Steel Shares Rise as Plants Resume in Pittsburg Lamps
Local market update shows slight improvement in early trading with Union Pacific around 152 rising to 16244 as lead shares support the market. Mining stocks stay firm, steel shares gain on resumed blast furnaces in Pittsburg while political concerns temper optimism in Standard Oil and Roosevelt linked notes. Chicago grain sees selling pressure then partial recovery with varied wheat corn oats and meat futures listed along with city grain bids and inspections.
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Union Pacific
Roosevelt
Standard Oil
London
Pittsburg
Chicago
Receipts Show Mixed Market in Indianapolis Hog and Cattle Trade
Indianapolis July 25 Receipts of hogs cattle and sheep show hogs down while cattle and sheep rise versus last week with overall demand dull. Prices range for cattle from 5.50 to 7.25 per cwt and hogs from 5.00 to 6.85. Sheep and lamb trading soft with fewer buyers, sales near 2-4 dollars per head.
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Indianapolis
Chicago Live Stock And Hog Prices July Day Report
Chicago markets show hog receipts at about 1,000 with bulk hogs at 6.40 to 6.83. Cattle receipts around 400 with beeves 4.15 to 8.00 and Texas steers 3.70 to 5.50. Sheep receipts about 1,000 with natives 2.60 to 6.40 and western lambs around 4.50 to 6.60.
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Chicago
Beeves
Texas
Western
Pittsburg Live Stock Prices Report
Pittsburg Pa July 25 cattle receipts light but steady with extras at 6.65 to 6.75 and primes 6.25 to 6.50. Hogs receipts 6 tons with heavies 7.00 to 7.06 and medium weights 7.0 to 7.10, pigs 6.25 to 6.40. Sheep and lambs light receipts lower primes 4.60 to 4.70, lambs 5.00 to 6.50.
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Pittsburg
Commodity Price List From Toledo Market Report
TOLEDO July 3 Wheat and corn futures and cash quotes shown for July September December and May contracts. Oats and cloverseed values listed with monthly bids and highs. Rye and Alsike alfalfa hay prices included with bid figures for August October and prime quotations.
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Toledo
Buffalo livestock market reports from N Y July edition
East Buffalo live stock market notes receipts for cattle and sheep steady to slow. Cattle prices range from 4.05 to 7.75 with steady demand. Spring lambs 5.25 to 6.55, yearlings 5.00 to 5.25, sheep 2.75 to 4.50. Hogs and pigs around 5.40 to 6.95, mixed and heavies 6.95 to 7.06.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Abe
Seed Markets Prices From Wholesale to Indianapolis Retail
Wholesale seed prices list Clover seed common and red at 7.50, Timothy from 1.75 to 2.50, Orchard Grass 2.00 to 2.25, Blue Grass 2.25 to 2.50, Alsike 14. Alfalfa Clover 39.00 13.00, Miller 1.00 1.25, Rape 7 8e 1b. Indianapolis retail shows Timothy seed per bushel choice 32.75 down to 32.50, Clover seed red 13 to 12.50, Alsike prime 12.00 to 14.00, Alfalfa clover prime 12.00 to 13.00, Grass seeds Kentucky bluegrass fancy 2.15 to 3.00, extra clean 92, orchard grass 2.50 to 2.15.
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Indianapolis
Fresh Produce and Prices From Indianapolis Market
A wide listing of perishable goods with unit prices from Indianapolis markets and exchanges. Items include asparagus, beans, cabbage, cucumbers, melons, fruits, eggs, butter, poultry, pork, beef, and various produce, with specific prices per bunch, pound, quart, or dozen. Also notes on regional produce like Florida tomatoes and California plums, plus wagon market items for oats, timothy hay, and hay. Prices reflect home-grown and regional offerings.
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Florida
California
Local hide buying prices listed for various grades
The notice lists per pound buying rates for hides and calf hides and a per item price for horse hides. No. 1 green hides 6c per lb No. 2 green hides bal No. 1 salted 8c per lb No. 2 salted 7c per lb No. 1 green calf 10c per lb No. 2 green calf 10c per lb No. 1 salted 11c per lb No. 2 salted 10c per lb No. 1 horse hide 33.00 each
Women Leaders Rally Against Divorce in Hibernians Meeting
The Ancient Order of Hibernians and its ladies auxiliary convened in the final Saturday session to select a convention city and elect officers. A protest against divorce was adopted, urging auxiliary members to reject the evil and defend home sanctity while announcing church extension efforts and leadership from Cummings Regan McGinnis Quinn and others.
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Order of Hibernians
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Hibernians
Matthew Cummings
Boston
James J. Regan
St. Paul
Minn
John T. McGinnis
Scranton
John F. Quinn
Joliet
John D. Kennedy
Danbury
Conn
Edward T. McCrvssal
New York
P T. Moran
Washington
John J. O'Meara
Butte
Mont
C. J. Foy
Montreal
Canada
Cummings
James E. Dolan
Carroll
J.T. McGinnis
Ancient
Ireland
England
England. the Ladies’ Auxiliary
Anna C. Malia
Mary McCarthy
Massachusetts
Louis du Ross
Clinton, N. Y
Mary Daly
A Big Difference Between a Dimple and a Wrinkle
A playful quip contrasts a dimple with a wrinkle noting the difference as about 30 or 40 years, reflecting light humor from a Philadelphia Inquirer source. The exchange features a woman’s question and a man’s witty reply about aging.
