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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1903
Page
23
Receipts total 6 500 hogs 1 100 cattle and calves and 200 sheep with a steady trend for top hogs and little price relief overall. Mixed lots sold 10 to 66 cents lower while most hogs brought 5.35 to 5.90. cattle demand remained strong from local packers and sheep and lambs cleared at steady prices despite limited supply.
At ten cents each, bowls plates pin trays and small gift items fill the display. A specialty line features white with blue and red art china designs. At twenty five cents are plates cups saucers pitchers sugar bowls and more in pretty patterns resembling BOC articles. Other pieces include pieces priced from 1 to 25 dollars at 48 cents and 98 cents. Sugar and cream sets in assorted Haviland Co American Beauty OSC basement.
New York stock market opened with mixed results as Harriman affiliated stocks led gains. Great Northern preferred rose, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific advanced, Reading and St Paul fell, Wabash preferred rose, Missouri Pacific and Amalgamated Copper lost ground. Reading second preferred slipped to 90 from 99 after retirement report.
Fresh eggs 30c. Butter country each. Poultry items include live turkeys ducks roosters and spring chickens. Spotty OCR text lists prices and product lines from the Indianapolis Produce Exchange.
The Wagon Market listing from House Bros at 130 Kentucky Ave shows current prices for freshly shelled corn at 73, oats at 63, shelled oats at 15 to 14 dollars per unit, Timothy hay around 12 dollars, clover around 10 dollars, mixed hay about 11 dollars, wheat straw around 6.5, oats straw 6, baled hay No 1 at 12.5 to 13.6, No 2 at 11 to 12 dollars.
Hogs receipts 48,000 with prices ranging from light to heavy and mixed lots. Cattle receipts around 30% lower with Texas and western steers and cows and calves priced, while sheep receipts estimated at 45,000 with native and western stock trends noted.
A large musical extravaganza titled Professor Napoleon will depict college life as 720 Indian apoliss people perform tonight tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night at Englishs for the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum. Acts include Sagehurst college interior with 200 students and Sailors Hornpipe by 46 men, witches in scarlet and gold, and campus scenes with 150 school girls and pantomime football. Curtain times 7 59 and 1 59 with darkened house, show lasting about three hours and carriages available at 11 oclock.
Thomas Bartlett, charged with the murder of Charles Custer, will be tried Monday in a case delayed by the absence of key witness Herbert Bartlett. Bartlett plans to claim self defense after a quarrel at a cotton mill bottoms, where he allegedly drew a knife and later fired the revolver in a confrontation attended by James Hurd and others.
Malley Hay, a highway robber, was escorted by a deputy sheriff to Jeffersonsville reformatory Sunday. He received two ten-year terms for robbing M. J. Curtis and stealing $16, and confessed in writing to two robberies. His father D. C. Hay of Crothersville, Ind. urged Judge Pritchard for a suspended sentence.
Burt H. Hunt, 27, killed his brother in law Halgers Halberstadt in Kokomo Indiana on Saturday night. The shooting followed Halberstadt allegedly taking a $20 bill from Hunt's mother a few days earlier. Hunt was arrested.
The Musikverein hosts its third Saturday night dance at the German halls with a bigger crowd than prior events this season. The new weekly plan for weekend balls appears to be successful and well received.
An early 20th century notice touts possum skin product Poslam as a versatile skin remedy aiding shaving irritation pimples abrasions and rough skin. It claims rapid healing within hours and offers a free trial from Emergency Laboratories New York City.
Frank Orban of Detroit and Samuel Jacobs of Lancaster Pa were sent to the grand jury from police court on charges of conspiracy. Orban claims Michigan pool championship status while Jacobs says he is his manager. Police describe them as sharps who lure strangers into games, place wagers, and defraud them. Jacobs appeals to his wife visiting relatives in Lebanon Ind.
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