Wheat Goes Down 11 Cents a Bushel on Monday Market
Wheat prices fell sharply by 11 cents a bushel on Monday in Chicago trading amid government patrol plans. Corn rose slightly though cash prices dropped, hogs boosted provisions, and export sales provided some support to oats. Market figures show mixed moves with wheat near the minimum price allowed by law and weak overall grain activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Sac
Alue
Seaboard
Long Commission Co
Wee Ld
Local Markets Report on Hay Grain and Milling Prices
A dense list of prices from Chicago and other cities covering hay and grain. No. 2 wheat around 2.30 to 2.58, corn 1.70 to 2.20, oats various white and mixed grades, and milling products with flour and meal prices. Also includes livestock and market notes from St Louis and Kansas City, plus miscellaneous farm commodities and scales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knollenberg Milling Company
Chicago
Slar Gerd
Timothy
Minneapolis
St. Loria
ST. Louis
Peoria
Peorta
Til
AIM
Kanena City
Kansas City
Aus
New York
Corn Market Letter on Wheat Control and Grain Outlook
Long Commission Co s Daily Market Letter notes lower corn cash premiums, mid session rally, and a shift toward centralized wheat control impacting other grains. It predicts weather and crop conditions will drive prices, with oats improving in quality and new oats entering markets, while shippers and cheap oats support the market.
Local hog prices rise twenty cents on market
Hog prices on the locative stock market rose by 20 cents on Monday. Nine loads of farm products were brought to the city lot. Three loads of corn sold for 1.86 dollars per bushel. Three loads of new oats sold for 0.60 dollars per bushel. One load of new mixed hay brought 14 dollars per ton. Two loads of oats straw sold for 8.50 dollars per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi River
BL & Q
Steck
Anck Brothers
Dacateter Co
Bolles & Rogers
Market strength cited scarce offerings in New York trading
New York on August 14 reports stocks rose modestly as scarcity of offerings buoyed sentiment. Rails led gains amid crop news and the Chicago Burlington and Quincy extra dividend. steel and related gear advanced on war supply price hopes, with motors and tobacco also firm. Total volume 365000 shares.
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New York
Chicago
Burlington
Quincy
A. T. and
Union Pac
Anaconda
Atchison
B. R. Teesses Wena
U. S. Steel
U. S. Steel Pfd
Ceee Wees West
Union
Willys-Over
Seac. M. and
St. Nid ID Iid
N.Y
N.el
Pont Wees
Livestock Market Receipts and Prices Across Cities
Chicago hogs receipts 26,000 unsettled at 2c above Saturday's average with mix of prices. cattle receipts 13,000 steady with native beef cattle reaching a new higher price. sheep receipts 11,000 strong with lambs up to 16.65. St Louis hogs and cattle mixed with higher lambs. Omaha hogs 2,600 higher. cattle steady to stronger. Kansas City hogs up 15 to 250 with mixed cattle and strong beef prices.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Omaha
Neb
Kansas City
Packera
Markets Report From Chicago New York Kansas City and St Louis
Market notes from Chicago New York Kansas City and St Louis detail creamery and eggs prices including receipts, butter and cheese firm levels, live poultry quotes, and variations across regions. Reports show creamery higher in Chicago and New York with mixed egg receipts and ongoing poultry pricing across cities.
Suffrage Pickets Lose Banners at White House Gates
Suffragists from the Woman's Party attempted twice to station themselves with banners addressed to Kaiser Wilson before the White House gates on Monday. A naval bluejacket seized the first banner as a souvenir, and civilian workers took the other two before they could be displayed. The President and Mrs. Wilson passed from the grounds as the second banner was restrained, smiling and bowing to the crowd.
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Washington
Woman's Party
White House
Kaiser Wilson
Wiilson
Canvass Completes School Election Returns Carthage
Aug 14 Carthage Finds final canvass of non high school district elections. Board of education votes tallied across precincts Pilot Grove Augusta St Marys Hancock Ft Green LaHarpe Chili Harmony Carthage Pilot Grove Durham St Albany Bear Creek Prairie Rock Creek Dallas Pontoosuc Walker Wythe Montebello Sonora Appanoose Rocky Run Wilcox totals show 107 107 105 across three columns with varied counts. Funeral services for Mrs Jeneette T Sweeney held at 113 College Avenue officiated by Dr H D Hoover. Burial Moss Ridge cemetery. Picnic dinner to be hosted by St Marys Aid Society at county fair grounds Wednesday with program and dinner. Myrtle Brakensick visited Bowen area.
