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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1906
Page
5
Local notice announces Eugene V. Debs will speak at the Grand opera house Monday evening May 7 at 8 o'clock. Admission costs 15 and 25 cents.
The Citizens' Railway and Light company will run its cars to the club house on the fair ground line at once. Cars leaving the switch on even hours will make this trip except the 5 and 6 p.m. runs. The schedule holds until the regular park service starts on this line.
The Heinz farm on Park Avenue pushes work with a large force soon to be hired. Eleven acres of horse radish and over twenty acres of cabbage are planted as weather favors rapid growth. A hundred workers will join the weeding onions effort in coming weeks. Funeral held for infant August Van Dorn. Pioneer Industrial society to hold Weed Park picnic next Thursday. Local notices on illness and moving homes follow.
Markets report by H J Frenzel shows wheat and corn futures with May July and Sept bids and daily highs and lows. Park and lard futures also listed with May July and Sept figures. car counts for wheat corn oats received today and estimated for tomorrow.
Chicago May 4 Associated Press wheat and corn prices show No 2 red at 87 89 cents, May at 79 79 cents and July range 78 79 cents. Oats at 31 34 cents, May 32 cents, July 30. Park May 15.05, July 15.25. Lard May 8.30, July 8.37. Rye cash 62 cents, flax 1.07 to 1.13, clover 11.59, barley 38 54. Timothy Sept 3.55. Live stock receipts cattle 2009 strong, hogs 16000 weak to lower, sheep 5000 strong with lambs 4.75 to 7.55.
Chicago butter markets stay steady with creameries at 14 20 cents and dairies at 14 18 cents. Egg prices are firm at 13 44 to 11 cents. Market observers note stable trading for dairy products in Chicago on May 4.
Chicago May 4 poultry market shows steady tones with turkeys at 12 pct and chickens at 12 cents.
Butter held firm and unchanged while eggs also remained firm. Extra firsts sold at 18 cents. firsts 1544 cents. seconds 156 cents.
Peoria Illinois May 4 market notes list No 3 corn at 47 cents per bushel. Buyers and sellers listed at Peoria Produce Market with standard bidding and current price directions.
New York May 4 Poultry alive market report begins but text is incomplete. items such as prices quantities or trading outcomes are missing from the available fragment.
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