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Newspaper

Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 04, 1919

Page

10

Market Strength Lifts Grain Values Amid U S Shipper Competition

Chicago June 4 strength returns to the grain pit as corn prices rise on delayed industry and shipper competition. July and September corn advance to around 1.71 and 1.62 dollars respectively with oats up modestly and provisions mostly steady to slightly down. Visible supplies and car lot figures show mixed movement for wheat and corn while hogs pressure pork and lard remains near steady.

Chicago Long Commission Co Wees Ulla Ty Pork Reptore Ee Northwest Minneapolis Winnipeg

Grain Markets Mixed Wheat Prices Across Cities

Wheat prices show small gains across Chicago St Louis Peoria Minneapolis and Kansas City with No 2 yellow around 1.78 to 1.80 and No 3 near 1.75 to 1.79 while Corn and Oats also edge higher. Receipts and cash bids vary by market with spot and sample values noted for multiple grades.

Chicago Bowhite Asa Gude St. Louis ST. Louis Peoria Proria Kansas City Wansas City New York

New York Stocks Report Amid Market Dips and Buy Opportunity

The New York stock market opened lower after Monday’s broad selling, with hints that mergers and strong rails will push earnings higher. Investors encouraged by potential leases and copper plays rallied on select names. Liberty bonds eased slightly as speculative buying continued.

Huy Studebaker Willys-Overland General Muotors Wille Meter Ptay St, Paul Union Southern Pacific Atchison Great Northern Phere Atta Liberty Amaconda Broad Street New York Stock Exchange Mexican Petroleum Studebaker American International Corporation United States Alcohol Atlantic Gulf and West Indies General Motors United States Steel ALT. & T Loco al & St. PL Nor N. Y Tennee Ee Union Pac U.S. Steel WS. Steel Willys-Over

Market Summary of Corn Oats Provisions Stocks

Corn remained firm with strong cash demand and renewed buying by commission houses seen as outside bulls. Oats faltered despite corn strength with export talk. provisions offered easy undertone from profit taking amid smaller trade. stocks saw a sharp reaction after initial gains as lenders tightened, suggesting a later investment opportunity in standard issues.

Chicago

Prices Paid by Knollenberg Milling Company Report

Agricultural and livestock price list items include hay and grain quotes for wheat, oats, and various hays with per ton and per cwt values. Also listed are hog, cattle, poultry, and dairy feed quotations from local mills and brokers, plus hides and miscellaneous commodities.

Knollenberg Milling Company Anck Hrothers C. F. Bishop Co Lfb Miller & Arthur Co

Markets Briefs From New York and Chicago

Markets report weak Butler prices and higher creamery values in New York. Cheese and poultry show unsettled or unchanged ranges with mixed state and northern area prices. Chicago notes lower meat prices, dairy cases and storage figures, and potatoes with carlot bids. New York spot coffee and raw sugar prices appear dull.

New York Tdve Chicago U. S New Florida Sanoxo Louisiana Burbank New New York

Livestock Markets Across Cities See Weakened Hogs and Cattle

Chicago, St Louis, Kansas City markets report hog receipts around 53,000 to 22,000 with prices generally 15 to 25 cents lower than Monday. Hogs top near 20.50 in Chicago with varied weights, cattle and calves show mixed declines, and sheep steady to strong with lighter lamb prices. Peoria notes hogs 15 to 50 cents lower and slower trade.

Chicago St. Louis Kansans City Kansas City Peoria Tih

Seed Market Chicago June 4 Prices and Listings

Seed market notes from Chicago dated June 4 show Timothy 900 420d Clover Nominal Rye No 2 with 15314 and Harley 119 138 listed among today’s seed trades.

Chicagou Chicagq Timothy Harley

Texas Boy Poses Oil Magnate in St Louis Capers

Thurber Texas house painter Howard Har Doncourt, 29, poses as an oil magnate after tapping a Dallas magnate aura. He opens a $10 bank account, boosts a passbook to 87 110, buys a Panama hat and Elk pin, dines for 54.10, and registers at the Jefferson Hotel under the name Fred Leffler before bank checks reveal the ruse.

ST. Louis Howard Hardoncourt Thurber Tex Jefferson Hotel Dallas Howard Ground School For Mechanics Boston “Tech Boston Fred Leffler Adams American Exchange Bank of Dallas Jefferson Leffler Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co

Home Dry Cleaning With Gasoline Ad Claims Big Savings

An advertisement urges women to dry clean all household items with gasoline and Solvite soap. It claims suits coats waists silks laces gloves shoes furs drapery and rugs can be cleaned at home, with no fading shrinking or wrinkling, using a dishpan and a gallon of gasoline outdoors away from flame. It promotes Solvite soap as the secret and notes directions are in the package sold at drug stores.

