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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
3
Nervousness among shorts offset bearish results after the board ban on new buying of December deliveries. The market closed at session highs with oats up and hogs and corn leading the advance. Provisions were unchanged as labor scarcity affected harvests and supported bull sentiment. Northwest car lots show mixed totals with daily estimates for cattle and sheep.
Chicago and other exchange notes show corn mixed from No. 2 yellow to No. 3 yellow around 2.03 to 2.05, oats around 61 to 61 8, rye up to 1.75, and flour and mill product prices listed. Livestock markets at Chicago, Omaha, and St Louis reflect varied cattle, hog, and sheep receipts with wide price ranges and regional quotes for hogs, cattle, and calves.
Hides in St Louis dated Oct 25 show receipts and quotes for wet salted hides weighing one pound with tare. Prices listed include wet salted round No 1 at 21 21 percent, No 3 at 20 percent, blue stock 11 percent, dry flint round 86, salted 93, culls 21, cured or fresh 20 per lb. Horse hides mane and tail 5.75, small 4.75, glue pony 1.50, hogsheads etc. Wool pelts 2.50 to 38 50, lambs at 0.78 to 2.25, dry stock six 40c per lb light and 33c heavy.
Long Commission Co. notes corn futures at high levels with expectations of declines unlikely before year end. Prices above December contracts suggest a premium market for new corn while federal grain groups seek price breaks. Unit availability hinges on moisture content and warehouse receipts may rise for December holders. Oats face storage advantages but car shortages constrain supply. analysts warn the market lacks a clear upward path.
Hog prices stayed steady on the local live stock market on Wednesday. Twenty two farmers appeared in the city square. Hay and grain loads brought varied prices with hay at 20 to 21 dollars per ton and timothy at 22.50, corn at 1 dollar per bushel, oats at 6.5 cents per bushel, and straw offerings ranging from 7.50 to 8 dollars per ton.
Seed buyers in Toledo report Clover seeding at 15.10 cash rising to 16.20 in March with Oct and Dec futures. Alsike and Timothy show futures around 18.05 and 3.70. Chicago futures list Rye at 1.81 and Barley 1.18 with Timothy at 0.86.
Auction listing lists draft horses and mules with various heights from 14 to 18 hands. Prices range around 200 to 275 with several entries noted as heavy draft and other measurements.
Trading on Wall Street shortened to two hours due to Liberty Day observance and a severe storm disrupting comms. Volume barely 250000 shares as Union Pacific slumped to a multiyear low near 117 percent, with other rails and transportation shares dropping. Shippings showed strength with notable gains, while utilities and local transit issues remained unsettled. Liberty 3 38% bonds led bond sales of 1.725 million par value.
Chicago and St Louis report mixed gains in butter and poultry with higher live prices, while New York shows firm butter and varied cheese and sugar markets. Fresh eggs and oleomargarine quoted with table grades and regional price ranges across multiple items, including fish and coffee futures.
The Chicago hay and straw market reports varied prices for Timothy, Straw Manure, Clover and Alfalfa hay with different grades and numbers. Timothy choice prices ranged roughly from 27 to 31 per unit with No 1 and No 2 distinctions, while wheat and oats straw hovered around 9. Prices for clover mixed and heavy clover mixed ranged from mid 20s to upper 20s, with variations by grade and lot.
Ten German sailors interned at Fort McPherson escaped Tuesday night or early Wednesday. They were from the ships Prince Eitel Friederich and Appam and included two officers. Army officers said they did not know the escape had occurred and were investigating reports of possible outside aid.
A local postal upheaval in Loraine sees postmaster Grover Hartman transfer to route 1 carrier duties Oct 16 while Anna Paramore becomes acting postmaster and routes 2 and 3 see carriers reassigned. Miss Irma Thietten joins the Times office as replacement. Citizens prepare for fourth class postmaster examination in Carthage Nov 24 amid ongoing staff changes and local visits and injuries.
Mrs Brackensick of Camp Point returned home Monday after a week with her sister Mrs Theodore Berrian. Mr and Mrs Ruakamp and family of Tioga visited their aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs William Diggelhorst. Mrs Julia Sapp came back Monday after a month with Alton relatives. Mr and Mrs Oscar Holmes of Galesburg are here a few days visiting Mrs Holmes father George Ohneman. A fifteen inch gun can fire a shell through seven miles of steel twelve inches thick from the muzzle.
