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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1908
Page
10
A collage of short notices lists visitors from Buffalo and Davenport, horse sales at West Liberty, a contest to name the residential park of Muscatine, winter fountain stays at Nesper's, and various local business pitches. It notes insurance calls, estate references, and a fire claim settlement involving John A. Lemkau.
Sufferers urged to visit a pharmacist for a 50 cent case of Pape's Diapepsin. One triangle after meals claimed to end indigestion within minutes, relieving sour stomach gas heartburn and nausea and helping digestion and appetite.
A call to submit a permanent name for the Weed park adjoining addition in Muscatine with a $25 prize. Mentions births and travel updates including Captain Kern Jr. born at 3 30 this morning weighing 12 pounds.
The piece argues Taft will shape a House rules shift under Cannon opposition and Roosevelt era reforms. It notes the 1909 long session as test for Taft policies, with Roosevelt pushing moral framing and Taft as jurist ready to implement new statutes.
Chicago market update with open high low close for Wheat Corn and Oats. Details include May and Dec contracts, cash grain prices, live stock receipts, and provisional upturns in hog quotes.
The fragment lists prices for heavy cattle at 6.10 and 5.30, rough at 6.10 and 0.30, bulk sales at 5.50 and 5.60, and 5.95. It also notes Sheep-Receipts at 26 000, weak at 2.50, yearlings at 4.50, lambs at 3.75 and 6.00, with other figures 4.20 and 5.00.
Chicago market report lists butter steady with creamery at 22 29c and dairies at 194% 25c. Eggs steady with Firsts at 27c. Market activity centered in Chicago on November 11.
Chicago market reports note steady poultry demand. Turkeys bring 13c, chickens 8 to 9c, springs 11c. New York market shows butter and eggs steady with 5,000 and 6,600 receipts respectively. Alive poultry steadies with springs 13c, fowls 12c, turkeys 13c, dressed. irregular springs 15 to 24c, fowls 12.5 to 14c, and spring turkeys 14 to 19c.
In New York on November 11 futures wheat for December rose to 1.14 and corn at 1.00 percent. At St Louis on November 11 wheat for December marked 1.03 with corn at 0.60 and oats at 0.48.
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