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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1909
Page
4
At 1380 Kentucky avenue, reads New Shear Oats priced 9.00 to 11.00, New Timothy 10.00 to 12.00, New Clover 9.00 to 11.00, New Hay 9.00 to 11.00, Wheat Straw 0.50 to 6.00, Oat Straw 6.00 to 6.50. Includes G. M. Oat Straw as 6.00 to 6.50.
Market notes show fresh eggs at 18 cents per dozen and country butter at 10 cents. Live turkeys none listed. ducks priced, oats and Timothy hay values recorded with ranges for New Timothy and New Clover. Various hay and straw prices listed including Timothy, Clover, Hay, and Wheat/Oat straw.
Travel guide style notice highlights routes to Niagara Falls and northern resorts via Grand Trunk Railway double track from Chicago to Montreal and Niagara Falls. Announces special low round trip fares for the summer season and directs readers to W. S. Cookson for tourist publications and pamphlets at 135 Adams Street, Chicago.
Local laundry notices offer washings rough dry by the pound with all flat pieces ironed. Family operation promotes reliable service and convenient pricing for fabric care.
An advertisement touts possum skin salve from Emergency Laboratories promising rapid relief from eczema acne tetter and itchy conditions. It claims a fifty cent box sold at local druggists cures many skin troubles and that an experimental vos lam package is available free by mail from New York.
August 10 in Indianapolis reports receipts of 4500 hogs 1100 cattle and 800 sheep with hogs down from last week yet cattle and sheep higher. Local packers dominated purchases paying up to five cents more than yesterday, top hog price was 8.20 with most at 8.10 to 8.15. Cattle trade active 10 cents higher, calves 60 cents higher. Lambs and sheep steady with strong turnover. lambs 3.00 to 7.00, sheep 31.50 to 4.25.
Wheat prices show No. 2 red and higher grades with varied figures, including August at 91.0014 and September at 1.0034, plus wagon wheat at 1.00. Corn prices list No. 2 white around 70%4c and No. 4 yellow near 68%c, while oats and hay values run steady to weak with timothy and clover figures. Inspections tally 65 cars of wheat grades and 2 cars of hay grades, with totals by grade and through billing notes.
An advertisement extols Cascarets as the biggest seller and the best medicine for the liver and bowels. It claims millions use the product and that a box a week suffices, asserting the box is the only medicine buyers need.
A piano company owner denounces newspapers for accepting misleading ads and defends Chickering & Sons pianos as a high quality, fixed price product from Boston. He cites a rival dealer who quit due to poor stock, condemns anonymous ads selling bogus Chickering imitations, and asserts full responsibility for all statements and goods offered.
Chicago grain markets opened weak with wheat down 3 to 4 cents as bears pressuring futures. Corn and oats opened fractional losses, while early provisions showed a slight decline. Prices for September wheat at 87 1/4 to 87 1/2, corn around 64 1/4, oats near 36 1/4, with various pork and lard bids noted for January and September contracts.
New York August 10 The stock market opened with a bullish tone as yesterday's losses were fully recovered. Several stocks rose over 1 percent, Union Pacific led gains, Rock Island common fell from recent highs, and high prices were touched on this movement. Short covering and heavy selling in strong spots caused some profit taking before the first hour closed. Government bonds remained unchanged.
Cincinnati market reports hog receipts at 1 618 with slow trade and weak packers and butchers while sheep rise with lambs 10 to 25 cents higher to 4 00 to 8 00. Union Stockyards in New Jersey show 12 000 hogs steady, cattle 6 400 steady and slow, sheep 18 000 weak with lambs at 3 09 to 5 25 and 4 50 to 1 85.
Wheat prices with cash and contracts quoted for September December and May. Corn bids shown for cash September December and May. Oats and rye prices listed with respective months. Prices include 1.064 for wheat cash, 1.0058 for December wheat, 1.08 for May wheat, corn September 6814c, December 4c, May 56%4c, oats cash 39c, September 375%c, December 3814c, May 40%c, rye cash 69c.
Belser's orchestra will perform at the Maennerchor weekly roof garden concert. Program includes Denver, Fair Co-Ed, Schubert Serenade, Baby Doll, Castles in the Air, Lucia Sextette, Three Twins, Prize Song from The Minister Singer, Glow Worm, Tally Ho. Local notices report weddings and travels among church and newspaper staff, plus several residents leaving for Wisconsin and Michigan trips.
Market news from Pittsburg shows cattle and hog receipts with steady to firm tone. Prices range for fat oxen bulls and heifers, hogs including heavy and medium grades, and sheep with light calves and mixed quality prime to cull offerings. Factors noted include prime, good, fair, common categories and tentative ranges for each species.
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