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Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Feb 01, 1916

Page

10

Wheat and corn tumble as embargo weighs on wheat futures

Chicago trading sees a sharp decline in wheat and corn while oats weaken and provisions ease. May wheat around 1.37, July near 1.25, with embargo on shipments to Galveston adding pressure. Stocks in New York tumble amid talk of international tensions and Wilson’s remarks.

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Grain Markets Across Cities on Feb 1

Chicago wheat and corn prices show No. 3 red at 1.25 1.3134, No. 4 red 1.17 1.20, No. 2 hard 1.33, corn values range from No. 3 yellow 0.754 0.78, to No. 6 mixed 0.68 0.70. St Louis reports mixed grain quotes, Toledo lists clover seed and timothy futures, Peoria notes white and yellow corn ranges, Minneapolis and New York list scattered wheat, corn, and oats prices with spot and futures weak trends.

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Livestock Market Receipts Across Multiple Cities

Mixed cattle and hog bids with steady to higher tone noted in Chicago St Louis Omaha and Indianapolis receipts. Cattle buyers showed demand for native beef steers yearling stock and cows while hogs and lambs fluctuated with price movement reported by markets in Elgin and Kansas City. A closing wit shows a proverb about marriage.

Chicago Wethcia Azule

New York Stocks Still Declining

New York on February 1 saw further stock price declines with heavy trading. United States Steel led losses dragging rails and coppers while Bethleham Steel and other issues fell. late gains in Crucible and Lackawanna Steel provided brief relief before renewed pressure. Total volume neared 960000 shares as markets remained unsettled despite some rallies.

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New York Money Mercantile Rates Reported

New York money markets report mercantile paper at 843'49, silver at 74, Mexican dollars at 44.0, time loans 27.493, call money closing bid shows high 2 and low 14. Tey

New York Money New York Mercantile Tey

France Aims for Maximum Agricultural Production

Paris January 30 The French government plans to make every parcel of land productive to achieve peak agricultural output. A bill under Minister of Agriculture Theophile Delcassis or Tilmes Meline requests owners of uncultivated land to begin tillage within two weeks after notice sent by registered letter.

Paris France Tides Meline

Long Commission GO's Daily Market Letter

Wheat fell sharply as political unease spooked New York stocks causing heavy liquidation this morning. Corn and oats followed wheat downward with unsettled prices likely for several days, while provisions remained weak early but recovered somewhat as packers and shorts adjusted.

Chicago New York Shorts

Markets report across Chicago New York and St Louis

Chicago market notices show butter steady at 230.30 a creamery, eggs up to 2729 firsts 29 ordinary firsts 27128, potatoes unsettled with Midwest whites, 46 car receipts. New York dressed poultry strong, live poultry unsettled. St Louis poultry and butter mixed, eggs 29, butter 32. Kansas City butter and eggs mixed, poultry rates for hens and turkeys listed.

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Planning Great Strike by Four Omen Leaders

About 1000 men, led by Wood Stevens of the Locomotive Engineers and William Leece of the Brother Railways Trainmen, with Austin Carrerson of the Railway Conductors and WS Carter of the Locomotive Firemen meeting to plan a strike. They demand an eight hour day and reduced overtime pay as a key concession in what could be a major action in American labor history.

Wood Stevens Sheet William Leece

Price of hogs rises ten cents in local market

Hogs gained ten cents per hundredweight while corn and other grains held steady. A total of 25 loads moved through the day as receipts remained solid despite poor roads and bad weather. Corn was plentiful with multiple loads and various prices reported, hay and straw prices also logged.

Local markets prices for hay and grain list

Prices paid for hay and grain include No. 2 wheat at 1.25 and flour at 6.60. Corn 7.376e, oats 30 40c, wheat straw 5.00 to 5.50, baled prairie hay 0.00 to 0.00, alfalfa hay 14.00, oats straw 6.00 to 7.00, shredded fodder 1.00, new hay 9.00 to 14.00, Alsike clover seed 89.00 to 10.00, new clover hay 7.00 to 11.00, crab grass 7.00, clover hullings 310.00, baled straw 5.50 to 6.00, clover seed 87.00 to 9.00.

Knollenberg Atailing Flour and Hog Price Report

Retail prices show high patent flour six sixty to six eighty per hundredweight and hard wheat flour at thirty six eighty. Grain and meal costs include corn meal two hundred per hundred pounds and Iran at twenty three per ton. Hog prices list ranges from seven to eight dollars per cwt for various weights with rough heavy hogs around five thirty to six dollars. Shipments originate west of the Mississippi at C B Q stock yards with stated weights and totals.

Knollenberg Atailing Company Iran Mississippi River

Hog Market Quotes From Local Livestock Prices

Readable fragments show choice hogs priced by weight and weight ranges. Quotes include averages from 140 to 250 pounds, with prices around 6.10 to 7.30 per hundredweight and totals near 6,600 to 8,330 dollars.

Poultry Prices and Varieties from Selby Company

The listing shows poultry quotations including hens roosters ducks geese and turkeys with prices per unit such as young turkeys at 16c and old gobblers at 10c. Other items include butter and eye quantities with per unit prices.

Selby Company

Quotations From Local Butchers

Fragmentary OCR text listing meat prices and items from local butchers. Mentions hogs veal chops and liver with scattered figures and prices in unclear order. Unable to determine full context or exact event.

Get Rid of a Racking La Grippe Cough It Weakens

Cluttered OCR list notes hides and pelts pricing by grade. Mentions cured hides, kip and calf, wool pelts, winter grease, and related trade terms with scattered figures. Also references intense cold in Butte and a meeting related to the sick.

Bolles & Rogers

Old Doc Discovers Barnes Wild Man in New Adventure

Old Doe Conk, famed as the North Pole discoverer, claims new finds with the Wild Men of Barnes. He allegedly sought Everest then went to Borneo to meet the figure, a tale told to New York reporters on his arrival.

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