Stella Letha Bruce aged 26 died at her Carthage area home after six months diabetes. Born in Idaho, she married Reuben Bruce in 1910 and left a daughter Neva Pearl. She leaves husband, daughter, parents Mr and Mrs Asa Kimbrough, and siblings. Funeral Wednesday at 2 pm by Rev E M Smith, burial Franklin cemetery. The piece also notes the death of Mrs Georgia Hubbs Baird in Minneapolis after long diabetes, with funeral today in Carthage's Methodist church at 2 pm, burial Moss Ridge cemetery.
The Marion county board of exemption ordered the next quota of 23 colored men to report Monday October 29. Names include Real Laclede Powers Hannibal Edward Channan Hannibal Oscar Gray Hannibal Marion E. Doolin Monroe route 4 Lewis Martin Hannibal Preston Nichols Palmyra Mobie Hunter Route 2 Hannibal William D. Alford Hannibal Charles Carr Hannibal Paul Glenn Palmyra William O. Friason Hannibal Julius A. Davis Palmyra Smith Doolin Route 4 Monroe Arthur Trumbo Winters Mill John H. Sanders Hannibal Jerry T. Bates Hannibal Grant Wilkinson Hannibal Roscoe Turner Hannibal. The Keller sale attracted buyers from Missouri and Illinois. 15 horses and mules, 206 registered Jerseys, 25 grade Jerseys, 25 shoats were sold with farm implements.
Baltimore report says a Howard county woman, about 25 miles away, did not know the United States was at war with Germany or of the liberty loan. She is intelligent and a mother of several children, with a husband who leaves for work at 4 a.m. and returns exhausted at 6 p.m. from field labor, and she has not left her home in five years except to attend church.
Col Stephen O Tripp testified at the congressional inquiry into East St. Louis race riots that Mayor Mollman, ill and advised to stay off streets, handed office duties to City Attorney Fekete. Tripp said Mollman refused to accompany troops and stayed at city hall all day while Fekete acted as mayor.
In Denver Illinois Oct 21 birth for Clifford and wife at St Joseph Keokuk with mother and baby reported well. William Poling returned from Greensburg Indiana after snow on trip. Douglass school raised 29.70 from a Bentlevill Halloween show. Aleathea Bible class hosted a social at the Walton home with pumpkins charades and refreshments. Regional residents Wesley Bridges and Sammie Fleming share weekend travel notes. George Massie move to Denver and church project updates, plus Chicago visit by P A Scott and Mattie Scott.
Mrs John Cornwell returned home from Ursa after a few days with relatives. Lawrence Boyer from Mendon spent Sunday with family. Postmaster Grant Wells is sick. Mr and Mrs Will Elliott visited with Charles Brockstock and family near Payson. William Page made a business trip to Quincy. Alvin Kauffman and family moved from Adams to his father’s farm southeast of town. Dick Lierly and family visited Kellerville. Thomas Proctor and family stayed with Mr and Mrs Will Johns near Payson. Floyd Finchum and children visited relatives in Richfield last week. The Ladies Aid met to quilt and Miss Mabel Tandy visited Luella and Cora Boyer.
Captain Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, visited the German legation in Christiania and returned their decorations as a personal protest against the killing of peaceful Norwegian sailors on October 17 in the North Sea.
British front reports in France and Belgium that a German officer captured in a northeast pocket near pres was executed by his own soldiers. His hands were bound behind him and he was shot. Prisoners say derision toward Prussian militarism grows as desertion and other violations draw harsher punishment.
New Haven Conn Oct 25 stockholders of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad debated opening the annual meeting with prayer as they discussed issuing 45 million dollars in preferred stock to reduce floating debt. President Pearson declined the prayer request citing customary procedure. Harry Leigh urged a prayer, saying he is a Christian and believes in Almighty God.
An advertisement warns that backache and kidney dullness signal excess meat intake. It claims Jad Salts clears sluggish kidneys by flushing waste, easing pain, and reducing bladder irritation. The remedy is described as inexpensive, safe, and effervescent, made from grape and lemon acids with lithia.
A brief note suggests concern for nerves or mental balance and invites readers to consider their ear, sleep, and daily function. It hints at common stressors and the need to monitor mood, energy, and reactions, recommending calm routines and professional advice if symptoms persist.
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