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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1907
Page
5
Indianapolis market reports receipts of hogs at 7,000 and cattle at 1,700 with early price declines of 2 cents from yesterday. Best hogs bring 4.65 dollars, cattle sales open steady, sheep steady. Prices listed for steers, heifers, cows, bulls, calves, hogs, lambs, and breeding stock with varied weight ranges and quality grades.
Pittsburg market notes light cattle receipts and steady to firm best weights. Extra cattle at 5.60 to 5.70, prime 5.30 to 5.50, good 4.90 to 5.10. Hog receipts steady to strong on better weights, heavy hogs 4.25 to 4.90, light yorkers 4.65 to 4.70, pigs 4.50 to 4.60. Sheep receipts light and steady, prime wethers 4.80 to 5.00, ewes and mixed 4.25 to 4.75, lambs 4.50 to 6.00.
Listing of commodity prices with butter from Elgin and New York, cream cheeses from Wisconsin and New York, eggs candled at two cents, and live poultry rates for turkeys, ducks, geese, hens, spring chickens, and roosters. Includes per unit prices and regional origins.
A compact list of coal terms and locations including Pocahontas items, Blossburg, Raymond Pittsburg lump, Linton lump, Winifrede, Falling Rock Channel, Hocking Valley, Luhrig, and related descriptors. It reads as a fragmented industry ledger or inventory snippet from a coal trade source.
List of produce prices including onions celery cabbage cauliflower beets radishes sweet potatoes and more. Boxes crates and per unit quotes cover multiple items from Michigan Florida California and beyond with figures ranging from fractions to several dollars.
A fragmentary OCR listing multiple meat cuts and prices including hams, pork loins, fresh beef and veal terms with percentages and cents per unit, plus sheep and lamb items. The garbled text shows variety of cured and fresh meats with numeric pricing but lacks coherent sentences or context.
The market fell as metal stocks declined amid expected closures of Amalgamated mines at Butte and mass layoffs in January. Union Pacific and Reading held firm while railroad equipment shares dropped on the anticipated job cuts of 10,000 at American Car and Foundry. Goldfield mines reopen Thursday and London, cotton, and wheat markets moved lower. Bankers urged buying on the dips and selling on advances.
Washington reports the agriculture department has issued a cotton crop forecast for 1907-8 of 11,680,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight not including linters. This compares with 12,546,000 bales for 1906-7 in December last year and 13,020,677 bales from the 1906-07 growth in the census final, with last season's commercial crop at 13,550,000 bales.
Wheat steady to firm with prices for No 2 red at 95 4 cents track and December at 91 cents. Corn firmer with No 2 white billing at 54 cents and No 4 yellow at 52 1/2 cents. Oats firmer with No 2 white at 42 cents and No 3 white at 51/2 cents. Hay firm with choice timothy at 15 dollars and No 1 timothy at 14.26. Inspections detail cars in and out for each grade.
East Buffalo New York December 10 cattle receipts at 300 with market fairly active and steady. Hogs receipts 11 900 fairly active and firmer with Yorkers quoted 4 65 4 85 and mixed heavies 4 80 4 90. Sheep and lambs receipts 9 000 active and firm for lambs. lambs 6 35 yearlings 4 75 6 00. sheep 2 75 3 25.
Toledo Ohio December wheat cash and future quotes range 984 cents for December and 102 cents for May. July at 97 cents. Corn cash and December 36 cents and May 56 cents for July. Oats December 52 cents, May 53 cents, July 48 cents. Clover December 9.90 dollars, March 10.05. PrimeAlsuce 9.50, Timothy 2.20, Rye No 1 81 cents No 2 80 cents.
Hogs receipts 28,000 with prices ranging light to mixed 4.15 to 4.55, pigs 4.40, workers 4.35 to 4.40, rough 4.15 to 4.25. Cattle receipts 5,000, market slow but steady, beeves 3.30 to 6.35, cows 1.15 to 4.65, Texans 3.00 to 2.90, calves 5.00 to 7.00, stockers 2.25 to 4.25, western 3.25 to 5.00. Sheep receipts 12,000, market slow to steady, natives 2.00 to 4.85, western 2.00 to 4.80, yearlings 4.60 to 6.35, lambs 3.20 to 6.25.
Wheat opened four cents lower on weaker cables with May contracts at 1.0014 and 1.00 percent. Corn and oats posted declines while pork lard and rib prices moved. Closing: Wheat 99 3/4, corn 55 4, oats 60, pork 12.85, lard 7.75, ribs 30.92.
The listing shows corn at 48 50c per bushel, oats at 12.00 to 13.50, shelled corn and clover feed at 12.00, 14.00 to 15.00 for ag Clover and mixed varieties, timothy priced 14.00 to 16.00. An incomplete fragment ends with eg.
In New York on December 5 metal trading paused with a standstill in activity. Copper and tin remained unchanged while lead fell six points and spelter dropped ten points, signaling softer session values overall.
London Dec 10 Photograph No 7 in the celebrated Druce case has been identified in court both as that of the eccentric Duke of Portland and the late T C Druce.
Special agent M. E. Hindman arrives in Indianapolis to plan a wireless telegraph tower that will differ from the Marconi system using a vibration disc. Substations will be at local drug stores with first messages expected in two to three months after a western firm secures the building contract.
