Wall Street Stocks Open Irregular After London Tone
New York trading opened with mixed moves as C and O dipped, U S Steel common and North Pacific and Union Pacific slipped, while Reading fell early then rallied. Government bonds weakened, and after an initial decline Union Pacific led a later broad uptick amid uneven demand. Cincinnati hogs and cattle markets showed stable to firm bids with prime steers and lambs noting notable ranges.
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
New York
U. S. Steel
North Pacific
Union Pacific
London
Livestock prices rise as hogs lead Indianapolis market
In Indianapolis on January 3 receipts show hogs at 10 000, cattle 1 700, sheep 200. Hogs gain about five cents, top at 30.50, most trades at 6.30 to 6.45 while cattle steady but dull for common stock. Sheep steady with strong demand for prime lots, thin stock hard to place. overall market quiet after modest clearance.
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Indianapolis
Local securities market shows firmer tone and dividend note
A firmer local stock market morning with Traction and Terminal up 2 points and Union Traction common up 1. Brokers say the % dividend to be paid Jan 10 was already discounted and the issue rose past 38 bid then. Investors holding since the dividend pause remain confident of higher prices within six months, with brighter odds for a July dividend increase. A block of 40 Vandalia Coal preferred sold, while numerous bonds and common shares are listed with quotes and bids across the local exchange.
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Best Common
Union Traction Common
Union Traction
Vandalla Coal
American Central Life Ins. Co
Wes American National Bank
Atlas Engine Works
Belt Railroad Common
Belt Railroad
Brown-Ketcham Iron
Capital National Bank
Central Trust Co
A. Citizens’ Savings Deposit Co
Columbia National Bank
Ose
Varmers’ Trust Co
Federal Coe Surety Co
W. W. Val. T. Co
Indiana Heel Co
Ind. Hotel Co
Japolis Fire Insurance Co
Southeast
Trac
Sopolis Street Railway
Ne Bank
Y Trust Company
Climax Coffee & Bak
Union National Bank
Union Traction. Com
Union Trust Company
van Camp Hardware Co
Vandalia Coal Co
Pide
Snc
Cscetveweeteessetnesan DE
Oe Waskon
PEO
Citizens’ Street Railroad
W. & Wab
Val. T. Co
Indiana Hotel Co
Vandalia Coal
Pfd
Jend Satarvesos
St Louis Live Stock Prices and Receipts Report
Cattle receipts 3000 strong with beef steers 3.75 to 6.75, stockers 2.40 to 4.50, cows and heifers 2.25 to 4.75, Texas cattle 1.50 to 5.50. hog receipts 7500 up 10c, prices 5.80 to 6.40 for pigs and lights, packers 6.00 to 6.40, butchers 6.30 to 6.45. sheep receipts 2500 strong, natives 3.50 to 5.15, lambs 4.50 to 7.50.
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Aesee
Lta
Deanna Enes Ceeeeraen
Ala Calelelee
EU Scar Ieee
St. Louis
Scripps-MacRae Press Association
Texas
East Buffalo Live Stock Prices Report
East Buffalo stock market notes show receipts around 4,000 to 4,400 head with varied cattle and sheep prices. Prime steers near 7.85 to 8.00, stockers and feeders 2.00 to 2.25, calves 5.25 to 9.75, hogs 6.15 to 6.80, and sheep 3.00 to 5.50, with mixed movement and daily changes listed.
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Scrippa-McRae Press Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Market Rundown of Meat and Dairy Prices in York
A brief market note from York reports pork and ham prices steady at 50. Western steam and spot rates range around 9.40 to 9.55. Poultry goods show tan numbers with turkeys at about 22 cents per pound and fowls near 14 cents. Creamery products list extra cream at 33 cents, nearby white fancy at 35 cents, and full cream around 14 1/2 cents per pound.
