Stocks Open Low at New York Exchange
New York December 6 The stock market opened with general declines for many listed issues including Canadian Pacific Steel preferred Northern Pacific Great Northern preferred Kansas Texas and Pennsylvania Copper Steel common Southern Pacific Locomotive Great Northern preferred and Atchison Reading opened down and rallied later as trading continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Canadian Pacific
Steel
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Kansas
Texas
Pennsylvania
Southern Pacific
Atchison
Reading
Wheat Open Drops Then Recovers InChicago Trading
Chicago price report shows wheat opening down four cents but rebounding later as markets tighten. Liverpool saw slight gains on lighter selling pressure. Argentina harvest underway with good quality. May prices listed for wheat, corn, oats, pork, lard, and ribs with closing levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Liverpool
la Plata
Argentina
Bosc
Pittsburg Live Stock Market Summary
Pittsburg Pa December 6 cattle receipts light and prices mixed with prime and good grades. Hogs receipts about 7000 with a 5 cent decline. prime heavy hogs around 6.30, lighter hogs 5.25 and 4.00 to 4.85 for common roughs. Sheep receipts light with lambs 15 cents lower. prime wethers 4.80 to 4.85, good mixed 4.25 to 4.75, calls 2.60 to 4.00, lambs 4.50 to 6.25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Grain and hay market prices and carload inspections
Market notice lists Wheat and Corn grades with prices per bushel for No 2 red through No 4 red and mixed, oats and hay firm prices for timothy and clover, and detailed carload inspections showing totals for Wheat Cork Oats and Way with counts of cars in and out and no established grade noted. It reads like a 19th to early 20th century exchange of commodity prices and freight car movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cork
Timothy
Market prices for oats hay and straw in 19th century listing
A fragment listing prices for corn oats straw and hay categories. Corn and shelled oats show per-bushel and per-hundredweight style quotes. Hay prices vary by variety with figures for Clover Mixed and Timothy provided.
Hogs and Cattle Prices at Union Stockyards NL
Union Stockyards NL reports hogs receipts 30 000 slow with prices mostly 50 lower light 465 520 mixed 475 525 heavy 4605 20 rough 465 480 Yorkers 505 615 cattle receipts 3 000 strong to higher beeves 3256 64 cows and heifers 115 470 Texas steers 800 80 Western cattle 300 500 stockers and feeders 200 425 sheep receipts 8000 strong natives 200 600 western 320 490 yearlings 460 535 lambs 400 635 western lambs 400 625
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Stockyards
Texas
Ceee Cena
Reece Rene
CALVO
Anthracite Prices and Lump Coal Names From Pocahontas to Falling Rock
Coal terms and mine names listed in a fragmented OCR item include Pocahontas forked lump shoveled lump mine run nut ends and related entries. Industry mentions Ohio Jackson Kanawha Raymond Pittsburg Linton Falling Rock Hocking Valley and channel notes appear as stray data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas
Falling Rock Channel
Hocking Valley
S-Seess
Lubrig
Indianapollis Produce Price List Summary
Butter Elgin printa 3ic Elgin tubs BC atate cream 30c country 14c Cheese New York full cream 174 c Wisconsin full cream 15 16c Eggs Candled 26c at mark 24c Poultry Turkeys live 12c ducks live 7c geese 7a hens 9c spring chickens 9c roosters 5c
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
New York
Wisconsin
Meats and Lard Market Prices Listed
Fresh beef and pork prices shown for native and western cattle native steers and heifers cows and bulls veal mutton and pork products with bacon ham and smoked and salted varieties. Prices per pound range from a few to over twenty cents depending on cut and quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iss
Wall Street Rally Persists Amid Early Decline
In New York trading, early Wall Street losses of up to two points gave way to a broad advance led by Reading and Union Pacific. The market strengthened after a mixed session with normal profit-taking, aided by buying from money brokers and banks. Goldfield fears and miners’ gold output influence the mood as traders use stop loss orders to guard gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Shotwell
New York
Wallst
Reading
Union Pacific
Shorts
Commission House
Indianapolis Livestock Receipts and Market Report
Indianapolis December 6 livestock receipts hogs 800 cattle 1650 sheep 600. Hog market opened weak six cents lower with local packers the main demand. top price 6.45. Cattle and sheep steady. Detailed steer heifers cows bulls and calves prices listed across weight ranges with varied bid ranges and grading terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Toledo Grain Markets Close Mixed Across Commodities
Toledo Ohio on December 6 reports wheat prices steady to unchanged with December at 98 cents and May 1.04 dollars, July 0.985 dollars. Corn shows December 58 cents, May and July 58.44 cents. Oats December 53.44, May 54.14, July 49.0. Rye and timothy prices listed, cattle and hogs at Buffalo market show varied movements with cattle receipts slow, lambs and yearlings mixed, hogs down about one-half to one cent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
E. Loversead
Marcn
East Buffalo
Buffalo
N. Y
Vegetables and Fruits Prices at Local Market
A fragment lists dry onions, cucumbers, cabbage, cauliflower, beets, celery, radishes, sweet potatoes, potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, lima beans, carrots, popcorn, lettuce, navy beans, oranges, coconuts, apples, figs, pineapples, pears with varied per unit or per container prices. many entries include per bushel, per crate, per box, or per dozen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Florida
California
Ananas
Naamset
Apjou
Duchess
Roosevelt Not Candidate For A Third Term
