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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
14
Price list shows bids for hogs cattle and sheep with terms for weights from 900 to 1,300 pounds and up. Good to choice steers and heifers receive top quotes while cows bulls and calves have separate ranges. Sheep yearlings and lambs appear with modest bids reflecting market conditions.
Hogs receipts and prices listed with ranges for bulk light mixed heavy yorkers and pigs. Cattle receipts at 4,000 with prices for beeves Texas steers western steers stockers cows and calves. Sheep receipts at 12,000 with native and western prices for natives yearlings lambs and westerns.
A list of meat and lard prices includes English style shoulders at 8 to 9 1 2 cents, sugar cured shoulders at 94 to 14 cents, dried beef at 29 cents per pound, lard tierces around 11 4 to 11 4 cents, pickled pork at 15.50 to 22.00, fresh pork sausage at 9 9 1 4 cents, fresh pork loins at 10 to 12 4 4 cents, fresh hams at 13 4 cents, tenderloins at 23 cents, dressed hogs at 8 14 to 8 34 cents, fresh beef carcasses at 8 to 11 cents, fresh veal carcasses at 10 cents, and fresh mutton lambs at 18 cents.
A catalog of fruit prices including apples blackberries bananas cocoanuts figs lemons oranges pineapples peaches watermelons and berries with regional origins and per crate or per pound rates. Georgia peaches California lemons Florida cantaloupes and watermelon prices are noted alongside fruit grades and crate totals.
A catalog of home grown asparagus beets cabbage cucumbers dry onions and green beans with per dozen per basket and per bushel prices. Includes honey navy beans potatoes popcorn radishes and Tennessee tomatoes with crate and basket pricing. Market offers various crates hampers and baskets priced from about 10c to 3.50 dollars.
News from New York reports the Norfolk & Southern railroad faced receivership after bondholder approval of a readjustment plan. Despite the affair, market activity remained firm with Union Pacific trading around 146 and Reading above 114 as bonds saw renewed interest and stocks posted small gains.
The Wagon Market listing by Rouse Bros presents corn silage prices and grain rates. Shelled oats 53 to 16 cents, sheaf oats 89.09 and 10.00 per ton, Timothy 9.00 to 11.00 per ton. Timothy No. 1 10.00 to 11.50, No. 2 Timothy 9.00 to 10.00, Old Clover 34.07 to 10.00, New Clover 5.00 to 7.00.
The listing shows live poultry prices for turkeys ducks geese hens at various cents per pound and grain futures for wheat corn oats and hay with multiple grade levels through billing and July August September figures. Inspections and car movements are recorded for wheat corn and mixed lots with totals for cars in and out.
The Order of White Elephants, composed of drug clerks, will hold their twenty first annual picnic on Thursday July 9 on the Ripple Outing club grounds above Broad Ripple. A Kokomo car at 7 15 will carry the designated clerk to Traction Terminal station for departures. Cars pass the grounds every hour all day. Committees manage amusements refreshments and entertainments with W W Robbins as master of ceremonies.
East Buffalo New York July 2 cattle receipts 250 slow and weak years 4.75 to 6.50 sheep and lambs receipts 2000 lower lambs 6.00 to 7.00 yearlings 5.26 to 5.50 sheep 2.00 to 4.00 hogs receipts 17600 clower Yorkers 6.25 to 6.90 pigs 4.00 to 6.15 heavies 6.80 to 6.90 roughs 5.00 to 6.30
A Big Four and New York Central booklet titled Summer Trips provides routes rates and resort illustrations for mountain lake and seashore destinations. The Indianapolis Big Four office will supply the publication to travelers planning vacations.
Pittsburg Pennsylvania report notes cattle receipts light and steady with price ranges for extra fair prime and good stock. Hogs show lower receipts and prices for medium weight and yorkers while sheep and lambs stay light with prime wethers and veal price ranges listed.
A Denver anti Bryan plan unfolds as Minnesota rallyists number 500 to 600 to boost the candidate. New York contemplates withholding support if Bryan lacks a first ballot cinch, signaling possible swing to Gray or Johnson. Illinois boss Sullivan may redirect votes to Gray or Johnson to avoid double crossing Bryan.
State Republicans debate Watson's role amid insistence by Ensley allies that he resigns from the effort. Rumors swirl that Watson may be withdrawn from the stump in favor of Gov. J Frank Hanly as the party seeks a unity voice for Indiana's 1916 campaign.
Indianapolis police Captain Adolph Asche and Detectives William Holtz and Thomas Dugan left Thursday for Denver to attend the Democratic convention. Chief of Police accompanied by his son, the article notes, will join later.
A northbound streetcar and a patrol wagon collided at Nineteenth street and College avenue. Lamps on the wagon were broken and one tire damaged. The wagon had been to fetch W. A. Rubish, arrested for assault on his wife. Driver Wheeler slowed for a southbound car but could not stop in time and the wagon struck the car.
The June issue of the I. U. T. System Magazine from the Indiana Union Telephone and Traction Co. features numerous illustrations of pleasure spots in Indianapolis and Indiana towns along the Indians Union route. It promotes attractive rest areas within an interurban ride of Indianapolis and includes a booklet with a panorama of Fort Benjamin Harrison.
Toledo grain report lists wheat cash and on spreads. September 9 1 2 c, December 9 c. corn cash and futures July 7 3 4 c, September 7 3 4 c. oats cash July, September 4 4 4 4 c. rye cash 7 6 %. Cloverseed October 7.69, December 7.60, March 7.67, August 37.75 for alsike.
Market closes at noon Saturday July 4 with a sale at the city market location. Distorted OCR shows unclear phrases about a market house and a 12:30 time, but core detail is a market event on July 4 at the city market until noon.
The city notes multiple births with addresses on Ohio Madison Avenue and other streets including Twin girls at Morris and Blaine avenues and several single births. Deaths listed include Christian Busking Henry Meyer and Chas Peabody among others with causes such as enteritis phthisis and a gunshot wound.
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