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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1906
Page
8
Offer loans backed by horses, cows, carriages, pianos, and household goods. Money advanced with goods kept in your possession. Confidential business. Open Wednesday and Saturday evenings from 7 to 9.
Charles Lindner travels to St. Paul on a short business trip. Y M C A office sells reserved seats for McCutcheon cartoons at Grand opera house March 26 with admission 25c and reserved 50c. Y M C A basketball team faces Co C at the armory Friday night in a 25c admission event.
G M Titus of 213 Plan Avenue offers first mortgage loans ranging from $100 to $15,000. He keeps money for investment and handles interest and principal collection without charge to the investor.
Co. C meets the Y M C A in a Friday armory game to decide bragging rights with admission set at 25 cents. The page also notes a long list of city residents and visitors, including Mrs. McElravy returning from Davenport and Miss Nichols arriving for a skating party, along with gardener news and mortgage investment pitches by J E Stevenson in Muscatine.
Market digest from Chicago and Muscatine covers futures for wheat corn oats and pork along with live stock and produce, listing bid offers and closing figures. It notes prices for wheat corn oats pork lard ribs and rye prices, plus large ranges for cattle hogs and sheep and local Muscatine retail rates for daily staples.
Butter steady with creameries at 16 26 cents and dairies 15 23 cents. Eggs steady at 13 cents. Chicago Poultry Market steady.
New York March 21 Wheat May 83 cents per bushel corn 50 to 50 5 cents per bushel turkeys 12 cents a pound chickens 12 1/1? cents and springs 12 percent 4 cents per pound.
New York poultry live chickens 11 to 18 cents, fowls 14 cents, turkeys 16 to 18 cents. dressed chickens 10 to 13 cents, turkeys 14 to 19 cents, fowls 11 to 14 cents. Butter steady, eggs easy with firsts 16 cents and seconds 15 1/2 cents. St Louis wheat May 75 4 cents, corn 41 4 cents, oats 30 4 to 40 cents. Peoria corn No 3 42 to 44 cents.
Sale lists one line of men's Arctic boots and one line of ladies Arctic boots at reduced prices. Rubber boots for women are also advertised with limited sizes. Readable details are fragmented but indicate a local shop promotion in progress.
Buyers were indifferent and choice lots drew a total of 6.65. Representative sales listed in Chicago markets show multiple price points with beef cattle varying across lots. The report includes figures for cattle and meat cows and notes various notations on prices and lots.
OCR text details livestock items and weights including hogs in various categories, lambs, and steers with numbers and prices. The entry lists multiple weight ranges and animal counts alongside price figures such as 5.95 6.15 6.20 6.00 6.50, indicating a market tally and quotes.
The notice urges local businesses to advertise to tap into the large nearby audience and boost patronage as spring approaches. It emphasizes broad reach and repeated messaging to attract customers.
An advertising note emphasizes the Journal as the best channel to reach readers who value the paper. It claims higher costs but superior results and directs readers to use other outlets only for rates, while results come from the Journal.
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