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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1909
Page
9
Eight weeks after opening Selfridges in London proclaims rapid growth adding sixteen buildings for workrooms and departments. The store highlights customer letters praise and constructive criticism guiding ongoing improvements to earn trust and become a daily community factor in Great Britain.
A compact business narrative explains how Mr Selfridge rapidly established his London department store. He moved from Chicago, built a vast building, and ran unprecedented newspaper campaigns during construction and after opening. He continued heavy advertising to create awareness that his store offered goods for sale and bargains, urging people to learn about them through Journal Want Ads.
Train schedule fragment lists west bound departures from Wilton Branch with Nos 16 08 500 51 502 503 and connections to Chicago Muscatine arrivals and departures times in a partial timetable.
Rail timetable lists southbound and northbound trains with stops at Muscatine Fruitland Garden City Grandview Wapello Elrick Junction and connections to Town Central and other lines. The document includes arrival times, transfer notes and local freight services for the Montfitsma branch and Wrest.
Today's markets document Chicago grain quotes for wheat corn and oats with highs lows and closes. Also included are hogs cattle and sheep prices and Muscatine produce market notes on dairy eggs fruits poultry and meats with weekly trend observations and receipts.
Chicago market notes show wheat December opened at 94 cents and closed 94 4/4 with September at 98. Corn December opened 57 cents, oats December opened 37 ½ cents, pork for September at 22 dollars 87 cents, lard 12 dollars 27 cents, ribs 11 dollars 80 cents, rye cash 73 cents, barley 4 dollars 65 cents, clover 12 dollars, timothy September 3 dollars 60 cents.
Cattle receipts 4500 steady with varied prices for Beeves Texas western and calves. Hogs receipts 11000 higher with bids from light to heavy and bulk sales. Sheep receipts 19000 weak with lambs and range prices noted.
Wheat prices listed for No 2 red No 3 red No 2 hard and No 3 hard with bid ranges from $0.98 to $1.06 per bushel. White yellow varieties show values from 68% to 70% cents. Standard grain pricing closes with several fractional bids and decimals.
Chicago market report shows half of 5000 head cattle were western rangers with steady prices across most grades. Best steers sold up to 7.60, while grassers and lower grades traded around 5.00 to 6.50. Hog market rose, packing houses drove gains with most good to choice hogs at 7.75 to 7.80, while total four day hog runs totaled 73,300.
Butter remains steady while creamery and dairy quotes hold at 24 to 29 cents and 22 to 26 cents respectively. Egg prices steady with receipts about 8,500. at mark cases 18 cents, firsts 20 cents, prime firsts 21 to 24 cents.
Chicago September 3 poultry market shows steady trading with turkeys at 17 cents, chickens 15 cents, and springs 16 cents as wholesale quotes.
New York, N Y Sept 3 live poultry steady Chickens 18 19c Fowls 17 18c Turkeys 10c dressed Chickens 14 20c Fowls 16 18c
Railway timetable shows daily westbound and return trains between Chicago and Kansas City with numbered services including Southwest Limited and Local passenger trains. Freight service operates as Local Freight with listed times, noting daily and Sunday exceptions.
New York New York September 3 receipts at the produce market show butter firm with prices 24 to 28 cents for creamery and eggs irregular with 6 900 receipts and 5 700 for other commodities.
St Louis grain prices dated September 3 show Wheat December at 96? cents, Corn December at 55 55/ c, and Oats December at 37? cents.
Peoria Illinois September 3 corn market reports No 2 yellow at 68 1/2 to 69 cents per bushel.
New York September 3 Wheat futures for December at 1.02 and three quarters dollars per bushel. Corn at 67 cents per bushel.
Buyers pay prices listed for corn sixty to seventy cents, oats thirty five to forty cents, wheat eighty five to ninety cents, and barley forty five to fifty cents per bushel.
Receipts rise and overall horse trade expands beyond a week ago. Four days total 1294 head, above last week and last year, with eastern and southern buyers sharpening competition. Demand ranges from $60 to $125 for small southern drafts, $100 to $140 for medium drivers, and $150 to $300 for high class drivers as fall demand begins.
Attorneys and counselors Carskaddan and Pepper advertise office at 188 West Second Street Muscatine Iowa with contact telephone Iowa 707.
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