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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1915
Page
9
An unusual report outlines a modest strike event titled An AOG Beat. The piece notes nine small delays and a brief pause in activity amid a calm period, with minimal details on participants or locations.
Chicago July market report shows enlarged European demand lifting wheat prices briefly though gains failed to hold. Corn and oats wavered with losses in some provisions, while conditions for domestic spring wheat and winter crop prospects remained favorable. Market buoyed by bullish foreign news but bearish export activity later in the day.
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS TODAY CHICAGO JULY 22 Wheat 216 Corn 108 Oats 116 Hogs 14000 Cattle 1500 Sheep 5000 Minneapolis today 159 last week 422 last year 130 Duluth today 5 last week 4 last year 68 Winnipeg today 92 last week 37 last year 11
Market notes show today values for wheat contracts with tentative estimates and year-ago comparisons. Figures include 169, 38, 154 and 908 in one line and 98, 71, 97, 102 in another, plus 100, 20, 100, 123 for a later entry.
Wheat receipts today 725000 versus 2502000 last year with shipments 295000 today and 1326000 last year. Com receipts 457000 today and 390000 last year with shipments 522000 today and 351000 last year. Oats receipts 477000 today and 561000 last year with shipments 404000 today and 506000 last year.
Total figures show wheat at 582000, corn at 8000, plus Gats at 369000 in the clearance list. The numbers highlight large grain and related commodity movements, with emphasis on market totals and pricing signals for traders and farms.
NEW YORK July 22 Butter Creamery extras 92 36COTE. 26y465 higher scoring firsts 27 27%4. 24 26c seconds 23 24c all Eggs weak fresh gathered extras 24 25c extra firsts 21A 22%4 firsts 19Y%4 21c seconds 1740/19 nearby hennéry whites browns 24 26c cheese weaker state whole milk at 8d and twins solared specials 1434¢.
Chicago July 22 Butter steady eggs steady receipts 10 750 cases reported. Market Activity shows steady pricing for prompt butter and eggs with limited movement as traders note mixed buying and supply levels.
Chicago cash grain quotes dated July 22 show No. 2 red wheat at 1.14½ to 1.13¼, No. 3 red 1.07 to 1.08, and No. 2 yellow corn at 0.80 to 0.83½, with No. 3 white 0.80 to 0.81½ and various mixed lots 0.79¼ to 0.81½. Oats across No. 2 white to No. 4 white range 0.55 to 0.54½, standard 0.54¼ to 0.55.
Kansas City July 22. Wheat quotes range from No. 2 hard at 1.38 to new, 1.29. No. 2 red and No. 3 red appear at various levels around 1.12 to 1.28. Corn and oats offer multiple grades with prices between about 0.46 and 0.81.
ST LOUIS July 22 Wheat prices for No 2 red 1.10 1 4 No 3 red 1.02 1 11 No 4 red 97 1.02 No 3 hard a a corn No 2 80 No 3 78 14 2 yellow 81 No 3 yellow 80 No 2 white 79 14 80 Oats No 2 white none No 3 white 55 MM
Liverpool July 22 Wheat No 1 northern Duluth 1s 7d No 2 hard winter 11s 7d Corn American mixed new 8s 3d market rates noted in dispatch from the port.
Peoria Cash grain market notes corn moved up one cent with mixed white and yellow lots ranging from 79 to 9c, oats fell slightly with several standard and white grades listed around 52 to 64 cents, broader bage and grade references included.
Wheat receipts total 159 cars, up from 130 a year earlier. Cash wheat prices show No.1 northern at 1.3734 and No.2 at 1.4034, with No.3 around 1.2934. Various price figures and arrivals indicate market activity for the day.
New York grain prices quoted July 22 with wheat spot for No. 2 red at 116 and No. 2 hard at 119 1/2 cents. No. 1 northern Duluth at 101/4 cents, Buffalo futures steady with September at 117 3/4. Corn spot firm No. 2 yellow 91 cents and oats spot steady for prompt shipment.
In Toledo Ohio on July 22 price notes list prime cash Clover seed at 8.20 for October and 8.55 for December with 8.21 for March and Alsike at 8.85 in August. Timothy prime cash at 2.70 for September and October 2.80 in September and 2.70 again in October.
Chicago market report shows hog receipts about 20 000 with prices down around 10 cents. Bulk hogs selling 6.70 to 7.30, light weights 7.60, mixed 6.70 to 7.60, heavy 6.40 to 7.30. Cattle receipts 2 000 firm with native beef cattle 4.0 to 10.35, western steers 3.7 to 8.20, cows and heifers 3.20 to 9.25, calves 7.00 to 10.50. Sheep receipts 9 000 firm with sheep 5.70 to 6.75 and lambs 6.00 to 8.15.