Special to The Indianapolis Sun reports the Washington Post asserting Theodore Roosevelt will not seek a third term. He aims to have the convention endorse his policies and nominate a candidate who will continue them, while he weighs Taft’s nomination prospects and may advocate neutrality unless the race narrows to two viable options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Sun
Washington
Washington Post
Theodore Roosevelt
William J. Bryan
White House
Roosevelt
Taft
Cortelyou
Rivers and Harbors convention reelects officers
At Washington on December six, committee reports on nominations and resolutions dominated the Rivers and Harbors session. Incumbent officers were re elected: President Joseph E. Ransdell, secretary treasurer Captain J F Ellison, and special director John A Fox. Resolutions urging annual appropriations for river and waterway improvements were approved to boost U S commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph E. Ransdell
J. F. Ellison
John A. Fox
Congress
America
No One Is to Blame in Mill Accident Death
State factory inspector W E Blakely investigated the death of Claude McDonald at a flour mill operated by his family in Nashville Brown County. McDonald wore a new hunting coat whose canvas lining caught on a set screw, twisting him around the shaft for about half a minute before the engine stopped. He lived 48 hours conscious, saying he did not know of the set screw. Blakely found no one at fault and suggested the screw could have been covered for safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Blakely
Nashville
Brown County
Claude McDonald
Blakely
Court fines 300 motorists over city auto license
Olin B. Peck was fined $1 and costs by Judge T. C. Whallon for failing to obtain a city automobile license. Hoe pleaded guilty as the court ruled the ordinance valid. City Controller George T. Breunig will issue warrants for about 300 other owners who have not purchased city licenses. The license costs $3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olin B. Peck
T. C. Whallon
Hoe
George T. Breunig
Doctor Dorman Who Aided Davis Dies at Home
Dr Charles A Dorman longtime physician in New Haven has died at his home from apoplexy He attended Jefferson Davis during the Confederacy years while Davis was imprisoned and ill at Fortress Monroe His death closes a chapter in Civil War era medical companionship shared with the imprisoned president
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Charles A. Dorman
Jefferson Davis
Fortress Monroe
Gesar Sets Higa a Shelled Date See Straw
A brief item notes a date setting, with unclear names and figures. The readable fragments reference parties, numbers, and a shelled date, but exact details remain uncertain. Further context is needed for a precise event description.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gesar
Higa
Miced
Riches in rags of female lot
Mrs. Mary Vance was found intoxicated at a saloon on 619 E Washington St with 9030 dollars and jewelry. She will be brought before Probate Judge Walker for a mental examination and a guardian may be appointed to manage her fortune. Al Long was later arrested in connection with the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Vance
Walker
Vance
Gregoire
Lead pipe found piled in vacant house on Park Avenue
Plumber Lawrence Betz found a cut lead pipe piled on the floor of a vacant bathroom at 1408 Park Ave after a prowler fled through the front gate. Bicycle Officers Schlangen and Radamacher investigated, believing the intruder cut the pipe for removal.
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Lawrence Betz
Park Ave
Betz
Schlangen
Radamacher
Pugh Plaintiffs Seek Restraining Order Over Gravel Digging
Barbara A. Pugh and others sue A. J. Yanger Construction to stop gravel extraction on land adjoining the Pugh farm northwest of Indianapolis. They say excavation would damage the Big Eagle creek bottoms and block access to Crawfordsville road, fearing company insolvency before damages could be pursued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara A. Pugh
A. J. Yanger
Three Indianapolis Commissioners Attend Powers Trial
County Commissioners John McGregor John Mendenhall and John McGaughey left Indianapolis Thursday on a secret mission and were found Friday in Georgetown Kentucky where they attended Caleb Powers trial. McGregor is Powers ally and the others followed suit for county matters in Georgetown until their return is uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McGregor
John Mendenhall
John McGaughey
Indianapolis
Georgetown
Caleb Powers
McGregor
Powers
Democrats Called to Name Chairman in Indiana
Delegates to a district convention to select a leader will meet January 21. Joseph T. Fanning and Henry Friedman issued notice urging Democrats in Marion county wards and townships to hold primaries December 28 from 4 to 8 PM to elect delegates to the Seventh Indiana district convention. The district convention will meet in the criminal courtroom at the courthouse January 21 to elect a member of the state central committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph T. Fanning
Henry Friedman
Democratic Party
Indianapolis
Marion County
Indiana
Democratic State Central Committee
Caution to Remington Typewriter Users in Indianapolis
A warning from the Remington Typewriter Co informs users in Indianapolis that a local repairer falsely claims affiliation with the company. He charges excessive fees and delivers unsatisfactory work. The notice urges customers to contact the official Remington office for repairs or adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Remington
Indianapolis
Ind
Remington Typewriter Company
Salute to Flag Becomes Part of School Day Exercises
Caroline Scott Harrison chapter of Indianapolis D A R organizes patriotic education plans to fund flag distribution to schools and institutions, promote daily flag salutes, sing America at graduations, and offer talks on citizenship to working men led by notable figures. The first lecture is Dec 9 at Christamore with Hon. W L Taylor.