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Philadelphia ‘Inquirer
Farmer's Dog Hypnotized by Big Snake in Venango County
Ezra Smith of Borkland township Venango County Pennsylvania reports his watchdog a cross bulldog St Bernard became stiff and hypnotized as a rattlesnake coiled ahead on a pasture path. Smith killed the five foot rattler with a cudgel. dog recovered after snake's death, supporting belief in snake hypnotic influence.
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City
Ezra Smith
Borkland Township
Venango
Floyd
Allegheny River
Mr. Smith
Venango County
Hearst Returns to New York Reaffirms Independence Party Stance
William Randolph Hearst lands in New York aboard the Cunard liner Lucania and tells interviewers he will not accept Independence party nomination for president under any circumstances. He says he will aid the party and will head to Chicago, leaving intact his pledges about future candidacy and straight ticket support. He travels with his wife and relatives.
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Dulph Hearst
New York
Cunard Line
Lucania
Independence Party
Chicago
Afr
Learst
Mr. Hearst
Taft
Republican Party
Hearst
Bryan
Births and deaths recorded in Gity Ledger notices
Births list multiple entries from various parents and addresses noting gender of newborns including girls and boys, some stillborn. Marriages show several couple pairings from local names. Deaths section lists individuals with ages, addresses, and causes such as cerebral hemorrhage, tuberculosis, cirrhosis, general paresis, and broncho pneumonia.
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John Boehm
Washington Street
Catherine Gallagher
Pleasant Street
John B. Sage
Union Station
Lottie Parker
Parkway Avenue
John B. Dawson
Olive Street
James McDonald
W. Market Street
Bernice A. Davis
Linden Street
John W. Bundle
Very Little Danger on Electric Tram Foot Rail Joke
A cartoon caption shows a woman asking if it is dangerous to place a foot on the rail during a tram ride. The conductor, described as an Edison man, replies humorously that danger would come if she used the other foot on the overhead wire.
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Old Waty
Edison Mangue
Indiana Republicans Conference Signals Teamwork Push
Judd Hitchcock, head of the Republican National Committee, and eight central western state chairmen met in Chicago to coordinate strategy for Indiana and surrounding states. Indiana chairman James P. Goodrich praised the state’s organization, but Hitchcock warned of doubt about Indiana’s leanings and hinted at possible outside guidance to ensure support for Taft.
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Chicago
Judg
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Ilinois
Auditorium
Assembly
Hitchcock
National Committee
Indiana
Goodrich
Taft
Blue Light Copper sues Kynett over recovered stocks and assets
The Blue Light Copper company seeks a receiver for Athos C. Kynett's real estate and asks to apply proceeds toward a $10,000 claim. The suit alleges Kynett sold treasury stock and mortgage bonds, kept $7,410 from Charles Test, and used company funds to buy Indianapolis real estate and improve his holdings. The Blue Light Mining company and Mrs. Kynett are also named defendants.
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Blue Light Copper Company
Athos C. Jxynett
Kynett
Treasury
Blue Light Mining Company
Charles E. Test
Indianapolis
Test
Janitress sues employer over discharge
Ethel Miller sues James H. Madden claiming wrongful dismissal from a one year janitress job at ten dollars a month with utilities. She seeks damages of 150 dollars asserting dismissal was without cause.
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Ethel Miller
James H. Madden
Madden
The Robins Epitaph on a Childrens Grave
Two granddaughters of Dr. H B Mitchell lead a governess to a hidden garden grave marked by a white board. It reads This is the place where our birds are buried one week old robin and an egg. The scene is recounted from Lippincott's.
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Weir Mitchell
Lippincott’s
Nurse Weds Episcopalian Clergyman Against Family Wishes
Miss Elizabeth Tiernan a Hartford nurse with Roman Catholic relatives plans to wed Rev Hl Vanderbogart of Middletown an Episcopalian minister Despite strong opposition from Catholic kin the couple pursue a match begun when she cared for him during typhoid fever The bride to be who recently graduated from a nurse training school is about twenty five years old and now tends a patient in Hartford
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New Haven. Conn
Misa Elizabeth Tiernan
Hl. B. Vanderbogart
Middletown
Miss Tiernan
Hartford
Tiernan
Aorderbogart
Woman shoots at thief and wounds baby in Chicago
In a dawn burglary at 42 N. California Avenue widow Mae Jorgen sen. shot her son Earl an infant of three. The baby was wounded in the back and probably will die. The thief entered by a rear window and was looting the house when awakened.
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Ang
Chicago
Mae Jorgensen
California Avenue
Earl
Man killed by mob ties murderer to horse
In Padua Italy Francesco Vergani hanged his life after tearing out his beloved's tongue for breaking a marriage promise. An enraged crowd then tied him to a horse's heels and dragged him two miles, breaking every bone. He died minutes before the horse stopped.
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Padua
Italy
Francesco Vergani
Wise to Fashion at the Fairmont Lobby Conversation
In a San Francisco Chronicle note, Tom McCann teases Chief Clerk Brownell about a man wearing a tuxedo with white gloves, a scene in the Fairmont lobby. Brownell, sniffling from a cold, explains the outfit was for a forenoon funeral event and differs from McCann’s impression.
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Ginny
Tom McCann
Fairmont
Brownell
McCann
San Francisco Chronicle
Child questions rent for grand house in August De lineator
A boy admires a large house and asks its rent. Eddie explains no rent is paid, prompting the boy to doubt a family could own such a home. The exchange reflects an 19th century view on property and ownership.
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Eddie
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