Prices for Eggs and Poultry in Chicago Markets
Chicago January 3 eggs fresh at 21 23 cents a dozen for extra creamery grade. Cheese Twin 13 13 1/2 cents. Poultry turkeys hens and chickens quoted with hens 10 cents per pound, spring 10 cents, ducks 9 cents. Beg ze price listed at 5.00 to 7.50 per dozen.
Market quotes from Chicago cattle and hog receipts
Scripps-McRae reports Chicago cattle receipts at about 500 with varied bids across types. Prime beeves near $4.15 to $7.26, stockers and feeders $2.50 to $4.65, cows and heifers $2.70 to $4.90, canners $1.50 to $2.65, westerns $3.59, Texans $4.00 to $4.60. Receipts total around 22,000 with prices 5 to 10 cents higher. hog receipts about 11,000. natives and western sheep and lambs listed with scattered figures.
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
Chicago
Kingan & Co. Meat Prices Include Various Hams Bacon
A fragmented list shows prices and types from Kingan & Co. covering English style hams red hams sugar cured bacon dry salt bacon picnic hams pork loins tenderloins veal and lamb cuts with per pound or per barrel rates. The OCR fragment lacks clear dates or locations.
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Kingan & Co
Indianapolis Produce Price List Rendered in 1 Dime Style
Retail prices for assorted fruits, vegetables, and seafood in Indianapolis. Items include tomatoes at 20¢ per pound, peppers per dozen around 38–40¢, onions per peck, and various fish prices from 5¢ to 25¢ per unit. Also lists beef, veal, lamb cuts with per pound prices and miscellaneous staples like butter, lemons, and greens.
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Florida
Indianapolis Seed Market Wholesale Prices Summary
Clover Seed common red sells from 8.00 to 8.50 per unit. Timothy priced at 1.50 to 1.90. Orchard Grass at 1.25 to 1.90. Blue Grass ranges 1.40 to 1.48. Alsike seed offered from 5.00 to 7.00. Market reflects wholesale buying figures.
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Indianapolis
Timothy
Wheat and grain futures drift lower on Chicago market
Chicago grain prices slipped this morning with wheat down about fourth of a cent and oats holding firmer as May and July contracts moved. May pork rose to 16.65 and lard advanced to 9.55 with ribs near 9.00 as hogs led higher along with grain gains. Local receipts showed 76 cars of wheat, 420 of corn, and 88 of oats. No 2 white oats at 35½ to 36? cents and No 3 yellow corn about 39 to 39¾ cents.
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Scripps-McRae Prees Association
Chicago
Pittsburg Live Stock Market Reports
Pittsburg Pa January 2 cattle supply light with prime cattle priced at 6.00 to 6.20 dollars, prime 5.60 to 5.85, good 5.25 to 6.50. Sheep receipts light with prime wethers 5.60 to 5.85, good 5.35 to 5.60, lambs 5.00 to 8.00. Hogs receipts 30 loads, 5.10 lower. prime heavy hogs and yorkers around 6.60 to 6.74, night yorkers 6.65 to 6.74.
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Pittsburg
Scrippe-McRae Press Association
Wagon Market Prices Listed for Grains and Hay
Market notes show corn at 45 cents per bushel, oats 38 to 40 cents, sheaf oats 12 to 14 dollars per ton, millet 12 to 13, hay Timothy 18 to 20, clover 17 18, mixed hay 17 19, straw baled 9 19, loose 8 8 1/2. Prices reflect typical regional commodities and harvest supplies.
Cattle and hog price table from Pittsburgh market
Sceripps McHae Press Association reports Pittsburgh cattle and hog prices on January 3. Cattle lighter supplies with grades listed as choice at 6.00, prime 5.60 to 5.85, good 5.25 to 5.50. prime wethers 5.60 to 5.85, lambs 5.50 to 8.10. Hog receipts 2 days, market active with prime heavy hogs 6.0 to 6.70.
