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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1909
Page
9
Chicago market report shows wheat May at 1.19 1/4, corn at 67 1/4, and oats at 56 1/2 as new seasonal highs. Futures and cash prices span wheat, corn, oats, pork, lard, ribs, hogs, and live stock with steady to higher tone across grains and meats.
Auction figures show heavy trading with sheep receipts around 12 000 and lambs priced from 3.35 to 5.80. Strong demand pushes nominal gains of about 10 cents with bulk sales centered near 6.45 to 6.65.
Butter steady. Creameries 22 28c, dairies 20 25c. Eggs steady at market. cases included 18% 20c, firsts 20c, prime firsts 21c. Sales reflect steady prices across dairy products in Chicago.
Chicago on March 3 reports steady poultry with turkeys at 17 cents, chickens 14 c, springs 15 c. Market activity described as steady in the daily market notes.
New York grain market report for March 3 notes May wheat at 1.22 percent, corn at 74 7/8 cents, with trading activity focused on futures and price shifts across the board.
Butter top grades steady while other butter weaker. Factory firsts quoted 20 to 20 1/3 cents, imitation creamery firsts 21 to 22 cents. Eggs declined with closing firm. receipts 21,800. Firsts 20 1/2 to 20 3/4 cents, seconds 19 1/4 to 20 cents.
New York March 3 poultry items firm dressed meat prices listed for Chickens 16 25c Fowls 14 42 16c Turkeys 16 23c market steady across the board
St Louis reports for March 3 include wheat May at 1.14 and corn at 66c, oats at 54c.
The page lists numerous fraternal bodies meeting on varying days at halls across Muscatine. Orders include Royal and Select Masters, Molay Commandery, Degret of Pocahontas, Modern Woodmen of America, Knights of Pythias, Elks, and more with officers named and meeting nights such as first, second, and fourth Fridays or Tuesdays.
Train list shows arrivals and departures for Davenport Chicago California Washington Kansas City Ft Worth Dallas and local freight and mail runs. Notes state all trains run daily except Sundays and agent W S Underdonk signs off.
A garbled timetable fragment lists trains to Muscatine and Wilton with numbers such as No. 594 No. 500 and various times like 6:24 am 8:04 am and 12:25 pm. Several daily and daily except Sunday designations appear, followed by scattered letters and unreadable text.
Partial timetable notes list train numbers, arrival and departure times, and connections among Muscatine Fruitland Grandview Wapello Elrick Junction and Round House. References include daily and Saturday-only trains with links to Iowa Central and C R I P lines and noted connections at Wapello and Elrick Junction.
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