Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1916 — Wheat at $1.86 Causes Tumult In Trading Pit. [ARTICLE]

Wheat at $1.86 Causes Tumult In Trading Pit.

Speculation, such as the board of trade has never known before, sent the prices of all kinds of grain and provisions soaring Wednesday to marks which have not been equalled since the civil war. December wheat sold at $1.86 a bubhel, shattering for the first time the 'record of $1.85 during the Leiter deal of 1898. May wheat touched $1.85, while July, 1917, deilvery reached the unprecedented mark bf $1.49)4.