Local News Highlights From Muscatine Area
Local notes report visiting friends and business matters in Muscatine and surrounding towns. Mentions include chautauqua attendance, grocery and meat market offerings, wagon and buggy sales ads, farm land prices, and various residents traveling between Letts Davenport and Mt. Pleasant.
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C. Wilkinson
Sheator, HL
Bowman
Dennis Dwyer
Wilton
Muscatine
Cr. W. Kulp
Davenport
People’s Meat Market
A. C. Piurel
Mt. Pleasant
Dr Kings New Discovery Cures Coughs and Colds
Coughs and colds are claimed to be cured by Dr Kings New Discovery guaranteed with bottles at 50 cents and 1 dollar sold by Havercamps Prescription Drug Store.
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Dr. King
Havercamp
Chautauqua Bargains on Saturday July 20
Bargains list includes staple goods and textiles. Highlights cover ready-made pillow slips seamless sheeting unbleached and bleached sheets and crochet quilts with marked reductions from standard prices.
Parasol Sale Attracts Wide Price Range
Beautiful new parasols for ladies misses and children offered at varied prices. Special Saturday event invites shoppers to come see parasols priced from a few cents to several dollars, with white and colored options and assorted skirts also advertised.
Tillman on race and equality debate ignites charges
The speech rails against Booker T. Washington and racial mixing, arguing blacks and whites cannot be equal and condemning immigration and other races. It cites historical wrongs against Native Americans, Chinese exclusion, and foreign policy to justify segregationist views.
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Washington
Booker T. Washington
White Dress Suits sale at Chautauqua up to $25 value
Fifty new white ready-made suits and dresses offered at half price. Styles include jumper and princess one-piece outfits in sizes 32 to 42. Suits priced from 1.98 to 10.00, promising a stylish look for Saturday shoppers.
Corsets Offered in Broad Range at Low Prices
Fifty dozen corsets at 50 cents per pair, 59 dozen styles for ladies and girls in batiste and summer net. Various models from hip to high bust, with hose supporters, sizes 18 to 30. Prices from 39 cents to 3.98 for silk corsets. Promotes a top corset department in eastern Iowa.
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Iowa
Great Sale Petticoats at One Dollar This Saturday
One hundred white muslin petticoats with lace or embroidery and dust ruffle offered at one dollar each. Lace flounce alone would cost over a dollar. Sizes vary with actual value ranging from two to twenty five dollars. Come Saturday for the bargain of the year.
Farm Loans for Sale Offer Promises Safe Investment
An advertisement touts farm loans for sale with minimum $100 investments and claims of safety. It invites readers to call or write for details.
Question of race sparks tense public debate
A speaker warns that a major racial conflict could erupt if whites and blacks fail to settle tensions. He calls the issue serious and says he has provided facts to provoke thought about unity and brotherhood.
Commendation for Dr Shaffer on bronchial throat care and glasses
John F Hankammer praises Dr Shaffer for two years of treatment improving his voice and health. He notes success in bronchial and throat troubles and fitting glasses, expressing confidence in the doctor's mastery of these cases and wishing divine guidance in his profession.
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Shaffer
John F. Hankammer
Local Produce Prices For Canning Season
Prices for Mason jars eggs butter poultry and vegetables listed by Muscatine market sellers. Jars pints per dozen at 45 cents, quarts 50, half gallon 65. Eggs 13 cents retail, fresh eggs 12 cents per dozen, butter 16 to 22 cents per pound. Poultry live prices vary by type, with turkeys live 12 to 15 cents, dressed 12 to 15 cents, hens 9 to 10 cents. Vegetables include cabbage onions turnips beets carrots cucumbers greens and more with per unit and per dozen or per peck pricing. Local live market shippers rates shown as choice heavy 5.25 dollars, light 5.40, rough 4.75, stags 4.50.
