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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1918
Page
3
Weather turmoil and moisture shortages spurred price advances across stocks grains and provisions. Corn and oats climbed while hogs held strong as traders eyed export bids and crop reports slight rains in Iowa offered mixed relief. The market showed early gains then pulled back on profit taking amid light country deliveries.
Chicago and other cities report mixed corn and oats prices for June 28 with No 2 mixed corn around 1.70 and No 2 white oats near 1.88. St Louis Peoria Minneapolis and Kansas City show varied bids and receipts. Prices for corn oats rye and flax vary by grade and location.
Oil issues lead a strong session with Sinclair Oil crossing 30 and Mexican Petroleum rising. Copper tobacco and Anaconda show gains while U S Steel fluctuates on liquidation. Buy recommendations include St Paul Southern Pacific Imperial Pacific Atchison and cheaper rails Wabash Chicago Great Western Kansas City Southern. Curb market shows activity in oil and motor stocks with tentered interest in Caledonia and Keely.
Rye and barley traded in Chicago on June 18 with No 2 rye at 1.76 dollars per bushel and barley at 1.19. Timothy quoted at 7.50, with clover listed nominal.
Toledo June 28 Clover prices show Prime cash for June and Oct contracts at 16.60 and 13.50 respectively. Alsike Prime cash 11.25 with Sept Oct Dec Mar futures at 4.40 4.15 4.15 4.35. Charity remark appears as stray text about amateur theatricals.
Local market quotations were steady on Thursday with no major changes. The city scene was quiet as only one load of oats appeared on the floor, bringing 65 cents per bushel.
Prices paid for hay and grain list wheat and corn prices, milled products, hog and cattle quotes, poultry and hides values, and wool pricing. Includes regional figures from Quincy and shipments west of the Mississippi, with multiple itemized lots and per hundredweight or per unit quotes.
CHICAGO June 28 The Illinois Staats Zeitung and the Chicago Presse German language newspapers have suspended publication. Creditors plan to seek a receiver to manage the property. The Staats Zeitung, founded seventy two years ago, was a leading German daily in the Midwest. Horace L Brand was the principal owner and former editor. Management was handed to a committee led by Judge John Stelk and several staff members.
New York June 28 stock market saw gains in secondary industrials and oils while standards shares stayed irregular. United States Steel hit a new high for the move at 110% with a fractional loss, rails narrowed to Reading and few minor transporters, and several steel and oil issues advanced or weakened in late trading. Total volume 650,000 shares with bonds at $9,273,000. bankers reported a mixed close as Liberty 4s and 41% strengthened amidst broad uneven activity.
Livestock market report from CHICAGO ST LOUIS KANSAS CITY and others shows hog receipts around 24 000 to 10 000 with mixed rates near 16.40 to 17.00 for primes. Cattle receipts near 106 000 in Chicago and 4 000 in ST LOUIS with steers mostly steady to higher and calves weaker. sheep and lambs varied with Idaho lambs at 18.75 and natives up to 18.60. Other cities report steady to higher hogs and strong cattle, with regional price ranges and top quotes around 16.60 to 18.00 for different grades.
New York market notes show firmer bacon receipts 16650 tubs creamery higher than extras 4513 46 and packing stock 338 No 2. bees firmer receipts 19194 cases with extras 39 40 and firsts 87 39. cheese steady 5924 boxes with state fresh specials 285. poultry live firm with varied prices for chickens broilers 48 50 and fowls 32. western chickens fresh 41 48 fowls 304235 turkeys 324739. St Louis notes unchanged except springs and butter and eggs at 50. New York sugar raw steady fine granulated 7.50. New York coffee spot steady Santos mild 10 5% 41%?
A Sleepy passenger on the L train leaves a car without his leather bag as Albert and Von Rintelen clash over a plot. Dixie Mason deciphers von Lertz’s note about fire bombs, then mails it to Harrison Grant via a masked courier. Jimmy McAdams dreams of becoming a detective as a mysterious foreign man follows him onto the car.
A nostrums advertisement claims the Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles dissolves gravel diabetes weak back rheumatism and all irregularities of kidneys and bladder in men and women Regulates bladder troubles in children. If not sold by your druggist will be sent by mail on receipts of 1.26 One bottle is two months treatment and seldom fails to perfect a cure. Send for testimonials Dr E Hall 2926 Olive St St Louis Mo Sold by druggists.
Mrs D M Alters of Oregon Illinois reports severe organic troubles left her unable to work on a farm raising six hundred chickens each year. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she recovers, resumes duties, and recommends it to friends. She notes the company offers 40 years of medical experience and invites inquiries to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
Jimmy observes a lone man in a train car drift into a drowsy stupor then snap awake as the guard announces the station. The brown portfolio left on the seat becomes the focal point as the passenger hurriedly exits, and Jimmy pockets it upon thrusting his head from the window.
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