Hogs receipts 6700 with prices 7.25 to 7.85 for pigs and lights, 7.35 to 7.75 for mixed and butchers, up to 7.55 for heavies. Cattle receipts 9700 steady to lower, native beef steers 7.50 to 10.00, yearlings and heifers 8.00 to 9.35, cows 6.00 to 8.15, stockers and feeders 6.00 to 8.25. Sheep receipts 1800 steady to 2 higher, clipped muttons 5.00 to 5.95, lambs 7.50 to 8.25, clipped lambs 7.00 to 7.50.
Hogs run 3 500 head steady with bulk at 7.10 to 7.35 for heavies and 7.00 to 7.40 for lights. Cattle receipts around 3 000 with steers 7.50 to 10.10, cows and heifers 4.50 to 9.90, calves 6.00 to 10.50. Sheep about 3 000 with lambs 7.25 to 7.75, yearlings 6.25 to 7.25, wethers 6.50 to 6.75, ewes around 5.50 to 6.50.
Omaha reports hogs 6 600 strong heavy prices 6.39 to 7.00 and 7.40 to 7.45 for light pigs bulk 6 757 15. Cattle at 2 300 strong with steers 7.75 to 10.10 cows and heifers 6.00 to 8.75 calves 7.00 to 10.00. Sheep 16 000 higher with yearlings 5.50 to 6.50 wethers 5.25 to 6.25 lambs 7.35 to 7.85.
East St. Louis July 22 hogs 5 500 market steady on pigs 5c higher on light weaker on others mixed prices range heavy 7 40 to 7 55 light 7 25 to 7 89 pigs 7 25 to 7 85 bulk 7 40 to 7 75 cattle 2 500 steady top 10 35 sheep 1 500 steady page notes.
New York reports a quiet coffee market with Rio No. 7 at 7.14, Santos No. 4 at 9.54, and Rio No. 7 referenced, reflecting a calm trading session on July 22 in New York.
In New York sugar prices for July show quiet trading with refined sugar steady at $4.33 per unit. Molasses sold at 84.06, while overall market activity remains calm and prices hold firm.
New York July 22 Relatively normal trading marked today’s stock market with war specialties restrained yet still at times setting new highs. Baldwin Locomotive hit 76 74 while Bethlehem Steel preferred reached 1.24 percent. General Electric and Westinghouse showed notable activity. Crucible Steel helped lift the industrials with erratic moves in General Chemical and Cuban sugar. Express issues advanced on an ICA rate rise. rail shares fluctuated, with Canadian Pacific sliding to a low since 1904 and Southern Pacific and preferred feeling pressure. Ohio’s June earnings of 1 719 000 topped the year’s first half.
Closing quotations on the New York Stock Exchange list many firms with varied last sales figures including Amalgamated Copper American Beet Sugar American Can Anaconda Mining Co Atchison Central Leather Chesapeake and Ohio Chino Copper Great Northern Illinois Central Interborough Met Missouri Pacific Nevada California Petroleum and other major listings.
Market activity was light with corn selling at 0.82 to 0.84 dollars per bushel. Hog prices weakened, with shippers noting a decline of about 0.5 cents per pound. Pork prices remain below levels seen in previous weeks. No other notable changes reported.
Prices paid for hay and grain list various commodities led by No. 2 wheat at 1.10, flour at 7.00, corn 0.80 0.85, oats 0.48 0.50, prairie hay 36.50 68.00, baled prairie hay 8.50 10.00, wheat straw 6.00, oat straw 8.50 7.50, shredded fodder 8.00, loose hay 16.00 17.00, timothy hay baled 17.00 18.00, mill hay baled 15.00 17.00, timothy seed 3.50 4.00, red clover seed 1.00, Alsike clover seed 9.00 10.00, new clover hay 15.00, baled timothy hay 18.00 20.00, baled threshed hay 6.00 8.00, crab grass 7.50, clover hullings 10.00, baled straw 5.50 6.00, clover seed 7.00 8.00.
Retail selling prices for flour and products from Knollenberg Milling Co listed as High patent flour 7.70, Straight patent flour 7.70, Ward wheat flour 7.00, Bran 27 per ton, Shipstuff 32 per ton, Corn meal 2 per 100 lbs. Hog wagon prices shown as Choice quality 200–300 lbs avg 685 7.10, 150–175 lbs avg 6.95 7.15, 125–150 lbs avg 6.60 7.00.
