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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1908
Page
4
New York Central stock moves at par and Steel common climbs to 30 as investors bet on large upcoming orders. Amalgamated Copper passes 53 and American Locomotive trades at 414. Bond market steady as curb activity remains brisk. London holds mixed.
The report lists wheat and oats pricing by grade and track with No 2 red through billing at 95 1 2 or 8 to 56 cents, No 3 white at 51 cents, No 4 yellow 54 63 cents, assorted white and mixed categories, hay timothy priced at 13 to 13 50, plus car inspections showing total in and out across wheat, corn, oats, and straw categories with dozens of cars accounted.
Dry onions red per bushel equals 85 cents white 85c yellow 85c cabbage per bushel 1 1 25 cauliflower per dozen 1 75 new beets per bushel 65 to 70 cents celery Michigan per crate 2 00 radishes per dozen bunches 10 cents sweet potatoes per barrel 3 75 to 4 00 Illinois barrel 0 00 to 4 25 potatoes per bushel 0 3 tomatoes home grown per crate 5 00 to 6 00 carrots per bushel 60 cents corn per pound 0 0 navy beans per bushel 2 40 to 2 25 oranges Florida per box 2 50 to 2 75 coconuts per dozen 60 cents coconuts per dozen 0 apples 1 50 to 4 75 fancy 3 50 to 6 00
The listing shows wholesale and shop prices for meats including hams bacon beef and pork. It details sugar cured hams boiled hams bacon breakfast bacon fresh pork loins and various cuts with prices per pound and style notes like English or native. Specific figures include per pound ranges for hams bacon beef and pork products, reflecting regional market conditions of the time.
Fragmentary ad text lists prices for cream products and poultry. Mentions New York full cream and various canned goods with cents per unit, live turkeys ducks hens and roosters priced per pound or unit. Remaining readable items include Elgin tubs and country cream with modest price tags.
The article lists retail coal prices by size and type including ntas forked lump tas shoveled lump tas mine run tas nut and Black eRe Sars remuene ic Channel BME cass. The text records unit names and price categories typical of a mid century commodity table.
Humane officers have instructed drivers to blanket their horses when left on streets. Drivers show an inclination to obey the ordinance as demand for horse blankets rises.
cattle and hogs listing prices by grade and weight with steers heifers cows bulls calves and lambs across categories from good to choice fair to medium and common to best, reflecting wide spread bids and bulk sale totals for the day.
Cattle receipts at Pittsburg total 100 with steady to higher bids. Extra cattle $5.60 to $5.73. prime $5.40 to $5.50. good $5.10 to $5.25. common $3.00 to $3.75. heifers $2.75 to $4.50. fresh cows and springs $25 to $55. Hog receipts 4,500 with a 10 to 15 cent gain. prime heavy hogs $4.50. best heavy workers $4.55. good roughs $4.00 to $4.80. stags $3.00 to $3.50. Sheep receipts 1,000 steady. prime wethers $5.25 to $5.50. ewes $4.50 to $3.00. lambs $5.00 to $7.00. veal calves $5.50 to $8.75.
East Buffalo reports cattle receipts 200 with market active and firm. Veals receipts 250 down 2 cents with choice veals at 5.00 to 9.50. Sheep and lambs receipts 160 with lambs 5 cents higher, prices 5.25 to 7.40, yearlings 5.75 to 8.25, sheep 3.00 to 6.00. Hog receipts 18,700 market active and 10 to 15 cents stronger, weights listed: mixed and heavies 4.5 to 4.55, pigs 4.50 to 4.60, roughs 3.75 to 4.00, stags 5.00 to 3.50.
Corn eight a.m. Tuec Sheaf oats ten to eleven dollars Shelled corn straw seven fifty Shredder fodder baled eight to eight fifty MinNet ten to eleven Hay Clover twelve to thirteen dollars mixed fifteen dollars timothy thirteen to fifteen dollars
Special to The Indianapolis Sun reports Jan 14 at Union Stock Yards Hogs receipts 30 000 with prices from 4 10 to 4 45 dollars and pigs and yorkers listed Cattle receipts 5 500 steady beeves 3 60 to 3 90 cows 1 30 to 4 10 Texans 3 15 to 4 00 calves 5 50 to 7 50 westerners 3 75 to 4 60 stockers and feeders 2 50 to 4 20 Sheep receipts 12 000 steady natives and western sheep 3 50 to 4 70 yearlings 5 00 to 6 00 native lambs 5 50 to 7 40 western lambs 5 60 to 7 45.
Wheat and corn futures and cash bids listed for January 14 in Toledo. Cash wheat $1.42, May $1.051, July $0.???. corn cash 5?c, May 6?c, July 6?c. oats cash 0. SSE. Clover seed cash and January $10.87, March $10.65, April $10.47, prime alfaluce $10.00, prime timothy $2.00. Rye November 2 80¢.
