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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1908
Page
4
Indianapolis May 2 Receipts show 000 hogs 20 cattle 50 sheep. Hogs abundant with weaker outside demand prompting a 15 cent price drop from yesterday. Top hog price reached 5.90 with most sales 5.75 to 5.80. Heifers sold strong while spring lambs around 43 pounds brought 7.00. Cattle grades listed with steers and cows priced, calves and bulls also cataloged.
Chicago stockyards report hogs 15,000 receipts down slightly with price ranges from 4.40 to 6.85 for pigs and heavies. Cattle receipts 300 steady with beeves 4.60 to 7.25 and cows 2.40 to 6.40. Sheep receipts 3,000 steady with natives 4.70 to 6.15 and lambs 3.75 to 7.50 depending on type.
Price listings for eggs butter and poultry from Indianapolis Produce Exchange included fresh egg prices and various poultry costs. Chicago Grain market shows May oats wheat and corn opening prices with closing figures and notable quotes. additional notes on pork lard ribs and wagon market with corn and oats prices.
New York May 2 Prices on standard issues rose to fresh highs as traders covered shorts and expectations for tariff reform faded. Union Pacific and St. Paul led gains while the general market benefited. The government report forecast the best crop outlook in history with wheat up a half cent and cotton slipping slightly.
Wheat steady with various grades listed including No 2 red at 9c through billing and higher months. corn steady with No 2 white at 61c and multiple grades. oats steady with No 2 white at 2c through billing. hay and rye bids noted. inspections show car totals and rejections. comparative flour output and grain stocks listed for May 1908 and prior years.
Cabbage-Holland seed per bushel 1%0 per pound. Dry onions red tic yellow teal Valencia crate 3.2 per crate 1.25. Fancy grape fruit per box 4.6.
Crowds enjoy a sunny Saturday for the Gentry Dog and Pony show in Indianapolis at Morris and West streets. The European acts surprise visitors with more live features per minute, and the afternoon matinee along with a street parade draw larger attendance than recent weeks. Weather expectations foresee a warmer night performance.
City notice lists numerous births and deaths with names and addresses. Births include Arthur and Mattie Davis a boy at 216 West Thirpeenut Street and others on various streets. Deaths mention Henrietta Spellman Ivory B Pelton and several patients at Flower Mission Hospital City Hospital and St. Grace Street with causes including whooping cough mitral inguetengy and pulmonary tuberculosis. Inquest pending for some deceased. list includes ages and residence details.
About one hundred DePauw university alumni passed a resolution urging the state tuberculosis commission not to place the proposed tuberculosis hospital in Greenscastle Indiana where DePauw is based. The DePauw men held their annual banquet Friday night at the Grand hotel with toastmaster John Cameron. Reverend H C Clippinger delivered the invocation. Speakers included R H Ritter M D Rev L C Bentley James W Emerson and university president E H Hughes. Judge M N A Walker was elected president and Thomas J Morrow secretary.
Dr J C Alexander campaigns for the Democratic nomination for coroner on a platform of strict business administration. A charter member and director of the Indiana Democratic club, he is well known to county Democrats and is praised for his clean campaign, friendly contest, and promise of economy in the coroner's office.
Burglars entered William Hughes' restaurant at 413 W. Washington St Friday night and took one in change. Burglars broke into A Grant's hardware store at 1226 W Thirtieth St through a window, taking a small amount of change. At Ellis Krauss' saloon at 802 Virginia Ave burglary yielded 11 cents.
Pittsburg Pa May 2 cattle receipts light and steady with extras around 6.8 to 7.10 for cattle. Heifers bring 4.00 to 6.50, fresh cows and springers 16.00 to 55.00. Hog receipts steady with heavy at 6.05 to 6.10 and mediums 6.20. pigs 5.70 to 5.80. roughs 4.60 to 5.10. Sheep and lambs receipts light with prime wethers 5.80, good mixed 4.25 to .?25, wethers 4.25 to 4.75, lambs 4.50 to 13.00.
Trains leave on the hour from Indianapolis for Lebanon Cambridge City Richmond New Castle Danville Greenfield Martinsville and all intermediate stations ten minutes before the hour. Limited trains run Crawfordsville Castle and Lebanon Frankfort end additional times. Trains connect Richmond for Dayton Columbus and Zanesville with various daily departures.
The Indianapolis Board of Public Works invites sealed bids by 10 a m May 13 1908 for a local sewer on West New York Street from Bank Avenue to Lynn Street with branches along Elder Miley Harvey Astor Richland Minkner Wimot and Harding streets. Plans and specs are on file. bids require a certified check equal to 2.5 percent of the engineer's estimate and insurance of at least 5000 per person and 10000 per accident. the board may reject any bid.
Real estate listing highlights multiple Forest Park Addition lots on Talbot, Washington Boulevard, Central and nearby streets. Prices range from 700 to 3,200 with features like sidewalks, trees, sewer and easy payments. Several 100-foot frontages and corner lots invite offers and agent pricing.
A customer offers a house valued at 1500 or 1800 with a Ashland avenue lot trade and cash balance, plus a modern College avenue home listed at 5000 with 3500 cash and easy terms. Also a five room bargain on Twenty third street at 2300 with 240 yearly rent. Investigate. A J MEYER & CO 136 E Market St.
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