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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1925
Page
9
Active selling by western houses and European sources pushed wheat down early, with Dec and May futures falling before closing weaker. Corn and oats hit new seasonal lows on large September deliveries and frost caution. Hogs supported the jittery provision sector despite broader grain declines.
Chicago Wheat No 2 hard at 1.53 percent. Corn values range from No 2 mixed 86 to No 6 mixed 83 to 84 percent. No 2 yellow 84 to 86 percent. White corn and other grades listed. Oats No 2 white 39 to 40 percent. Rye unavailable. Barley 55 to 76 cents. Timothy seed 7.00 to 8.10. Clover seed 19.25 to 27.00. Lard 17.40. Ribs 18.25. Bellies 21.12.
Poultry prices include No 1 hens 18 cents No 2 14 cents No 1 springs 18 cents No 2 springs 14 cents Toasters 9 cents Eggs 30 cents Livestock prices show good hogs at 13.25 to 3.35 and packers at 12.25 to 12.50 per hundredweight.
Chicago market roundup shows butter receipts 4 425 tubs and higher eyes. Poultry alive unsettled with variety of prices for fowls roosters turkeys ducks and geese. Potatoes and 882 car U S shipments indicate slow trading while market remains steady with round whites and brown beauties in specified ranges.
New York produce market report notes butter firm with 12 094 tubs received. creamery butter higher than extras with 50 50 percent and 92 score extras, 49 42 cents firsts 45 49 cents packing stock. Eggs firm with 19 404 cases receipts and varied price ranges for fresh gathered extra firsts to storage. Cheese firm with 172 146 pounds receipts.
Kansas City report notes eggs higher with firsts at 33c and selected at 40c. butter, poultry and potatoes unchanged. The date cited is September 23.
New York market report shows live poultry steady with chickens 26 to 31 cents by express and 20 to 27 cents by freight. fowls 22 to 32 cents by express and 32 to 28 cents by express for dressed poultry with steady prices overall.
An Associated Press dateline from East St Louis lists horse prices including good and choice drafts at 150 dollars for 18 hands, good eastern chunks at 75, and choice southern horses at 45. Mules are priced by size from 15 to 17 hands at 175 to 225 dollars and 14.3 to 15.2 hands at 60 to 100 dollars.
New York sugar market reports steadier raw values with refiners bidding 4.12 for Cuban duty paid and holders asking 4.15, no sales reported. Refined sugar unchanged to 25 points lower, ranging from 5.30 to 4.45 for fine granulated.
Chicago market reports show hog receipts 13 000 head with prices largely higher than Tuesday for 150 to 230 pound hogs. top 13.70. cattle receipts 14 000 with trading slower but better grades steady to weak and fat stock 15 to 25 cents lower. sheep receipts 25 000 with fat lambs extremely slow and most bids 50 cents off, light weight feeding lambs steady at about 15.85.
East St. Louis market reports receipts of 10 500 hogs and 4 500 cattle with varied price ranges. Hogs top 13 85 for lights and 13 50 13 75 for 210 250 pounds while packer sows bring 11 75 12 00 and light sows to 12 25. Cattle show western steers down to 8 25 while native steers hold 7 50 9 00 and cows 4 25 5 50. Sheep offer 14 75 15 00 for a few lambs with slow packet market.
Cattle receipts 9 000 head with calves 2 000 and steers up to 14.75 for yearlings. hogs 7 900 head with tops near 13.35 and 12.25 to 13.25 bulk. sheep 10 000 head as market very slow with lambs 35 to 40 cents lower and ewes around 7.25.
Sioux City Iowa September 23 cattle receipts 4500 with slow demand and weak buyers. Fat steers and yearlings quoted 8.00 to 15.00. fat cows 6.00 to 12.00. veals 4.00 to 10.00. Hogs receipts 11509 with steady market and tops to 13.00. lights 12.85 to 13.00. butchers 12.65 to 13.00. sows and leans 10.50 to 11.50. Sheep receipts 1100 with steady demand.
St Joseph Mo September 23 Hogs receipts 4500 head market steady to higher top 3 25 bulk 12 60 Cattle receipts 3000 head market steady to 25c lower bulk of steers 6 50 10 25 cows and heifers 3 25 9 50 calves 4 50 12 50 stockers and feeders 5 00 8 50 Sheep receipts 6590 head market slow and lower lambs 13 50 14 50 ewes 6 25 7 25
Peoria Illinois on September 23 hogs receipts 1500 head market firm top 13.59 lights 13.00 to 13.50 mediums 13.25 to 13.50 heavies 12.75 to 13.25 packers 11.25 to 12.25 cattle receipts fair market steady calf top 13.50 Published by Peoria livestock market report.
WANTED neat girl for housework no cooking at 515 W. 2nd. FOR SALE select tomatoes delivered 75c per bushel. Phone 317 W or call 140 Sherman.
New York September 23 A P Over a score of railroad shares rose one to three points while public utilities showed strength. Several motors weighed on the market as declines limited overall gains. Mack Trucks fell three points Packard Jordan Hudson American Can Dupont Remington Typewriter Universal Pipe New York Air Brake slipped one to two points Call loans reopened at five percent Foreign exchanges opened irregular with demand for sterling around 4.84 3 16.
In Columbus Junction Iowa a coach carrying Presbyterian ministers was sideswiped by a freight train caboose in the yards. Passengers were moved to another coach and continued their trip to the Presbytery in Washington.
Louisa county to hold its eleventh annual educational institute September 28 and 29 in Wapello High School. All county schools will close. Program covers lectures, sections, and musical numbers with instructors from Des Moines Cedar Rapids and Pasadena. Attendees include teachers and community members with events at the Presbyterian church and school auditorium.
A son was born to Mr and Mrs Paul Kemp on Saturday. Mr Chal McDill and family from Colorado visit his brothers Will and George in the Harrison neighborhood. Owen Sabin leaves for Fairfield to resume studies at Parsons College. Donald Walters returns from Iowa City where he attends college. T T Tharp and family travel to Muscatine with their daughter Mrs Lee visiting. Roxye Buster at Coe College Cedar Rapids visits home. Rebekah and Odd Fellows hold a fish fry Saturday. Ernest Werner and family move into the Car McCulley house. Fred Weile goes to Dubuque on business. W H McGill of Davenport visiting.
Columbus Junction reports a teachers institute in Wapello next Monday and Tuesday, no school here. A post-nuptial shower for Mrs. Harlan Thomas featured a mock wedding. Local clubs send members to Des Moines for a federation meeting. Property changes hands in Columbus City. Various church and school groups hold gatherings and initiate new members.
The True Blue class fall festival, planned for Saturday night, has been postponed due to bad weather and road conditions. Nearby residents J. J. Berk and wife, Harold Krahl and family, Buryl Reed and wife, and Misses Lizzie and Bernice Krahl were among those referenced. Dr. O A Kubrick is conducting business in Illinois.
Wreckage notes indicate the Shenandoah broke apart after wires cut frames amidship and the control car fell to earth. Experts will examine gas cells valves and other factors. witnesses to be questioned as court moves toward possible Washington venues.
The University of Iowa designates the Daily Iowan as the official student organ replacing a carrier circular, consolidating executive announcements and instructions into a daily Iowan bulletin. The daily features an eight page issue, a 28 page special edition at opening, and a staff of nearly 200 editors and reporters under student management with Philip Adler as editor and Laurence Evans as business manager.
A report notes that gaining Thomas Hardy's consent for a revival of Tess of the D'Urbervilles in London required three weeks of daily telephoning and sending at least twenty letters.
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