Weather and Market Report From The Midwest And Chicago
General Markets and weather outlook for Iowa South Dakota and surrounding regions. Chicago market news notes Morocco concerns India rainfall and rain impact on wheat corn oats pork and sugar with price movements and futures. Livestock markets in St Louis Kansas City and Omaha are summarized alongside cash wheat and corn quotes and New York stocks.
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Chicago
Morocco
India
Dakotas
Minnesota
Liverpool
Iowa
New York
Stock Exchange
Toway
Canadian Pacific
Pennsylvania
Ee Ua
Rork Island
Atehlson
Wee
LGA American Smelter
Union Parifie
LBRY
Baltimore and
Ohio
Brooklyn
States Steel
United States Steel, Pfa
Amalgamated Copper
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
St. Paul
Missouri Pariste
American Sugar
Progress and miseries of civilization noted in essays and markets
A column discusses the costs of civilization such as housing, writing, and chairs, while proposing glasses and ventilation as cures. It includes a Chicago hog, cattle, and sheep receipts report and a Waterloo market summary with prices for flour, grain, and produce. An event note mentions a lecture on the white slave traffic at Crystal Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Fisher
New York
Christan Advocate
Crystal Theatre
Old roosters and turkeys priced by hides and calves
Market notes list various hides and calf hides with prices per pound or unit. Entries include green calf hide at 10 to 12 cents, cured calf hides at 21 cents, and No 1 cured hides 25 pounds and up at 84 cents. Wool and other hide grades are noted with approximate figures.
Market Place Proposed in Waterloo for Experimental Site
Community discussion grows over creating a city market place in Waterloo. E L Hosteter offers Fifth street site free or low rent for trial, with J K Joderespective corner lot also offered free while experimental. Public sentiment favors testing the plan, hoping for a permanent market area if successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
E. L. Hosteter
Market Place
Fifth Street
Sycamore
Dea
J. K. Joder
Jefferson and
Fifth Streets
Radium Safes Show Protection Against Emanations
A Los Angeles Times report describes how radium, a highly enigmatic substance, requires stringent containment. It notes a London safe with a three inch lead inner cell and a special outer chamber, designed to trap emanations with mercury tubes in the door to collect any escaping rays.
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London
Los Angeles Times
New Potatoes Ho Gents Peck Prices Rise
Butter and eggs are climbing on the price ladder. Stores in the city sold new potatoes today at 60 cents per peck with most places quoting 60 to 65 cents a week. One store offered four cents per pound, sold only by weight, equating to 60 cents per peck. Potatoes remain scarce until the full crop moves and shipments resume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iity
Apple Market Glutted as Prices Range Across Varieties
The market shows plenty of apples and other produce with prices from 10 to 25 cents per peck for apples, 25 cents for Siberian crabapples, tomatoes 10 to 12 1/2 cents per pound, blackberries 15 cents a box, cabbage 5 to 15 cents per head, cauliflower 20 cents, butter 28 to 30 cents per pound, and eggs around 18 cents a dozen. The text also covers court actions, jail terms, and city prison expenses under Judge Kepford and related officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Anent Police Court Records Claim and Dispute
Readers praise Judge Caldwell for his police court work while questioning his comparison with predecessor Judge Kepford. A letter to Attorney J C Harper notes costs and prisoner transfers in 1909, including misattributed city expenses and numerous state-case defendants.
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Kepford
Charles Robinson
Caldwell
Aingle City
Rainbow
Leighton
Board of Supervisors
Courier
Judge Caldwell
J. C. Harper
Madison
Wis
A. B. Kepford
Sheriff’s Office
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Lamson Bros. & CO
Chicago Board OF Trade
C. & Bennett
Marsh-Place
Wes
South Dakota
ST. Louis
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Omaha
Neb
Fearye
Beeves
Texas
TRE
H.W
WL. W
N.S
N. S
Louis
Minneapolis
Ste Ee
Wellington of
Ella R. Baker
Chautauqua
C. R. Hoxle
Wellington Street
C. See
Madame Meyer
Ward
Anent Police
KODAK
J.k.joder &Son
East Fifth Street
Hfe
Pate Hey Fe
Wittle
Ideal
Wolsbach
Crown Brand
Faterloo
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