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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1908
Page
12
Closing out basement stocks of dry goods due to forced change in demand. A broad reduction covers shirts, drawers, socks, suspenders, toweling, crash, and table linens with prices ranging from a few cents to under a dollar. More reductions and new stock shifts promised in upcoming days.
Detailed numbers and classifications for hogs steers heifers cows calves bulls hogs sheep and lambs, listing weights and price ranges from prime to common grades. Names of grades like good to choice and fair to medium appear with weight intervals and per hundredweight pricing alongside feeder and stocker categories.
Cattle receipts light as Pittsburg market shows steady to higher prices. Heifers and fresh cows with springers hit strong values. hogs steady to lower with heavy weights and pigs trading mid sixes. sheep and lambs light receipts and steady, prime wethers and lambs priced for trade.
The Wagon Market listing from Rouse Bros at 130 Kentucky Ave shows prices for corn at 78 to 80 cents per bushel, shelled oats 54 to 56 cents, sheaf oats 9 to 10 dollars a ton, Timothy 10 to 11 dollars, baled Timothy No 1 12 to 13 dollars, No 2 Timothy 10 to 11, old clover 39 to 40 dollars, and new clover 37 to 38 dollars per ton.
Market brief from Indianapolis Produce Exchange with prices for fresh eggs live poultry and fowl. Turkeys 10 cents. Ducks live 6 cents. Geese 6 cents. Hens 9 cents. Spring chickens listed as licensed.
A historical price list shows assorted produce and groceries with per unit costs. Items include asparagus, beets, beans, cabbage, celery, cauliflower, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, lettuce, mushrooms, onions, mint, parsley, peas, potatoes, radishes, squash, tomatoes, turnips, watercress, apples, berries, citrus, plums, peaches, pineapples, melons, and eggs. Prices range from a few cents to around a dollar per dozen or per pound, indicating a broad early 20th century market.
Hog receipts reach 33,000 with higher prices across grades. Bulk sales range from $6.70 to $7.05, with pigs and good heavies showing strong bids. Cattle receipts 25,000, prices mostly down. beeves $4.50 to $8.15, Texas and western steers $4.00 to $6.50, stockers $2.40 to $4.85, cows/heifers $2.40 to $6.20, calves $4.50 to $6.25. Sheep receipts 18,000, trade slow but steady. natives $2.75 to $4.60, yearlings $4.40 to $5.30, lambs $4.00 to $7.00.
East Buffalo N Y July 14 Cat tle Receipts 175 steady Prime steers 650 700 heifers 375 600 veals 475 TF Sheep and Lambs Receipts 400 25c lower Lambs 550 750 yearlings 525 550 sheep 275 4 25 Hogs Receipts 1190 25c higher Yorkers 490 725 pigs 640 675 mixed and heavier 725 730 roughs 575 600
Benton Harbor Michigan July 14 officers killed August Gross and his brother Fred after they resisted arrest and opened fire. August had earlier wounded a meat peddler.
John W. W. Asher and Willetta Cross. Horace H. Page and Eva Simmons. Frederick W. Carlson, Valley City, N. C., and Olivette G. Wheelock. Joseph J. Walsh and Anna M. Roster.
Winship Bros. of Rushville won the contract to build a new Brownsburg schoolhouse due for completion by November 15. The project will cost $17,000.
New York July 14 The stock market opened with broad gains as Canadian Pacific rose 11½ points and American Locomotive advanced. Rock Island preferred weakness and rumors of a possible reorganization weighed on the issue while Canadian Pacific surged to a new high. Union Pacific recovered early losses and other rails fluctuated as investors weighed anticipated corporate action.
In Chicago and Chicago Grain data, unresponsive cables and cooler northwest temperatures with Dakotas showers spurred a wheat drop before quick rally. Opening and closing figures show diverse moves across wheat corn oats pork lard and ribs with varied bids and asks, including July and September contracts and multiple grade notes.
A city record lists individuals with ages and addresses alongside causes of illness such as cholera infantum mitral insufficiency ileocolitis cirrhosis of the liver diabetes pulmonary tuberculosis and various heart and stomach conditions. It also notes several births including Otto and Marie Leonhardt’s boy Clarence Shipley’s boy Nathan Goldman’s boy and multiple other families welcoming daughters and sons.
Advert shows possum skin remedy hailed as eradicating pimples eczema and disfiguring conditions with first application easing itching. Offers 50 cent and $2 jars in Indianapolis via Weber Drug Co with free samples by mail from Emergency Laboratories New York City. Also includes city public works notices and bid conditions for sewer projects in Indianapolis dated July 13 1908.
The City of Indianapolis Public Works invites sealed proposals by 10:00 a.m. July 27 for multiple improvements including Rural Street paving with brick on gravel foundation, curb work on Ural Street Roosevelt Avenue area, Twenty Fourth Street asphalt on gravel foundation, Belmont Avenue sidewalk paving, First Alley East of Layman Avenue grading, Bismarck Avenue cement sidewalks and curbing, Washington Boulevard creosoted block paving, Orleans Street cement sidewalks, Eden Place and related streets drainage and curb work, with plans on file and insurance requirements.
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