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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1911
Page
6
Mr and Mrs David W Fair celebrated fifty years of marriage in Perry Township with family and friends honoring their long enduring union celebrated as a milestone in the community esteemed residents of the area.
A sweep of society notices details multiple weddings. Katherine Anderson and Samuel Babb wed at 8:30 pm at the bride’s sister’s home with Rev J K Cecil officiating. Clara Rombke and John Reynolds married at 6 pm with Rev Wagenhals. Miss Irma Cox and Patrick Kelleher wed at St Patrick’s church. Edith Vogely and William England unite at the Vogely home. other couples share simple ceremonies with family-only attendance and plans to settle in their new houses.
Turkeys flood Barr street market as Thanksgiving approaches with dressed birds at 20 to 22 cents a pound and live birds at 15 to 16 cents. Prices for ducks geese and chicken also noted along with widespread egg price signals and mixed grain futures in Chicago and Toledo market reports. The piece frames the turkey as the season’s centerpiece and records commodity prices and receipts across multiple markets.
The Toledo market notes steady eggs with varied classes and prices. Receipts total 6 342 cases with fresh gathered extras at 41 43c, firsts 33 38c, seconds 28 32c, thirds 23 27c, and held fresh grades 21 27c. Poultry remains steady with western chickens 9 10c, fowls 9 10 4c, turkeys 15 18c, dressed poultry easing, western chickens 6 1c, fowls 6 16c, and turkeys dry packed 15 25c iced 12 21c. Toledo market notes include North Lima 82c per barrel, South Lima and Indiana 77c per barrel.
Mr and Mrs David W Fair of Perry township marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a family gathering at their son P W Fairs home 638 Putnam street. The couple lifelong Indiana residents includes grown children and eight grandchildren with relatives joining a celebratory dinner and decor featuring yellow flowers.
A string of small nuptials is reported, detailing Miss Angeline Forks and Bert C. Heller in Pasadena with a cosy home on Hoagland avenue. Ida Firgusson and Anthony Lindenman in Fort Wayne. Mary Jarrett and Ray Fansler in DeKalb county. and a double wedding of Elizabeth Root with Burl Sloffer and Lioia Root with Theron Burrell in Huntertown. Also noted is a country house party near Wallen and a wedding row in Huntertown.
Mrs Anns Feizer of 2626 Jefferson St South Omaha Nebraska endorses Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a cure for coughs colds and night coughing. She says it cured her daughter a neighbor and others in the neighborhood. The ad notes it has no yellow packaging and helps with throat tickling hoarseness and dryness.
At a large Sunday meeting the St John Evangelical Lutheran church unanimously refused Rev Henry P Dannecker permission to accept a call from Woodville C to become their pastor and college professor. Dannecker will remain at St John where he has served since 1890. The church has 269 voting members, 1000 communicants, 1400 souls, and real estate valued at $90000. He is a prominent district president in the Northern District of the Joint Synod of Ohio.
Street prices show wheat at 9 cents per bushel and oats 46 cents per bushel. Corn ranges from 63 to 65 cents per bushel for old stock and about 50 cents for new. Barley around 80 cents per bushel. Flour and other grains listed with various prices per barrel or ton, including bran middlings and chop feed.
Wiener & Co and Beyer Brothers Co publish city market prices for dairy, produce, and livestock. Entries include butter, eggs, cheese, potatoes, apples, poultry, cabbage, sweet potatoes, honey, oats, corn, hogs, cattle, sheep, hides, seeds, and miscellaneous commodities with unit prices and corrected bylines.
East Buffalo market reports show hog receipts 4000 today with steady to lower close, demand slower for pigs and workers, price ranges from 6.00 to 6.40. sheep and lambs up 20 cents, tops at 5.50. cattle steady with 50 head received. Chicago market lists hogs around 5.40 to 6.40, cattle slow, calves up to 8.00. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis markets recorded varied receipts and prices across hogs sheep cattle, with hogs in the 5.85 to 6.40 range in several ports and overall mixed trends.
Chicago November 28 butter market remains steady with creamettes at 26 34 cents and dairies at 24. Eggs receipts total 2 545 cases with firsts at 26 27 cents and prime firsts at 86. Cheese market steady with dairies at 9 0 and longhorns and Americas items noted. market tone cautious amid mixed dairy prices.
The New York stock market opened firm with most prices near prior close and several gains seen in Erie and copper shares like Utah Copper and American Smelting. After an initial strength, a sharp decline followed heavy selling as Gould stocks weakened and bear pressure spread, with Reading dropping to 150 and other favorites like US Steel Union Pacific touching lows.
Henry Clay Beattie Jr faced a swift criminal arc in Virginia after killing his wife July 18 by shotgun in a car on the Midlothian turnpike. Bloodhounds and a gun linked to the suspect sealed his fate. he was convicted in Chesterfield County and executed by electric chair after appeals failed.
A Atchison Kansas mail carrier Fred Duchren reports kidney and bladder trouble affecting his work. He endorses Foley Kidney Pills as a quick acting tonic that helps his back and overall health, promising relief from persistent symptoms.
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