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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1906
Page
7
The Guarantee Loan Co offers quick loans secured by personal property such as horses cows carriages pianos and household goods. Goods remain in the borrower's possession and business is confidential. They operate evenings Wednesdays and Saturdays from 7 to 9.
Henry Fiedler of Geneseo left for Wapello to visit friends for a few days. L Eichelberger sails Firefly to Montpelier to visit his daughter. E C Pete leaves for Daveenane to spend the day with friends. J McGinnis of Crown Point heads to Lone Tree for a short visit. Mrs E L Paschao returns from the Firefly to Columbus City. Ice cream from C S Sanitary Milk Co is advertised. R G MacDougal leaves Burlington on the Firefly after a stay in the city. Henry Edson travels on the Firefly toward New Orleans for summer. North Prairie M E church hosts ice cream and strawberry social June 16. Panchet leads First M E Sunday school excursion to Davenport and Rock Island. Weather predicts a fine river day.
Daily briefs report multiple residents traveling on the Firefly and Western trains to Davenport Cedar Rapids Chicago and Wapello. Also listed are sales offers for dry kindling wood phaetons and cigars plus upcoming church and school events and a funeral attendance.
Rivermen report Hoodoo as the Park Bluff bow boat of the Van Sant North Star sank two miles below Stillwater while gathering logs for Taber Lumber. No injuries. North Star aided, crew rescued. The Park Bluff, twice sunk near the same spot, prompts river crews to fear lingering bad luck as high waters hinder river work.
A tornado in Chouteau county Montana has destroyed a vast amount of property. Fort Assiniboine is reported seriously damaged as the stock country suffers heavy losses with no estimate available yet.
Mrs Berg and children from Harper visit the McCarty home while Frane Worthington enjoys vacation with her mother Mrs Jas Greenlee. Several others return from Ottumwa and Pella for commencements. Swayze house changes hands as Roop of Hedrick buys Brown. Children’s Day observed at M E church.
William H. Bramble of Macon county Illinois aged 84 died at his home. A notable inventor his Yale lock gained world wide use. He also devised a computing scale after 11 years of work in Lafayette Indiana and invented a successful corn planter.
In Galesburg Illinois on June 13 young women served as conductors as the street car company handed over the traction system to the ladies of the city. All receipts went to the city hospital and about 1500 dollars was realized.
H Schmidt and Son Co of Davenport Iowa invites Methodist excursionists to make their 214 Main Street store their headquarters while in the city on Thursday and signs the cordial invitation for future groups.
YWCA cooking class presents a cake centered menu for Wednesday featuring Moonshine Cake Icing Devils Cake Frosting Nut Cakes Marguerites Quick Cake.
We express heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors who assisted us after the death of our son Freddie. Special thanks to the local Eagles lodge and to Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison for their kindness.
The Muscatine Business College plans a June 28 commencement at the Grand Opera House with Frank G. Smith D D of Chicago as speaker. Miss Etta Repine of Galesburg will sing, and the program includes a college quartet. The class size is small but employment prospects are strong.
Wheat and commodity prices listed for Chicago on June 13 with bids for No 2 and No 3 red and hard red varieties. Included are July and September futures for wheat, oats, barley, flax, clover and timothy hay values, park and lard figures, rye cash and associated prices from traders and exchanges.
Cattle receipts 16 000 steady to 10 cents higher Beeves 4.00 to 6.10 cows and heifers 1.65 to 5.10 stockers and feeders 2.75 to 4.50 Texans 3.75 to 4.40 Hoes receipts 20 000 weak to 5 cents lower Mixed and butchers 6.35 to 6.65 good heavy 6.50 to 6.65 rough 6.30 to 6.45 light 6.30 to 6.57 bulk sales 6.50 to 6.60 Sheep receipts 18 000 steady 4.60 to 6.10 lambs 5.50 to 7.15.
Today’s market page presents wheat quotations with July at 84% to 83% range, September around 84% to 82% and December near 84% to 83% in late session figures. Open and close values show slight fluctuations as listed by H. J. Frenze of the National Board of Trade.
Chicago market notes show butter firm with creamery prices 14 19 cents and dairy 14 17 cents. Eggs remain easy at 11 13 cents.
Chicago market round up shows poultry steady on June 13 with turkeys at 9 cents and chickens at 11 and one half cents per pound. Local traders note stable demand across the day.
New York Poultry Market notes steady activity on June 13 with alive broilers at 25c and fowls at 13c to 15c, turkeys 11c to 12c. Dressed meat stable, with broilers 20c to 25c, turkeys 11c to 14c, and fowls 13c to 13c.
New York June 13 butter shows steady, unchanged. eggs quiet and unchanged with no price shifts indicated.
St Louis June 13 Wheat July 79 1 2 cents corn July 50 1 2 cents oats July 37 cents reported from the St Louis Produce Market in a brief price note.
The Peoria market lists corn No. 3 at 2 cents Open with mixed high and low and near unchanged closes. Listed stock figures include U S Steel at 49 percent, Illinois Central at 181, Union Pacific at 150, and others such as AC Meets and transport lines. Prices show minor fluctuations across railroads and metal futures with several issues around 180s to 190s and fractional percent changes noted.
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