Asylum for Coe Begun After Attempted Killing
Willis Coe, who yesterday morning tried to kill Prof. N. W. Garman and party including Gov. Hanly’s daughter Ithel Hanly Garman, was brought to LaPorte in Constable Walker’s custody. He faced a justice court as proceedings began to have him declared insane. He was previously an inmate of the Lorainport asylum.
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Laporte
Ind
Willis Coe
N. W. Garman
Ithel Hanly Garman
Gov
Hanly
Walker
Cve
Lo-ransport
Egg and Poultry Prices Steady Across Markets
Egg storage prices hold at 25 to 30 cents per dozen while fresh eggs remain in the same range. Poultry prices show hens at 7 cents, roosters 4, spring chickens 7, old hen turkeys 0, toms 8, young turkeys 11, ducks and geese listed as fractions. Butter country steady at 2.30, state creamery sales 30 to 32 cents, Elgin at 3. Butterine sold at 12 to 16 cents. Cheese jobbers’ prices noted for Imported Swiss.
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Elgin
Diamond Show at the Opera Reveals Vast Jewel Treasures
A New York Evening Sun report details Mme. Melba at the Manhattan opera wearing much of her $500,000 jewel collection during La Traviata. It outlines famed society women and their gems, noting totals approaching hundreds of thousands to millions, with major pieces from Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Astor, Mrs. Mackay, and others, underscoring New York as a premier global diamond market.
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New York
Mme. Melba
Manhattan Opera House
John W
Clarence Mackay
O. H. P. Belmont
Bradley-Martin
George Gould
William Astor
Frederick Vanderbilt
W. DD. Sloane
H. McKay Twombly
Ogden Mills
Harry Payne Whitney
J. J. Astor
George Vanderbilt
Alfred Vanderbilt
Howard Gould
O. H. P. Helmont
William K. Vanderbilt
Europe
Catherine of Russia
America
John W. Mackay
Astors
W. W. Astor
John Jacob Astor
H. McK. Twombly
Trial of Sofia committee men ends in grand jury
In police court Thursday Steve Rouchefft and three Bulgarians faced charges of blackmail. Interpreters translated gibberish into English as witnesses described threats to extort money from foreign laborers under the fear of harm to relatives. Judge Whallon sent the four to the grand jury on $1,000 bonds amid testimony of menacing figures and long knives.
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Steve Rouchefft
Sofia
Whallon
Roucheff
Grand Jury
St. Louis
Chicaso
Shull Surrenders After Farmyard Shooting
Morton S. Shull, a Wabash railroad telegram operator and farm owner in Dillon, surrendered to Sheriff Smutzer after shooting Benjamin Bush in a crop dispute. Bush was driven off Shull’s farm with a revolver. Shull claims Bush attacked with a pitchfork. Bush may recover.
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Laporte
Ind
Benjamin Bush
Morton S. Shull
Wabash Railroad
Dillon
Smutzer
Shull
Bush
Corey May Lose Scripps-McRace Press Associations
Reports from New York and Pittsburg say William E. Corey chief executive of United States Steel faces deposition and loss of his $100,000 annual salary over his relationship with actress Mabelle Gilman. Alva C. Dinkey is named as potential successor and Charles M. Schwab is linked to efforts to remove Corey amid Mrs Corey's divorce.
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Scripps-McRace Press Associations
New York
Wallsr
William E. Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Mabelle Gilman
Corey
Pittsburg
Alva C. Dinkey
Carnegie Steel Company
Pitsburg
Charles M. Schwab
Steel Trust
Schwab
Miss Gilman
TO QUIT THE CHORUS JEANNETTE BALSER TAKEN IN MILWAUKEE
Ellen Fugit known as Jeannette Balser of Sam Devere's chorus was taken to the police station by Detectives Holtz and De Rossette on Thursday. She will be sent home to Vernon Ave South Chicago. Her mother says the girl is 15, and she says she joined the troupe with her mother's consent after eight weeks on the road, having joined in Milwaukee.
