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Newspaper

Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jul 09, 1915

Page

9

Wheat makes small advance on Chicago market

Wheat prices advanced modestly in Chicago as storms and shipping demand boosted July contracts. Corn and oats gained slightly while provisions eased. Export demand for new wheat appeared robust with reports of liberal Gulf shipment sales and 500,000 bushels bought for August. Estimated Friday receipts: wheat 7, corn 137, oats 113, hogs 19,000, cattle 2,500, sheep 6,000.

Chicago Ohio Valley Tmsk Europe Gulf of Mexico New York A. Bull Washington

Northwest Car Lot Sales Today and Weekly Totals

Minneapolis reports 171 sales today, 131 last week, 77 last year. Duluth shows 43 today, 8 last week, 45 last year. Winnipeg lists 50 today, holiday last week, 158 last year.

Minneapolis Duluth Winnipeg

Grain prices today show varied futures and estimates

Wheat, corn and oats prices are listed with contracts and estimated changes compared with last year. Wheat at 244, corn at 181 with 100 estimated, oats at 128 with 29 estimated, all compared to last year figures.

Grain Prices Reported in Total Clearance

Wheat 437000 bushels, corn 246000 bushels, oats 56000 bushels listed under total clearance figures. Markets note large stock levels and potential supply implications for buyers and sellers in the region.

Wheat and Corn and Oats Shipment Figures

Wheat today 327000 and 337000 shipments, last year 1002000 and 643000. Corn today 735000 and 428000 shipments, last year 379000 and 345000. Oats today 711000 and 579000 shipments, last year 469000 and 684000.

Indianapolis Livestock Market Report July 8

In Indianapolis hogs sold at 7,000 head with prices down about one tenth of a cent, top at 7.90 dollars. Cattle were steady with around 700 head reported.

Indianapolis Ind

New York Coffee Market Quiet as Rio and Santos Prices Edge

New York July 8 spot coffee markets show quiet activity. Rio No 7 trades at 7143 and Santos No 4 at 95%.

New York Rio Santos

New York Sugar Market Closes Firmer

New York July 8 raw sugar closed firmer with centrifugal prices at 48977495 and molasses sugar at 41214 GA I18, reflecting mixed global demand and minor supply shifts in the domestic market.

New York

Chicago cash grain prices on July 8

Wheat prices for No 1 red 1.21, No 2 red around 1.174, No 3 red 1.174. Corn values: No 2 yellow 0.7754, No 3 yellow about 0.3174, No 2 mixed 0.774, No 3 mixed 0.774. Oats ranged No 2 white 0.524, No 3 white about 0.515, No 4 white 0.5114, standard 0.520-0.5214.

Chicago

Kansas City Grain Prices Early July Official Quotes

Kansas City grain prices list July figures for wheat oats and corn across hard red soft red and white categories with several grade numbers and unit prices. No. 2 hard wheat 1880 to 130 lid appears. red and yellow varieties show varying values.

Kansas City

Wheat and grain prices rise on New York spot

Wheat spot strength after New York trade with No 2 red at 1.854 and No 2 hard at 1.444. Duluth No T northern 1.43 and Manitoba No 1 northern 1.3614 c i f Buffalo. Corn No 2 yellow 8844 prompt shipment. Oats firm 59 14 standard and white quotes 59 60.

New York I. F Northern Duluth Manitoba C.i. F Buffalo

ST LOUIS HAY AND STRAW REPORTS JULY 8

Hay receipts listed 17 cars on the west side and 6 on the east side of the river. Market described as limited with scarce high quality bales and weak demand. Prices shown include clover mixed 16 to 18 dollars, timothy 15 to 21 dollars, alfalfa 10 to 14 dollars, straw wheat about 6 dollars.

ST. Louis

Grain price report from Peoria market notes color variations

In Peoria Illinois on July corn prices show 346 higher for No 1 white listed at 76c No 1 yellow 76 4c No 2 yellow 76 4c No 3 yellow 76 4c No 6 yellow 76 4c No 2 mixed 16 4c No 3 mixed 16 4c Oats rise 14 35c higher with No 2 white standard 1c and No 3 white 50 14.

