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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1908)
THURSDAY,. MAY 14, 1008. ti : - , t , THE MORNING ASTOWAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. it AM and strictly prohibits the sale ot alum baking powder So does France So does Germany . The sale of alum foods has been made illegal in Washington and the District of Colunv , bla, and alum baking powders are everywhere recognized as injurious. - Xo prQtcj yourself against alum, when ordering baking powder, Sap plainly POVJDEB and be very sure you get Royal Royal is the only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar. It adds to the digestibility and whole-' omenest of the iood. PORTLAND MARKETS Quotations in the Portland Market Complete Market Reports Corrected Each Day Giving the Wholesale Prices of Commodities, Farm Produce, and Vegetables. PORTLAND. May 13. -Creamery men say butter is moving in a salis factory manner at the new price anil it is understood that the quotation is uniform in the city creamery trade. There is a fair outside demand and Shis make it possible to maintain the Irceot price In the country cream ery market conditions have changed but little. The price range is 20c to 24c, but the bulk of the business is done around 22c. The crk market today was fairly firm, quotations running from 18c to 19c, with some sales of single case lats at 19 1-2 cents reported. At the meeting of the Portland Pro duce Merchants' Association last night it was decided that beginning this week all the Front street com mission houses will dose their doors oj 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. In the past the bulk of the business done in the market district on Saturday has been done before 3 o'clock, only scattering, belated buyers appearing after that time. By a recent decision I of the association the stores are no " longer opened on Sundays. fV The bulk of the berries that came I fiv from the South today sliowed bet ter quality than those of some dny9 past, and this was also true of Ore gon offerings. But there -were some inferior berries and it was hard to move these at any price. The best Californias were held at $1.50 to $1.75 s crate, while Oregons sold at 10c to 12 l-2c a pound. Receipts of Cali fornians totalled a little more than a carload. . .Grain, Flour, Feed. Wheat-Club, 82c; Valley, 82c; bluestem, 84c; sed Russian, 80c Oats Producers prices: White, $28; gray, $26(827. Flour Hard wheat, patent, $4.80; straight, $4.00; graham, $4.50; rye, $5; whole wheat flour, $4.45; Dakota, $6.40(a.60; Eastern rye, $6.60; Pittsburg, $7; Corvallis, $4.40. Rye-$1.40 per cwt Corn-Whole, $32.50; cracked. $33.50 per ton. Hay Wholesale selling . prices; Valley timothy, $1718; Eastern Oregon, $2021; clover, $1415; alfalfa. $12613. Grain bags Domestic, 81c; Cal cutta, 9c Millfeed City bran, $24.50; coun try bran, $25.50; city shorts, $26; country shorts, $27; chop, $22; mid dlingi, $30.50. Barley Producers' prices: Brewing $28.50; feed, $27; rolled, $2829. Buckwheat $36 per ton. Cereal Foods Rolled oats, cream, 90-tb. sacks, $7; lower grade, $6.50; oatmeal, steel cut, 45-tb. sacks, $8; 9-lb. sacks, $4.25 per bale; oatmeal (ground), 45-lb. sacks, $7.50 per bar rel; 9-lb. sacks, $4.00 per bale: split peas, $4.50 per 100-lb. sacks; 25-lb. boxes, $125 per box jpastry flour, 10-lb. tacks, $2.75 per bale. Fresh Meats and Fish. Fresh Meats Veal, fancy, 100 lbs., averag, 99lc; 100 to 150 lbs., 8(g) Sic lb.; large and coarse, 5 7c; hogs, fancy block, 771c; heavies, 67c; beef, bulls, 3i4c; cows, 45c; steers, 5ic6c; muttons, medium size, 10llc; large and coarse, 89c Oysters