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Sam Devere
Holtz
de Rossette
Vernonave
Chicago
Indiana railways mull restraint on carrying intoxicated riders
Indiana traction lines consider a general order for ticket agents and conductors not to sell transport or carry drunken passengers without a companion to look after them. The rule aims to shield travelers from rowdy behavior, though it could create occasional hardships. Previously agents would not sell to intoxicated men, but trainmen never refused to carry them.
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Indiana
Fuller on Trial in Goshen Murder Case
A jury is seated in the Lewis Fuller murder trial after Mrs Fuller was shot in her sleep. The state claims to prove motive and Fuller’s guilt. The jury may seek the death penalty. Fuller, wealthy, predicts acquittal.
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Scripps-McRaee Press Association
Goshen
Ind
Lewis Fuller
Courthouse Truce Over Basement Office Showdown
County and city officers suspend plans to seize courthouse basement offices amid a possible agreement. Commissioner Mendenhall visited Mayor Bookwalter with a formal notice from County Attorney Denny, while Mayor ill and unlikely to act soon. City would vacate spaces used by City Engineer Blaine Miller for juvenile court purposes, possibly allowing temporary retention of other rooms.
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Bookwalter
Caleb
Denny
Blaine Miller
Grand jury convened to probe Walsh bank dealings
Chicago January 3 federal grand jury completed to hear the case of banker John R Walsh charged with using funds of the Chicago National Bank illegally. District attorney will present evidence to the body.
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Scripps-McRae Press Association
Chicago
John R. Walsh
Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Civil Service Examinations Announced For Various Posts
The civil service announces exams for multiple posts including forest planting assistant at a yearly salary. engineer and plumber at Fort Omaha. wheelwright at Fort Wingate. clerk at Smithsonian Institution. miscellaneous piecework computer at Naval Observatory. and examiner of survey in the General Land Office with per diem allowances and travel expenses. Provisions include entrance salaries, per diems, and potential promotions.
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Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
Quartermaster’s
Ft. Omaha
Neb
Ft. Wingate
N. M
Naval Observatory
Washington, D. C
General Land Office Service
Cotton Goods Rise in Prices and Short Supply
Cotton goods including muslins and undergarments have surged 3 to 3.5 cents per yard with prices rising across four months. Mills operate at about 75 percent capacity due to labor troubles, while strong foreign demand and suspected mill agents manipulating supply push prices higher. The situation, blamed on distribution rather than raw material scarcity, is seen as temporary as market balance may shift between domestic and foreign buyers.
Jeffries Squires Bout Off As Rhyolite Club Balks
Los Angeles January 3 A meeting with B F Taylor Rep for the Rhyolite club failed to raise the purse for the Jeffries Squires match. Jeffries refused a 4 percent share and declined training funds of 2.50, halting the deal. Taylor said the club would not increase bids and postponed Squires sailing pending developments.
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Jeffries-Squires
Jeffries
B. F. Taylor
Taylor
Squires
Roosevelt vows to defend employers liability law to last ditch
President Roosevelt announces he will instruct the department of justice to fight for the constitutionality of the employers liability law after two federal judges ruled it unconstitutional. He led the push for its passage during his term, following a conference with Attorney General Bonaparte and Secretary Straus.
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Merce and Labor
Department of Justice
Evans
Kentucky
McCall
Tennessee
Roosevelt
Pile Cure Promises Relief After 14 Years of Pain
Freed from pain, Geo B. Bender of Diversey Street Chicago thanks Pyramid Pile Cure and Pyramid Ointment after trying many remedies. He reports success with a 9c sample and full boxes, using the products as directed.
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Geo. B. Bender
Diversey St
Cago
Pyramid Pile Cure Promises Fast Relief and Free Trial
A Pyramid Dru Co advertisement touts the Pyramid Pile Cure as a top piles remedy. It claims rapid swelling relief and a positive cure with continuous use, offering a free sealed trial package by sending name and address from Marshall Michigan. It notes cent packages are sold at druggists.
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Pyramid
Dru Co
Marshall, Mich
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