Corn Market Breaks Amid Seed-Supply News Chicago May 15
Corn prices fell sharply as government notice and crop prospects suggested abundant seed supply for replanting. May and July corn declined from session highs, oats were mixed, and provisions dropped limits as bearish sentiment grew with expectations of government aid and warmer weather.
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Chicago
Priges
Department of Agriculture
Ly Long Commission Co
Duluth
Winnipeg
Alorsch Ned
Es- Saatent
Market Summary From Daily Letter On Corn And Stocks
Corn held narrowly steady until late in trading when it slumped about two cents on selling by commission houses. Values were unchanged to higher, receipts small, and Oats saw short covering and light buying. Weather tomorrow looks rainy and cold over a wide area. domestic demand wanes with no seaboard bids. Products declined to the limit after a government notice restricting packer prices. Industrials rose early then faded while rails advanced on rate-boost hopes. profit taking trimmed much of the day’s gains. Caution urged until clearer European news improves.
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Seaboard
Food Administration
Lst
Europe
New York Stocks And Commodities Roundup May 14 16
New York and Midwest markets show mixed price moves with grains and oils active. Prices listed for corn oats rye and wheat across Chicago St Louis Peoria Omaha Minneapolis and Kansas City markets reflect recent shifts while New York stocks edge higher on government rate prospects and freight expectations. Strong copper names and mining equities attract buying on dips as oil and war issue plays hold steady amid cautious trading.
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Peoria
Peorta
Nansan City
Kansas City
Hay
Omakba
Omaila
Minneapolis
St. Louis
New York
Qais
Markets Remain Steady In City Market Yard Trade
Local market quotations held steady and a large business occurred in the city market yard. Twenty six wagon loads of farm products arrived. hay and corn sales dominated. Two loads baled mixed hay $20 per ton, five loads $18, oats six loads at 66 cents per bushel, corn seven loads at $1.50 per bushel, one baled oat straw load $3 per ton.
Local Market Prices for Farm Products and Hogs
Knollenberg Milling prices list for wheat corn oats and hay with freight from station. Milling products include bran meal and linseed meal with per cwt rates. West of Mississippi hog quotations at LB&Q yards cover weights from 140 to 250 pounds and wagon loads with buyer quotes from local butchers. Poultry and hides prices appear alongside dairy feeds and miscellaneous farm goods.
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Knollenberg Milling Company
Blatchford
H. P
Smallenbets Milling Co
8Th
York Streets
Quincy
Horses and Mule Market Report at East St Louis
Horses held steady prices across classes with strong demand from eastern and farm buyers. Drafts and farm mares showed robust values. mules remained in good demand, with prices listed for various ages and heights from 12 to 16 1 2 hands and up.
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East ST. Louis
Illnois
Rye and Barley Prices Reported in Open Market
May 15 price notes show rye No 2 at 2.03, barley at 1.25 and 1.45, Timothy 5.8, clover 3 18 2s. Market notation lists bid yields and small arithmetic shorthand for feed grains.
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Oy Lomo
Rye
Barlevy
Timothy
Clover
Railroad Stocks Have Their Inning
New York May 15 Railroad stocks advanced on promotion of a 25 percent rate increase. Strong gains in New Haven, Erie, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and others boosted the transportation group while rails drew most attention during the session. Total sales reached 1,225,000 shares with bonds firm though some internationals and Liberty issues wavered.
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New York
New Haven
Erie
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Reading
Baltimore
Ohio
Butte
Superior
U. S
A. T. and
Ghagogy Am
Loco
Atchison , . BR
Can
Paw
N. W
Nor
Dac . Penn
Een Peoples Gas
Tullman
Rock Island
Vecessi Studebaker
Union Pace
Steel
US Steel
West
Union
Willys-Over
Regional Live Stock Prices From Major Markets
Daily cattle hog and sheep receipts across Chicago St Louis Kansas City Sioux City Saint Joseph Omaha and East St Louis show mixed demand. Hogs mostly steady to higher with heavy and bulk around 16.75 to 17.75 while cattle and calves vary by region and week, with beef steers commonly near 17.00 and cows 7 to 12 dollars. Sheep and lambs range from 12.25 to 20.00 with regional price spreads.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Kanana City
Kansas City
Sioux City
Stoux City
St. Joseph
Omaha
East ST. Louis
Beeves
Markets Report From St Louis and New York May 15 18
In St Louis pricing for dairy and butter shows creamery extras and various grades, oleomargarine table grades and cheese quotes by type, plus live poultry and related items with weights and discounts noted. New York market reports butter steady with high creamery quality and packaged extras, and keg pricing for fresh heathered storage offerings and firsts.
