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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1901
Page
7
Market notes from Chicago, Kansas City, and other bureaus show receipts across cattle, hogs, and sheep with mixed to steady trends. Prices emphasize beef steers, stockers, and feedlot item ranges, noting top hides and weekly totals. regional comparisons include St Louis and Omaha with brief forecasts.
Receipts light and shipments none with odd lots of female cattle and fair quality stock. Steers sold up to 5.00 with good demand while between kinds slow. hogs steady to higher, sales 5.57 to 5.47, largely 5.62 to 5.75 amid small weekly gains. sheep and lambs market inactive with limited arrivals and few quotable prices. Local packers leading buyers as shippers face prime hog scarcity.
A reader debates consent of the governed, self rule, and the limits of interference. The piece weighs moral, social, and commercial equities in Cuba and the United States, arguing for measured protection of interests while respecting autonomy, amid tensions over Cuba’s self government and external aid.
Last week saw furious speculation in minor railroad shares while steel stocks remained dull. Money markets were volatile with nominal New York call money and mixed results in bank reserves and treasury movements influencing the stock list through the week.
Chicago reports solid bullishness across grain and provision markets with wheat closing higher while corn slips slightly and oats weaken under liquidation. May wheat opened firm on Liverpool and Antwerp cues, then fluctuated before ending modestly up. May corn edged higher early, then fell back, and oats weakened. Provisions mixed with hogs bullish at times, but overall unchanged to firm.
New York on March 9 reports mixed grain activity with flour receipts at 15.1% bris and exports at 1,823 bris. Prices edge up early then hold near steady as wheat gains fade and long interest wanes. Spot markets show No. 2 red wheat around 50 to 60 cents and corn near mid forty cents, with hogs, meats, and refined sugar listed at varying household and industrial levels.
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A scrambled report lists commodity quotes from St. Louis Baltimore Kansas City Cincinnati Minneapolis Toledo and Milwaukee. It covers flour wheat corn oats rye and pork lard and whiskey with cash bids, futures like May and July, and varying receipts and prices.
New York reports mixed commodity prices across butter eggs and cheese with firm Western creamery and State markets, Philadelphia prints at 22c, midwestern eggs weak, Chicago dairy and meat trades steady, plus varied spreads in petroleum rosin and spirits of turpentine. Regional notes include Kansas City eggs and St Louis poultry prices, cotton and wool markets quiet to steady, metals prices firmer with lead and copper in focus.
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