Market quotes show hogs at choices light 6.85 to 7.10 and heavy 6.60 to 6.35, rough sows 6.35, fat cattle 4.00 to 5.00, calves 8.00 to 9.00, bulls 4.00 to 5.00, spring lambs 7.50 to 9.00, sheep 4.00 to 5.00. Poultry and eggs list hens 11 to 14 cents, roosters 7, spring chickens 15 to 14 cents, turkeys 9 to 9 cents, geese 6 to 14 cents, ducks 8.4 cents per pound, butter 19 to 25 cents with packing stock rated 19c and country 25c.
Reported by Wm Malambri prices for carrots three bunches five cents beets three bunches de cauliflower each ten to twenty cents cabbage per head five to ten cents wax and string beans quart five cents summer squash each five cents new potatoes peck twenty five cents cucumbers large each five to ten cents celery cabbage each ten to twenty five cents young onions three bunches one cent tomatoes pound ten cents sweet corn dozen twenty to twenty five cents turnips peck two cents
A fragment lists assorted dry goods with prices including figs 10 cents per 10 oz package and 25 cents for imported figs, umbrella layer figs, then dates such as dromedary package 10 cents and Haloch bulk 15 cents. The garbled text suggests a brief market price column with multiple item names and unit prices.
A list of assorted nuts and fruits with per pound, per quart, and per unit prices. Items include almonds, pecans, walnuts, filberts, chestnuts, peanuts, and fruits like cherries, prunes, plums, apricots, apples, peaches, pineapples, bananas, watermelons, cantaloupes, and coconuts with varying prices from 10c to 40c per unit.
Prices list for hides and tallow with variations by grade including No. 1 cured hides at 12 cents, No. 2 cured hides at 12 cents, No. 1 green hides at 1 cent, No.2 green hides at 10 cents, calf skins at 15 cents, and horse hides with Nos. 1 and 2 values. Also notes deductions for No. 2s and ponies, plus tallow and grease prices.
Weather gains boosted enthusiasm among bears as buyers absorbed offerings from shippers and foreigners. Sea board sales reached about 750,000 bushels with Chicago handlers similar amounts. July delivery firm across markets. Corn cash tightness spurred advances with July up and September and December higher. Oats saw mixed moves with July up late, provisions slid on liquidation.
In St Louis dated July 22 the horse market shows scarce buyers from east and south for ring animals, war horse demand strongest, four inspections held. French English Belgians Italians active, overall demand good though supplies lean. Mule market mixed with local sellers wary of time, urging curtailment. quotes range from 25 to 225 dollars depending on size and quality.
Hay freights on west and east river sides showed receipts of 24 and 23 cars with a moderate demand and steady prices. New timothy and prairie hay eased slightly as supply exceeded demand while old timothy remained scarce and strong. Clover and alfalfa quiet. common grassy hay dull. straw scarce and wanted with wheat delivered at 6.50.
Kansas City market notes list butter creamery firsts 27 seconds 25 packing 23. Eggs firsts 174 seconds 1214. Poultry hens 12 roosters 9 broilers 17 19 turkeys 13.
The market reports in New York show sterling 60 day bills at 4.71.50 and demand at 4.76.50. Francs demand 5.64, cables 6.63. Marks demand 8.174, cables 8.2. Rubles demand 33.14, cables 34. Bar silver 47.54, Mexican dollars 3.634. Call money steady with a high of 2 and a low of 0.46. Time loans stronger with 24% for 0 days and 234 for 0 days and six months at 214.
Indianapolis hog buyers push prices 10 cents higher with 5,000 head traded and top at 87.85 while cattle offerings total 600 head and steady bids prevail in the market.
The National Farmers' Union plans its annual convention in Lincoln Nebraska from September seventh to eleventh marking the eleventh year of activity. It emphasizes organization education and cooperation for farmers to achieve better marketing credit and policy, urging all farmers to rally around the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America and the Union.
An ancient scene shows Philip the Macedonian judge, drunk and drowsy, pronouncing a verdict then hearing an appeal from a prisoner. The prisoner quips I appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober and is granted a new hearing, gaining liberty. The tale warns that crowds erred in public judgments when intoxicated.
The notice advises readers to telephone their lost item inquiry for a personal ad in The Whig after misplacing a watch parasol or similar item, prompting swift help from the newspaper.
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