Shoalwater Bay, per gal Ion, $2.25; per sack, $4.50; Toke Point, $1.60 per 100; Olympias (120 Clams Little neck, per box, $2.50; razor clams, $2.00 per box. Fish Halibut, 6c; black cod, 8c; black bass, per lb., 20c; striped bass, 13c; herring, & 1-2 cents; flounders, 6c; catfish, 11c; shrimp, 10c; perch, 7c; sturgeon, 121c; sea trout, 18c; torn cod, 10c; salmon, silversides, 9c; steelheads, 11c; chinooks, 10c; fresh, May Official Tide Tables Compiled by the U. S. Government for Astoria and Vicinity. MAY, 1908. High Water. Date- Friday J Saturday ....... 8 SUNDAY ...... 8 Monday Tuesday Bj Wednesday 6 Thursday 7 Friday 8 Saturday ....... SUNDAY ......10 Monday H Tuesday 12 Wednesday 18 Thursday U rrldav 16 'Saturday 16 SUNDAY 17 Monday ,.18 Tuesday 1M j Wednesday 20 I Thursday 21 J'Frlday .... B I Saturday V. SUNDAY ......24 Monday ..' 25 Tuesday .... Wednesday 27 Thursday 28 Thursday 28 Friday 29 Saturday 80 MAY, 1908. A. M. J P. M. Low Water. A. MTp! SJajB:mJfC Date! . h.mT ft. a.m. 1ft 1:00 9.2 1:50 8.0 Friday l 7;44-0.6 7:481 2.4 1:85 9.1 2:85 7.7 Saturday 2 8:25 -0.7 8:20 2.8 2:08 8.8 8:18 7.8 SUNDAY S 9:00-0.4 8:58 8.2 2:46 8.4 4:05 7.0 Monday 4 9:42 -0.1 9:40 8.6 8- 22 8.0 4:55 6.7 Tuesday ,5 10:26 0.8 10:28 8.9 4:05 7.4 6:44 6.6 Wednesday 6 11:08 0.711:28 4.1 4:50 7.1 6:88 6.6 Thursday 711:64 1.1 6:65 6.4 7:88 6.8 Friday , 8 0:40 4.0 12:46 1.5 7:08 6.1 8:26 7.1 Saturday 9.1:55 8.7 1:40 1.8 8:22 6.1 9:12 7.5 SUNDAY ......10 2:50 8.2 2:88 2.0 9- 26 6.4 9:65 7.8 Monday 11 8:40 2.6 8:28 2.1 10:22 6.9 10:86 8.2 Tuesday ....... .12 4:30 1.8 4:22 2,2 11:12 7.8 11:15 8.6 Wednesday 18 5:12 1.0 5:10 2.3 12:00 7.6 11:52 S.9 Thursday 14 6:65 0.8 6:53 2.3 ,. 12:50 7.7 Friday 15 6:32-0.4 6:84 2.5 0:30 9.1 1:85 7.9 Saturday 16 7:15 -0.9 7:15 2.8 1:06 9.1 2:22 7.7 SUNDAY 17 7:55 -1.1 7:58 8.0 1:48 9.0 8:15 7.6 Monday..., 18 8:40 -1.2 8:48 8.8 2:80 8.8 4:05 7.5 Tuesday 19 9:84 -1.1 9:42 8.5 8:20 8.8 5:00 7.5 Wednesday 20 10:22 -0.710:45 S.7 4:15 7.9 6:08 7.8 Thursday ..2111:20-0.2... 6:25 7.4 7:05 7.6 Friday 22 0.00 8.512:20 0.8 6:45 6.9 8:06 7.8 Saturday 23 1:18 8.1 1:25 0.9 8:07 6.8 8:56 S.l SUNDAY 24 2:28 2.5 2:26 1.4 9:20 7.0 9:43 8.8 Monday 25 8:30 1.8 8:26 1.7 10:25 7.8 10:28 8.7 Tuesday ........26 4:28 0.9 4:26 2.0 11:20 7.511:15 8.9 Wednesday .....27 5:20 0.2 5:18 2.2 12:14 7.5 Thursday 28 6:05 -0.4 6:08 2.5 11:63 9.0 Friday 29 6:60 -0.8 6:45 8.8 1:00 7.5 Saturday 80 7:80 -0.9 7:25 3.2 I 0:30 9.0 1:45 7.5 SUNDAY 81 8:10-0.9 8:00 8.6 I 1:05 8.8 8:25 7.4 121c; lobsters, 25c lb. Fruits and Vegetables. Potatoes Select (sell), 70c cwt; Willamette Valley (buy), 45c; East Multnomah (buy), 55c; Clackamas (buy), 55c. Onions Jobbing price, $4,75 5. 00 cwt; buying price, $4.25(34.50; garlic, 15c lb. Vegetables Turnips, $1,00 sack; beets, $1.25; parsnips, $1.25; cabbage, $1.75; tomatoes, Florida, $4.505.OO crate; do Mexico, $2.75 crate; cauli flower, California, $1.00 dozen; do local, 50c$100; hothouse lettuce, $1.. 251, 50 box; cucumbers, $1.50(3 2.00 dozen; celery, 85cS$l ; arti chokes, 50c doz.; asparagus, 819c lb.; beans, 20c lb; egg-plant, 20c lb; head lettuce, 40c doz; rhubarb, $2 crate. Apples Select, $2.50 box; fancy $2.00; choice, $1.50; ordinary, $1.25. Fresh fruits-Oranges, $2.002.75; lemons, $2.75(3.50; strawberries, 2022c lb. Tropical Fruits Lemons, $2.00 3.50 box; limes, 75c per 100; oranges, new navels, $1.75(22.50 box; grape fruit, $3.504.00 box; bananas, 5c lb.; crated, Sic lb.; tangerines, $1.40(21 1.50 box; pineapples, $45 dozen. Butter, Eggs and Poultry. Butter Extras, 271c; fancy, 26c; choice, 25c; store, 161c. Eggs Loss off, 16161c. Cheese Full cream twins, 151c; cream brick, 20c; swiss block, 