Corporation council Frederick Matson and city sanitarian Dr Eugene Buehler outline specifications for an ashes and cans collection contract. Specifications to be finished and sent to the Board of Public Works on Friday for approval. If approved, bids will be invited and a contract formed. The contract will mirror the garbage collection arrangement.
Professor Searchem studies all crawling things and finds a wormy world. His wife laments rising vegetable prices with a worm infested apple bushel remark. He jokes they may be a rare species.
A humorous exchange from the Yale Record shows a student demanding a good dinner while a cafeteria clerk refuses to serve beyond the fare bill. The dialogue reflects campus humor and social dialect of the era.
Representative Watson proposes prohibiting transportation by common carriers or mail of cigarettes or cigarette paper destined for Indiana. Shippers and carriers face a $200 fine. A second bill would tax one cent per 100 cigarette wrappers, collected by adhesive stamps from manufacturers.
A Southern pulpit orator on Sunday described the prodigal son’s shame and remorse, noting how the youth shed his coat vest and shirt in a sequence of self repudiation before he came to himself. The Philadelphia Ledger is cited.
A Pittsburg incident reports a girl drinking a bottle of ink by mistake, nearly dying from the toxin. She was not arrested for suicide, explaining the error as a misreading of a common household item in a humorous Harper's Weekly quip.
The New York Times remarks that Kipling has not advanced idealistic literature recently yet remains preeminent among English writers, a status unlikely to be challenged unless Shaw objects. The comment highlights a tonal clash between Kipling and Shaw as leading figures.
The Yonkers Statesman cites a remark about patience and affinity noting a bachelor generally does not meet his affinity until long after marriage. Patrice responds that he thinks not, reflecting on social sentiment about fate and partnerships.
The article describes a wireless message system to be tested from a 200 foot steel tower. Signals are said to travel at 186000 miles per second under normal conditions. The tower base is square and 50 feet high rod will support the sensitive mechanism, with M. E. Hindman directing the Indianapolis office as locations are sought.
Goldfield November 10 Mine owners announce they will reopen mines Thursday morning despite the strike They will pay 450 below ground and 400 above ground instead of 500 and 350 as before To offset the wage cut they will compel local merchants to cut goods 30 percent The association warns of opening stores selling at that reduced rate if merchants refuse to comply
A Northwestern passenger train and a freight train collided one mile south of Beloit Wisconsin this morning injuring 22 people with two seriously hurt. A special train with surgeons rushed to the scene and the more seriously injured were taken to local hospitals.
County Court action probes validity of the city automobile license ordinance. Fred Bonnifiell, city police court prosecutor, found an appeal by Charles Austin of Express and Parcel Delivery after a guilty finding and $1 fine. Indianapolis automobilists back the appeal, arguing state license exempts further licenses. Defendants Beeson, Fisher, Westing, Smith, Eisele, Elston, Marquette and Davis have cases postponed pending higher court ruling.
The Indiana Bureau of Statistics reports 1907 tobacco yield at 10,475,200 pounds with 14,065 acres, compared to 1906 output of 3,864,909 pounds on 11,596 acres. Alfalfa acreage in 1907 reached 18,801, suggesting an increase over 1906.
C E Lambert former general passenger agent of the West Shore railroad and longtime adviser died of pneumonia at his home in New York. He recently sold his 500 acre Haverstraw area farm for 75 000 dollars to the state for a new prison site.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune cartoon caption asserts that both the returning alien and the foolish American tourist remove cash from the United States for Europe’s benefit. The joke highlights concerns about outward capital flow and national economic effects conveyed in a humor panel.
Special to The Indianapolis Sum. in St Petersburg reports Gen Stoessel and three other generals arraigned over the Port Arthur surrender. Charges include disobedience of orders, halting fortifications, and issuing abusive reports while allegations of cooperation among officers surface.
Hartford City Indiana residents report a counterfeit money scheme. A woman passed raised bills of the 31 denomination as 35 at several stores on outskirts, buying 30 cents worth of sugar and receiving change. Capt. Tom Halls of Indianapolis collected samples. The extent and source remain unclear.
Mayor Bookwalter announced Tuesday that George Weslee Sewark of Indianapolis has deserted from the United States ship Virginia in New York City. The notice came from Captain Seaton Schraeder of the Virginia.
A Chicago Tribune quote notes a college student keeping even progress in language studies. He has unlearned English and learned how to talk baseball, illustrating a playful shift in communication style during campus life.
A compact comment from the Topeka State Journal notes Georgia once offered a policy or gesture and Alabama replied, suggesting a mild exchange driven by habit rather than force of conflict. The remark frames interstate relations with a wry, regional tone and historical flavor.
Richmond Indiana December 9. Since a meeting two weeks ago no strides have been taken to organize the Indiana Ohio Baseball league. Manager Clarence Jessup says he will visit proposed cities next week to complete the circuit. So far four cities have franchises: Richmond Anderson Bluffton and Van Wert Ohio. Hamilton Ohio seeks entry but backing is doubtful due to interest in the E T C league. Muncie and Marion likely to gain teams. Lima and Piqua also desired.
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