Peoria

Minneapolis Wheat Prices and Receipts Report

Wheat prices and receipts in Minneapolis show higher cash bids. Receipts total 171 cars versus 77 a year ago. No 1 hard around 1.34, No 1 northern near 1.31 to arrive about 1.30 to 1.38, No 1 for external delivery around 1.28 to 1.38, and No 3 wheat about 1.23 to 1.35.

Minneapolis

Chicago hog and cattle prices and receipts report

Chicago hog receipts total 21,000 with weak to steady quotes across weights. Prices ranged from 6.50 to 7.75 per hundredweight. Cattle receipts 4,000 with native and western steers around 7.10 to 7.50, cows and heifers 9.50, calves 7.50 to 11. Sheep and lambs receipts 8,000 with firm sheep 5.05 to 7. Lambs 7 to 9.85.

Chicago

St Louis Live Stock Prices and Receipts Report

St Louis market notes show hogs receipts 3,700 down 20 cents, pigs and lights at $6.50, good heavy at $7.60 to $7.70. cattle receipts 2,800 steady with native beef steers around $7.50 to $10.00, yearling steers and heifers near $8.00. sheep receipts 1,900 strong with clipped muttons $5.00 to $5.25 and lambs $7.50 to $9.75.

ST. Louis Stoge

Kansas City Livestock Market Report July 8

Hogs receipts about 1,000 with prices from 7.35 to 7.55 for heavies and 7.40 to 7.55 for lights and pigs from 6.75 to 7.00. Cattle receipts 2,500 with steers 6.50 to 10.00, cows and heifers 4.50 to 6.00, calves 6.00 to 10.25. Sheep receipts 2,000 with lambs 9.00 to 9.75, yearlings 6.50 to 8.00, wethers 5.50 to 6.50, ewes 5.25 to 6.00.

Omaha Livestock Prices Quietly Mixed Amid Slaughter Day

Omaha Neb July 8 hogs receipts 10 800 lower heavy 690 720 light 7 207 50 pigs 6 50 bulk 6 950 7 25 cattle receipts 2000 higher steers 8 00 10 10 cows and heifers 6 00 calves 8 00 10 00 sheep receipts 7500 steady yearlings 6 60 4 70 wethers 5 75 6 73 ewes 5 50 5 80 lambs 9 00 6 9 75

Omaha Neb

East St. Louis Live Stock Report July 8

East St Louis market notes cattle 3400 with 2400 southerns steady for natives, slow for southerns. Beef natives $10.50 to $10.20? hogs 1000 mostly lower to mixed with typical top around 7.85, pigs around 6.50. Sheep 2500 lower with clipped muttons 5.00 to 5.25 and lambs 7.50 to 8.50, spring lambs 7.50 to 9.60.

East ST. Louis

Chicago Produce Prices and Markets Report

Chicago market notes show butter weak and creamery steady. Poultry prices rise with live fowls at 187.20 and egg cases around 14. Notable figures include 14,922 cases and 160.14 for some firsts. The fragment records July 8 market activity with varied pricing and volume.

Chicago

Prices from St. Louis Produce Market Report

On July 8 in St. Louis the market listed poultry and eggs with mixed figures for chicks and turkeys. Butter creamery prices appeared alongside egg values, showing several directional changes in the local commodities report.

ST. Louis

Unsettled New York Market Weighs On Stocks

July 8 New York stocks remained nervous though less so than yesterday as dealings concentrated amid reduced foreign offerings. European selling dragged several rails to new lows while Reading Union Pacific and U S Steel resisted, copper rose on price denial, and total volume hit 355000 shares. Bond activity showed U S ref 2s at 96 1/2 and U S 4s around 109 1/2 with firm London remittances lighting optimism for a British loan.