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Muscatine Produce Co
Roosters
Chicago Markets Furnished by Miner and Co
Market report from Chicago on July 19 shows futures for Wheat Corn and Oats with open high low and close figures. Prices listed for May July Sept and Dec contracts plus pork lard ribs and cash grain quotes and receipts of cars at the market.
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Miner & Co
Chicago Board of Trade
H. J. Frentzel
Chicago
S.c
Fragmentary Market Ticker Numbers and Color Codes
OCR reads varied lot numbers and color codes with fractions and prices. Entries mention No 2 and No 3 categories in yellow white and other colors with small fractions and notes of nothing doing. The text resembles a commodity or stock ticker with incomplete values.
Chicago Live Stock Market Report July 19
Chicago markets show cattle receipts at 2500 with steady prices. beeves 4.60 to 7.25. cows and heifers 1.50 to 5.50. stockers and feeders 2.80 to 5.00. good prime steers 5.70 to 7.25. Hog receipts 17000 steady to slightly higher. various classes range 5.25 to 6.10. good heavy 5.80 to 5.90. bulk 5.75 to 5.95. Sheep receipts 5000 weak. yearlings 6.00 to 6.60. lambs 5.73 to 7.50.
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Chicago
Chicago Butter and Egg Market Update
Butter steady at creameries 21 25c and dairies 18 4 2216c. Eggs steady at 13 14c. Chicago market report dated July 19.
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Chicago
Chicago Poultry Prices Reported For July 19
Chicago market shows turkeys at 12 cents, chickens 11 4 cents, springs 15 1 16 cents. New York butter firm, eggs steady. New York poultry alive steady with springs 20 cents, fowls 15 cents, turkeys 10 to 11 cents, dressed not consistent, chickens 18 to 23 cents, fowls 12 to 13 cents.
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Chicago
New York
Wheat and corn prices from New York and St. Louis markets
New York Wheat Sept 9 8c? or 9c? corn 9 9%c. St Louis Wheat Sept 9%c corn 51%c oats 37c.
Peoria Corn Market Report for July 19
Peoria market summary shows Corn No. 3 priced at 51 1/2 cents per bushel. Weather and demand factors influence daily trading as buyers monitor futures and regional production.
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Peoria
Muscatine Markets Report Prices and Grain Figures
Corn market 55c per bit oats 40 42c wheat 75 80c retay 1.00 Cracked corn retail 1.35 per cwt pop corn on ear 1.15 to 1.25 shelled 1.40 to 1.75 per cwt pop per peck 30c Bran retail 1.10 to 2.15 per cwt oil meal retail 1.60 per cwt shorts retail 1.15 to 1.20 per cwt barley dealers pass 45c to 2c
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Kranz, Owa Avenus
Graff
Jelry
Geo. W. Reuling’s
Bestentehner
S. Turkington
Letts
Chautauqua
E. B. Carter
C. E. Richard & Sons
W. J. Way and Wife
Carson, In
W. H. Graff
Wheeler's Grocery
C. A. Bary
Des Moines
C. M. Teeters
Keokuk
Jackson Electric Supply Co
Wheeler’s Grocery
W. D. Peck
T. W. Barkoff
Columbus Junction
W. J. Radabaugh
L. C. Wormer
Wapello
Geo. W. Reuling
F. H. Lambrecht
Lee Stirlen
Riverview
Robert Lee
West
David Worsham
Bond
Lowa Avenue
R. E. Grimes
Moline
W. P. Hummel
E. S. Oakley
West Second Street
Iowa Publishing Co
Texas Pan
Chase Land Co
Gertrude Cassidy
Iowa City
Boston
Tillman
Philippines
Earth
G. M. Titus, Pres
Titus Loan& Investment Co
Iowa Avenue
East Hill
Stags
Wiliams
Melba
Red Cross
Fords For Women
Wilson
St. Louis
Muscatine Markets
Journal
California
Hinkel & Flannery
H. Schmidt & Son Co
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