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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1905
Page
8
A collage of small town commerce and personal notices from Iowa. Local shops hawk cigars and groceries, while residents plan shopping trips and travel to nearby towns. Market data from Chicago highlights wheat corn oats and live stock, with prices and shipments noted.
Catfish halibut salmon mackerel buffalo trout pickerel smoked sturgeon offered daily by Boston Fish Market opposite the post office. Phone 297 Y. Fish delivered.
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Butter steady at 16 19 a dairies 15 1c. Eggs easy at 12 to 13 cents. Chicago market notes dated June 22.
Chicago June 22 market bulletin shows poultry prices with turkeys at 14 1150 per dozen and chickens at 19 24 cents, including springs. The brief listing notes overall activity as easy.
New York June 22 butter unchanged eggs unchanged.
New York market figures show poultry prices as of June 22 with fowls 13 cents, springs 22 cents, broilers 20 to 25 cents, and turkeys 13 to 17 cents per pound. Trade activity and item ranges reflect typical midweek pricing in the city market.
The St. Louis Produce Market reports July wheat at 2 4/5 cents, corn at 52 3/4 cents, and oats at 30 4/5 cents per bushel.
Peoria market notes corn No 3 at 54.4 cents and New York stocks figures open high low and close for multiple issues. A listing shows price changes for sectors including U S Steel Am Sugar Pacific Erie Reading Cen Cen G. W. etc with varying percentages.
Market notes from Muscatine show wheat at 9 cents retail up to $1.10. oats 30 to 38 2/3 cents retail 35 to 40. corn 45 1/2 to 45 1/2 cents. popcorn four cents per pound. Barley dealers pay 45 cents. rye shipper 50 to 55 cents, retail 55. hay 8.50 to 10.00, retail hay bale $1.12. shorts retail per cwt 1.05 to 1.10. bran per cwt 0.5. oil meal per cwt 1.50. chop feed per cwt 1.15. cracked corn 1.15. Butter farmers market pay 15.
Canners unchanged bulls slow calves off 25c feeder trade weak Courtry buyers lack confidence in future trade Hog trade bears 5 to idc Market weak bulk down 74 to b at close Quality fair but buyers hammer prices Mixed heavy lots show losses Plain heavy sheep 10 to 15e lower Choice mutton steady Lambs wanted with 10e advance Best shorn land at 6.55 top 7.40 springs.
Wilton Iowa June 22 local items include M T De Woody visiting for M B A affairs, many residents traveling to Monmouth Muscatine Rock Island and Tipton, picnics and social visits, and thanks extended for support during illness and death of Madge Ament and Chas Whitmore.
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