New York Europe Louisville Nashville Southern Railway Missouri Pacific Kansas Texas Kansas Southern St. Louis San Francisco Wee Reading Union, Pacific U.s.steel London Continental Berlin Hamburg

New York Stock List Closing Quotations

New York Stock Exchange closing quotations list several issues with last sale figures. Amalgamated Sugar Bethlehem Steel Anaconda Mining Co Baltimore and Ohio Reading Republic Iron and Steel U S Rubber U S Steel Union Pacific Western Union Westinghouse Electric among others traded with varied prices and ex-dividends noted for several issues.

NEW York Stock List New York New York Stock Exchange Sugar Bielows Medicis Can Anaconda’ Mining Co Aatchison Site Baltimore and Ohio Vv Artis Bethlehem Steel Brooklyn Rapid Transit California Petroleum Canadian Pacific Chesapeake Ohio Wetgales i Chino Chicago N. Ww C. M St. Paul Denver Rio Grande OS Erie General Electric Ahaha Goodrich’ Co ANZ Tllinois Central Inter ORE Central N.H Hartford Western Salied Northern Pacific Pennsylvania Ray Consolidated Reading Republic Iron and Steel Southern Pacific Southern Railway Studebaker Co. Op Testis Col Tennessee Westinghouse Electric R. I. and

Money rates in New York mercantile markets

Closing quotations show mercantile paper at 314, sterling 60 day bills 47,659, cables 177.25, Frances demand 566 cables 565, marks demand 8184 cables 5134, rubles 3924, Mexican dollars 3614, and government bonds steady. Time loans steady. call money at 2 percent with last at 2 and closing bid 12 1/2.

New York Mercantile Paper Frances Suver

Local Markets Report From City Market Lot

Market activity described with Corn holding at 84 to 85 cents per bushel and oats at 47 cents. Hay prices steady around 17.50 to 18.00 per ton over the past week. Hog prices down five cents per hundredweight with no other changes noted.

Prices for Wheat Flour Hay and Seeds in 19th Century Trade

A compact listing shows prices for agricultural goods: wheat at $1.00 to $1.10, flour at $7.00, corn at 80 to 85 cents, oats 48 to 50 cents, prairie hay from 86.50 to 8.00, baled prairie hay at 8.50 to 10.00, wheat straw baled at 6.00, straw baled at 6.50 to 7.50, shredded fodder 8.00, loose hay 16.00 to 17.00, timothy hay baled 17.00 to 18.00, mill hay baled 15.00 to 17.00, timothy seed 3.50 to 4.00, red clover seed 1.00, Alsike clover seed 9.00 to 10.00, new clover hay 15.00, baled timothy hay 18.00 to 20.00, baled threshed hay 6.00 to 8.00, crab grass 7.50, clover hullings 10.00, baled straw 5.50 to 6.00, clover seed 7.00 to 8.00.

Chicago

Market Prices For Fresh Fruit And Produce

The report lists prices for various fruits and produce. California oranges and imported oils show dozens priced around 18 to 20 cents per item, with apples in cases and bananas per dozen at 20 to 30 cents. Pineapples from Cuba are described as extra fine at 18 to 25 cents each. Limes from Jamaica are noted by the dozen with higher price markers.

California

Hides and Wool Prices From Bolles and Rogers Report

Live market quotes list No 1 and No 2 cured hides at 12c, No 1 green hides at 11c, No 2 green hides at 10c, No 1 kip skins 12c, No 2 horse hides 3.00 to 2.50, ponies and glues 1.25 to 1.50. Tallow No 1 5 ¼c, No 2 2 ½c, white grease 5c, yellow and brown 8 4c, wool bright native 25-28c, braid light fine 17-17 ¼c, heavy 10-12c, light burr y 1¢.

Bolles & Rogers

Deli Price List of Nuts and Roasted Peanuts

A small items list shows Cocoanuts priced at 5 to 15 cents each. Walnuts English 25 cents per pound, Brazils 20 cents per pound, Almonds 25 cents per pound, Filberts 20 cents per pound, Pecans 20 cents per pound, Chestnuts Italian large 20 cents per pound, Roasted Peanuts 15 cents per pound and Raw Peanuts 12 4 cents per pound.

