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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
8
Local note lists Occident flour price at C Otto’s Sons with a sack costing 1.65 dollars. The item also mentions Bestenlehner’s corn cure and various local residents visiting relatives or traveling to Rock Island Nichols Montpelier and Fairport.
See F. Ashcraft for light globes spark plugs spark coils and compression oilers.
Roach and Musser Sash and Door Co offers durable screen doors at a bargain price of 50 cents each while supplies last. Call now to select from available styles and sizes.
Inhalation listed as a treatment for tuberculosis by Dr. Cal W Smith. Stop at Barger and Barrows 420 Mulberry for the best ice cream. Carl Braun of Braun bakery leaves today for a business trip to Davenport. The Babcock buggy is touted as best, sold by Bowman. Choir boys plan a June 9 excursion. Mrs S A Hurlbut departs for Rock Island to visit her daughter Mrs J H Hansen. A free 32 page Cake Secrets booklet is offered by Igleheart Brothers Evansville Indiana. Art Chaudoin handles house wiring. Mrs Mary E Geer departs for Boulder Colorado to visit sister Mrs Martin Reinert who marks her birth anniversary on June 7.
Miss Henriette Gremmel announces a ten week summer piano course starting in June. Advanced students admitted for harmony study. Lessons may be at home or studio 1094 Hershey Ave. Phone 327 J. Teachers urged to encourage pupil participation.
Cedar Rapids Rail Splitters to visit Muscatine for a two game weekend series with an added booster match on Sunday. Fifty cent admission funds the local aggregation while fans back the Independents. The Splitters are a fast semi pro Iowa crew with seven years of team play and recent 2 to 1 sixteen inning win over Cascade Independents. Dietz backs the Midgets and says Parlor City will host the fastest yet this summer.
The Wilton Presbytery adjourned and installed Rev. D. Tallman as pastor of the Wilton Presbyterian Church after receiving him from the Presbytery of New Albany Ind. Samuel Benson, son of Dr. Benson, passed his ordination exams and was ordained as a gospel minister. A large audience attended the installation, with charges given by Rev. N. A. McAuley and Rev. Sawyer. Adjacent Wilton notes update on residents' arrivals, travels, and events across town.
National League results include Chicago beating Rochester 7 to 4 in an exhibition, St. Louis 8 Pittsburg 4, New York 6 Boston 0, Brooklyn 2 Philadelphia 1, and Cincinnati 14 Parkersburg Virginia 6 in an exhibition. American League notes Chicago-St. Louis postponed by rain, Boston 6 New York 1, Detroit 2 Cleveland 1, Philadelphia 11 Washington 5. Minor leagues Bloomington 2 Peoria 1 Dubuque 3 Rock Island 0 Springfield 5 Decatur 1 Clinton 3 Cedar Rapids 2 ten innings Central Association Burlington 5 Oskaloosa 2 Quincy 4 Kewanee 2 Ottumwa 2 Keokuk 1 Waterloo 3 Jacksonville 1.
Miners & Co. market page lists open high low close prices for wheat corn oats pork lard ribs and hogs with figures for July September and December contracts. Hogs closed slow with estimated totals for hogs and grain futures values across July and Sept maturities.
Wheat prices listed for Chicago Market with No 2 red and hard grades, July and September futures, highs and lows, closing figures, plus No 2 and No 3 white and yellow varieties. Oats No 3 white quotes with July contract opening, highs, lows, and close.
September 37 4c lists pork at 13.67 dollars July lard at 8.55 ribs 7.45 rye cash 78 cents barley 52 62 cents Timothy and Clover show no movement indicating market stasis and mixed price signals for farm products.
Cattle receipts 4,500 strong with beef prices from 4.90 to 7.50, stockers 2.60 to 5.55, cows 2.40 to 6.40, westerners 4.65 to 6.00. Hogs receipts 24,000 steady with prices 5.05 to 5.55, bulk 5.40 to 5.50. Sheep receipts 17,000 weak to 10 lower, 3.15 to 4.90. yearlings 4.60 to 5.50. lambs 4.00 to 6.15. New York poultry steady with alive spring chickens 30c, fowls 13c, turkeys 11c. dressed varieties irregular 25c to 32c for springs, 12c to 17c for turkeys, 12c to 14c for fowls.
Butter prices steady with creamery 19 to 23 cents and dairies 17 to 21 cents. Eggs steady with firsts at 14 cents.
Chicago markets report steady poultry demand with turkeys at 14 cents and chickens at a similar range as of June 4. The note records local pricing in Chicago, Illinois.
The records show price ranges for broiers at 11 percent to 12 cents per dozen for about one pound each, $2.50 to $3.00, and smaller weights from 1 to 1.5 pounds at $4.00 to $5.00, up to 1 to 2 pounds priced $5.00 to $6.00.
New York market notes butter steady and eggs steady on June 4 with receipts of 7,460 pounds of butter and 19,183 dozen eggs. Prices show no change from previous levels as supply remains ample.
New York June 4 Wheat for July 9 st mes corn at 7 7 e market update shows prices for grain futures with July delivery and current quotes from the New York Produce Market.
St Louis June 4 Wheat July 5 Tec Corn 68 1 2 Oats 57 4ac. Prices in the St Louis Produce Market show July wheat at 5 Tec, corn at 68 and oats at 57 4ac.
Peoria Illinois market notes dated June 4 show No 3 corn priced at 74e.
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