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Christamore
College Settlement
Columbia
W. L. Taylor
Indiana
Caroline Scott Harrison
Boys’ Club
Indianopolis
America
Committee On Patriotic Education
Nelly Colfax Smith
William T. Brown
Edward T. Hodges
W Elizabeth M. Hill
Julia Landers
City Park Board adopts new supervision plan and park repairs
The City Board of Public Park commissioners met Friday with reports from custodians clerk draftsman and engineer. A new plan was started last week pending a future superintendent and engineer. Mode Construction will receive 4090 of 5800 due for Riversile park dam repairs with 1800 withheld until satisfaction. Watchman hours at Riverside park changed to noon to midnight to deter hunters. The park fund stands at 9282.21 per Blythe O Hendricks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Board of Public Park Commissioners
Mode
Riversile Park
Street Patching To Begin Again In Indianapolis
Western Construction resumes asphalt street patching in the north Indianapolis area Friday afternoon. Work covers Talbott to Twenty-Seconds and continues as weather allows. The plant boiler remains out of service but should be repaired soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Construction Company
Indianapolis
Talbott
Henry W. Marshall
City council saloon license ruling unlikely to be appealed
City council members favor appeals to the supreme court from Judge J. M. Leathers' ruling that the saloon license ordinance is void. However, Corporation Counsel Frederick E. Matson must consent to appeal, and his long stance that the ordinance is invalid makes any such action improbable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
J. M. Leathers
Frederick E. Matson
Men honor Hammond in big New York demonstration
New York December 6 employees of the Hammond Typewriter works staged a large demonstration for James Bartlett Hammond head of the company who has just been found mentally capable by a lunacy commission. They burned effigies of his enemies and cheered his victory over efforts to commit him to an institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hammond Typewriter Works
James Bartlett Hammond
Hammond
Remarkable grafting at Westboro farm joins 1974 skin pieces
In Westboro Massachusetts J G Kestler completed a landmark skin graft on Mrs Kestler after more than three months. The last of 1974 skin pieces was applied with grafts taken from the husband’s arms and legs. Mrs Kestler was badly burned in a kerosene explosion in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westboro
Mass
J. G. Kestler
Bride held by parents after elopement in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia Dee G Martan Knorr niece of Richard Laper tied to the defunct Guarantee Trust case is confined at her parents home. Yacht captain William Gale of Atlantic City seeks habeas corpus to free her as the family resists the marriage announcement and Gale haunts 113 North Nineteenth Street seeking access.
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Knorr
Richard Laper
Guarantee Trust Company
Philadelphia
William Gale
Atlantic City
Gale
Marian
Capt
Sammy Gale
Nineteenth-st
Bank sues over alleged fraud in subscription program
HT Wasson Co sues C O Burns Co of New York in federal court alleging fraud breach of contract and an attempt to deceive. Plaintiffs paid 160 per subscriber for 390 subscriptions but investigations showed many names valueless and addresses unfindable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HT. P. Wasson Co
C. O. Burns Co
New York
Wasson
Why Mutual Accident Insurances Company Isn’t Settling Claims
Complaints to the auditor of state allege slow claim settlements by Mutual Accident Insurance Company of Indianapolis. The firm, organized by A T Sarran, cannot be located as he is reportedly in a sanitarium for nerv ous breakdown treatment. no charges have been filed, but officials seek reasons for delayed payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutual Accident Insurances Company
Indianapolis
A. T. Sarran
Inianapolis
Surran
Bee
Billheimer
Habeas corpus suit over twins to be heard in probate court
Jesse L. Aley an electrical engineer seeks custody of his 2 year old twins Robert and Herbert from his wife Florence Alley. In an amended complaint he accuses his mother in law Mrs Elia Souders of traveling from a distant state to influence Florence to take the children away. He calls her a wanderer and alleges she cannot provide a good home.
