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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
8
Muscatine readers see a flurry of shopping notices and social visits. Graff's Pharmacy advertises The ister at 25c while Pear Utty Panitorium cleans straw hats on Iowa avenue. Various residents travel to Davenport, Chicago, or Centerville for business, funerals, or visits, with notes on local stores, roller skating scenes, and upcoming events at The Ulster theater.
Regimental Major Leon ardy and Captain Kulp with Evers and Wagner of Davenport inspected several sites for the Fifty-Fourth Iowa infantry encampment. Potential options include a spot near Pariser garden the old fair grounds Lew Davis property and Koester addition circus grounds.
The Iowa Central will sell round trip excursion tickets every Tuesday to Minnesota Wisconsin the Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Canadian northwest and on the first and third Tuesdays to the south southeast west and southwest. Rate one fare plug $2.00. Liberal limits and stopover privileges. For details contact agents or A B Cutts Minneapolis Minn.
A special convocation of Washington Chapter No 4 R A M is set for Friday evening May 18 for work in the R A degree. Silas Johnson secretary and W H McCoy exalted basis? EB H P.
Lincoln Iowa May 17 Charles Petry departed Tuesday for Morse to attend his father’s funeral. Mr Tillman and family visited near Nichols Sunday. Mrs Wm Timmerman and daughter Leona visited Mrs Gus Herring Lone Tree Monday. Oscar Wiese joined Lone Tree juvenile band concert in Hills Saturday. Minnie and Erna Hauri attended tri county teachers meeting at West Liberty Saturday. Invitations out for a dance at the George Reiland home Saturday evening. Gus Husen spent Sunday in Muscatine. Grandpa Schuessler Scott Township visited relatives Tuesday. Chas Perczek and family went to Iowa City Monday.
Mr and Mrs David Haifleigh of Sweetland spent Sunday with Charles Shepherd. Myrtle Greiner visited the McIntire home near West Liberty. Epworth League assembly led by Edna Greiner next Sunday. A social planned for last Saturday night was postponed due to bad weather. Mrs H J Freyermuth and Mildred with Pearl Greiner visited J A Greiner near Wilton. Henry Freyermuth attended the funeral of his uncle Fred Huttig in Muscatine Sunday afternoon.
Advertisement lists rail fare details: $18.60 to New Haven Conn and return, repeated, plus $1.00 from Chicago via Nickel Plate Road on June 2 3 4 and via New York City at excursion rates. Return limit June 30 with extension possible. Nickel Plate office Room 298 113 Adams St Chicago.
In National League Chicago edged Philadelphia 1 0 in ten innings while Brooklyn won 3 0 at St Louis and Boston beat Cincinnati 6 5. American League saw Chicago hold Washington to six while New York beat St Louis 5 2. American Association results include Kansas City 2 Toledo 6 and Milwaukee 3 Columbus 2 in eleven innings plus St Paul 6 Louisville 8. Other leagues list multiple city matchups with various final scores.
Philadelphia plays Chicago while New York faces Pittsburgh. Brooklyn meets St. Louis and Boston travels to Cincinnati. Chicago hosts Washington as St. Louis visits New York. Detroit faces Philadelphia and Cleveland visits Boston.
The report lists May July and Sept futures for Wheat Corn and Oats with many figures showing open high low and close ranges. It includes prices for Park Lard and Ribs with estimated cars tomorrow and notes data from H J Frenzel Chicago post office block.
AP report from Chicago on May 17 shows No. 2 red wheat at 92 9 16 cents, No. 3 red 88 4 2 cents, and May, July futures with openings and highs listed. Corn No. 2 at 50 4 50 cents, No. 3 at 49 1 2 cents, with related futures figures and No. 2 white and yellow prices noted.
The note lists several commodity prices and futures quotes for May July and Sept contracts. It records grain and livestock items with figures for lard ribs rye cash flax clover barley and timothy with multiple months and price points amid small fluctuations. The data shows shifts between May and July values and notable highs and lows across items.
Chicago market summary for May 17 shows cattle receipts 6500 with steady price ranges from 4.15 to 4.70 for various categories, hog receipts 19000 with mixed butchers 6.35 to 6.55 and bulk sales 6.45 to 6.52, sheep receipts 14000 with lamb and paired ranges 4.25 to 7.75 and strong demand.
Chicago May 17 butter weaker in creameries at 19c dairy price 13 17c. Eggs steady at 15 15½c.
In Chicago on May 17 butter remained easy and unchanged with eggs firm and unchanged, signaling steady pantry prices as markets track dairy staples.
New York May 17. Poultry market steady with alive and dressed quotes. Alive broilers 26c. fowls 144c. turkeys 12c. Dressed broilers 23 28c. turkeys 14 15c. fowls 11 13c.
Peoria market listing from May 17 shows Corn No 3 priced at 50e. Local produce prices and grade noted for buyers.
Wheat July at 81 2 thirds percent, Corn 47 and a half cents, Oats 33 4 1 2 cents. Market notes indicate steady demand and routine trading in the St Louis Produce market.
Partial US stock quotes show varied percentages for Sugar Pac. Reading New York Penn. L. & N. Atchison U. S. Steel and more. Figures include 137 138 136 and 169 170 168 across multiple exchanges and firms.
Fragmented data shows state abbreviations and company names with varied percentages across columns. Key entities include Wis Tex Pac Colo Fuel B O Gt West and Can. Pac. but readable facts are limited. No clear event, date, or outcome is identifiable.
Representative sales show corn oats wheat and cracked corn prices, fresh vegetables and fruits with per unit costs, eggs, butter, hens and turkeys, ducks geese cabbage onions parsley pickles potatoes sweet potatoes and other staples. Local live market notes list hogs steers cows veal lambs and hides with price ranges, plus coal wood and fish prices. Chicago market quotes conclude with three price points: lowest medium and highest for selected items.
Seed market lists prices for Clover Timothy Alfalfa Allyke and Blue grass seeds with varied per bu and per dozen rates plus nuts and floral items. Yesterday's markets in brief note steer trade slow, beef prices soft, cows steady, hog prices down 5 cents, average $6.47 and best $6.57, packers active with 2,500 left.
Alfred Shieps of San Francisco visiting at Geco Shields went to Chicago for a few days Rob Shields shipped a car load of cattle to Chicago from Bayfield earlier this week Mr and Mrs Ed Barnard entertained friends to dinner Sunday Sunday school at Spangler chapel next Sunday at 2 preaching at 3 A band of horse traders camped near Oak Grove school house last week but were told to move on
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