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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1909
Page
4
Twenty years ago an Indianapolis woman bought a rare aluminum sauce pan, the first she had seen. She used it daily for years as she added more aluminum pieces to her kitchen. Now she displays the pan and other wear ever vessels in a demonstration highlighting aluminum as durable, light, and good heat conductor.
Indianapolis March 3 receipts total 4500 hogs 1500 cattle 100 sheep. Hog market opened active with packers leading buyers pushing prices up about 10 cents then softening before closing firm at the early advance. Top hog price 6.80 with most sales 6.45 to 6.75. Cattle receipts large and demand steady to strong with bulls steady calves down 50 cents. Sheep and lamb market strong but light supply with lambs 7.50 and sheep 4.50 and up. Representative sales list various steers heifers cows calves and bulls with prices across weights noted.
Indianapolis Grain and Pittsburg Live Stock notes show cattle receipts weak to steady while wheat corn oats and hay futures rise. Prices given for various grades and grades for cattle hogs and mixed feeds with inspections tallied and car counts reported.
Cattle buyers report common to good fat cows at 2.04 to 4.50 and heifers 3.50 to 5.25. Fresh cows and springers bring 20.55 to 55.00. hog receipts include heavy and mixed lots with quotes from 6.95 to 7.00, and pigs around 6.00. Sheep and lambs show prime wethers at 35.80 to 36.00, yearlings 6.00 to 7.00, veal calves 7.00 to 9.50, and various cull prices from 2.50 to 6.00.
Hogs receipts 25000 in Chicago trade up 10 to 15 cents with classes ranging from mixed and butchered 6.20 to 6.70 heavy hogs, pigs around 6.50, bulk 6.45 to 6.65. Cattle receipts 12000 with market 10 to 20 cents higher. beeves 4.45 to 7.00, cows and heifers 2.25 to 6.00, stockers 3.40 to 6.40, Texans 4.75 to 5.70, calves 5.50 to 6.00. Sheep receipts 10000 higher. sheep 3.66 to 5.75, lambs 5.40 to 7.85.
Cincinnati livestock market reports receipts for hogs 45 44 including 1500 packers bought in western markets. Cattle receipts 459 butchers steady with higher steer prices and stable bulls calves veals 6.50 8.25 extra 8.50. Sheep and lambs receipts 119 market steady.
East Buffalo New York March 3 cattle receipts 20 market slow steady years receipts 390 slow lower call to choice five seventy five to one twenty five and sheep and lambs receipts eight thousand lambs slow fifteen cents lower sheep steady lambs five twenty five to eight zero zero? sheep three oh to six twenty five yearlings six twenty five seven. hogs receipts seventeen thousand active higher pigs six forty to six sixty workers six sixty six eighty six ninety mixed six eighty five six ninety heavy six ninety six ninety roughs five fifty six.
Chicago cash grain markets show wheat bids for No 2 red at about 1.25 to 1.27, No 3 red 1.18, No 2 hard 1.18, and various spring and northern grades ranging 1.11 to 1.21. Corn quotes list No 3 at 66 1/4 to 65 1/2 cents, white and yellow at 66 to 63 3/4, with No 4 around 62 1/4 to 64 1/4. Oats values for No 2 white near 5 1/4 to 5 3/4 cents, others around 43 to 54 1/4 cents. Toledo figures show cash wheat at 1.24 1/4, May 1.22 3/4, July 1.08, September 1.02. Corn cash 8 1/4 to 8 1/2 cents, May 69, July/Sept 68 1/4. Oats cash 56 1/4 to 51 3/4. rye 0 to 0.03. crop seeds steady with cloverseed May 5.42 1/2, July 5.42, September 5.36. timothy 1.80 and alfalfa 8.75.
A brisk opening on Wall Street drove several stocks down with Union Pacific off 1 and Reading 1 1 2 points, Southern Pacific 1 2, and Amalgamated and Smelting each 1 4. Wisconsin Central rose 3 and Brookyn Rapid Transit gained 1 2 as the market steadied later in the hour.
On March 3 in Chicago wheat futures rose with May at 1.191 and July at 1.07 amid eager buying. Closing prices showed small gains for May and July with late heavy selling pushing May down to about 1.185 and July to around 1.06. Corn and oats followed with active trade and firm prices, while provisions remained strong.
A market listing from Indianapolis Wagon Market by Rouse Gros notes prices for sugart-cured hams and various bacon and pork cuts. Includes fresh pork sausage loins hams and tenderloins with per unit prices, plus grain and hay prices such as corn oats timothy clover mixed hay and straw.
