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Newspaper

Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1915

Page

9

Arabic Fate Triggers Fresh Wheat Slump in Market

News of the sinking of the Arabic spurred renewed weakness in the wheat market in Chicago. Prices closed unsettled with September at 1.0534 and December at 1.043, while corn and oats also fluctuated. Traders cited cool north belt temperatures and cautious crop reports as factors, with expectant shipping demand and short covering influencing late rallies in provisions. Estimated receipts today include wheat and corn and hogs around 15,000.

Chicago

Regional COVID Metrics Snapshot

Minneapolis and Duluth area counts show today figures near 135 and 6 respectively with higher weekly and yearly comparisons. Winnipeg reports 22 today with 21 last week and 49 last year, highlighting regional fluctuations in activity.

Minneapolis Duluth Winnipeg

Market Report of Grain Prices Today

Wheat prices show 346 per contract with 70 estimated, 339 last year and 213 previously. Corn lists 96 per contract with 78 estimated and 96 last year at 350. Oats record 407 per contract with 5 estimated, 407 last year and 292 previously.

Fragmentary figures from an OCR page

The readable bits show daily figures with scattered numbers for today and last year. Names, places, and context are missing, leaving a partial snapshot of totals without clear event or source.

Grain shipments rise and fall from last year

Wheat today 844000 bushels, down from 877000 last year. Corn today 259000 bushels, down from 953000 last year. Oats today 511000 bushels, down from 743000 last year.

Total Clearances of Grain Subtleties

Wheat 75 000, Corn 1 000, Oats 73 000 listed as total clearances.

Chicago cash grain prices on wheat corn oats

Chicago cash grain prices list wheat and corn by grades with bid and ask figures. Wheat No 2 red at 1.11 1/4 to 1.12 1/4, No 3 red 1.10 3/4 to 1.12 4. Corn varied across yellow white and mixed grades from 0.80 1/4 to 0.83 1/4 for No 2 yellow and similar ranges for others. Oats No 3 white around 0.50 and No 4 white near 0.38 to 0.38 3/4.

Chicago

Kansas City Cash Grain Prices Adjusted

Kansas City market reports show mixed values across wheat corn and oats with prices for various grade numbers. Hard white and red wheat move around 1 to 1.38 per bushel while corn ranges from about 0.74 to 0.78. Oats also trade in the 0.37 to 0.46 range with multiple grade distinctions listed.

Kansas City White

Wheat and Corn Prices Reported in St Louis Note

Wheat prices across grades show No 2 red at 81.16 and No 3 red at 1.05 with other grades listed. Hard wheats range from 1.12 to 1.15 with No 4 hard at 1.05. Corn values include No 2 at 75 14 and No 2 yellow at 80 with No 3 yellow 78 14 and various white and oats figures.

ST. Louis

Peoria Cash Grain Market Report

Peoria records a mixed grain session with unchanged prices across several classes. Prices shown include No 2 white 79 14, No 3 white 79 14, No 2 yellow 79 14, No 3 yellow 79 14, sample 77 14, and related white and mixed lots around 40 to 37.

Peoria Pororia

Liverpool Grain Prices Reported for Wheat and Corn

Liverpool grain market update lists Wheat No 1 northern Duluth at 11s 6 14d and Corn American mixed new at 9s. Prices reflect typical late summer regional trading with No 1 northern Duluth Wheat cited as a benchmark and American corn market values shown in shillings and pence.

Liverpool Duluth

Minneapolis Wheat Prices Slip Amid Arrivals Figures

Minneapolis reports wheat prices easing as arrivals rise to 1385 cars versus 269 a year ago. Cash No 1 hard quoted around 1.50, No 1 northern near 1.12 to 1.14, No 2 northern about 1.84, and No 3 wheat near 1.28 to 1.31 amid market softness.

