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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1916
Page
9
Work on the $70,000 Muscatine high school addition starts Monday under architect Henry Zoidler and contractor Roller & Hunzinger. A tool house is being built and excavation will begin, with completion expected around August 1917 amid labor shortages.
No 1403 and 1404 detail five and four room cottages with city water, wells, and proximity to church school and streetcar lines. Prices range from 1000 to 2600 dollars. Additional listings include four room cottages near riverviews and car lines, six room homes with baths and modern fixtures, and new homes with furnaces and basements. Titus Loan & Investment Co advertises properties at 211 213 Town Ave with Saturday hours.
The Foors Button Company proposes to begin operations at West Front Street on Monday with about thirty cutting machines to start, while the fishing department will start later. The plant opposite the Rock Island freight house has been renovated for pearl buttons, and officials expect to expand to about eighty machines soon.
Argentine reports lift wheat market with December and May contracts moving modestly. Prices opened mixed and weakened by shipping concerns and scarcer gains. Receipts and shipments data from Hutton Collins Frenzel show weekly totals near global averages, with corn and oats largely steady.
Grain and provisions prices fluctuate with mixed highs and lows across wheat corn oats and pork lard and rib futures. Cash grain prices show No 2 yellow corn at around 90 cents to 1 dollar per bushel with various No 2 red and white wheats noted, while pork and lard futures move to mixed daily levels.
Caution was the dominant note in today’s stock market as traders reacted to a firm opening. Loading, industrials, equipment and munitions fell 1 to 5 points while some shipping issues rose slightly. A few names like International Paper and Studebaker held steady after gains, with overall activity subdued amid mixed results and small advances in select issues.
Grain prices in Peoria include corn and various white and yellow classes. No. 2 white listed at 10 dollars, No. 3 white and No. 2 yellow shown with mixed and sample notes, several figures appear garbled but indicate unchanged status and standard values around the mid four hundreds in cents per bushel.
Market briefs from St Louis and New York cover wheat corn and oat prices for No 2 and No 4 red, No 2 yellow and white, and related grain futures. Dairy: creamery butter prices rise, cheddar and other cheeses steady with varied receipts. poultry markets show stable live prices for chickens turkeys and ducks. New York live poultry and sugar markets note steady to higher trends with minor shifts in price. Liverpool grain markets show No 1 Manitoba wheat and No 2 hard winter pricing.
Chicago and Kansas City live stock reports dated October 14 show hog receipts around 20,000 in Chicago with prices roughly 9.45 to 9.60 for bulk and mixed lots, while cattle and sheep also move with steady to strong demand. Louisville, St Louis, and Kansas City markets note variable hog and cattle receipts, with hogs down 10 to 20 cents from yesterday and cattle steady to higher on several categories.
South Omaha Neb October 14. Receipts 1 000 head market mixed. Cattle receipts 200 head steer prices range around 6 76 to 10 65 cows and calves 6 75 to 9 40 stockers and feeders listing various classes. Hogs lambs and other categories cited with prices from 0 76 to 16 20 for lambs and 9 70 to 16 20 for lambs and mutton.
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Local market report lists wholesale cattle and hog prices with per pound figures. Prices include heavy beef, fat cows, and dressed meat options, reflecting current trading at Muscatine markets.
Muscatine Iowa City and Des Moines push to host the 1917 state meeting of librarians. Miss Iona Armstrong elected president. officers include Molon McNarth Sioux City and Mrs Irving C Johnson Oskaloosa. Local librarians Ellen Stocker Ana Gleator Emma Underwood and Mrs W F Bishop attended.
Prominent democratic figures led by Carl Vrooman E T Meredith and M Cronin toured Muscatine County visiting Wilton Aunissa West Liberty Moscow Nicholsland Conesville and concluded with a mass meeting at the Grand Theatre tonight Addresses were scheduled by the trio in the day’s stops and again at the evening gathering The visit included stops in Wilton morning session and a meetup with locals at Wilton this morning
Oakville Iowa October 14 The quarterly conference of the Methodist Episcopal church was held here with a strong turnout showing healthy church work Rev Gilbert presiding elder from Washington Iowa oversaw routine duties The Toolsboro charge suffered from a school house fight and attendees hope for reconciliation Rev Starkebaum to continue as pastor at Oakville and Hawkeye and efforts to reunite the Toolsboro congregation are praised A decomposed body found in a Burlington barn is mentioned as a probable link to a past case
A miscellaneous roundup mentions a man who worked locally for several days and spoke of owning property west of town. Births include a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Swalles and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Webb. Mrs. Rieman shows partial improvement while under care. Kremer Spitznogie recovers at home. Oakville attracts city autos for fishing and Sunday service at garages. The scenic route via Grandview to Burlington is praised for traffic and roads. Crappie and bag production is noted as high this fall.
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