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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1917
Page
9
Chicago reports erratic corn and oats with declines from Friday as late crop receipts broaden selling. Rice futures fall while hogs tighten and provisions rise. National quotes show mixed futures. wheat and oats hold unevenly with lower spot values in several markets including Minneapolis and St Louis.
Chicago and St Louis market notes show hogs, cattle, and sheep receipts with prices range across sizes. Prices for heavy and mixed hogs, native beef steers, yearlings and calves vary by city, with Kansas City and Omaha reporting steady to higher values, and markets noting no sheep in some listings. It ends with a proverb: It’s a wise proverb that contains half the wisdom it is supposed to contain.
The letter notes wheat at 2.20 with government price support and no trading on the Chicago Board. It blames farmers and merchants for high prices as December approaches and promises potential government action. Corn futures may fall with new crop prospects and Board of Trade restraint. Oats show slight rise in receipts, but bulls refrained. Provisions stay stable with expected word on hog price stabilization. selling on bulges advised.
On Saturday only ten farmers visited the city square. Baled timothy hay sold for 22 dollars a ton, corn brought 95 cents a bushel, oats brought 50 cents a bushel, and baled oats straw sold for 8 dollars a ton.
Prices for flour and mill products, feeds, hogs, cattle, poultry, hides, and bee wax listed. Wheat at 2.05 per bushel, old corn 1.50 to 1.60, new corn 0.85 to 1.00, oats, straw and hay prices, mixed feeds, linseed oil meal, cotton seed meal, and digester tankage detailed. Hog and pig quotations by weight, beef prices for fat cattle and veal, poultry rates for hens, spring chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. Hides and pelts, tallow and grease prices, bees wax quoted.
Toledo notes prime cash and new price points for clover seed and Timothy with monthly futures data. Prices listed include old and new cash, October through March quotations, plus futures for December and March. A reflective closing line about a man fond of music ends the snippet.
New York stock market saw active trading on Saturday led by strong demand for liberty loan and shipping shares. Marine preferred jumped about 10 points with allied stocks up 2 to 4 points while steels, coppers, oils, leathers and motors rose 1 to 4 points. Bonds were irregular as overall turnover reached 345000 shares.
New York trading closed strong amid broad buying as marine preferred rose to 104 and Lib atty bond campaign boosted confidence. Short sellers covered across many industrials while the weekly clearing house bank surplus fell by nearly 21 million dollars.
Markets report mixed dairy and poultry prices with firm butter and creamery extras in New York and Chicago but weaker dressed poultry. coffee and eggs show varied quotes, with eggs at fresh first class and extensive pricing, while butter and oleomargarine list multiple grade prices and receipts.
Timothy hay remains firm with all grades selling readily in St Louis. Quotes list Timothy Choice 31, No 1 29 2T, Threshed 17.25, Clover mixed Choice 29, No 1 27.29, Heavy Clover mixed 29, No 1 26, Clover hay 30 28, No 1 29, Alfalfa hay 35 36, No 2 30 32, No 3 29 30. Straw at 8.50 to 9.
In St Louis on October 28 the firm quotes current receipts for hides with tare adjustments. Wet salted rounds range from 8 to 21 cents per pound with varied quality and uses including glue stock. Dry and cured hides show prices from 2 to 89 cents per pound, horned hides priced up to 6.75 dollars per unit, hog hides at 73 cents, and sheep pelts quoted for wool and lamb pelts at 2.60 to 2.75 dollars each with different weights.
A German peace proposal is denounced as a trap by Pan Germanists and war hawks. The piece argues the Junker class and big business control Germany, pushing a confiscatory, annexationist peace that would lead to endless wars and subjugation of the German people, while allies must continue the fight to prevent a Prussian autocracy.
A mother visits the Atlantic fleet and tours the battleship complex for ten days, meeting officers and enlisted men. She traverses ladders and passageways, escorted by Marines, as she learns the ship’s vast layout and wartime routines, meeting captains and admirals aboard various vessels.
Miss Nellie Vickrey of Philadelphia and W J Fessenden of Taylor married Saturday Oct 20 in the home of Mrs D S Fessenden of Ennis Texas. The event joins two local figures as family ties spread to Texas.
There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together and for years it was supposed to be incurable. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is advertised as a constitutional remedy that works through the blood on mucous surfaces. A $100 reward is offered for any case it fails to cure, with circulars and testimonials available. Sold by Druggists for 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills are for constipation.
Misa Lora Vickrey has returned home from Maywood where she has been sewing. Lige Snodgrass is driving 2 new Ford cars. A girl always pretends she doesn't want to be kissed. Raglyn sawmit. Protracted meetings are in progress in the Christian church.
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