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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1910
Page
9
Classified item announces a married man needed for a small family garden farm with furnished house. Also notes W. H. Hoopes & Sons. Second line lists WANTED Six carpenters with phone 949 and A. T. Kile. Market data from Chicago shows grain prices for wheat corn oats and livestock futures with spot and contract figures.
Market report from Chicago May 24 shows wheat trading near 108 to 109 for May and 99 to 100 for July. Corn ranges 58 to 60 with a May price around 58. Ribs and lard quoted with May 12.95 and July 12.60. Hogs closed steady with receipts 12,400 and top at 9.75.
Chicago May 24 Wheat prices listed for No. 2 red No. 3 red No. 2 hard No. 3 hard with ranges from 1.00 to 1.10 dollars. No. 2 white yellow figures around 59 to 62 cents. Oats show No. 2 white 41 to 42 cents No. 3 white 37 to 40 cents Standard 40 to 41 cents.
Receipts: cattle 3,500 steady with Beeves 5.60 to 8.70, stockers 4.00 to 6.60, cows 2.80 to 7.15, westerners 5.25 to 7.40. Hogs receipts 12,000 steady to higher, light 9.50 to 9.80, mixed 9.45 to 9.77, heavy 9.40 to 9.75, bulk 9.70 to 9.75. Sheep receipts 12,000 weak, lambs 5.50 to 8.60.
Produce Market Chicago reports butter firm with creamery prices 25 27 from dairies 23 26. Eggs steady with receipts at 30 900. At market cases show 16 18 cents for standard, 19 cents for firsts, and 20 cents for prime firsts.
Poultry prices are firm in Chicago with turkeys at 15 cents and chickens at 16 ½ cents per pound as of May 24.
Butter held steady with advances. receipts 16,900. Creamery specials 29 cents, third to extras 26 28 cents, process 23 cents. Eggs weak. receipts 39,800.
New York May 24 reports show dressed poultry quiet with frozen chickens at 16 to 28 cents. fowls 15 to 19 cents. turkeys 16 to 19 cents.
Wheat for September at 96 1/2 cents per bushel. Corn 60 1/2 cents. Oats 35 1/2 cents. Market notes from St Louis, Missouri.
Peoria market notes show No 3 corn selling at 58 cents per bushel. The brief item records a single price reading from the Peoria market scene dated May 24.
Charles P. Hanley announces candidacy for the Republican nomination for County Attorney in Muscatine County. Primary date set for June 7, outlining his bid to lead the county legal office.
Robert Brooke announces as a Republican candidate for the Muscatine county attorney nomination at the upcoming June primary. He seeks the GOP nod in the county electoral contest.
G A Moore announces to Republican voters in Muscatine County that he is a candidate for county supervisor, subject to the decision at the primary on June 7.
John Duncan announces candidacy for the Republican nomination for sheriff before the June 7 primary, subject to the decision of local Republican voters.
A notice to Republican voters in Muscatine County outlines the county sheriff race and invites voters to express their wishes at the primary election.
A notice declaring candidacy for the June 7 primary by John Brown from Moscow Two. The statement seeks support from the republic and flags the forthcoming decision by voters in the election.
James C. Stuart announces as a Republican candidate for Muscatine County recorder in the June primary. Ben Greiner of Moscow Two endorses or supports in the same notice.
W. Riley Rice announces candidacy for sheriff in the Muscatine county June primary and respectfully asks for publicans' support. He presents his bid as a citizen seeking office and requests backing from local Republicans.
Horace C Schoemaker declares Republican candidacy for Muscatine County auditor subject to primary June 7 voters in Muscatine County Iowa.
A column lists varied prices for produce and seafood including sugar beet cranberries cabbage oranges pineapples parsnips lettuce fish oysters sunfish perch catfish and bass with per pound per peck or per dozen rates such as sugar 100 lbs 575 and 17 lbs 100. It shows many items with cents per unit and pounds prices typical of a late 19th or early 20th century market page.
Cattle trade favored good to choice beeves with tops at 8.75 as of March high. Hogs attracted strong demand but closed easer. best 9.77 with packers paying around 9.68 to 9.70. Sheep and lambs fell 15 to 25 cents. best wethers 5.50 and lambs 8.60, with steady to lower prices overall. Monday receipts 32,000. cattle up 2,900 and hogs down 12,300 from year ago.
In a formal announcement D A Cole of Sweetland Township asks Republican voters for primary support in June 1910 and pledges to strive for election in November if chosen.
Voters in Muscatine County expressed their wishes at the primary election on June 7 regarding the County Attorney position. H. D. Horst of Muscatine, Iowa is noted in the county’s political notices.
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