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Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1915

Page

2

Wheat makes lowest marks as market slumps in Chicago

Wheat sold off to the crop’s lowest figures amid heavy liquidations and weak support. September touched 93 1/4 to 9 1/2 cents, December 93 1/4 to 94 1/4. Oats fell to modest losses. provisions eased. Rumors of frost damage faded after early fears, with selling pressure led by pork and ribs while lard held steady. Estimated receipts: wheat 733 cars, corn 188, oats 986, hogs 15,000, cattle 5,600, sheep 15,000.

Chicago Northwest Minneapolis Canada Iowa Nebraska Qtvic Yrutouay

Wheat and grain weekly production figures

This week Wheat 7,111,000. Corti 2,382,000. Oats 2,923,000. Last week figures show Wheat 8,092,000. Corti 2,822,000 and Oats 2,231,000. Yearly totals are Wheat 31,534,000. Corti 3,923,000. Oats 20,124,000.

Minneapolis Winnipeg Duluth traffic figures page summary

Minneapolis today reports 755, last week 591, last year 730. Duluth shows today 28, last week 10, last year 188. Winnipeg lists today 72, last week 21, last year 260.

Minneapolis Duluth Winnipeg

Agricultural futures report snapshot today

Wheat and corn price figures from today show contracts and estimates. Oats figures are partially provided but incomplete.

Agricultural Receipts Reported For Wheat Corn and Oats

Receipts figures show Wheat today 2,146,000 versus last year 2,719,000. Corn receipts today 527,000 compared with 1,801,000 last year. Oats receipts today 2,402,000 ahead of last year’s 1,481,000.

Wheat and grain totals show current and prior year shifts

Wheat, corn and oats product figures compare today with last year. Wheat 1,378,000 vs 1,636,000. corn 387,000 vs 854,000. oats 1,443,000 and 653,000 respectively, indicating declines in wheat and corn outputs with oats figures listed.

Grain Prices Decline at Central Market

Market brief notes total clearance of grain stocks with wheat at 1,128,000 units, corn 12,000 units, and oats 192,000 units sold or moved. Indicates robust demand or supply actions in a regional trading session.

Chicago Seed Market Report Aug 30 Rye and Barley Prices

Chicago seed market notes show rye at No. 2 9514 96 and barley trading between 48 and 62. The brief listing reflects commodity bidding in the Chicago area with limited detail on buyers or dates.

Chicago

Chicago Cash Grain Prices End Of August Trading

Wheat and corn prices recorded at Chicago on August 30 with No. 2 wheat at 1.06 and 1.04 for hard types, No. 3 red 1. - No. 2 yellow corn 0.44 to 0.81, No. 2 white 0.76 to 0.78, oats varied from 0.32 to 0.40 with standard at 0.40.

Chicago ST. Louis

Kansas City Cash Grain Prices Listed

Kansas City market reports wheat and corn bids for futures grades and numbers. Hard and red wheat ranges from 0.99 to 1.20 dollars, corn bids for several grades around 0.70 to 0.75, oats and white varieties quoted in the 0.34 to 0.43 range.

Grain Prices in St Louis Market Report

Wheat and corn prices listed for No 2 red to No 4 red and yellow and white varieties with bid and offer figures. Oats and other grains shown in several grade categories with mixed quotes and ranges across No 2 to No 4 grades.

Omaha Cash Grain Market Report August 30

Wheat No 2 hard trades between 1.06 and 1.10 dollars per bushel. Corn No 2 white around 7.34, No 2 yellow about 7.24 to 7.44, and No 2 near 7.14. Oats No 3 white roughly 8.4 to 8.6 dollars per bushel.

Omaha

Wheat and corn prices from Northern Duluth market

Liverpool market notes list wheat priced at 11s 3d for No. northern Duluth and corn mixed new at 6s 11d, reflecting grain values in the import/exports update.

Liverpool Duluth

New York Grain Prices and Futures Slipping

Wheat prices ease with No. 2 red at 1.10 for prompt New York while No. 2 hard sits at 1.12 and futures ease to 1.04. Corn and oats show spot weakness as No. 2 yellow and No. 3 white quotes drift lower. Manitoba and Duluth North shipments noted with slight premiums.

New ‘York New York New York E. i Duluth Manitoba Buffalo

Wheat prices and arrivals in Minneapolis market report

Minneapolis market brief shows wheat receipts at 755 cars versus 730 a year ago. Cash wheat levels quoted for No 1 hard about 1.03 to 1.04, No 1 northern near 97 to 1.01, arrive bids around 0.97 to 0.74, and No 2 northern near 0.56 to 0.60. Stable demand noted with varying quality grades and futures references.

Minneapolis Northern

Peoria Grain Prices Change With Mixed Corn and Oats

Peoria grain markets report mixed movements on August 30. Corn futures show declines across several classes with No 2 white at 77 to 94 and mixed samples around 103. Oats also fall with No 3 white at about 32 1/4 and No 4 white near 29 to 30 cents per bushel.

