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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1910
Page
4
A promotional health note touts cas carets as a great health maker. It offers a 10 cent box promising bowel relief and claims readers will never use other medicine. The ad targets general readers with a vivid, urgent promise.
After an irregular opening a strong zone developed and most leading stocks advanced. Consolidated Gas rose after a fractional dip, railroads gained slightly, Amalgamated slipped then edged above yesterday’s close, and Steel rose. The tone by noon was weak with government bonds unchanged and other bonds firmer.
Paris lyric artists demand higher pay and the suppression of public indecency in music halls. Judges in Paris reportedly approve a proposed morality law, while provincial jurists oppose it, fearing misuse of a powerful society to target personal or political foes.
Grain market listing for Indianapolis shows wheat prices across varieties from No 2 red to extra 3 red with bids from 1.54 to 1.21 and calendar month quotes. corn prices include No 2 white through No 4 white and mixed, various through billing adjustments. oats and hay noted as weak with multiple white and mixed classifications. inspections indicate several cars per lot with totals for corn oats and hay items. detailed through billing figures and car counts.
A condensed list of coal prices from Pocahontas and neighboring towns shows various lump and nut coal types with prices per ton, including Pocahontas forked lump at unspecified rate, mine run, and Blossburg and Kanawha lump figures. Additional items mention coke types, ground floor bags, and cellar storage notes.
The New York clearing banks report an overall rise in reserves and deposits with substantial increases in loans and specie while legal tenders fall. Actual cash reserve stands at 26.97 percent as of February 19, reflecting gains in deposits and loans and a decline in circulation.
In Cairo Illinois authorities deploy a fourth state troops company after two white men were shot by a black deputy sheriff during an attack on Alexander County Jail. Adjutant General Dickson sought reinforcements from Gov. Dennen as 250 soldiers patrol the streets. Coroner to hold inquest into Alex Halliday for a fatal gunshot wound. Local business groups back the crackdown and vow aid to uphold the law as dawn brings quiet.
Cattle receipts show a steady market with primes near 6.00 to 6.60, fattener cows and calves priced accordingly. Hogs receipts 5 loads with market to 10 cents higher, closing lower for heavy rounds. light and mixed hogs range about 7.60 to 9.75. Sheep and calves follow with higher prices for prime wethers and veal calves noted. Union Stockyards reports 1,000 hogs and 1,500 cattle with mixed firm-to-soft pricing across categories.
Feb 19 cash grain quotes list wheat varieties with prices for No 1 northern spring No 2 northern spring No 3 red and winter grades. Corn futures show No 2 and No 3 yellow white and mixed quotes with varying cents per bushel. Oats prices appear for white varieties and standard oats with mixed decimals and fractions.
Wheat No 2 red ranges 1.18 to 1.06 sample milling 1.16. Corn 65 to 66 cents. Shelled oats 46 to 48 cents. Straw 5.00 to 6.50. Hay mixed 13.50 to 15.50. Timothy 14.00 to 16.00. Baled hay 14.50 to 15.50.
Boston market notes list Lake Copper and Elm River up with 2 and 2 percent. Utah Cons. shows 32, Arizona Commercial 39 percent, Indiana 3 percent, North Lake 18 percent, and Smelting preferred at 50s. Trades dated February 19.
The New Thought club will hold its usual meeting on the new board of trade building room 277 Wednesday at 2 0. The subject for the afternoon is The Secret of the I Am by Mrs Louis Goldberg. Visitors welcome.
A dated price list shows various meat products including sugar cured hams, English style hams, boiled hams, smoked bacon, sliced breakfast bacon, sugar cure tea etc. It also lists fresh veal carcasses beef carcass lambs with unit prices and percentages. The OCR text preserves pricing hints for Easter and standard meat goods from a historical market page.
Brakeman P A Chapman, fired by Colorado and Southern, hijacked three engines at night. He toppled a tender, forced the locomotives onto main line, derailed near Beshear Junction, then fled south leaving engines badly damaged. Chapman is bound over for district court on malicious mischief charges.
Senate medical bulletin reports Michigan Senator William Alden Smith underwent an appendectomy at a hospital and is resting easily. Doctors say the operation was necessary and expect a successful recovery barring unforeseen complications.
New York trading opened with heavy blocks and wild excitement as a bear raid from Liverpool pushed May and July futures downward. May fell to 14.05, July to 313.33, with May and July leading a broad liquidation estimated at over 200000 bales. The decline followed losses from 60c to 2.35 per bale while scattered covering briefly steadied the market.
INDIANA accounts list several brief tragedy items. Muncie street car conductor Walter R. McCamy died Friday in a collision between a city car and an interurban freight car. Evansville clairvoyant Antoine Marion shot himself Friday while officers waited. he may recover. Richmond reports Border Bell and Nut Lock Co in receivership with Henry T. Burns appointed. liabilities total $3,000 as steel competition looms. Princeton notes Martin W. Fields 59, ex Republican legislator, dead. Logansport records Mrs. Simon Long 58 died of heart disease at Cater Tuteran church. W. H. Leedy of Indianapolis is her brother. Evansville notes Chester Bepp, 12, drowned at Cook’s Park lake Friday.
A program announced for Washington's birthday at Pearson's hall 135 N Delaware Feb 2 features John W Kern as chief orator. The event includes calls to order and talks by notable societies, musical solos, and poems, with a large reception committee of D A R S and veterans groups.
Greenfield Indiana police arrested Friday evening three youths Reb. 19 Van Jerry Cordin Martin and a boy named Williams all of Greenfield charged with robbing the safe of the T H and traction company Greenfield the safe of the Conk furniture store and the Lea C Thayer company Martin and Williams are out on bail.
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