Anis Clark, among four arrested on W Washington Street Saturday night, says Maggie Clark is not his sister and there was no party at the Clark home. Also arrested were Mrs Clark and Frederick Smith of Kokomo. Clark claims he and his wife were attacked. case set for Saturday in police court.
The piece urges a resilient mindset amid daily troubles. It counsels keeping a cheerful heart to soften life’s burdens and to see the heavens as fair. Refrains emphasize dwelling on the good and forgetting mischance.
March 3 report from Youngstown Ohio describes David Brenninger and his 10 year old son armed with rifles and a rag flag as they siege a home in Rosemont. The sheriff, local posse, and possible national guard intervention are involved while a daughter Ada is sought to persuade surrender.
Gov Marshall signed the tenement house bill on Wednesday afternoon. The measure covers Evansville and Indianapolis and regulates flats and rental buildings, allowing renters to obtain improvements under its provisions. The governor is expected to sign an auditing bill Wednesday.
A military ball to benefit Company C Second Infantry will be held at Tomlinson hall on Thursday night March 11. The program features The Original Merry Widow Walls with Eisabeth White of Cincinnati and Jackson and Westerfield of Indianapolis in costume. The grand cake walk will showcase top colored talent in the state, with Beiser’s Orchestra providing music.
John C. Wise reports his sister Mrs. Robert F. Martin of Fisher Arkansas and her husband and two boys were injured in a cyclone that struck two weeks ago damaging nearly all homes in the area and sending residents to hospitals.
Births list many newborns with addresses across the city. Names include Stovall, Fivecoats, Alexander, Sheets, Shea, Campbell, Brenneman, Goitler, Allen, Hendrickson, Deeringer, Schlappe, Richey, Dunn, Woodard, Loviska, Joyce, Dunn, Shaw, Turner, Everhart, Scanlan, Meyer, Poe, Lichtenberg, Wright, Beatty, Senate, Anderson, Woodruff, Daniels, Watchison, Vogt, Miler, Robinson, Taylor, Richardson, Feitman, Russ, Fanning, Bruce, Carey, Moody, Keller, Eastman, Gates. several with illnesses and causes listed. Marriages and building permits also noted.
E. C. Walker sues C., W. & D. railway for damages totaling 10000, trial begun Wednesday before a jury in Judge Carter's court.
In Newark New Jersey on a March day a young man in dark clothes and a rough rider hat accosted two visiting women on Elmwood avenue and Parker street. He pointed a revolver and demanded money. Miss Florence Benfield a schoolteacher and Miss Margaret Slifer from Panama complied giving $7 in total.
Indiana Retail Hardware association members toured the hardware show at Tomlinson Hall on Wednesday morning. Women in attendance showed interest in the displayed implements and devices. Afternoon sessions were expected to cover important convention business while a vaudeville program awaited hardware dealers at the K P assembly room. President Creed addressed the group on Tuesday and criticized jobbers selling to consumers. National Jobbers' secretary Fernley backed Creed and warned such sales would lead to expulsion. American Manufacturers’ vice-president Atkins also spoke.
Washington March 3 Secretary of State Robert Bacon will return to J P Morgan & Co in New York and Secretary of War Wright will resume law practice in Memphis Tenn Secretary of the Navy Newberry will tour Europe and then return to Detroit
San Francisco March 3 Mrs Daniel Frohman formerly Margaret Illington has stayed at Mrs John H Spring in East Oakland for three days and says she has no plans regarding divorce and will not discuss the matter further with reporters.
Nashville Tenn March 3 It is stated that rebuttal proof for the state in the Cooper and Sharp trial over ex Senator Carmack's killing will take about two days. State attorneys are secretive but plan surprises and cross examination of Dr McPheete against Glasgow over the autopsy and wounds. Ed Craig who carried threats from Cooper to Carmack will rebut Cooper’s claim that Craig said Carmack was in an ugly mood the night before. Daisy Lee Rufus Fort and possibly Mrs Eastman resume rebuttal testimony. The argument is expected to begin Monday and conclude within a week.
Governor signs measures reducing inspection fees for commercial food and authorizing school repairs. Senate passes bills on eminent domain for utilities and locomotive headlights. House passes tests for public scales and state fire insurance protection fund. Several measures include police law repeal and insurance requirements for manufacturers mutuals. two vetoes noted for misdrafted bills.
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