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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1925
Page
9
Wheat prices firmed after frost reports from Canada and the Dakotas, with world shipments down 2.367 million bushels. Dec and May contracts rose before retreating, corn and oats influenced by frost despite claims most crops are safe. U. S. and Indian crop news supported gains. hog values pushed provisions higher.
Exchange notes from Chicago on grain prices with range data and daily closes. Correspondence provided by Bartlett Frazier Co. via W 4. flatton Co. lease wire from Hershey Building.
Chicago cash grain prices list Wheaty No 2 red at 1.73, No 1 hard 1.55 1.57, corn values for mixed yellow white and other grades ranging from 84 to 89 cents, oats and rye prices, barley at 65 78 cents, Timothy seed 7.00 8.10, Clover seed 19.25 27.00, lard ribs bellies priced from 17.00 to 21.12.
Peoria Illinois records corn receipts on September 21 with 74 cars and market moves down 3 cents. No 2 white listed at 864 cents, No 3 white 864 cents, No 6 white Sd cents, No 2 yellow Sic, No 3 yellow S86%%c, No 3 mixed 86's Sic, No 6 mixed Sic. Cats Recipts note 7 cars market down percent.
Poultry prices listed by CGGS and Swift Co include No 1 hens at 19 cents No 2 at 15 cents No 1 springs at 19 cents No 2 springs at 15 cents roosters 9 cents Eggs 28 to 28 cents. Livestock quotes from Richard Packing Co show good hogs at 13.25 to 13.75 and packers at 12.25 to 12.50.
Butter receipts 8 094 pounds with 46 1 2 to 45 1 2 cents for ex tras and firsts. Eggs 11 096 cases with firsts 33 to 35 cents ordinary firsts 28 1 2 to 29 1 2 cents. Poultry alive steady with fowls 18 1 2 to 24 1 2 cents and turkeys 20 cents. Potatoes receipts 151 cars. Total Saturday 82 cars Sunday 76 cars. Wisconsin sacked round whites No 1 1 80 to 2 00. Minnesota sacked early Ohios 2 10 to 2 15. Idaho sacked rurals No 1 2 25.
New York Sept 21 Butter Firm Receipts 3,691 tubs Creamery higher amid active market.
Kansas City Missouri September 21 Butter creamery 43 to 49 cents packed. Eggs unchanged Firsts 32 cents selects 31 cents. Poultry hens 21 cents springs 21 cents roosters 12 cents broilers 24 cents. Potatoes unchanged home grown 1.40 to 1.50 per bushel.
St Louis market listings show hens 22 cents per pound springs 22 cents per pound turkeys 32 cents ducks 17 cents white ducks 18 cents geese 13 cents butter 48 cents per pound. The fragment notes values for various poultry and butter with typographical errors evident.
Live poultry unquoted dressed poultry irregular. Chickens fresh 25 to 40 cents. Do frozen 20 to 36 cents. Fowls 21 to 37 cents. Old roosters 17 to 23 cents. Turkeys frozen 20 to 46 cents. Do fresh springs 40 to 55 cents. Do fresh old 20 to 30 cents.
Raw sugar remains unchanged in New York trading on September 21 while refined sugar holds at 5.40 to 5.70 for fine granulated.
Chicago market data shows hog receipts at 36 000 head with gains 10c higher for underweight and better bids for 140 to 225 pound pigs. top 13 55. Cattle receipts 24 000 head with demand for weighty fed steers scarce and prices around 13.00 to 16.25 for heavies. sheep receipts 28 000 with slow market and lambs 14.75 to 15.00 debut.
Hogs receipts 3,000 head market steady to 10c higher top 13.45 bulk 12.50 to 13.00. Cattle receipts 7,500 head market steady to 15c lower bulk steers 6.75 to 12.25 cows and heifers 3.30 to 9.50 calves 5.00 to 11.50 stockers 5.25 to 8.50. Sheep receipts 109,000 head market slow to lower lambs 14.00 to 15.25 ewes 6.50 to 7.50.
