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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1908
Page
17
A sale listing scrap baskets offered at 95c with various shapes and colors, plus 1847 Rogers & Bro. china, 6-inch globes in crystal and colors with fringe, and Christmas bells at 3c. Mantles, burners and gravy ladles priced, with red tissue noted as perfect in shape.
Mrs. Alvin Goodin testified to assault and battery by her husband, who was fined $10 and costs and given ten days in the workhouse. She described the Tuesday evening attack after she asked him to discuss his business affairs. Goodin, a livery stable owner, and his wife reside at 404 Spring Street.
December 11 reports show 14 000 hogs 1 750 cattle and calves and 650 sheep down from a week ago with hogs up year over year but cattle and sheep lower. Trading dull at lower prices with hogs selling mostly 5.20 to 5.80. top 6.00. Sheep and lambs strong as demand outstrips supply with lambs around 7.00 and sheep about 4.00.
A catalog of meat prices including sugar cured hams at 11 144c and English style hams at 13 13%c. Bacon varieties listed such as breakfast 17 11t¢c and smoked 12% 12%c. Also shown are dried beef 18 20c lard in tierces 111g 12%c fresh pork sausage 9 91¢c fresh beef carcasses 5% 9c and other cuts with encoded pricing.
Union Stockyards at HL on December 11 report hog receipts around 30 000 with prices from 3 60 to 6 85 for various weights and goods. Cattle receipts near 2 500 with Beeves 3 40 to 7 65 and stockers 2 60 to 4 80, Texan steers 3 40 to 4 30. Sweep receipts 14 000 with native hogs 2 50 to 4 70 and yearlings 4 50 to 5 00. Also notes Western and calver prices and a brief Chicago opening prices fragment mentioning corn.
President Roosevelt, stirred by allegations in the New York World and Indianapolis News, contemplates libel suits to test the Panama Canal deal reports. Cromwell defends the deal, stating the $40,000,000 paid for the property went to France, not to an American syndicate.
Bullish conditions returned in early trading as traction stocks led gains. Interborough Metropolitan rose to 39 and moved higher, with third avenue and Brooklyn Rapid Transit heavily traded. Brooklyn Rapid Transit directors reportedly approved a 4 percent dividend in February, while Union Pacific and Southern Pacific posted record highs and Reading climbed to 143.
The Concordia society plans its annual Christmas entertainment and dance on Monday evening December 21 in Germania hall. Santa Claus will attend and children receive presents before dances for all ages. events are private for members but open to friends. Lawrence Wilhoff chairs the arrangements with Julius Kaechler Albert Miller Richard Klugman Harry Elfert and Robert Yovger managing. Belser’s orchestra will provide music.
Bloomington Ind December 11 The Sunshine club has been organized with charter members including Mrs. P B Martin Mrs A L Martin Mrs W C Blakely Mrs Dudley Smith Mrs J A May Mrs Lizzie Smallwood Mrs S O Field Mrs Eliza Carmichael and Mrs Hanna Baker.
Pittsburg Pa December 11 cattle receipts show 10 loads with light demand and most cattle carried over to Monday. Hog receipts also 10 loads with steady market. Heavy cattle around 6.10 to 7.15, Yorkers near 6.00 to 6.80. pigs about 5.15 to 6.25. Sheep and ewes mixed with wethers around 4.50 and hogs at 2.60.
Mrs Bessie Mariana daughter of Cleveland mayor Tom Johnson has obtained a divorce from her husband, a New York playwright.
Gov. Hanly pardons Joseph Eacock without Board of Pardons recommendation. Eacock, once a Lafayette area and Tippecanoe county lawyer, had been on parole six months and lived on a Texas farm, convicted of conspiracy to blackmail with a two to 14 year sentence.
After three years the Indiana reformatory will serve a turkey dinner on Christmas Day with a full banquet of trimmings. Superintendent Whittaker, visiting Indianapolis, plans to buy 1200 pounds of dressed turkey and seeks a $20,000 appropriation for a permanent water plant to combat a typhoid outbreak affecting 60 inmates and hospitalizing several. three deaths have occurred.
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