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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1910
Page
3
R G Dun data show little change in Chicago trade with a brighter outlook for production and distribution. Business improves in dry goods and apparel while bonds and local securities lag versus last year. bank clearings total 267,723,901 with 18 district failures, seven over 5,000.
Unseasonably cool weather restrains retail trade and crop progress in the northern half of the country while southern districts report quiet trade, cotton and fruit crops advancing. Jobbing demand remains moderate with small reorders, and overall trade awaits clearer price signals. Bradstreet's notes weekly business failures in Canada at 36, compared with 18 last week and 29 in 1909.
Chicago and regional markets report cattle prices from $4.00 to $9.00 per hundredweight with hogs generally $7.00 to $10.00, sheep $3.00 to $6.15, and grains including wheat No 2 at about $0.98 to $1.04, corn No 2 around $0.58 to $0.66, oats $0.37 to $0.41, rye near $0.75 to $0.85, and hay and butter with variable creamery values across several cities.
Charles K. Hamilton flies from Governor's Island to near Philadelphia in 113 minutes covering eighty six miles at an average speed around forty six miles an hour. He parallels a Pennsylvania Railroad express train, tracing its route from Trenton to communities along the line. The feat sets a longest city to city flight record and draws spectators along the corridor.
The Post Office Department announced salary hikes for many Indiana postmasters effective July 1, detailing increases from modest to substantial at numerous towns including Anderson Arcadia Columbus Gary and South Bend with several decreases noted for Attica Decatur Notre Dame Sullivan and Winona Lake. The change affects a wide range of offices across the state.
Justice Moody plans retirement through congressional action due to illness. The move will leave the Supreme Court with a third vacancy for President Taft to fill, following a precedent like the Hunt case. Associate Justice Key is noted in the proposed bills.
The United States Steel Gary plant pays over 8 million dollars annually in wages. Indiana Steel Company disbursed 647000 dollars to steel workers for the May 10 to June 10 period. Other firms like Universal Portland Cement and American Bridge show large payroll figures as Gary area employment grows.
Representative McHenry of Pennsylvania proposes a bill to extend the weather service to rural districts by equipping every rural mail vehicle with flags indicating the daily government forecast. Wagons would fly weather top flags as they depart, informing farmers and country residents of the next twenty four hours' outlook.
Bedford officials report a threatening note posted on the prosecuting attorney's office door reading You have one week to live. Prosecutor J H Wood considered it serious and notified police after recalling prior threats.
James West aged 19 living near Keystone fractured his leg while playing ball at Montpelier. While en route to a physician he fainted and fell from a reg, breaking his leg a second time just below the initial fracture.
Authorities at the northwestern boundary rigidly enforce a rule requiring alien laborers seeking admission to post a $200 bond, with Americans exempt. Reports to Washington show most railroad laborers and large contract workers from Seattle are effectively shut out. Some Alaska builders only hire white men, excluding most nationalities except workers from northern Europe, America, Australia and New Zealand.
A 74 year old widow Mrs Elizabeth Pillow died after falling down stairs in her Irvansville home moved from Shawneetown Mil. Laura Thompson, 30, was reported 17 at license time in Rockville. Revenue officer destroyed 2500 dollars worth Weber's beer in Madison. Mrs Frank Scheffler of East Chicago killed herself after leaping through a skylight on hospital fourth floor.
A Spectator verse celebrates a young girl named Nancy. The speaker contrasts her bright smile and laughter with deep feelings of love and fear of losing her. He contemplates kissing her, but she teases away, leaving a tender, coy moment framed by nature and longing.
John Henry Billington travels after a hard life of alcohol and loss. He accepts a lift then walks away from his past toward Martha and her family. At the farm he reconciles with Martha and a new name for the boy. he departs with quiet resolve, ready to start anew.
The article describes the king as grand chairman of the nation and hereditary leader of the realm. It praises Queen Victoria and King Edward VI's lineage, urging a monarch marked by kindness, comprehension, dignity, patience, and fairness. It warns against absolutist or martial rule and favors a wise, procedure‑oriented head who guides citizens with restraint.
A fragment from the San Francisco Argonaut describes a man kneeling at a gate and then rising with determined steps toward a road leading to a distant place named impious Jim town.
An old column muses on why umpires rarely receive applause, noting players get cheers for feats while umpires endure derision after close games. It contrasts fan reactions to injuries and mistakes, suggesting applause would unsettle even a confident umpire.
A fragment asserts that no man earns a pension without contemplating its increase. It implies a critique of pension expectations and policy pursuit.
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