Peoria le Lower

Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report

Chicago market update shows hog receipts 37,000 with prices mostly 10 cents lower. light to pigs and totals around 7,000. Cattle receipts 18,000 with steady to 10 cents higher. native beeves and western-styled cattle quoted, calves lower. Sheep receipts 16,000 with drops of about 10 cents. wethers and ewes and lambs priced, ranges noted.

St Louis Live Stock Prices August 30

Hogs receipts 8700. 5 to 10 cents lower. Pigs and lights about 97.50 to 50, mixed and butcher stock. Cattle receipts 12200. steady to lower. Native beef steers and feeders 7.50 to 10.00. headling steers and heifers 8.50 to 10.00. cows 6.50 to 8.00. stockers and feeders 6.00 to 8.25. native calves 6.00 to 14.50. Sheep receipts 2800. lambs 5.00 to 9.00. sheep and ewes 3.50 to 7.50.

ST. Louis Stesgatirg

Kansas City Live Stock Prices Aug 36 Hogs and Cattle

Kansas City market report shows hogs receipts around 7,000 with prices from 6.90 to 7.60 for heavy to light pigs, cattle receipts about 24,000 with steers 6.75 to 9.85, cows 4.25 to 7.50, heifers 6.50 to 9.50, calves 6.00 to 10.25, and sheep receipts 15,000 with lambs 8.25 to 9.10, yearlings 6.25, wethers 5.50 to 6.25, ewes 5.00.

Kansas City

Market Notes Show Mixed Activity in Irregular Day

In New York, stock trading displayed irregular yet professional tone with demand bills off London and a weaker Paris check. Lackawanna Steel led gains in the steel group, while Texas Company climbed as Mexican concerns buoyed sentiment. United States Steel remained active but declined late, with total volume around 737,000 shares.

New York Germany London Paris Lackawanna Steel Texas ‘Company New Haven States Steel

New York Stock Exchange Closing Quotes Aug 30 1920s

New York closing quotations show Amalgamated Copper Amalgamated Sugar American Beet Sugar Co. Am. Smelting and Refining Anaconda Mining Atchison Baltimore and Ohio Bethlehem Steel Brooklyn Rapid Transit California Petroleum Canadian Pacific Central Leather Chesapeake and Ohio Chino Cone C and N V C M and St Paul Denver and Rio Grande Meat General Electric Goodrich Co.gt N Gt. North Central Inter. etc. reads odd but lists many major firms with their latest prices.

New ‘York New York New York ‘Stock Exchange Amalgamated Car and Foundry Wada Wecaseese Anaconda Mining Bes Rewees Atchison Ies Baltimore and Ohio Sevesseene Bethlehem Steel Eesese Brooklyn Rapid Transit Ln California Petroleum Canadian Pacific Central Leather Chesapeake Ohio Chino Cone Beeen Ettc C. and C. M Se Paul Denver Rio. Grande Satake Eteeren General Electric Goodrich Co Illinois “Central Inter Inter. Harvester New York Central N.Y N. Ho Norfolk and Western Northern Pacific Pennsylvania Sesteee Ray Consolidated Republic, Iron and Steel Scenee Southern Pacific Aesseneessee Southern Railway Studebaker Co. I.e Texas. CO Tennessee’ Copper Union -Pacific U.S. Rubber Baldwin

New York Money and Rates Update

Mercantile paper 4.34, sterling 4.60, day bills 4.58, demand 4.6150, cables 4.6225. Francs demand 6.02, cables 6.01. Marks demand 0.81, cables 0.81. Lives demand 6.52, cables 6.50. Rubles demand 3.414, cables 3.434. Bar silver 47, Mexican dollars 0.37. Loans steady 60 days 2.37, 6 months 3. Call money steady at 2, ruling rate 2, last loan 2, closing bid 1345, offered at 2.

New York Mercantile

New York Produce Prices and Grades Update

New York August data shows butter and creamery extras with a 92 score, plus firsts and seconds in multiple lots. Listings include Sterilees fresh gathered extras, nearby hennety white and hennery browds, and state whole milk fresh flats with white and colored specials.

New York Hennery Browds

No. 2 Wheat and Farm Supplies Prices Listed

A fragmented price list shows wheat at 7.00 per unit and oats and hay items with various values. Entries include old oats, new oats, prairie hay, baled prairie hay, shredded fodder, clover seed, and clover hay, with multiple price points and unclear formatting.

Knellenberg Milling Co Flour and Byproducts Prices

Retail selling prices for flour and mill products are listed as High patent flour 6.60, Straight patent flour 36-40, Hard wheat flour 6.60, Bran 25.00 per ton, Shipstuff 6 per ton, Corn meal 2.82 per 100 lbs.

Megling Knellenberg Milling Company

Hogs Market Listings by Weight Class

Wagon hogs offer choice quality in several weight ranges from 125 to 300 pounds. Prices shown range from 7.10 to 7.40 per hundredweight, with specific lots noted at 6.25 and 7.35.

