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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1910
Page
10
Receipts show 3500 hogs 700 cattle 100 sheep with hogs up from last week while cattle and sheep slip. prices 5 to 10 cents under Saturday. Top hogs at 9 dollars. cattle steady to last week, bulls and calves steady. Sheep few, lambs priced 4 to 6.25 dollars. Market favored buyers in a generally weaker cattle and sheep frame.
Liverpool wheat climbs amid heavy short covering as rains in France threaten crops and global shipments stay light. Canadian northwest and U S spring wheat belts enjoy clear cool weather while Liverpool corn shows strength. Chicago quotes mix with July wheat at 1.10 and corn around 6 to 10 cents in various futures.
Rural market notes from East Buffalo New York July 18 show cattle receipts around 3625 with steady activity and broad price ranges for primes and butchers. Calves and sheep and hogs follow with varying gains and declines across regions including Pittsburg Cincinnati and Vincennes, indicating a generally mixed midweek market for cattle hogs and lambs.
Miss Emma Lowry Hill, a society girl from Atlanta visiting Governor's Island army friends, left for Los Angeles to become an actress. She will join the Belasco Stock company and later aims to appear on Broadway, challenging Clark Howell of the...
Strong No 2 red wheat prices listed with through billing figures and monthly quotes for July through September. Corn prices shown by grade and color with multiple through billing entries. oats and hay notes indicate mixed quality and timothy pricing. inspections note car counts and shipments, total cars across different lots.
Chicago grain prices listed for July show No. 2 red wheat at about 1.11 to 1.12 per bushel and No. 2 yellow corn around 1.10 to 1.12 per bushel. The report references winter and spring varieties, white and yellow types, with various quality grades and quoted ranges.
Wheat prices show cash at 3.1016 and July at 1.00 with September 1.0014 and December 1.14. May at 1.1449. Corn trades cash and July at 4¢, September 6 45 ¢, December 54 ¢, May 6 11 4 ¢. Oats cash 48 3 4 ye, July 3 44 ¢, September 30 ¢, December 45 1 ye. Rye No 2 tie, No 3 tie. Clover seed October December and March at 7.30. Alsike prime 7.50, August 7.85. Timothy prime and August 2.60, September 2.50.
Buffalo grain prices list July 18 shows spring wheat No 1 northern at 136 carloads, winter wheat R111 No 2 red at 1.10, corn No 2 yellow 6e and No 3 yellow 6e, No 4 yellow 67e, mixed 66 2 3 percent, dats No 2 white 48 percent, No 3 white 46 percent, No 4 white 45 4 percent, barley TAET e, rye No 1 4c No 2 5c.
Grain market brief shows weekly wheat shipments at 6,464,000 bushels down from 8.624 million and 8.272 million a year ago. Northwest receipts include Winnipeg with 384 ears of wheat, while Minneapolis reports winter wheat offers for immediate shipment under September option. Primary receipts rise with wheat up 246,000 bushels, corn up 123,000, oats up 69,000. overall grain supplies show declines in wheat and corn across various measures. Berlin wheat closes 4 cents higher. Paris wheat up 44 cents. Liverpool wheat up 2 2 percent, corn up 1 cent. Antwerp wheat up 1 cent. Oklahoma Territory notes drought stress on pastures and corn on poorer lands, with some color remaining on rich sands.
New York stocks opened dull with most leaders up slightly then slipping as offerings outweighed bids. Reading and Amalgamated Copper led losses while Amalgamated Copper and Reading rebounded late. Union Pacific and Steel common weakened early. Federal bonds held steady as the curb market saw small shifts.
New York traders saw lively action on the cotton exchange as July rose by points while August and October advanced. Incoming orders surged as the South began shipping combed spot cotton to local markets, calming some nerves though expectations held that prices would stay firm for now.
New York July 18 Commercial bar silver bid 5414c Mexican dollars 44c unchanged.
New York metal market activity reported with spot copper at 411.50 and lend at 4.55. Market officials noted steady demand and near-term pricing shifts as trading continued in New York on July 18.
Mr. R. W. Thomson predicts sensational advances in cotton prices. The week’s news balance was favorable overall, strengthening belief that unfavorable influences from some entities had been offset. Observers note price movement driven by market operations and shifting sentiment in New York.
Des Moines July 15 10 000 farmers built a 380 mile dirt road across Iowa in 60 minutes without a cent in wages. Gov Carroll convened the good roads effort with Republican and Democratic county committees coordinating the river to river project from Council Bluffs to Davenport. Farmers brought plows scrapers and drags and completed the road in an hour, then returned to fields leaving a famed long distance roadway in the west.
A brisk market report from Indianapolis lists Elgin cheeses and imported Swiss at 30c per pound, State tubs at 17c, and Neufchatel and cream cheeses with varied pricing. Other items include Wisconsin ducks at 12c, ring chickens, turkeys, geese, and domestic Swiss priced around $1 per unit.
New York figures for July 18 show varied prices across groceries and meats. Flour and lard hold steady or dull, with pork unchanged. sugar remains quiet at multiple refinements. coffee and dressed poultry present mixed spots and firm tone. Live poultry and cheese markets display firm and quiet trends with several standard, common to special price ranges.
