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Newspaper
Daily Logansport Pharos
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1875
Page
4
A jumble of anecdotes on weather prediction by Sten Myers and Prof. Tice, plus humorous notes on equinoxes and planetary influence. The column parodies railway swearer cars, body symmetry, and social quirks, including remarks on carpetbagging taxation and graceful car seating.
New York May 8 market notes show FILOQUA firm and moderate inquires with large receipts and sales, wheat weak, corn steady, oats easy, pork high but meat quiet, sugar firm, petroleum and coal firm, whiskey variable, wool quiet. Prices for wheat and mixed grains listed with cash and futures figures, pork and lard quoted, and regional differences noted among Chicago Milwaukee and western markets.
The railway line from Logansport offers through connections to New York Boston and other eastern cities as well as St Louis Keokuk Hannibal and western towns with six to seven hours lead over competing lines. Pullman sleepers run between St Louis and Cleveland and Quincy and Toledo with no changes. The timetable is published in this paper.
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