Quotations From Local Butchers Brief Market Prices

Market brief lists hogs light and heavy at 85 to 86. one hog price, sows and stags around 6.30 to 6.60. Fat cattle and veal ranges given, lambs and sheep priced. Poultry butter eggs and other farm products featured with small-town price quotes for hens roosters turkeys geese ducks and butter.

Vegetable prices from Malambri report

A catalog of fresh vegetables with prices from carrots three bunches to beets and cabbage by the head to cucumbers and tomatoes. Listings include wax beans summer squash new potatoes celery cabbage onions and sweet corn with per unit and per quantity pricing.

Win Malambri

Figs and Dates Price List Note From 1900s Catalog

Fragmentary OCR shows a price list for figs and dates with various package types and imported goods. Entries include 10c figs pulled mono bons 23c figs umbrella layer 2ac dates Groctestany package 10c Id Dates Halowi bulk 15c, 2 Ibs 25c.

California

Shelled nut meats and fruits price list

A price list from the market shows shelled almonds Valensis pecans and walnuts sold by the pound with various rates. It also lists fruits including cherries currants prunes plums apricots apples peaches and pineapples with per unit or per measure prices and multiple fruit varieties. Other items include coconuts bananas watermelons cantaloupes and assorted chestnuts and nuts with assorted prices.

Oregon

Market Prices for Hides and Wool From Bolles and Rogers

Prices listed for hides, including No 1 cured hides at 15 cents No 2 cured hides 14 cents No 1 green hides 13 cents No 2 green hides 42 cents and calf and kip values. Horse prices range from 1 00 to 4 00 with various sizes. Wool pelts shearlings lamb and tallow and grease values shown.

Bolles & Rogers

Coffee Spot Coffee Prices Mixed in New York Trading

New York coffee market shows Rio No 7 at 7 cents, Santos No 4 at 6 cents in morning dealings with spot steady tone. Market notes list New York as the base area for price quotes and trading activity amid routine fluctuations.

New York Rio Santos

Wheat and grain markets show bear outlook amid frost and surplus

Reports from the northwest and Kansas indicate weak wheat prices despite export sales, with large corn supplies and heavy oats offerings. Bearish sentiment grows as frost and regional conditions depress prices, while old crop premiums falter and nearterm demand remains uncertain for grain, corn, and provisions.

Northwest Canada Kansas Towa Nebraska South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin

East St Louis Live Stock Report Averages Decline

East St Louis stock market report priced cattle at 6.00 to 8.25 for steers and 6.00 to 11.50 for calves, hog values 6.10 to 7.90, bulk 7.70 to 7.80, and sheep with lambs 8.00 to 9.25. Totals: cattle 1,500 head, hogs 9,000, sheep 4,000.

Omaha Live Stock Prices in Aug 30 Report

Omaha dispatch lists hogs at steady to firm with light, heavy ranges from 6.60 to 7.50 and 0.75 for bulk sales. Cattle receipts at 9,000 with steers around 6.75 to 7.5, cows and heifers 5.50 to 7.25, calves 7.00 to 10.00. Sheep receipts 86,000 with yearlings 5.75 to 6.78, wethers 5.25 to 6.23, ewes 8.60 to 9.10.

Omaha

Sugar market quotes and shipment sales report

Raw sugar held firm with 33,000 bags of Cuban centrifugal sold at 4.77. A sale of 000 bags for September shipment at 4.70 and molasses sugar at 4.00 followed. Other quotes included dolasses 3.93, refined 3.55, crushed 6.45, smoulh A 6.10, tubes 5.90, powdered 5.75, granulated 5.63, diamond A 5.65, confectioners A 5.5, No 1 5.40.

New York

Chicago Produce Prices and Stocks Report

Chicago market notes show butter steady with various quality lines listed between 22 and 24 cents plus receipts of 13 752. Eggs trend slightly higher with several price points and cases. poultry alive fowls springs at 6 16. Potatoes steady to down 8 cents with 60 car receipts. Jersey cobblers 58 30, Jersey giants 45 48, Minnesota and Ohio 41 43, Wisconsin white 41 43.

Chicago Jersey Cobblers Jersey Giants Minnesota and Ohbies Wiscorisin White

New York Poultry Prices Steady on Aug 30

New York market report shows dressed western frozen roasting chickens at 20 cents, fresh fowls iced at 13 14, fresh turkeys iced at 15 16, alive western broilers 15, fowls 16 1/4, turkeys 13 15.

New York

Conventions In Kentucky Open In Louisville

In Louisville Kentucky the state conventions of the democratic and progressive parties begin. The progressives met this afternoon and the democrats meet tomorrow. Main work is platform adoption and ticket ratification from recent primaries. Progressives expected to back state wide prohibition. Democrats to advocate the county unit law.

Kentucky Louisville Partie

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