Sioux City Iowa September 21 cattle receipts 11000 market slow killers steady 25 cents lower steers 115 cents lower fat cows and heifers 6 to 12 dollars cans 275 to 375 grass cows 375 to 800 veals 490 bulls 300 to 450 feeders 690 to 850 stockers 500 to 750 yearlings calves 400 to 750 feeding cows 300 to 600 hog receipts 1500 market steady to 15 cents higher top 1290 bulk 1150 to 1285 lights 1275 to 1290 butchers 1250 to 1275 mixed 1175 to 1250 heavy packers 1100 to 1175 stags 1000 to 1200 pigs 1900 to 1190 sheep receipts 1200 market 5 cents lower lambs 1475 ewes 700
Hogs receipts 11900 head with prices up to 13.85 for top and 13.10 to 13.25 for heavier weight ranges. Cattle receipts 9000 head with steers and bolognas steady to higher and top around 15. bulls 4.25 to 5.00. Sheep receipts 2000 head with fat lambs 15.33 top and 14.75 balanced to packers. cull prices down to 5.00 with fat light and heavies noted.
Hogs receipts around 1000 head with top prices 13.50 for lights and 13.50 for other classes. Medium hogs 13.25 to 13.50, heavy 12.75 to 13.25, packers 11.25 to 12.25. Cattle receipts steady. calf top at 14.00.
East St. Louis Illinois September 21. Horses include good and choice drafts 150 to 18 75 dollars. Mules reach 16 to 17 hands 175 to 225 dollars. Prices also given for 15 to 16 2 hands 125 190 dollars and 14 3 to 15 2 hands 60 100 dollars.
No. 18 representative sale item features steers with a price listing of $16.25. The fragment shows a cattle market catalog style entry with item identifiers and value.
Active selling of motors and equipment offset buying in other stocks as the market crumbled after renewals on call loans at 4 1 4 percent. Hudson Motors and other leaders shed most gains while Chrysler American Can General Electric Railway Steel Spring Sears Roebuck and Company and Commercial Solvent B fell 3 to 3 12 points. Some buying appeared for cealers and southwestern railroads at midday. A New York boy built a model Eiffel tower from 11000 toothpicks. The American company that held Poland's match monopoly paid 14000000 dollars for eighteen factories in Poland.
Miss Doris Connelly returned from a visit with Miss Dorothy Opel in Muscatine. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hunter of Wapello arrived for a visit with the Hunter sister, Mrs. George Schafer. Hunter leaves for Iowa City to begin his junior year in medicine. Mrs. Hunter will stay longer. The King's Daughters circle met Friday afternoon with Mrs. Arthur Romaine for its first meeting.
By special execution from the Muscatine County District Court the lands of L A Kammerer and Agnes Kammerer are to be sold at the courthouse door in Muscatine on Saturday October 17 1925. The property Lot 41 in the Sub Division of the Northwest quarter of section 35 township 77 north range 2 west will be sold to satisfy the execution in favor of M J Madden. Sale runs from 9 am to 4 pm with 11 am posted for the start. Ed Sander Sheriff Muscatine County.
WANTED men and women for factory work. Ziegler Canning & Preserving Co. WANTED tomato pare and corn cutters. Call 1923-7. WANTED to buy household goods. Sopher Bros. 223 Mulberry Ave. WANTED to trade good driving or saddle horse for small Shetland pony. Phone 2420-R. WANTED dressmaking 512 W 5th. Phone 283. WANTED dressmaking. Phone 724-W. WANTED washings. Phone 299-R.
A scanned newspaper classified column outlines rates for small and large type ads with deadlines and discounts. It lists autos such as 1923 Chevrolets and 1920 Fords, clothing like boy’s sweaters, and household items including stoves and a store building for sale. Prices and contact notes follow, with routing and times for various routes and services.
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