 10 cents, broilers 19 to 22 cents.
Twenty Thoroughbred Jersey females and eight Grade Cows with Thoroughbred Jersey sires, all young cows with three exceptions, all in milk or due to calve, high testing, in good health and condition. Sale location Montpeier Iowa contact Bell Davenport.
Fourth of July observances include early post office closure at 9 30 with carrier windows only from 9 to 9 30. Rural and city carriers will not make morning trips. most business houses plan to close, reducing district traffic. Also notes bereavement thanks from local families and an Associated Press item about Mrs. Alexander M Thackeray Sherman’s daughter illness in Paris.
Market notes show hogs and heavy packing stock with choice hogs and steers listed. Prices include 7.258 dollars for some hog categories and 6.75 to 8.00 dollars for others, reflecting wholesale trade levels in Muscatine.
Chicago July 1 butter unchanged ev es changed potatoes unsettled new receipts twenty six ears Virginia cobblers priced at 1.75 to 1.85. Poultry alive lower fowls 12 to 13 cents per pound springs 18 to 22 percent. Receipts totaled 10 934 cases with unsettled market indications.
In Peoria on July 1 yellow corn No 2 traded at 4 1 4 percent, No 2 mixed 74 1 4 percent, oats No 2 white 48 1 4 percent. Omaha July 1 wheat hard ranged 1.23 to 1.27, corn varieties 71 1 2 to 72 1 2, No 2 10 1 2 to 1 1 2 percent. New York July 1 raw sugar firm 4.80 to 4.95 per hundredweight, molasses 4.03 to 4.18, refined steady.
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