Chicago Markets and Trade Pulse Amid Strong Demand
The week shows brisk commercial progress with high raw material absorption and firm prices. Reports note San Francisco relief efforts and supply response, large freight tonnage for railroads, and substantial grain movement by lake. Exports indicate steady wheat and corn shipments with year over year changes and Dun's Review data.
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Market Price Averages for Cattle Hogs Sheep and Grains
Chicago prices show cattle common to prime from $4.00 to $6.15, hogs prime heavy $4.00 to $6.52, sheep fair to choice $3.00 to $5.65. Wheat No 2 89c, corn No 2 46c to 48c, oats 48 to 49c, rye No 2 65 to 68c, butter creamery 18 to 20c, eggs fresh 14 to 16c, potatoes 48 to 60c per unit.
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Twenty Hurt in Mount Carmel Mine Riot and Labor Strikes
Reported at Mount Carmel Pennsylvania a mob of idle mine workers clashed with a state constabulary platoon injuring about twenty men with three likely to die. The incident followed attacks on non union workers amid widespread May Day labor unrest across the United States including lake vessel and shore work stoppages affecting tens of thousands.
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Cost of living climbs as bulletin records 1905 wholesale prices
A government bulletin from the Bureau of Labor shows wholesale prices across all commodities in 1905 rose to the highest level in sixteen years. It notes 1905 averages 15.9 percent above 1890–1899, with major group increases from farm products to metals and lumber. December 1905 prices led the year with 19.9 percent above the 1890–1899 ten-year average.
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Notable World Figures and Events in Brief
Hegedus, the famed Hungarian violinist, to perform fifty concerts starting next November. King Edward owns nine cars and does not require license plates or a driving permit. King Sisowath of Cambodia plans a Paris visit with a large retinue including 100 dancers. John Simmond of Henley on Thames, now retired, has walked 180000 miles as a postman. Norway’s new sovereign is addressed as Mr King in welcome speeches. Edward Higar, composer of The Dream of Gerontia, once headlined a Covent Garden festival. A German emperor once sought a silver mine through a charcoal burner's aid, restoring wealth and throne. Photo apt.
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Red Storm of the Days of Daniel Boone
Veterans debate tactics against Indigenous forces at Boonesborough as a three-pronged assault plan unfolds. A young Reynolds proposes a roof entry while others attack the door, yielding a brief but brutal house-by-house fight. Boone warns on ammo value and recalls his own hardships with a trusted scout observing Eliza Ballard as danger looms. Ballard plots escape with whisky used to tempt Mrs McKee while Innis McKee contemplates freedom and reunion in a tense, perilous cavern.
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Ballard Captured in Hidden Cave by Surly Spy
Ballard, after venturing toward the forest, discovers a stream and a cave. Inside, he is blindsided, bound, and confronted by a surly captor who recognizes him as Ballard. Two females enter with firelight as a mastiff guards the scene and the spy taunts Ballard about tracking him.
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Poet on free list spurs editor to solicit no more
A caller to a paper asks about subscription. the would be poet says the editor put his name on the free list with an understanding he should not send further contributions. Mrs Theodore Roosevelt accepts the post of honorary vice president of the State Mothers Assembly of New York.
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