Chicago July 1. Butter extras 28 14 to 26 cents. Firsts 15 to 26 cents. Cheese Twins 15 14 to 16 cents. Live poultry: fowl 13 cents, ducks 13 cents, geese 8 to 10 cents. Dairy items and specials listed as current market quotes.
M O Connor Co of Indianapolis notes strong demand for canned goods while supply is tight. Soft sugar has risen 10 percent due to the American Sugar Refining strike, with independent firms absent. Prunes and raisins up 1.5 cents per pound amid light stock. New evaporated apricots reach 14 cents per pound as California asparagus ships begin. Canned corn and tomatoes in high demand. 1900 prices cited for asparagus.
Two convicts escaped from Camden jail on Monday and fled the city in a motor car. One is William Fields Gillespie, a forger who had just been moved from Tombs New York, and had recently been a seller.
Special to The Sun reports A M Hodge near Rushville Indiana owns a two legged pig weighing about 150 pounds. He claims the animal can balance on its two supports and move as fast as other hogs. The owner calls it the state’s banner freak and a healthy oddity.
Fred Wright 16 and Otis Pollard 18, both in love with the same girl, agreed to meet to settle their dispute after a telephone call. Police officers intervened as they prepared to meet near Bradley and Washington streets. Wright was fined $10 and costs. Pollard’s punishment was suspended.
Seven people died and sixty eight were injured when a suburban train crashed into the rear of a standing train at Rawinsond station four miles north of Melbourne. The collision occurred in heavy fog. Also reported, Peter Gilbertson, fifty, was blown ten feet from an explosion at a stone quarry in Colfax, Wisconsin, while preparing a bust. three quarts of powder ignited, causing his death.
Greenville Kentucky July 18 O A Albert jail for murder accusation after forcing Willun M Edwards a county convict serving a misdemeanor sentence to work in the hot sun while ill until he died.
In Los Angeles on July 18 Judge Hutton awarded Miss Carrie Wood $5000 for breach of promise against Amos E Barr. The verdict settles a civil suit from the plaintiff seeking damages over a failed engagement in a case heard at the Superior Court.
City births list multiple families with newborn girls and boys at various streets including Minois Twenty-fifth and N Temple avenues. Deaths and medical conditions span carcinoma, tuberculosis, apoplexy, cerebral hemorrhage, and other illnesses affecting residents such as 79-year-old Louisa Haskett and 36-year-old Myrtle Cantrell, with cases listed by name, age, and address.
J H Burnan and Lucy Mize appear with Arthur Brush and Maggie Horn, followed by Harry Mobb and Melvalena Bright, Clarence Quigley and Maury Custer, Charles Remey and Marion Iorham, John Franklin and Emma Carson, and John Englert paired with Bertha Wilson.
Listings show multiple property deals and repairs with names and amounts including 510 W Jones 8200 Ww Washington boulevard 5300. Pine and Denby 100. Southeastern 1800. 360 S L Lucas 40. 13503 N Pennsylvania 50. 610 N Alabama 25. plus additions and renovations by vane om T Seohan and J L Hunter among others.
Herbert Wagner is arrested for auto speeding after a high speed chase. Several motorcyclists, including Stone Wilson Munster Gala ter and Taylor, are fined for speeds from 33 to 37 mph. Wagner’s car reportedly exceeded 52 mph. hearing postponed to Saturday or Wednesday as noted.
Dr Walter Hughes of Hughes and Miss Bessie Sharrer of Erie Pa were arrested here Monday The girl was sent back to Erie on one train while the doctor took another route The doctor is said to have eloped with Miss Sharrer leaving his wife and two children
Mrs Lelle Dellorens wife of the Spanish consul at New Orleans drowned while bathing on the surf at Ship Island on Sunday. The tragedy occurred during a holiday period with local authorities investigating the incident.
Washington July 18 census bureau announces Grand Rapids Michigan population reached 112 471 in 1910, up from 105 405 in 1900, reflecting growth trend and demographic change.
A long list of property transfers including improved and vacant lots in various additions and streets. Transfers feature numerous names such as Alex, Campbell, Hamrick, Gray, Leurick, Gray, Jennings, Goode, Meier, Brown, Hougin, Jennings, and Burcham among others. Properties move across Wrights Morris Street, Adams addition, Culver subdivision, Beech Grove, and Irvington with prices ranging widely and parcels described by lot numbers, block positions, and street boundaries.
Transfers list multiple property moves including Ux, jet 83 and Glass Works additions. Lots measured 3144 by 140 feet, with improvements on LaSalle Street north of Vermont Street. Transactions include EEO E. Cook to Edward Scherts and Everett W. Trook trustee to William H. Francisco, each for $1, with overall consideration listed as $37,496 and mentions vacant east side usey streets south of Newland Avenue for $155.
secretary of state reports Monday filings for Peerless Wire Goods Gary First Italian Democratic club Acorn Roiler Compound Evansville Boswell Telephone Boswell Maywood Building Loan Savin Terre Haute and increases at Home Building and Loan Vincennes dissolution of Citizens Light and Power Hammond and dissolution of C G Conn Elkhart business.
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