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Carthage
Jeneette T. Sweeney
College Avenue
H. D. Hoover
Carthage College
Moss Ridge Cemetery
County Fair Grounds
St. Mary’s Aid Society of Carthage
Misa Myrtle Brakensick
Bowen
Board of Education
Pilot Grove
Fritz J. A. W.G. Ih
G. Réu Baird
Pomroy Williams
Augusta
St. Mary’s
Hancock
Ft. Green
LaHarpe
Chili
Harmony
Durham
St. Albany
Bear Creek
Prairie
Rock Creek
Dallas and Pontoosuc
Walker
Wythe
Montebello
Sonora
Appanoose
Rocky Run
Wilcox
Drawn in Marion to Fill Quota
Palmyra August 14 1917 those called for examination by the exemption board on August 16 listed with their order and serial numbers. Names include Mobie Hunter Herbert Pepper Warren Banta Claude Stout Tom Zakas John Braden Leo Spath Honey Purdy Louis Keith George Barber Olive Davis Artie Morawitz Percy Haydon Edward Hedges Edgar Carter Raymond Lawson Benjamin Gash James Thompson Ambrose Hanes Grace Henry McCarty Oscar Smith Thomas Murphy Roy Kuhlman Volmer Moss Warren Morris William Baxter John Bassen Harry Bost Frank Beuttler John White Paul McQueen Eddia Turner Kuchenbach Karl Crowder George Benson Chas Crowe Walter Harrison Lloyd Suddarth Charley Frost Alfred Bundy Harry Sanders Earl Bragg George Lewis Fred Cole Edgar Hamilton Geo Hatton Julius Brown Harry Fetter Russell Hibbert William Alford Trummie Belmeyer Paul Glen Charles Carr Edley Owens Garrion Owens Palmyra Edson Moss Eison Warm Rhoades Fred Davis Elden Earnst Emmett Doolin Harold Peterson David Given Jesse Crabtree Allen Umstaad Theodore Schneider Stephen Dearing Arthur Trumbo Gustopher Kolthoff Russell Dearing Archie Bumgardner Calvert Dryden Ira Roach Dittmar Brown Brown Brown etc.
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Palmyra
Mobie Hunter
Hannibal
Herbert C. Pepper
Philadelphia
Warren H. Banta
S. Maine
Claude Otto Stout
Tom Zakas
S. Main
John Albert
Edward Earl Hedges
Edgar Pearl Carter
Nelsonville
Raymond Lewis Lawson
Benjamin Lee Gash
James Gilbert Thompson
Center
Ambrose Hanes
Grace
Henry Odue McCarty
Fulton
Harry Bost
Lally St
Frank Beuttler
Hawkins
John Patri White
Monroe City
Paul Samuel McQueen
Essig
Eddia Turner Frederick
James Ferdinand Kuchenbach
Karl Frederick Crowder
Julius Anderson Brown
St. Mary's
Harry C. Fetter
Lyon
Russell William Hibbert
Spruce
William B. Alford
Will
Trummie Wm
Belmeyer
Taylor
Paul Glen
Charles Carr
Able Rolls Edley
Garrion Guy Owens
Harry M. Bowman
BR. Gormion
Carl Lee Kenagy
M. C
Elden Levi Earnst
Patchen
Emmett Doolin
Harold Edwin Peterson
E. Gordon
David Urial Given
Market
Jesse James Crabtree
Allen Umstaad
Theodore Gottlieb Schneider
Stephen Lee Dearing
Ely
Arthur Trumbo
Withers Mill
Gustopher John Kolthoff
Russel Scott Dearing
Archie Robert Bumgardner
Calvert Dryden
Lonnie Meace
Ira Roach
Belden
Richard Dittmar
N. Maple
Leonard Scott Brown
Walter Dan Fowler
Charles H. Clark
Richard Cecil de Long
Bridge
James Henry Sanders
Gordon
Jerry Thorant Bates
Lally
Cleland Wendell Dearing
Cristobal Guitierres
North
George Augsburg
Olin Wilbert Dudding
Summit
Mathew Gasberry
Harry H. Hardwick
Olive
John A. Ihrig
William J. Porter
Palmy
Local Notes From Springfield Visit and Area Guests
Walter Smith returned from Springfield Monday where he had been in the Prince sanitarium for eye treatment. Episcopal services were held in R. M. Atkinson’s home Friday night with Dean Cone of Quincy in charge. Miss Lillian Gard left Wednesday for Chicago to visit cousin Mrs. H. M. Murphy. Mrs. Mary Hill of Quincy is visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Brammell. Misses Fowler and Treswell of Alton are guests of Dr. and Mrs. Berry. Frieda and Aspiria McFarland of Quincy visit relatives here. George Carlens visiting in Carthage. Mrs. Lucy Fusselman visiting Clyde’s family in Hadley. William Foster shopping in Quincy Thursday. Max Jacobson returned from Chicago Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Logan Baker returned from Atlas Friday. Myrtle Coulston and three children of Quincy visiting aunt Mrs. Neff. Anthony Pfeiffer of O’Fallon IL here threshing on his farm. George Maher of Louisiana, Mo spent several days here last week.
