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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1908
Page
4
New York reports no anticipated stock reaction as traders weigh looming policy moves. Market activity shows cautious trading amid mixed news from federal decisions and copper shares, with bonds steady and a broad price drift across commodities and grain futures.
Market notes describe heavy selling pressure in wheat and clover seed with higher prices for certain contracts. Reports from Liverpool and Kansas indicate firmer oats and rye alongside mixed futures as traders react to southwest crop news and carryover supplies.
In New York on March 6 the retail gold market displayed modest improvement with buyers present. Spot prices edged higher as gold and cotton goods see steady demand amid cautious selling.
Market report from March 1 shows cattle selling better with strong demand for steers and feeder lots. Hogs and sheep also higher, with buyers active. regional yard reports from Colorado, Missouri, and Pittsburgh note rising quotes and steady to higher selling prices for yearlings, cows, and bulls.
Retail and wholesale market items listed with prices including Elgin creamery per pound butter various dairy goods pork and beef cuts corn rye oats and burley priced per bushel and per pound. Several items show unclear OCR text but key goods and unit prices reflect typical 19th or early 20th century local market listings.
The Elgin butter market reports sales for the week in pounds. Birth notices list newborns with parent names and addresses, including Miller, Staif, Py, Shiva, Fer, McCuray, Liehren, Fuchuber, and Zitzelberger among others in Elgin and surrounding townships.
Fragmented market notes describe wheat futures reacting to southwest crop expectations. Reports reference price shifts, receipts, and trader activity with mentions of May and December contracts, commissions, and market steadiness amid uncertain demand. The text includes scattered regional mentions and mixed price directions.
Rev James J Mounts died at his home in Van Wert Ohio after months of illness. A Northwestern Ohio church leader for fifty years much of his ministry centered near Van Wert. Born December 17 1894 in Pleasant Township Marion County he was one of thirteen children. He studied at Wesleyan University Delaware and married Ellen Landon in 1847. His career carried him through Richwood Celina Van Wert Delphia St Marys and other towns with over forty years as pastor within a twenty mile radius.
Demonstrations on electrical cooking are held this week at the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company offices at 614-816 Harrison Street. Sessions run mornings from 10 to 12 and afternoons from 2 to 5, inviting public participation.
Kosciusko County offers an invitation to every resident to visit the county infirmary. Superintendent A. T. Rockhill reports thirty-two male and two female residents, ages from nineteen to ninety five, and notes substantial farm improvements over ten months from April 24, 1907, to February 29, 1908.
A number of counterfeit coins were discovered in Warsaw by a local coin collector described by The Warzmmy News Bureau. The coins were sent to the Treasury in Washington for appraisal and verification.
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