Knollenberg Milling price list for flour and hogs

Knollenberg Milling Co reports selling prices for flour and mill products. High patent flour seven dollars eighty cents per hundredweight, straight patent flour seven dollars seventy cents, hard wheat flour seven dollars per hundredweight. Bran two seven dollars per ton. Shipstuff thirty two cents per ton. Corn meal two dollars per hundred pounds. Wagon hogs, choice quality, 200 to 300 pounds average seven dollars ten cents to seven dollars thirty five cents. Wagon hogs, 150 to 175 pounds average seven dollars fifteen cents to seven dollars forty cents. Wagon hogs, 125 to 150 pounds average six dollars eighty five cents to seven dollars twenty five cents.

Knollenberg Milling Company

Quotations From Local Butchers For Hogs Cattle And Sheep

Price quotes from local butcher shops list light hogs at 7.10 to 6.85, heavy hogs 6.60 to 6.35, rough sows and stags 6.35 to 6.10, fat steers 6.00 to 7.00, fat heifers 6.00 to 7.00, fat cows 4.00 to 5.00, veal calves 8.00 to 9.00, bulls 4.00 to 5.00, spring lambs 7.50 to 9.00, and sheep at 34.00 to 5.00.

Poultry Butter and Eggs Prices Listed

Prices for hens Worcesters spring chickens and eggs are shown. Turkeys old gobblers nine and four tenths cents per pound turkey gobblers nine and four tenths cents turkey hens nine and fourteen tenths cents geese seven cents ducks nine and fourteen cents per pound. Butter packing stock eighteen cents choice country No 1 twenty five cents.

Fresh fruit and vegetable prices from Wm Malambri list

A retail list shows large artichokes at 15 cents each and California asparagus by the bunches at 75 cents. It covers green beans, beets, carrots, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, cranberries, eggplant, endive, garlic, horseradish, kale, lettuce, mushrooms, leeks, parsnips, pie plant, parsley, peppers, radishes, spinach, shallots, turnips, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, strawberries, grapes and pears with per-unit or per-peck pricing and regional varieties from California Florida Arkansas and Colorado.

Malambri Germany Arkansas Chile Texas California Florida

Shelled Nut Prices in Local Market

Almonds Valencias pound 75 cents Pecans halves pound 75 cents Walnuts halves pound 75 cents Popcorn shelled pound 10 cents.

Figs and Dates Advertised in Fragmented List

A fragmented ad lists various dried fruits with prices and weights including figs in 10 oz and pound sizes, imported varieties, and dates by the pound or package. The scrawl hints at multiple brands like halo and umbrella layers, with prices around 10 to 15 cents.

Wheat Market Faces Storms and Bearish Report

Severe rains and storms whip winter wheat belt causing fears of damage, spurring free wheat buying and price gains before a government report hints at lower yields. Corn and oats futures rise on demand, while cash trade stays quiet amid profit taking and bearish outlook. Provisions see ongoing liquidation as large packers sell and hogs supply loosens.

Seaboard Omaha Central West Ohio Valley

Rejection War Horses Dominate St Louis Sale

July 8 in St Louis prices were low across horse and mule categories. Traders reported satisfaction with transactions despite overall weakness, driven mainly by war horse department rejects as buyers showed cautious interest in remaining stock.

ST. Louis War Horse Department

Market for horses and mules steadied by three governments

Trade activity remained strong as three governments bought supplies for war, keeping prices steady. Southern to Eastern horses ranged up to 125 to 185, extra heavy eastern draughts 125 to 210, army horses 125 to 100, with mules weak as buyers sought high quality stock at high prices. Local sellers moved only a few good miners types while urging shippers to hold out for proper quality.

Wanted Readers Find Classified Pages Worth Reading

Readers are urged to scan The Whig classified pages daily to uncover a diverse range of offerings. The brief notes emphasize the profitability of time spent perusing these silent messages and the excitement of discovering varied listings.

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