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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1908
Page
4
The report lists wheat, corn, oats and timothy grain bids and through billing prices. It records inspection results, car counts by grade and type, and totals for various lots including 40 cars of mixed grain and several rejected lots.
Market notes list corn bid at ten to eleven dollars per something oats priced at 51 to 63 cents per unit straw at five to six fifty with varying quality signals from local sellers.
A New York hospital nurse and matron urges mothers to prevent constipation to reduce disease risk. She warns constipation causes indigestion, gas, piles, fevers, and contagious infections, and advises a home remedy mixture of aromatic cascara, Cardiol essence, and rhubarb syrup with dosages for adults and children.
Hogs receipts 38,000 with prices $5.65 to $6.15 for light and mixed to heavy 5.55 to 6.10 roughs 5.55 to 5.75 pigs 4.50 to 6.45 yorkers 6.00 to 6.45. Cattle receipts 22,000 steady to strong with beeves 4.60 to 7.30 cows and heifers 2.10 to 8.25 calves 4.50 to 6.75 stockers and feeders 5.25 to 6.25 westerners 4.40 to 5.50 Texans 4.60 to 5.40. Sheep receipts 12,000 10 higher natives 4.75 to 6.75 western 4.75 to 6.85 yearlings 6.25 to 7.25 lambs 6.00 to 7.75 western 6.25 to 7.75.
Prices from Indianapolis Produce Exchange list fresh eggs at tc and country roll butter at 6 cents per unit. Market items reflect typical wholesale quotes and colorfully brief early 20th century pricing.
The city record shows multiple births with names and addresses across streets including Minois, St St, Eugene, Buchanan, 28th, Washington, Alabama, Ringgold, St Clair and Fletcher avenues. Deaths include Dorothea Reissner tuberculosis and James Hart erysipelas among others with ages and hospital references.
April 15 receipts show 2,000 hogs 1,060 cattle and 100 sheep traded. Hog prices rose to 6.15 to 6.30 with top 6.35, demand active though local packers bought little. Cattle and sheep moved at steady to firm prices versus last week, with steers and heifers selling across several weight classes and bulls/calves showing varied values.
Chicago reports continued dry weather in Kansas and Nebraska with no rain seen and light receipts in the northwest. Wheat leads the advance with May contracts quoted around 93 3/4 cents, corn 68 cents, oats 52 1/2 cents, and meat futures steady to higher.
Pittsburg Pa April 13 cattle receipts 650 steady with extras 6.80 seven heifers 4195.75 fresh cows and springers 164765 hogs receipts 30 steady heavy 6.44 6.50 medium 6.50 workers 6 6.50 pigs 5.40 6.60 rough to common 5 5.40 sheep and lambs receipts night steady prime wethers 6.15 6 mixed 6.35 6 fair mixed ewes and wethers 6 5.80 calls to choice lambs 4.50 7.25 spring lambs 9 12
New York stocks opened with declines as Union Pacific Reading and Erie led the fall. Illinois Central announced a plan to issue new stock as part of a larger authorized issue of 28 512 00 dollars while American Ice rose slightly.
The Indianapolis Orphan's Asylum board will host a all day Easter flower show and sale at Badger Furniture on April 18 to raise funds. A table features Easter eggs seeds and novelties for children with poems by Meredith Nicholson sold at 50 cents. Delivery wagons will run all day and a reception committee will escort visitors to sale tables and wrap items.
The fifth yearly edition of Sporting Life Baseball Schedule is published and free copies are sent to readers who mail a two cent stamp to Schedule Department Philadelphia.
Free offer for beautiful chinaware advertised by Concannon's at 444 W. Washington with fresh meats and a note for Grant H. Clay, M. D., dentist. Mention of four years with New York Dental company and current address 108 N. Delaware et. opposite Torelinson hall Indiananelis.
Roanoke Street and St Clair Street described for a sewer line nine to twelve inches in diameter. Public Works will hear remonstrances Monday January 27 1908 at 10 am. Board invites sealed bids March 30 1908 for basement floors at City Hospital service building under Miscellaneous Specifications No 34.
Martin Murphy gives notice to Sixth G ward Center township Marion county Indiana he will apply at the May term 1908 for a license to sell intoxicating vinous malt and spirituous liquors in less than five gallons with on premises drinking privilege. The business premises are 27 by 5 feet fronting south on Washington street first floor in a one story brick building No 506 and 438 West Washington street ward No 61 Indianapolis. Also requests pool table privileges.
City ordinance bans manufacture storage and sale of calcium carbide gas in Indianapolis structures. Violations carry fines from 1600 to 50, per day of operation or storage, effective May 1, 1908 after two weeks' publication. Official copy certified by Clerk James McNulty.
The Indianapolis Public Works Department invites sealed proposals for multiple public improvements. Projects include brick paving on FIRST ALLEY WEST OF DELAWARE, cement sidewalks on MICHIGAN STREET and ENGLISH AVENUE areas, and the construction of a Sugar Grove main sewer along TWENTY-SECOND STREET. Bids due Friday at 10 o clock a.m.
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