Minneapolis Northern STU

Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report

Hogs receipts 17 000 weak with declines to 5 to 10 cents. Prices: light 6.50 7.00, mixed 5.95 7.55, heavy 5.75 6.75, pigs 6.00 7.80. Cattle receipts 3 000 steady native beef cattle 6.60 10.75, western steers 6.60 9.25, cows and heifers 3.20 9.00, calves 8.50 12.00. Sheep receipts 13 000 strong weth ers 5.60 6.15, ewes 3.50 5.63, lambs 6.40 8.85.

Chicago

Hogs and cattle market report from St Louis

In St Louis on August 19 the hog market showed receipts around 6,000 with steady tone. Prices for pigs and lights ranged 7.25 to 7.70, mixed and butchers 7 to 7.70, and good heavy hogs about 6.75 to 7.10. Cattle receipts 4,000 with steady to higher prices. native beef steers 7.50 to 10.15, yearling steers and heifers 8.50 to 10.00, cows 6.00 to 8.00, stockers and feeders 6.00 to 8.25, native calves 6.00 to 11.00. Sheep receipts 5,000 with lambs 7.75 to 8.50, sheep and ewes 5.50 to 7.00.

ST. Louis

Omaha Stockyard Report Receipts and Prices Aug 19

Cattle receipts 2200 steady with steers at 9.75 or 87.00 for cows and heifers at 6.00 to 7.75. calves 7.00 to 10.00. Hogs receipts 12500 down with heavy 6.00 to 7.30, light 6.30 to 6.85, pigs 5.50 to 6.75, bulk 6.00 to 6.25. Sheep receipts 22000 strong with yearlings 5.50 to 6.25, swathers 5.25 to 6.00, lambs 8.00 to 8.35.

Omaha

Hog and cattle market prices posted at East St. Louis

East St. Louis reported hog receipts around 6000 with steady prices. heavy grades ranged 86.50 to 90.60 per hundred weight and light hogs 7.00 to 7.30. Cattle receipts 3500 with steady values. steers 7.00 to 49.90, cows and heifers 4.50 to 9.85, calves 6.00 to 10.25.

Undefined numeric codes in historic U S bonds note

A terse read shows a sequence of registered bond references and coupon markers such as U S 2s and U S 8s with scattered figures. The fragment lists exchangeable or coupon notes alongside panama 3s and various serial-like strings, indicating a catalog of bond series and entitlements.

U.S U. S U_ S Che.e Cn E. Eee Panama

Stock quotations on the New York Stock Exchange close noted

The New York Stock Exchange closes with mixed results led by American Sugar Refining at 110 1/2 percent, Anaconda and Great Northern near top performers, while Baltimore & Ohio and Southern Pacific show modest gains and several rail and industrial names like Studebaker and Union Pacific move lower or static. Several big names such as American Can, International Harvester, and United States Steel appear with varied prices.

New York New - York ‘Stock Exchange Car “& Foundry American Smelting & Bef American Sugar Refining American Tel Anaconda Moning, Co Lot Res Atchison - Stes Fete Whale Pee Baltimore & Ohio Bee Bethlehem “Steel 'S Brooklyn Rapid Transit California Petroleum Acdene Selig Central Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago & North Western Chicago, Mil St. Paul Denver & Rio Grande Erie Af Elses Lateww & Thark Gaptele Sop Oy Vesea General Electric Pidorsn Abies Goodrich Oe Great Northern Illinois Central Interborough Met O Inter. Harvester Lehigh Valley Louisville & Nashville Maxwell Motor Co Mexican’ Petroleum Missouri, Kansas & Texas Missouri Pacific New York Central N.Y.N 2. C Republic Iron & Steer Southern Pacific. Iy Southern Railway E.e Studebaker Co MES Ae Texas Co Vereei Tennessee Copper Union Pacific Eveee United States Rubber Apt Pemewe United States Steel Utah Esses Western Viegests Ge A Westinghouse Electric Rock Island Baldwin Locomotive

Foreign Exchange and Money Market Notes

New York reports Sterling 60 day bills at 46 2, cables 46 3 4. Francs demand 5.90, cables 5.89. Marks demand 8 1 4, cables 8 1 5 4. Rubles demand 35 1 4, cables 35 3 4. Time loans steady with 60 days 2 1 4 4, 90 days 2 1 4 2, 6 months 3 1 4. Call money steady with high 2, low 1 3 4, ruling 1 3 4, last loan 2, closing bid 1 3 4, offered at 2.

