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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1908
Page
9
Weekly sale advertises ladies shirt waists in multiple sizes with low prices, plus discounts on bed spreads vests and silk gloves. Hosiery and lace deals accompany reductions on worsted dress goods, fringed towels, taffeta silks and ribbons.
The Muscatine basketball players intend to form a baseball team, recruiting six locals and filling gaps with candidates from the Company C first team. Morgan and Hayes as battery, Fuller a strong second baseman, Lillibridge at first, Volger on the mound, and Kautz catching. Souvenir pins ordered by F. W. Swan and designed by George Volger arrived, 14 carat gold with Muscatine and National Tour 07-08 engravings.
May 6 Winnipeg reports Yorkton residents violently oppose a Fort William to Yorkton deportation of seventy one Doukhobors a religious group. Guards block the station as the train sits on a sidetrack with the sect refusing to disembark. Peanuts and apples are the only food provided.
Poultry firm reports market quotes in Chicago on May 6 with turkeys at 14 cents, chickens at lic, broilers about 1 pound per dozen 3.50 to 4.00, 1% to 1% pounds 4.50 to 5.50.
Butter steady in Chicago with creameries at 19 25c and dairies 18 24c. Eggs steady with Firsts at 14 14 1 2c.
New York May 6 Wheat for July delivery sits at 99 cents a bushel while corn trades around 7.34 to 7.34 cents per bushel as market prices update for the day.
New York poultry market shows alive and steady prices for spring chickens fowls and turkeys with varied ranges. Butter and eggs also steady with large receipts and firmer eggs from fresh gathered westerns while storage packed eggs remain unchanged.
Peoria market note from May 6 shows corn No. 3 priced at 67 3/4 cents per bushel.
A life sentence of throat and lung trouble is swiftly eased by Dr Kings New Discovery sold at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store for 50c and 1.00.
In Wilton Iowa on May 6 funeral rites for Mrs. Nicholas Lang were held at her home and at the German Evangelical church with Rev. Shauer officiating. A quintet sang hymns, pallbearers included Lang relatives, and interment followed at Settlement Cemetery. Out of town attendees included Lieberknecht and Werner families from Grandview Keswick Muscatine. The Wilton Woman's Club then met to discuss Robert Louis Stevenson with a program on his life work and influence.
May market report from Miner & Co shows open high low close quotes for wheat corn oats and pork. Chicago produce section lists hogs eggs butter poultry and vegetables with prices and shifts, plus live stock and local sales figures from Muscatine and area markets.
Chicago reports cattle receipts 18 000 steady to lower with beeves 4 75 to 7 25 stockers 3 79 to 5 80 cows 2 50 to 6 60 westerners 4 70 to 6 00. Hogs receipts 30 000 down 5 to 10 with light 5 30 to 5 67 mixed 5 35 to 5 75 heavy 5 30 to 5 70. Sheep receipts 12 900 steady to higher 4 25 to 6 15 lambs 5 75 to 7 60 yearlings 6 25 to 6 89.
An itemized list of diverse goods with prices from grocers and markets including sugar beet oranges and various seeds. A railway timetable section notes daily schedules from Davenport to Chicago with local freight passenger trains and arrivals and departures for January 5 1908.
Timetable for Muscatine North and South Railroad showing Nos. 4 6 northbound and Nos. 2 5 1 3 southbound with stations Muscatine Round House Fruitland Grandview Wapello Elrick Junction and connections at Elrick Junction Iowa Central and other lines. Note Monday Saturday variations and weekend connections.
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