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Newspaper

Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1919

Page

3

Real Estate Listings in Missouri and Illinois

A long real estate ad offers multiple properties across Missouri and Illinois. Listings include two story and one story frame houses with 5 to 9 rooms, various utilities, porches, garages or sheds, and lot sizes from 36 to 80 feet by 190 feet. Prices range from 700 to 4600 dollars, plus parcels in Adams County and Camp Point Township with farms priced per acre. Also notes an 160 acre Elijah Ryan farm and additional tracts in Richfield Township and nearby areas with terms and potential ownership options.

Spring St Elijah Ryan Richfield Barry Liberty

Market News Signals Grain Embargo Hits Corn Prices

Aug 31 Chicago market reports the US Grain Corporation embargo on Atlantic and Gulf shipments depresses corn and oats trading with hog prices rising. June and July futures show declines across corn contracts while oats and lard vary. Local and regional quotes for wheat corn oats and related commodities are listed alongside farm prices and livestock values.

Markets New York and Chicago Prices Report

Markets in New York and Chicago show mixed receipts and firm to steady levels across dairy and meat items. Creamery butter, cheese and eggs hold steady or higher. live poultry weak with varied poultry prices. potatoes firm for sacks and stable for bulk as deliveries arrive from Minnesota and Ohio.

New York Chicago Lower Springs Minnesota

Local Hog Market Advances Dollar On Hundred Pounds

After a week of steady declines the local hog market rose by 1 per hundred pounds on Saturday, lifting the top price to 19.50. It marked the largest one day gain in many years, while other local markets remained quiet and unchanged.

Labor Day Parade and Market Outlook Mentioned

Monday Laborers day plans include parade feast and discussion with bearish and bullish tones. Markets show no downtrend but close near inside prices as government actions curb hoarding and overbuying. Corn improves aided by weather while oats face embargo and grain shipments hindered by rail car shortages. Wheat policy favors good dry milling wheat with sliding scale for low grades.

Food Administration Coorn Wheat Corporation

Livestock Market Reports From Chicago and Nearby Cities

Livestock market summaries for Chicago Aurora Kansas City East St Louis and Peoria on August 31 show hog receipts around 4000 in Chicago with gains up to 1.40 and top prices near 19.25 to 19.75 for heavy and light weights. Cattle receipts about 4000 nationally with week declines mostly 60 cents to 1.50, and sheep with lambs 2.00 to 7.00 lower in places.

Swift Blatchford H. P Bolles and Hoogers Palm Deacons Aldo Summers Drug Co John Musolino and Co California Chicago Wretasas City Kansas City CL. S. Bureau of Markets East St. Louis Louis

Grain and Stocks Review of Weekend Corn Trade

Grain and stocks report on Saturday notes dull, rangebound corn with a late-hour drop, embargo on grain shipments to Atlantic ports, and weaker cash corn by 1 to 2 cents. Oats fall on seaborne embargo and thin demand, with weekly receipts down from last year. Hog prices push toward 20.10, minor short covering and anticipated export demand to trim surplus stocks.

Chicago United States Grain Corporation Atlantic Gulf Long Commission Co Northwest Cor Lets Minn Duluth Winn Seaboard Commission House

National Ball Board Allows Writer's Bill

New York Aug 31 The nations board of the national association of professional baseball leagues has allowed a claim of E W Dickerson a western newspaper writer for 6425 against the Western baseball league for alleged breach of contract. Mr Dickerson was elected president of the league in 1917 for a three year term and when the league suspended in July 1918 on account of war conditions went overseas as a soldier.

New York the Nations Board National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues Ctim E. W. Dickerson Western Baseball League Dickerson

Dr Chapman and His Pup Cure Claims Across Africa

An account narrates a journey in Africa near Monrovia with a cannibal girl education, river near a king's town, and a boyhood pup swim memory. The text touts nonpoison remedies, claims cures for influenza, rheumatism, jaundice, tuberculosis, and other diseases with free examination, urging belief in a medical method.

Monrovia Liberia Freetown Africa Carthage Adams County Quincy Clayton Wearg

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