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Jesse L. Aley
Robert
Herbert
Florence Alley
Alley
Elia Souders
Indianapolis
City Record of births deaths and marriages today
City Record lists multiple births with couples and addresses including James and Emma Alexander, 2427 Baltimore Ave, a boy, and others. It also records deaths from pneumonia and tuberculosis, chronic kidney disease, apoplexy, and other causes, plus marriages of several couples and building permits for dwellings and repairs with estimated costs.
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James
Emma Alexander
Baltimore-ave
William and
Nanie Ennis
Sixteenth-st
Joseph G
Maggie M. Hayes
N. Capitol-ave
Earl C
Claire Eisaman
State-ave
Walter R
Elizabeth J. Garner
Washington-st
William F
Ida M. Jordan
Twenty-first-st
Clarence
Julia McPherson
George T
Anna B. England
Lambhert-st
John and
Mamie Nolin
W. Abbot
Wesley H
May Adkinson
Sutherland-ave
Alonzo O
Hittle Knotts
Walter T
Emely Willams
Eliza J. Green
Son
West-sr
Nancy Alberts
Tenth-st
Robert Franklin
Holton-place
Louisa Lehr
Jones-st
John Wesley Wilson
Mary Ann Meek
Lee St
King Oscar No Better Says Stockholm Bulletin
The December 6 Stockholm bulletin reports King Oscar remains ill with little sleep and waning strength over the past two days. Doctors brace for the condition to improve, while state authorities monitor his health closely amid ongoing concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar
Stockholm
Passengers See Man Kill Wife on Train
On a Norfolk train yesterday Nethaway shot and killed his wife then fled to a grain office where he fired a revolver toward his mother and confessed the deed. He stated his only regret was not killing Senator Allen, who once represented him in a divorce case, and then killed himself with a final shotgun blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hin
Indianapolis Sun
Norfolk
Net
W. B
Nethaway
Senator Allen
Tha
United States
Mebraska
Allen
Irs
Nethawiy
Kier
Incendiary Fire Destroys Touring Car and Barn
An incendiary blaze damaged J A Everitt's $3,000 touring car in Irvington causing the vehicle and room to burn. a gasoline can was found and a lamp left burning. The building sustained $160 in damage. Police investigate alongside a partially destroyed Wilton Bloom burg barn believed set ablaze. The logs were $204.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Everitt
EL Washington Sr
American Society of Equity
Irvington
Wilton Bloomburg
Pure Food Enforcement Actions At Terre Haute
Demity State Food Inspector Job Owens led a purge of pure food violations this week in Terre Haute. Five establishments including restaurants and candy kitchens were inspected. One seller paid ten dollars plus costs for adulterated butter and another eight dollars plus costs for uncovered foods. Two candy kitchens were ordered closed until cleaned up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Demity
Job Owens
Terre Haute
Robber Steals Teeth From Fifth Avenue Man
New York Dec 6 Thomas Carne of 2008 Fifth Avenue was robbed by a footpad this morning. Failing to get money the thief forced Carne to surrender his false teeth and pried out a gold tooth. He was arrested and identified by Carne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas Carne
Fifth-ave
Carney
Incorporations Filed for Insurance and Fence Firms in Indiana
Articles of incorporation filed Friday list Citizens Mutual Live Stock Insurance Co with offices in Michigan City and directors J E Baxter G W Thomas I X Flowers William White and M G C Wickham serving Laporte Porrey Lake Jasper Pulaski White and Tippecanoe counties. Champion Iron Fence Co of Kenton capital stock 500000 filed articles. Indiana capital stock represented 10000 with H C Pugh of Terre Haute noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens’ Mutual
Surance Company
Laporte
Porrey Lake
Jasper
Pulaski
White and Tippee Canoe Counties
Michigan City
Secretary of State
J. E. Baxter
G. W. Thomas
I. X Flowers
William White
M. G C. Wickham
Champion Iron Fence Company
Kenton
Indiana
H. C. Pugh
Terre Haute
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DAVIS
Tron
Sion
Sev
Enth
Caroline Scott Har
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Caroline Scott
Harrison Chapter
Nimrod
Bride
Her
Him
Dee, G&—Martan
Aunusen
BANK
Auditor of State
Earl L. Bainbridge
Nellie Cagan
Arthur P. Buener
Minnie Vollmer
Jesse Marksbury
Anna M. Riehl
George S. McHaffey
Jessie V. Gardner
George W. Thompson
Josephine Margasyn
John R. Hume
Virginia Robinson
Roscoe A. Mitchell
Alma EB. Trice
O L. Means
Leeds-are
Charles Lombard
J. A. Ev
Eritt
Farmers
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