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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1912
Page
11
Extremely cold weather boosts local markets with light receipts and firm prices. Butter and eggs remain scarce with no material advance. potatoes look up as commission prices rise to 1.10 to 1.20 per bushel. wheat up two cents to 94 cents. pork market active with dressed pork at 7.85 to 8.06 on Barr street.
Local market notes show wheat and oats priced around 46 cents per bushel while corn halves to 52 cents. Flour prices range up to 5 dollars a barrel with winter and graham varieties listed. live stock mixed with hogs, steers, cows, and lambs priced from 2 to 6 dollars depending on type. Weather and market shifts indicate wheat futures edging up despite ample world stocks.
The listing shows prices for hides seeds and feeds including green hides 42 lb, cured hides 12 per cwt, horse hides 3.75 to 4.00, ginseng root 6.00 per lb, timber seeds 6.50 to 11.00 per unit, timothy seed 5.50 to 6.00, oats 46 to 48 cents per bushel, barley 75 to 80 cents per bushel, hay timothy 16 to 20 per ton, mixed hay 15 to 19 per ton, clover seed 10.60 to 11.00 per unit, and straw 8 to 10 per ton. Prices corrected by W. D. Henderson & Co.
Corrected by Weil Bros. & Co listing new values by species. Skunk rises to 23.60, mink to 7.00, muskrats 0.07, opossum 0.65, raccoon 3.00, red fox 6.00.
Chicago market notes ongoing tensions as the railway strike in Argentina expands, affecting trade and logistics. The report highlights broader economic implications and potential disruptions to exports and shipments.
East Buffalo New York market reports show hog receipts of 5,000 head with 930 shipped today to New York, prices for hogs varying by class and weight from 4.80 to 6.85, sheep and lambs receipts at 8,000 with lambs topping at 7.40, cattle receipts 400 with steady markets. Chicago and Indianapolis markets list mixed cattle and hog data with range prices for steers cows calves and hogs, reflecting a busy winter livestock trading day across multiple regional markets.
Widespread price quotes and receipts for cattle hogs calves sheep lambs and poultry from Pittsburg Chicago New York and Toledo markets dated Jan 9. Cattle receipts at Pittsburg none hogs 3600 head with top quotes and calves 200 head with top $10.50. Butter eggs cheese potatoes poultry and veal prices listed with steady to firm markets.
The Day on Wall Street reports a sharp early drop in leading railway stocks amid heavy selling. Union Pacific faced a steep attack with large initial sales at low prices, while United States Steel also slipped. Industrials mostly steadied as markets recovered slightly after brief weakness tied to the Equitable Building fire. Bonds softened.
Financial listings show mixed moves across common and preferred shares with numerous price quotes for Am. Beet Sugar Am. Sugar Ref. Northern Pacific Atchison Reading and unions, including railroad, steel and utility issues. Notable quotes include Am. Sugar Ref 114, Atlantic Coast Line 133 1 2, and Union Pacific 166 1 2, among others.
The Presbytery of Fort Wayne will meet Thursday to install Rev. A. R. Evans formerly of Nappa nee as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church. The body will also act on Rev. Simms call to Bluffton. Rev. C. M. Herrick of Elkhart will preside.
The document lists individuals with ages and occupations paired as couples or household groups. Names include Edward Arthur Ream and Frankie Ellen Lehr, Roy Hawkins and Mabel Sprague, Frank Hilton and Golda Milligan, Fred Pratt and Grace Todd, Claude Somers and Katharine Rink, Ira Meads and Alma Secrest, Alphonse Cofflin and Nellie Raidy, William Rolles and Elenor Walda, August Gerken and Alma Kramer, Lawrence Winkler and Minnie Einseidel, among others.
The A J King Piano Co in Bluffton Indiana reports 1911 payroll of 109800.31 with about 200 employees and a rising 1912 outlook. Average monthly wages exceed 9000 in 1911, with December payroll over 6000 and 1912 projections above 10000 based on late 1911 data. Local buyer Durhams claims a bed wetting cure using Foley Kidney Pills after two days.
Abstract of transfers shows Andrew Gratin to Fredericka Braun for $1 on a named parcel in Washington township. Thomas Hood to Walter Hood for $210 in Springfield township. Minnie Reitze to K J Bauer for $400 in Adams township. Joseph Knapp to Robert Dunivan for $600 in Scipio township. Lyman Wilkerson to Henry Kaiser for $5 000 in Lake township. Leo Renler to Francis Gremaux stands incomplete in the record.
A series of land conveyances list transactions: George W. Wilks to the Smeads in Jefferson township for 2 acres at 1490 dollars. Goldin M. Decker et al to Albert H. Knight for 34 acres in Lafayette. George F. Springer to William E. Springer 23 acres in Pleasant. Fort Wayne Trust to Charles and Mary Sutton in Wayne for 335 dollars. Fred J. Voight to Ola M. Cope in Avondale for 60 dollars. Louis Steup to Benjamin Netterfield 150 dollars. Vernie M Ball to Frank R. Smith 4800 dollars in Jackson township.
The account mentions the S. S. Northwestern built by the late Charles Counselman of Chicago to operate between that port and Manchester England. It notes four successful trips despite not matching the size of a later canal era vessel. The piece cites the New York State Barge Canal’s near completion and its planned twenty million dollar investment in modern terminals and appurtenances.
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