How to Prevent Rheumatism With Home Remedies

Advice on staying dry and avoiding damp ground to reduce rheumatism. Recommends four ounces of aqualts daily for a week and Jad Salts as a cheap remedy. Warns that uric acid from the bowels, filtered by kidneys, causes joint pain. promotes hydration and gentle detox.

Dinner menu prices for Fruit Cocktail establishment

A dated restaurant list shows a dinner for two with items such as Consomme, Sweetbreads, New asparagus, Tom and Jerry, Baked Alaska, assorted cakes, and wines. Prices range from 0.60 to 15.00, including cocktails, flowers, and cigarettes.

Aletaigle Weaten

Edina to Honor War Heroes With Park Tree Names

Memorial services for Knox county boys who fell in the war take place Sunday at 2 in Edina park. Trees in the park will be named for the fallen, with Mayor J L Cornelius welcoming and E A Dowell E R McKee delivering remarks. Col J E Rieger speeches and J M Hunolt assigns names. Edina Ladies band provides music.

Edina Knox County Edina Park J. L. Cornelius E. A. Dowell LaBelle E. R. McKee Memphis McCullough C. D. Stewart J. E. Rieger Kirksville Cornelius J. M. Hunolt Edina Ladies’ Band

Strawberries Abundant in Plainville Illinois Report

Strawberries sell for 165 to 20 cents a quart while cherries ripen slowly after late frosts. Corn planting continues and low land may need replanting. Decoration Day services were canceled locally with Relief Corp bouquets sent to soldiers graves. A daughter was born May 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Floyde Seeley. George Hess of Kansas visits. Dick Larrimore visits Quincey. Viola Johnson remains bedridden. Lawrence Hoskins and family visit Chicago relatives for summer.

Relief Corp Floyde Seeley George Hess Kansas Dick Larrimore Quincey Viola Johnson Lawrence Hoskins Chicago

Fat People Get Thin Best Safe Home Method

Bold claim of a weight loss book promising quick, pleasant, lasting results. Advertises Korein Co. mail offer with a free wrapper and under $100 guarantee, urging readers to write for the publication.

Korein Korein Co NA-550 New York N.Y

Inside Bath Promoted as Daily Health Cure

A health column urges a morning routine of hot water with lime stone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims this “inside bath” improves breath digestion and complexion and recommends a quarter pound of lime stone phosphate for trial.

Local Clergy Visit and Community Notes

Rev. McCarty of Vermont Street Methodist church, Quincy, led a quarterly conference here for Supt. Flanigan who was called east by his father’s death. Centenary movement aims noted as McCarty and McMahan of Paloma called with Fletcher in the country Wednesday afternoon. The M. E. Sunday school plans Children’s Day June 8 during morning service. W M S plans bank offering speaker June 15.

Albert Effie Fahs Henry Wagg Hull McCarty Vermont Street Methodist Church Quincy Flanigan Losh Gracechurch McMahan Paloma MW Brothe Fletcher Wagg Barry Loren Call A. Flick Phillip Wagg George Boren, Jr

Maywood High School Pupil Wins German Helmet Award

Miss Grace Tomlinson of Maywood High School wins the German helmet prize for best composition on the fifth Victory loan. Austin Ellis of Ten Mile takes second. Rev. Humphrey family plans Maywood residence. Leon Lindstrom buys Elmer Gross barber shop. Gross to operate in Ewing. Mrs Stookey visits Colchester and Kirksville. Miss Lessie Pittman attends La Grange college graduation. Olin Cason visits Lewistown.

Grace Tomlinson Maywood High School Igh School Austin Ellis Ten Mile Rev Humphrey Maywood Leon Lindstrom Elmer Gross Gross Ewing Dr. Stookey Colchester O. Stookey Kirksville Henry Besling Quincy Cecil Smith Lessie Pittman la Grange Olin Cason Lewistown

Ely's Cream Balm Provides Instant Relief for Head Colds

A fragrant antiseptic cream promises to clear nasal passages and ease congestion from head colds and catarrh. A small bottle smeared inside the nostrils penetrates airways, soothing swollen membranes for quick relief and renewed breathing.

Ely

Illness and hospital visits noted among local residents

Last Tuesday. Miss Anna and Bertha Lee Louder were quite ill the past week with crip. Mrs. and G. Kerfoot stayed with her brother Ed Hart of Ewing. Mrs. A. W. Nesbitt returned from Blessing hospital in Quincy. A. P. Pittman visited Kirkaville to be with Mrs. Pittman in hospital there.

Anna Bertha Lee Louder G. Kerfoot Ed Hart Ewing A. W. Nesbitt Quincy Blessing Hospital A. P. Pittman Kirkaville Pittman

An Enemy of Womanhood The Pinkham Remedy

A period advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the great American remedy for women's health issues. It claims health improves complexion digestion and overall vitality, noting benefits for conditions like headaches backache and nervousness and urging reliance on the product with confidence.

Lydia E. Pinkham

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