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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
9
In Chicago on June 29, winter wheat harvest nears completion and threshing reports largely favorable. Northwest rains and moderate temps buoy wheat, while coarse grains firming. Corn rises on hot weather in the Southwest and on strong commission buying. oats show robust buying, shorts covering. Provisions inch higher with hogs, with first sales up modestly.
Red Builder, a chestnut Standardbred foaled age sired by Red Gamaleon 216, with a line including Ted Milda 2:12 and Red Gite, stands as a notable stallion. Dam of Rea Builder, Arena A, grand dam of Rel Milda 2:24, and a full sister to Mabel A 2:29, he is linked to Redinda 2:07, a full brother in blood. Sealed chestnut gelding, 315.0 hands? Weight 4,200, 16% hands, blending Onward and Pilot families. popular in colts life as a top advertiser. Price $10.00.
Omaha and Chicago bid and delivery notes for lard ribs and pork with grain market figures. Chicago cash grain prices and receipts show wheat corn oats and barley movements, with Kansas City and Liverpool quotes and New York produce details.
Cattle receipts about 6000 with market slow and steady prices. Beeves 4.60 to 4.75. native Texas steers 4.40 to 6.00. stockers and feeders 3.15 to 6.25. cows and heifers 2.25 to 5.70. calves 5.75. Hog receipts 22000 with market steady to firm. pigs 5.70 to 6.30. bulk hogs around 6.30. lambs and sheep receipts 16000 with steady market. natives 4.25 to 4.90. westerns 4.25 to 4.50. Closing: cattle receipts 6000. hogs 24600. sheep 5000. mixed activity with prices near day’s highs and lows.
South St. Joseph reports cattle and hog receipts with active market gains. Steers to cows and heifers advance to $4.60, $2.56 and calf values up to $7.00. Kansas City notes cattle receipts at 6,000 with strong to $0.10 gains, hogs averaging $6.25 to $6.35, and sheep rising. New York poultry markets show steady aliva and mixed dressed prices.
Hogs chosen weights and prices noted along with cattle cows and heifers in a busy market. Veal calves lambs and grain and feed prices listed for wholesale and retail categories with varying per unit rates. Poultry eggs butter and miscellaneous produce priced for wholesale and retail buyers. Beef pork and seafood items shown with per pound or per dozen figures and local market terms.
New York June 29 trading at the opening showed small fractions of movement with no pressure from yesterday. Most leaders advanced slightly as prices rose, then demand cooled and profit-taking pulled many issues back. American Smelting gained 15 cents while Union Pacific Southern Pacific Reading Lehigh Valley and Delaware and Hudson and Toledo St Louis and Western yielded fractions.
NY Stocks list features numerous tickers such as Amalgamated Copper American Sugar Refining Anaconda and Northern Pacific among others. Mixed coverage includes Atlantic Coast Line Chicago Great Western and Missouri Pacific with varied percentages and par values. Chicago produce market notes butter prices and dairy receipts on June 29 with steady milk and unsettled potatoes and poultry trends.
South Omaha market reports cattle steady to higher with native steers around 6.00 to 6.25 and cows and heifers near 3.00. Hog receipts about 14,800 rise 6 to 10 cents with heavy classes around 6.10 to 6.20. cattle receipts 2,200 strong, fence stakes noted.
Windham youth Emory Smith, 20, was accidentally shot in the left thigh by a discharged .22 revolver he carried. He is hospitalized in Iowa City for treatment while Riverside banker Jacob Critz suffers severe burns from a gasoline explosion and may require skin grafts. Iowa River water is found heavily polluted with sewage, prompting a call to boil water as the utility faces treatment shortages.
Anaw authority issues report of two university romance weddings. John Eugene Wright, SUL class of 1909, and Mary J Seemann, both linked to the university, wed here today. In Iowa City Dr Charles Maplethorpe and Margaret Jowa Marshall, both alumni, also married Wednesday night.
Mrs. Mary Simmons visited with her sister Mrs. J. H. Pigman and family on Wednesday. Mrs. Clint Kauffman and children from Columbus Junction visited George Kauffman on Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs Grace Simpings and children stayed at W. F. Marston's Saturday afternoon. Miss Lela Devore visited Sunday night with Ivan Simmons. W. O. Harston and Olin Ployd noted in the week’s local remarks.
The Boston school house was struck by lightning Sunday night during a storm near Ainsworth. Mrs. J. H. Pigman aided Mrs. Rodruck with house work Monday evening. Lela DeVore visited Mr. Mutlen’s home Monday evening.
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