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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1906
Page
8
Local notices list social visits and movements including J A Bond and Essa Wright visiting Eldon, Mrs Henry Ficken traveling to Wilton, and Mrs H Ames arriving from Nichols. For sale ads feature buggies wagons and reduced prices. Also Owen Smith visits Davenport and C S Sanitary Milk promotes pasteurized ice cream.
Local retailer H. Schmidt & Son Co advertises window display bargains on remaining stock. Items priced at 3c, 4c per roll with emphasis on profitable timing for repairs next week.
Muscatine residents and visitors appear in a town notice style list. The senior class will present A Box of Monkeys Monday night at the high school with scenery from Citizens Railway park auditorium and stage furniture donated by Stein Furniture. Edward Ralston a Westerner leads a comic plot pitting English characters against westerners with supporting roles by Glen Davis Oscar Brandt Marie Schmidt Helen Cone and others. The high school orchestra has rehearsed two weeks and will perform alongside the play and dress rehearsal drew a pleased crowd.
Chicago was idle while the Giants won and the White Sox lost a close home game to Cleveland 2 to 1. Lajoie sparred in a strong Cleveland attack, but Chicago’s lead remained with the Cubs despite an uneven day.
An advertisement touts Foley's Kidney Cure as restoring kidney function and curing kidney and bladder diseases. It asserts the product strengthens the whole system and is sold at Hayovercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Program of Pauchet's concert band to be performed Sunday at Citizens' Railway Park at 3 30 p m. The lineup includes March Sempre Fidellis Overture to Fra Diavolo Suppe Intermezzo Neilsson Waltz Wedding of the Winds Hall Baritone Love in Idleness Suet erate Macbeth Part 2 March Always Forward Selection Lucia Donizetti Cornet duet The Partners by Louis Tickle Paul.
National League games saw rain postponements in Chicago-Cincinnati while New York topped Philadelphia 6 0 and Pittsburg beat St Louis 5 4. American League Cleveland edged Chicago 3 2 and New York crushed Philadelphia 10 2. Washington beat Boston 4 0 in snow halted action. Minor leagues reported wins for Kansas City Minneapolis Milwaukee Toledo and more with high scoring affairs in Rock Island Peoria Cedar Rapids and Des Moines.
Major league matchups listed include New York at Philadelphia St Louis at Pittsburg Boston at Brooklyn and American League games Cleveland at Chicago Detroit at St Louis Philadelphia at New York and Washington at Boston.
The Dunedin trio and two women with Adam Forepaugh and Sells Bros United Shows push trick cycling to new extremes. They perform on rear wheels balance on handlebars and somersault over tables, thrilling European audiences and joining the circus season’s imported sensations.
From Monday through Saturday next week remnants of spring designs offered at 2 3 and 4 cents per roll by H Schmidt and Son Co. Window display available.
The YWCA conducts a cooking school taught by Mrs. Mary L. Wade to teach healthful economical meal preparation and tickets are for sale.
The Columbia announces moonlight excursions every Saturday in June starting this evening marking the season’s first. Additional sails include June 5 under Degree of Honor and Y M C A, and June 26. The Methodist Sardar school plans a Davenport trip on June 14 aboard the Columbia.
A brief note promotes inexpensive corn land in Texas and directs readers to consult Sterlin for excursion rates.
Chicago June 2 Associated Press report covers commodity prices for pork lard and ribs with July and September futures. It lists wheat corn oats rye flax barley and timothy markets with opening, high, low and closing ranges and notes received today.
Chicago June 2 cattle receipts at 300 with steady market. Beeves 4.10 to 6.00, cows and heifers 1.70 to 5.00, stockers 2.75 to 4.75. Hogs receipts 16,000 with prices about 5 to 10 cents lower. mixed and butchers 6.25 to 6.45, good heavy 6.39 to 6.45, rough 6.15 to 6.25, light 6.20 to 6.45, bulk sales unspecified.
Chicago June 2 Butter weaker in creameries and dairies with prices 19 and a fraction. eggs ease to 14 to 15 cents. Lambs and receipts noted. general market steadiness for sheep receipts around 1,000.
Chicago June 2 poultry market reports steady prices with turkeys at 10 cents and chickens at 11 and a half cents. The shorthand note indicates stable trading and small shifts in demand across the day.
New York June 2 Wheat July ST%e Corn July 56% c¢.
New York poultry market report shows alive stock steady on June 2 with broilers at 25 to 26 cents, fowls 13 1/2 to 14 cents, turkeys 11 to 12 cents. Dressed poultry remains quiet with broilers 22 to 26 cents, turkeys 12 to 24 cents, fowls 11 to 12 cents.
Wheat July at 79 4c. Corn July 48 1/2 cents. Oats July 34 cents. Market report from St Louis dated June 2.
New York butter remains quiet and unchanged while eggs stay steady and unchanged as of June 2.
In New York on June 2 the bank statement reports loans rising by 2,152,000 and deposits up 4,019,000 while reserves increase 1,127,000 and surplus up 122,000. Ex-US deposits fall by 170,000.
A promotional fare offers $19.00 to Boston and return with $19.00 base rate plus $1.00 from Chicago on the Nickel Plate road from May 31 to June 9, including New York excursion rates. Return by July 15 with ticket extension. Information and folders provided by John Y. Calahan, General Agent, room 298, No. 113 Adams St., Chicago.
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