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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
3
New York and Chicago market notes show butter and creamery goods holding steady with various firsts and seconds priced. Poultry and potatoes move with receipts up, while apples and other produce fluctuate amid regional listings. a reflective line on conscience closes the piece.
Chicago Oct 20 markets end with wheat prices at new highs up 1 percent with December around 1.689, May near 1.68. Canada reports dark crop prospects, Argentina drought continues. Corn gains about 3 cents. provisions rise to season high. Belgian purchases noted. profits trimmed late. strong dollar and weather squeeze support prices. Record-keeping quotes show futures, cash, and primary movement data across wheat corn oats and related products.
Chicago and Kansas City report varied wheat corn and oats prices with No. 2 red wheat at 1.69 and No. 2 mixed corn around 0.93 to 0.96, Minneapolis notes continued export buying lifting wheat, New York spot prices show irregular durum and hard winter bids, Peoria lists mixed corn and yellow prices.
Sale notes show mixed percentages for No 2 hard wheat at 1.45 to 1.46 while corn quotes include white and yellow varieties with high and low percentages. Oats percentages appear around 18 percent with references to standard grades and multiple lot numbers.
Chicago hog receipts 25,000 steady with priced ranges from 9.40 to 10.20. cattle 9,000 receipts mixed values from 4.70 to 11.40. sheep 17,000 receipts weak to higher in places. Regional quotes from St Louis East St Louis Omaha Kansas City and more include hogs light and heavy categories, cattle steers and cows, and lambs with varied bids and totals.
Toledo and Chicago seed markets list cash prices for Clover Alsike Timothy rye barley and other grasses. St Louis prices show per 160 pounds for Redtop Timothy Clover and seed quality brackets from dirty to machine-cleaned with alfalfa millet and hog millet noted.
Hay and straw pricing from Chicago and St Louis reports show Timothy and Clover values across grades, with No 1 and No 2 timothy quoted around 15 to 18 dollars, clover around 12 to 15 dollars, straw scarce and firm, oats and wheat prices noted but incompletely reported. The bulletin lists mixed timothy and alfalfa grades with varying per unit prices and notes general market firmness.
Mrs Grace Wilbur Trout of Chicago will head the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association for a new push for full women suffrage representing 200000 Illinois women. She was nominated for president with no opposition and will be elected Saturday. The roster includes Mrs George A Soden Chicago and other officers and directors from Peoria Monmouth Bloomington and Chicago. When a woman sees a man trying to thread a needle that is one period in her life when she feels the superiority of her sex.
The Texas Wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder problems and dissolves gravel while addressing diabetes, rheumatism, and irregularities of the kidneys and bladder for men and women. It offers mail order and sworn testimonials, with one bottle lasting two months and priced at $1.00.
No changes were effective in the local market Thursday. Hay prices were steady and farm products unchanged. Receipts were down due to climatic conditions. Loose hay totaled seven loads at $10 per ton for six loads and $8.75 for one. two corn loads at 86 cents per bushel. two loads of baled straw at $6 per ton. two oats loads with no prices listed.
Local market prices listing No 2 wheat at 1.65, corn 85 cents, oats 46 to 48 cents, baled straw 35 6, timothy hay 33 11.40, alfalfa 14.3, shredded fodder 38.00, various seeds and mill products with flour prices and grain meal values. Hogs by weight and wagon loads with ranges, local butcher quotations, calves, fat cattle and sheep prices, plus poultry quotes from Anck Brothers and others.
New York stock market closed with broad losses in the final hour after earlier advances. Cables from London citing a British trans Atlantic net loss weighed on investor sentiment while forenoon gains persisted in industrials. United States Steel remained steady. bonds were irregular amid heavy international issues. total volume about 1.31 million shares.
Quincy Clearing House reports Thursday bank clearings at 180,324 dollars, vs 141,943 year ago. Same day last week recorded 280 dollars, with figures for Floriday and other entries omitted or unclear.
Pimply complexions blamed on blood impurities. Dr King’s New Life Pills claim to cleanse poisons from the system. A morning bowel movement follows a night dose. Available at your druggist for 25 cents.
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