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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
8
A string of short items recalls a Globe Sunday dinner at noon and a 2:30 baseball game at Fair Grounds featuring Riverside against White Sox. Cigar promotion touts La Ritica 5c quality. Local residents, visits, and social notices include T B McClung in town, Mrs. Kirsch traveling to Nichols, A J York returning from Fruitland, and Electa Chapter OES meeting set for June 26.
Results from yesterday include American League Chicago 3 Boston 1 Philadelphia 3 Cleveland 0 Washington 4 St Louis 1 New York 7 Detroit 0. National League Chicago St Louis postponed. Pittsburg 5 Brooklyn 1. Western League St Joseph 3 Omaha 2 Des Moines 12 Colorado Springs 11. Iowa League Burlington Boone 9 Oskaloosa 4 Marshalltown 2 Keokuk 1 Fort Dodge Waterloo 7 Ottumwa 3.
Chicago hosts St Louis and Detroit while Cincinnati meets Pittsburgh and New York plays Boston. Brooklyn faces Philadelphia and St Louis clashes with Cleveland. Philadelphia meets Washington as Riverside plays the White Sox. admission 25 cents.
W. S. Whitten of the Commercial Club Freight Bureau reports a favorable reception in Chicago on freight rate reforms. The visit highlights positive momentum and underscores the investment value of the freight bureau’s work.
Walter S. Whitten of Muscatine secured concessions at Chicago among Western trunk line railroads freight rate committee. Major gains include lower leather rates to Muscatine from 22 to 17 cents per hundred, a flat mussel shells rate from Memphis to Muscatine, and reduced crushed shell and clam shell rates. Effective July 4, mussel shells rate rises to 20 cents per 100 pounds for carloads.
The article notes rail rate reductions on lumber from Wisconsin to Muscatine and hard coal from Chicago to Muscatine. A committee was appointed to implement the coal rate cut to $1.30 per ton within 10 days. The piece hails Mr Whitten as the right man for the job and previews a forthcoming July report.
A Boston Store ad in the Journal had a typographical error listing changeable taffeta ribbons at per yard instead of 25c. The correction states the item should read a handsome line of 5 inch changeable taffeta ribbons in all colors at 25c per yard.
Commodities and futures show wheat corn oats and rye activity with bid prices and daily highs. Live stock receipts list hogs and cattle for Kansas City Omaha and Northwestern markets alongside Minneapolis Duluth comparative figures.
The report lists various prices for choice heavy and rough heavy, light, bulk sales, and receipts. It notes lambs including spring lambs with price ranges and a steady trend, alongside specific figures like $5.35 to $5.47 percent and $4.70 to $5.20 for different categories.
Butter steady at 16 19c for creamery and dairy Mrs. eggs ease to 12 4 13c per dozen in Chicago market on June 24.
Chicago poultry market notes steady demand on June 24 with prices for turkeys 14 to 15 cents per pound chickens 1 cent and springs 16 to 22 cents per pound.
Wheat for July trading at 2. Corn price listed as 587%%c. The market report from New York on June 24 notes price movements in the grain futures.
New York market notes show butter unchanged and eggs unchanged on June 24. No price changes reported, with stable trading activity in dairy commodities.
Cattle receipts 400 with steady tone. Good to prime cattle 5.25 to 6.00, poor to medium 3.75 to 5.10, stockers 2.50 to 4.50, cows 2.50 to 4. Hogs receipts 9,000 with strong to higher sentiment. Mixed butchers 5.15 to 5.46.
New York market notes show poultry prices for June 24 with fowls 10 to 13 cents, springs 22 cents, broilers 20 to 25 cents, and turkeys 13 to 11 cents. Buyers and sellers tracked value across familiar categories in today’s market.
Wheat for July at 2 1/2 cents above, Corn July at 51 3/4 cents, Oats July at 30 1/2 cents, from the St Louis market dated June 24.
Peoria June 24 corn market report lists No. 3 corn at 50 cents per bushel with no other varieties or price changes noted.
New York banks report loans down by 2,048,200 dollars while deposits rise 6,508,100 dollars and reserves increase to 9,512,200 dollars. Surplus grows to 7,885,175 dollars and ex-US deposits add 7,896,425 dollars.
Advertises Dr. King's New Life Pills offering cure for headaches liver complaints and bowel disorders with a pay if not cured guarantee. Sold for 25 cents at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Humboldt county discusses forming a farmers cooperative exchange and plans an elevator with a $49,000 capital by a company proposing to erect it.
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