20c; limberger, 221c Poultry Mixed chickens, 13c lb.; fancy hens, 14317c; roosters, old, 8c; fryers, 20c; broilers, 22125c; dress ed poultry, lc per lb.; higher; geese, old, 9c; turkeys, live, 15 16c; do dressed, I718c. Groceries, Provisions, Etc Sugar (sack basis) D. G, $5.65; XX, $5.45; beets, $5.45; Golden C, $3.50; extra C, $5.15; powdered, $5 JO; boxes, 55c cwt advance over sack jasis; fruit or berry sugar, $5.65; boxes, 55c cwt advance over - sack basis (less lc if pai dfor in IS days). Coffee Mocha, 2428c; Java, fancy, 2528c; Java, good, 2024c; Java, ordinary, 17 20c; Costa Rica, fancy, 1820c; Costa Rica, good, 16 18c; Arbnckle, $16.63 cwt; Lion, $15.88 cwt; Colombia coffee, 14c lb.; Salvador, lll141c Rice Imperial Japan, No. 1, $6.25; Southern Japan, $5.25(35.75; broken, 5c; head, fancy, $6675. Sago and Tapioca 6lc Provisions Hams, large, 13c; small, 13c; picnic, 91c; boiled bams, lbs.), $6; Olympias, per gallon, $125. Dried Fruits Apples, 9gl0c per pound apricots, 2729c; peaches, 11 13c; pears, Ul14c; Italian prunes, 56c; California Igs, white, in sacks, 71c per pound; black, 67c; bricks, 75c$2.2S per box; Smyrna, 16171c per pound; dates, Persian, 67t per pound. 22c; boiled picnic, 28c; breakfast, bacon, fancy ,22c; English, 151c; dry salted short clears, 10c; backs, 10c Lard Kettle-rendered tierces, HJc; tubs, 12c; 50s.. 12c; 20s, 12ic; 10s, 121c; 5s, 121c Standard pure: Tierces, lc less; compound, tierces, 8c; leaf, 13c. . Raisins Loose muscatels, 3-crown, 771c; 4-crown, 718c; bleached seedless Sultanas, 9i12c; unbleach ed seedless Sultanas, 861c; London layers, 3-crown, whole boxes of 20 pounds, $2.00; 2-crown, $1.75. Canned salmon Columbia River, 1-tb alls, $2.10; 2-tt) talis, $3.00; fancy, 1-tb flats, $2.25; 1-tb flats, $1.40; fancy, 1-tb, ovals, $2.75; Alaska tails, pinks, 95c; red, $1.40; nominal, 2s, tails, $2.25. Spices Cloves, 25c lb; chillies, 131c lb. Salt-Bales of 75-2s, bale, $2.15; bales of 60-3s, $2.15; bales of 40-4s, bale, $2.15; bales of 15-10s, bale, $2.15; bags, 50s, ine; ton, $16.50; bags, 50c; genuine Liverpool, ton, $18; bags, 50s, 1-ground, $13.50; 100s, ton, $13; R. S. V. P., 20 5-lb cartons, $225; R. S. V. P, 3-lb cartons, $1.75; Liv erpool, lump, per ton, $20.50. Nuts Walnuts, 15120c per lb; filberts, 16c; Brazils, 20c; pecans, 14 20c; hickory, 8c; Virgins peanuts, 6!c; Jumbo Virginia peanuts, 7c; Jap anese peanuts, 61c; chestnuts, Italian, 10c; Ohio, 25c; cocoanuts, dozen, 90c ($1.00; pine nuts, 171c lb. Hops, Wool, Hides, Etc Hops 1907 crop, 4Sie lb. Wool Valley, 1618c; Eastern Oregon, 12gl8c, as to shrinkage Cascara Sagrada (chittim bark) 4 (351c per lb. Beeswax Good, clean and pure, 22 2Sc per lb. Tallow Prime, 5c; No. 2 and 51c; 1-barrel lots, 52c; in cases, 58c; boiled, 5-barrel lots, 53c; 1-barrel lots, 54c; in cases, 60c Turpentine In cases, 72c; in wood barrels, 691c; in iron barrels, 65c; in 10-csse lots, 71c Hides Dry hides, No. 1, 121c lb; dry, No. 1, 12c lb; dry salted, one third less; dry calf, 14c tb; salted steers, 5c pound; salted cows, 4c tb; stags and bulls, 3c tb; kip, 5c tb; calf, 9c tb; green stock, lc less; sheepskins, shearlings, 1025c; short wool, 3040c; medium and long wool, according to quality, 50tb96c; dry horses, 50c$l; dry colt, 25c; an gora, 80c$l; goat oemmon, 10 20c FAT FOLKS ONE DOLLAR invested in a bottle of these wonder ful, harmless fat reducing tablets and in 30 days you will be a normal, well- formed person again. . Don't carry around your ugly bulk, your ungainly superftous flesh. It makes yoB miserable, ridiculous and what is mor e important, it subjects yoa to fata) consequences. 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