New York Mercantile Paper Sterlinng

New York Produce Prices Burst With Butter and Eggs

New York Produce reports show butter steady with creamery extras at 92 score and 24 to 26 cents, creamery higher, firsts and seconds listed. Eggs fresh gathered extras at 26 to 27 cents, firsts 24 to 25 cents, nearby hennery whites 34 to 35 cents, browns 27 to 30 cents. Cheese prices include state whole milk fresh flats white and colored at 13 to 14 cents and average fancy 13 cents.

New York Hennery

Prices Paid for Hay and Grain in Local Market

Prices paid list shows No 2 wheat at 1.00 and wheat at 1.10 per bushel. Flour selling price 7.03, corn 85 86 cents, old oats 52 cents, new oats 40 to 50 cents, baled hay prairie 6.50 to 8.00, baled prairie hay 1.50 to 10.00, baled straw 5.50 to 6.00, shredded fodder 8.00, old loose hay 14.00, new loose hay 8.50 to 13.00, alsike clover seed 9.00 to 10.00, new clover hay 9.00, crab grass 7.50, clover hullings 10.00, clover seed 7.00 to 8.00.

Knollenberg Milling Co Retail Prices Reported

Retail selling price for flour and mill products from Knollenberg Milling. High patent flour six six dollars and forty cents? Straight patent flour ninety six sixty. Hard wheat flour six eighty. Bran twenty five dollars per ton. Shipstuff thirty two dollars per ton. Corn meal two dollars per hundred pounds. Wagon hogs, choice quality 200 to 300 pounds average six seventy to seven fifteen. Wagon hogs, choice quality 150 to 175 pounds average seven zero to seven fifteen. Wagon hogs, choice quality 125 to 150 pounds average six ninety to seven fifteen.

Knollenberg Milling Company

Market Prices for Hogs Cattle Poultry and Eggs

Listing of livestock prices across hogs heavy light rough sows and stags fat steers heifers cows veal calves bulls spring lambs sheep and hamlia poultry butter and eggs with per pound and per item rates including roosters chickens turkeys geese ducks and butter prices.

Ham—lia Eges

Local Market Prices for Produce Items Listed

Report by Wm. Malambri shows produce prices including carrots three bunches five cents beets three bunches five cents cauliflower per head ten to eighteen cents cabbage per head five to ten cents wax and string beans per quart five cents summer squash each five cents new potatoes per peck twenty five cents cucumbers large each five to ten cents celery cabbage each ten to twenty five cents young onions three bunches five cents tomatoes per pound ten cents sweet corn per dozen twenty to twenty five cents turnips per peck twenty five cents.

Malambri

Figs and Dates Bulk Prices Listed for Importers

A catalog style listing shows various fig and date products with prices: 10 oz figs at 10c, imported figs in mono bundles at 25c per pound, umbrella layer figs imported, dates including Haloch and dromedary, bulk Haloch at 15c per pound, and a 2 pound quantity noted.

California

Shelled Nuts and Popcorn Price Listing

A shopper’s note lists shelled almonds at 765c per pound, Valensit at 765c, pecans halves at 75c, walnuts halves at 75c, and shelled popcorn at 10c per pound. Prices shown in old style currency.

Fruit and nut price list with regional variations

A historical price listing shows fruits and nuts with per unit or per pound pricing. Entries include Cal cherries at 41 cents per unit, Oregon cherries at 20 cents per pint, Michigan sour cherries by quart, various fruits by dozen or piece, and assorted nuts with per pound or per item rates.