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Walter Smith
Springfield
Prince Sanitarium
Episcopal
R. M. Atkinson
Dean Cone
Quincy
Lillian Gard
Chicago
H. M. Murphy
Mary Hill
G. H. Brammell
Fowler and
Treswell
Alton
Berry
Anthony Pfeiffer
O'Fallon
George Maher
Louisians
Two Pike County Men Enter Camp at Fort Sheridan
Truman Allen and Elmer Doocy of Pike county will join the second series officers reserve training camp at Fort Sheridan reporting Sept. 1. Allen serves as deputy to his father County Treasurer J. A. Allen while Doocy is the son of Judge Edward Doocy and practices law with his father. Several Pike county men sought admission but were not selected. Local items note visitors and activities including Mrs. Paul Fife and daughter with her mother, Attorney Joseph Kane of St. Louis visiting relatives, Miss Mayme Halpin with family, Wetzel’s trip to Mattoon and Paris, a union service sermon by Rev. Fred L. Hanscom, Mrs. P. Moran of Kansas City visiting, Judge Harry Higbee returning from the North, property transfers involving Peter Ward and Isaac Ator, Mrs. Jessie Johnston shopping in St. Louis, Mazie Coley at a Jersey teachers’ institute, and a forthcoming forestry group picnic and membership drive.
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Pittsfield
Til
Truman Allen
Elmer Doocy
Pike County
Fort Sheridan
Allen
J. A. Allen
Doocy
Edward Doocy
Paul Fife
Hannibal
T. B. Hall
Joseph Kane
St. Louis
Mayme Halpin
Andrew Russel
Springfield
John H. Halpin
Janvir Wetzel
Morgan
Peter Ward
Grant Wassell
Samuel Ator
Martinsburg Township
Jersey Teachers’ Institute
Grafton
Order of Foresters
Taft Improves and Leaves Kansas Soon
Taft continues rapid recovery from intestinal indigestion as his physician says he should be able to leave Clay Center Kansas by Wednesday. The former President was stricken last Tuesday during a lecture tour and remains under medical care.
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Clay Center
Kan
William Howard Taft
Taft
Five Drown On City Of Athens In Mine Disaster
Five American passengers died when the British steamer City of Athens was torpedoed near Cape Town on August 10. Nineteen missionaries aboard the ship, part of the African Inland Mission, survived. The victims include Miss Helen Robinson daughter of Bishop John C. Robinson and four other named Americans. among the living are J D Pointer and various mission staff from several cities. The steamer sailed July 12 from New York.
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Washington
City of Atheny
Cape Town
South Africa
State Department
Naggard
Miss Robinson
Caroline Thompson
Methodist Mission Board
J. D. Pointer
Bridge Street
Brooklyn
Mr. Sumner
Duckworth
Denver
Colo
Summer
Meadows
Ill
Richey
Chicago
Prichett
Rockland Street
Philadelphia
David Lovas
Astoria
S. D
X. F. Braton
Denham
Smith
New York
City of Athens
African Inland Mission
Earl Camp
Charles E. Hurlburd
Athens
Helen Robinson
John C. Robinson
Methodist Missions Board
India
United State
Portuguese East Africa
Naysgard
Amelia Bucharan
Kewanee, Ill
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G. N. Barnesinister
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War Cabinet
Succesn
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Daily Market Letter
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W. G. Pomroy
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Hope
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S. 6Th
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Bird
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Emden
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Falmyra
Geo. Livingstone Sullivan
David Lee Roy Stewart
Dudley Jackson Lane
Cecil Franklin Rife
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Marion Francis Anderson
S. Haydon
Charles Everett Webb
Pleasant
Ray Richard Updyke
Stephen Drake
William Owens Frinson
Russell
Lee Craine
Walter M Dicon Griggs
Hops
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Ernest Henry Bode
Herman Joseph Walterhheid
Main
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Everett Oscar Worthey
Rock
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Warl Denton Rhoades
Fred Thompson
Birch
Julius Allen Davis
James H. Gaskill
215
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Lincoln
Thomas F. Smith
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Wm. Montgomery Bay
Magnolia
Arthur Theodore Charley Pullman
William Raymond Walker
Mannibal
David Effort Morrow
Mark
John Francis Buhl
James Thomas King
Ilus Rhoades
John Wilson
Otha Wade Tedrow
Glen Fesler
Lindell
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N. Std
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Grant Whikerson
Charles Harrison White
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Quincy Railway Company
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Quincy Ring
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Collins Plow Company
Respohl-Mohrenstecher Company
Moorman Stock Remedy Company
United Cereal Mills Co.,, Ltd
Richardson Lubricating Company
J.J. Flynn & Co
Weller Bros, S. I. Bragg
Ralph McReynolds
Weems
Plymouth Clothing Co
H. J. Jurgens
State Street Bank
State Savings, Loan & Trust Co
Mercantile Trust & Savings Bank
North East Missouri
Fred Walter, Jr
L. R. Wescott
D. Clark Thomas
Gem City Business College
Bragg’s
Quincy, In
Quincy’s
H. C. Sprick
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