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Show CORN PRICES MIRK CHICAOO. Oct. 4. Cm ndvanerd In price today, nocwitlistuniiiug Unit considerable weakness weak-ness provniled nt Hie outset, tiosslp tliyt a bill would bo iiitroiiK-cd in congress to restore the import duty on corn was to some extent re-uponsiMe re-uponsiMe for t ho advance. Price closed firm, 1-4 ''I net higher, with December ijsl.L'-Ui) 1 .L'4 1 ; nnd May SI .22 I. '22. Oats Rained 'i 5i S iff c. Tu provisions, (lie outcome r tinged from 3uc decline to n rise of 50c. TI:e downward tendency shown by th corn market h round the opening appeared to ba due chiefly to fear of Argentlno competition find to uncertainty over President Wilson's illnens. Selling, however, was not oppressive, and sentiment sen-timent nuiekly changed in favor of the buying side. Activity of setibonrd demand for oata was the first Btrengthening factor. Then enrno more or less optimistic reports about t lie president presi-dent and still later the talk of a bill, if enacted, en-acted, which won hi decidedly handicap any shipments ni Argentine corn to the United States. Lightness of country offerings operated oper-ated nlso as u bullish influence ebfore the market mar-ket closed. T.ig sales to tho seaboard lifted the oats market. The effect, though, was subsequently con titer -balanced in a measure by n eek-end realizing. Provisions averaged higher ow ing to packers' incessant bidding for January lard. RANGE OF THE LEADING FL'TUUKS. Open. High. Low. Close. Corn Dec ?1.22V4 $1.2-1 May 1.2U"1; 1.22-s 1.-07 Oats Dec 70i.j .71 .Tfl-S .71 May T-vs 73;8 .-iVa -7-Ts Pork Oct 3 f! . ? ft 3 5 . 7r .1 S . Ti 0 3 . .7 5 Jan 3.o0 3- 50 32. b0 3--C0 Lard Nov 2C. K. 20.-J2 20. IT. 25. 42 Jan 22.92 23.35 22.60 23.35 Illbs Oct 1R.7 IS. 8." 38.75 Jan. . . K. ..IS. 00 13.00 17. S3 17.ll-' C'nrn No. 2, mixed, $1.45; No. 2, yellow, $1.40. Oats No. 2, white. 72;i'573Iic; No. 3, white, Jiye-No. 2, nominal. Rtc No. 2. nominal. No. C, 1.45. Harl"v $1.2(Jfri 1.30. Timothy, $3.r.0.I li.2u. Clover, nominal. Pork, nominal. Lard, $27.40'. I -7.42. I Kibs. $1S.50 (, 19-25. |