Tuesday's schedule lists the Commercial League matches at Marion alleys and Turner alleys with Lilly and Stalakera facing Marotts while Liebers meets Indiana Nationals Turner. central unions vs Fletcher and Columbian at Water Companys vs Browns. German House League features Abe Martins against Bulls and Bears versus Chestnuts. UMI League has Washington alleys with Webers versus Waynes.
Roberts Park Choral society selects Mrs. Charles Kimball soprano David Baxter bassist Walter Ernest tenor and Mrs. W. B. Kennedy contralto for the Messiah at Roberts Park church. Edward Taylor directs a 150-voice chorus with Miss Hyatt organist. Fifth annual production follows no. 150 voices.
Several new firms announced include Gary Grocers and Butchers Self-protecting Association in Gary with directors Duchich Szymanaski and others. Burlington Detective Association in Burlington with directors Barnard Carey and Waller. Claypool Detective Association in Claypool with Price Denty and Winsey. Belleville Coaster Company in Belleville with 8000 capital and Prister Breinig and Breiniz. Laxative Food Company in Marion with Bartley Bartley McGraw and Bury. Mutual Construction Company in Charles Town with 60000 capital and Lewman Lewman and Hughes.
An advertisement touts Blackburns Castor Oil Pills as the only remedy to exercise bowel muscles by nourishing the bowel nerves. It claims the pills provide a new civilized method to stop constipation and its evils with tonic inside-nerves action. The copy notes price details for druggists.
The New York Herald polled sport figures on boxing class limits. Names and proposed weights for bantam through middle and light heavy were listed, with Kid McCoy blaming managers for weight pressures. He suggested a board of sporting editors to set standardized limits.
In Boston Chelsea last night Mayor Beck ordered police to halt the Baldwin Goodwin boxing card. Officials warned that any hard blows would lead to arrests, forcing the referee Jack Sheehan to stop the preliminary rounds and end the event. The main bout did not proceed after a lengthy conference.
A Lipton associate stated Sir Thomas Lipton, before sailing for Sicily, firmly rejected any plan to challenge the Americas Cup again under the New York Yacht Club rules.
The Indianapolis council No. 328 Royal Arcanum installed officers for 1968 at Fraternity hall 208 North Alabama street on Monday evenings.
Daily city record lists numerous births with parental names and addresses including Wetzel Reiman Kircheval Davis Wood Harman Wright McClure Jordan Bush Leachman Wilson Shaffer Fry Jenkins Nobley Burke Darnell Porter Williams Gabriel Smith Syfers Dovgie Gerlach Milner Schmitt Donaldson Barnhill Soner Price Draper Myres Rowney Roeill Henry Scherer and permits for H G Wilson and Western Electric repairs with dollar amounts.
At the Central Labor Union meeting Rev. Charles Stelzle was named to speak February 17. A hall arrangement committee was appointed. Elected officers include President Edgard A. Perkins, Secretary Clarence Craumer, Treasurer Miss Josephine Fickle, Statistician Roy Chalfant, Fraternal Delegate to the Ministerial Association. Trustees: Wiliam Tice, F. J. Seifert, F. G. Ankenbrock, and Ed. W. Madden.
Court hearings reveal doctors and teachers detailing mental states of Harry Thaw relatives and associates. Witnesses describe John Ross and Henry Copley as unstable, while tests on Horace J. Thaw and Harriet Thaw cousin reveal varied insanity arguments.
Henry F E Sullivan outlines a utilitarian will directing his executors to use every part of his body after death. Bones to become buttons, skin tanned for leather, and portions fashioned into violin strings. All products go to his friend James Hayes to distribute among Sullivan's friends.
A Wednesday evening meeting in the Indianapolis Board of Trade assembly rooms will feature David C. Walmsley as chief offender in a discussion of the smoke law. The event aims at sociability and includes city officials and Walmsley with a peace pipe, not arresting smokers unless they break smoking policy.
In Louisville Kentucky on January 14 police search for Mrs Susan Ewing 81 who vanished from the home of Mrs Sara Lincoln three weeks ago. She is valued at 75000 and drew a federal wartime pension. She left with two unknown white men in an express wagon taking part of her belongings.
Rev James W. Rose of Indianapolis has returned home near Lawrence Kentucky. He will preach for the New Augusta Christian church on the second and fourth Sundays of each month. He was formerly of Butler County.
Paris police have informed Rio de Janeiro authorities that French anarchists arrived in Rio with the intent to destroy the American battleships. The alert, dated January 14, comes as Brazil coordinates with foreign police on security measures for the fleet.
Hartforderry Ind Jan 14 Mayor Lucas ordered a ban on ward parties with prize contests and told police to raid any home where bridge games are in progress and prizes are contested.
A peach tree in the yard of G. W. Hamaker is in bloom. A sample was taken to George Etter in the office of Supt. of Streets Joseph Hogue on Monday.
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