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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1905
Page
8
Local items show dad Dolsen selling cigars and candies and Kinsman offering shaves. Mrs. Knight and others travel for visits, while mortgage loans by G M Titus and a Trinity rectory sale prompt reader action. Western Union ads collect want ads and a County Auditor bids for barn shingling at the County Farm.
Muscatine Elks arrange a monster parade at 1:30 pm followed by a baseball game at the fair grounds and a picnic at the railway park. Delegations from Iowa City Cedar Rapids Davenport Clinton Rock Island Moline Burlington Oskaloosa Ottumwa Dubuque and all Eastern Iowa towns expected.
Louis P. Schlosser announces purchase of the plumbing and heating plant of James Cotter at 217 West Second Street. He assures prompt handling of all work entrusted to the office.
Yesterday in Chicago buyers paid blending prices for beef cattle, heifers, hogs and light stock with top hogs at about 5.50 per unit and cattle near 6.25, 5.00 in mid ranges, reflecting mixed demand in a late market.
Fat grades show modest gains while light and plain cattle hold steady. Calves steady with light run. feeders in limited supply. Hog trade strong given large volume. shipping orders unusually large. Prices mostly 5 to 16 cents lower with some quality improvement and heavier average weights. Sheep trade slow to steady with lambs and spring lambs showing declines. Texas muttons reach $4.90 for choicest lots.
Receipts Saturday reach 218 with best cattle steady in London. Calf trade holds near last week’s closing level while canners and cutters stay mostly steady. Fat cows start 10¢ higher but ease later. Swift active for choice heavy cattle and buyers for that house say supply short for those classes.
Hog receipts Saturday reached 16 133 with 2 592 from Saturday stock. Hogs traded mostly 5 37 to 5 55 per cwt with 130 lb averages. Sheep receipts 1 322 and western bids reported as buyers show interest in lambs while overall market mixed.
A detailed listing of Muscatine market rates spanning Wheat to fruit. Includes oats corn popcorn barley rye hay and hay based feeds, shorts and bran prices, oil meal and chop feeds, per cwt retail and dealer terms. Butter eggs fish meat live stock and farm produce noted with retail and wholesale figures for bananas dates figs lemons oranges pineapples strawberries almonds walnuts pecans and other items.
Sewing machine oil of purity and the best needles for all machines are available. Look for the red S at Singer stores. 323 East Second St Muscatine, Ia.
Advertises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store claiming it kills pain and cures or no pay with a 25 cent price point. The ad emphasizes fast relief and nationwide trust in a trusted remedy.
Reports from Nagasaki and Vladivostok describe heavy Russian losses and light Japanese casualties as Tsarist forces engage off Korea and in Tokic waters. Sasebo receives prisoners and wounded while Rojestvensky’s main squadron suffers two ship losses. Emperor expresses distress.
National League results list Cincinnati six Chicago three Philadelphia nineteen Boston seven St Louis six Pittsburg three New York eight Brooklyn five. American League score Chicago nine Detroit one.
All clubs play two games with matchups including Chicago at Cincinnati St Louis at Pittsburg Brooklyn at New York Philadelphia at Boston Detroit at Chicago New York at Philadelphia Boston at Washington St Louis at Cleveland
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