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St. Louis
New Y
New York
Butter and poultry market notes from Chicago and Kansas City
Butter receipts in Chicago May 15 show unchanged prices with totals 33 761 cases of firsts 32 83% ordinary firsts 30 31% all mark cases 314 32. Dressed firmer items unchanged. Live poultry in Kansas City May 15 steady with fowls 27 and roosters 19. Potatoes higher with Wisconsin and Minnesota bulk 90c to $1.05 and sacks $1.10 to $1.20.
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Chicago
Wis
Minn
Sluggish Timothy Hay Market in St Louis Remarks
In St Louis on May 15 the Timothy hay market showed extreme dullness with light demand across all grades. Prices ranged for Timothy No 1 22 23 dollars standard 20 21, No 2 16 19, clover mixed and alfalfa with various grades, prairie and straw prices also listed.
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ST. Louis
Market Hides Prices and Quotes From Government Notice
LOUIS May 15 hides steady and strong. Government fixes maximum prices for country hides in Ohio and Middle West at 19c for extremes and 18c for bulls in carload lots. Current receipts quoted in first hands, wet salted, round, No. 116, No. 2, 15, bull 12. glue stock 9. Dry stock 31 8s 34 per 1b. flint bull 22%. culls 17% salted 15 14. Uncured or fresh 2c per lb, less 1c for part cured. No. 1 horse hides mane and tail $6, small and No. 2 $5, glue and pony $1.50. Hog hides 75c, glue and pig half price. Sheep pelts quoted per pelt: wool pelts $2.50, lamb $1.25 401. Dry stock 35 38a per lb for light and 2& 32c for heavy. Goat skins 65 7 50c each.
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Louis
Ohio
Middle West
Seed Market Toledo Prices Listed For Clover Alsike and Timothy
Seed market in Toledo shows Clover seed cash price at 18.25 with October 14.90. Alsike prime at 15.25 cash. Timothy prime at 3.75 cash with September 4.25 October 4.12 December 4.10.
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Toledo
Clover Seed
Alsike
Timothy
Germany reaches out for Lithuania in WWI proclamation
Amsterdam May 15 Emperor William declares Lithuania will participate in Germanys war burdens and recognizes its independence allied with the German empire. The proclamation says conventions will protect German and Lithuanian interests and Lithuania seeks full independence amid German influence. Lithuanians number about 3,000,000 across Kovno Vilna Grodno and Suwalki regions.
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Amsterdam
William
Lithuania
Germany
Poland
Vorwaerts
Berlin
Kovno
Vilna
Grodno
Suwalki
British Casualties Cover Picardy Drive
The weekly British casualties total 41,612 with Officers and men killed or died of wounds and those wounded or missing. The figures reflect fighting in Flanders and Picardy at peak intensity, likely the heaviest weekly losses of the war to date. full records are still forthcoming.
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London
Flanders
Picardy
Editor of New York Herald Dies in Paris
James Gordon Bennett proprietor of the New York Herald died in Beaulieu France at 5 30 am after two days unconsciousness His last words related to his newspaper interests Mrs Bennett was with him He directed Herald affairs from Paris for over a quarter century shaping rival journalism and press policy He sent Stanley to Africa and backed polar exploration A bold impersonal note guided his republic of workers and kept a Paris edition unique in American journalism. He controlled personnel and policy with daily cables and executive orders. His eccentricities amused critics and he remained a commanding figure in American journalism.
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Beaulieu
France
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
Mr. Bennett
New York
Paris
The
Herald
Bennett
Stanley
Africa
Henry M. Stanley
Livingstone
Jeanette
North Pole
Bennett and Greeley
Tenderloin
Europe
New York Harbor
Edilor
Iris
Jay Gould
Gould
John Kelley
Tammany Hall
Kelley
Outwitting the Hun and the Dutch Internment
The memoir describes soldiers and sailors escaping Belgium after Antwerp fell and being interned in neutral Holland. It contrasts internment with peril of German POW camps, details escape, leave limits, and the eventual voyage to England from Rotterdam. The narrator details postwar nerves in London and hints at continuation.
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Antwerp
Holland
England
Germany
France
Rotterdam
New York Sugar Steady on May Market
New York sugar quotes show steady tone on May 15 with centrifugal at 6,005 and fine granulated priced around 7.45 dollars per hundred pounds. Market observers note limited trading and steady demand for refined sugars amid reported supply tightness.
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New York
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