Oregon

Hides and Wool Prices Reported by Bolles and Rogers

Market list details prices for hides calves kip and horse categories, glue and pony values, tallow and grease, wool pelts and shearling ranges, and lamb prices. Prices include No 1 cured hides at 15c and No 2 cured hides at 14c, with varying grades for green hides and calves.

Bolles &Rogers

Kansas City Produce Prices Aug 19 1914

Prices from Kansas City market show butter creamery firsts 25 to 27 cents, seconds 23 cents, packing 19 cents. Ergs firsts 19 cents, seconds unspecified. hens 12 cents, roosters 9 cents, broilers 10 cents.

Kansas City Kansas City Hays

Wheat and Corn Bearish Hope Amid Weather and Yields

Wheat traders favor Northwest weather over heavy rains in the Southwest with favorable buying by commission houses. Export business limited by cheaper Manitobah offerings as primary markets show slight gains but not enough to curb supply. market expects lower prices due to large spring wheat yield. Corn shows strength with September high and premiums over futures as late harvest shrinks country offerings. Argentine purchase news brushed off. Oats drop in deferred months amid weak quality standard oats. provisions rise cash demand with packers bullish on hogs and rib and hog prices down 5 to 10 cents from yesterday.

Chicago price report jumble shows dairy and produce quotes

A fragmented Chicago market brief lists butter steady and eggs higher with quantities and receipts. It mentions poultry, potatoes and fruit prices with several misread figures and scattered regional notes on Jersey and Minnesota supplies.

Chicago ADI Feey I Jersey Virginia

New York Wheat and Corn Market Briefs

New York reports weak wheat with No 2 hard at 1.1734 c f. awaiting arrivals from lake and rail. No 1 Northern Duluth priced at 1.095 and Northern Manitoba at 1.051 c f. Futures slip for Sept. Corn spot firm for No 2 yellow at 89.34 cents. Oats hold steady with standard at 54 cents and No 3 white around 52-53 cents.

New York Duluth Manitoba

New York Coffee Quiet in Trading

New York August 19 reports a quiet coffee market with No 7 Santos and Rio No 7 trading at seven cents, indicating stable early activity in New York.

New York Ria

Toronto renames streets to purge German names

The street naming committee in Toronto announces German names will be removed from major thoroughfares. Bismarck avenue becomes Asquith avenue, Albertus avenue becomes Kitchener avenue, and Hamburg avenue, Radeng street, Schmidt place, Prust avenue, and Reichold avenue will receive English titles.

Toronto Bismarck Avenue Asquith Avene Great Britain Albertus Avenue Kitchener Avenue Hamburg Avenue Raden‘gst Schmidt Place Prust Ave Reichold Avenue

Former Cedar Rapids Teller Leaps Bond After Bank Theft Charge

Leo Perrin former paying teller at Cedar Rapids National Bank was released on bond after being charged with embezzling $20 000 from the institution. Ten prominent citizens signed his bail bond.

Cedar: Rapids Leo Perrin Cedar Rapids National: Bank

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Omaha Livestock EAST East ST. Louis D.want Thos H. Hammock R. C. Anderson Quincy Augusta Mester Col. Alpin Eighth Plymouth Ill Fred ‘Myers Kern Third Carthage B. Sweet Frazee Sutter J. Yackle John Eastline Bank Street Keokuk Dres Je H. “Waldron Bth Maine Sts Quincy, Ml Ants Market Wall Street U. S.steel Germany Bethlehem Steel BOND New. York NEW York Grain Lobbers Maine Ompt Service Asst Soca Bottia Sendde Pinaud Department D. Pinaud Nea Yore Knollenberg Knollenberg Milling CO Quincy, Tll McGregoray Kruse Town Borderland Goal Sale. Co Union Trust Whig THE Whitbread A. Urban & Son CO Hampshire Street Quinty, IL
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