Truncated listing for muslin sheets offered tomorrow
Narrow OCR fragment shows a sale listing for heavy round thread muslin sheets sized 81 by 9 inches priced at 1.00. The note marks it as a special tomorrow.
View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.
Start Free Trial
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles
Articles on This Page
This newspaper page contains 28 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1908
Page
4
Cotton Jump Sends Market Mixed After Opening
Stock market opened with caution as London cables cast a bearish tone. By midmorning selling slowed and new bids lifted prices, with Missouri Pacific a strong performer. Government bonds held steady while wheat rose and cotton gained about a dollar per bale. Curb market trading was dull with little change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
vThe
Missouri Pacific
Grain and hay prices in late 19th century markets
The list shows corn at 69 cents per bushel and shelled oats at 52 to 31 cents. Straw priced from 4 to 6 dollars, shredded fodder baled at 7 to 8 dollars. Hay varieties Clover 11 dollars, mixed 12 dollars, timothy 14 dollars, baled No 1 14.50, No 2 12 to 13 dollars.
Indianapolis Seed Market Wholesale and Retail Prices
Wholesale buying figures for Clover seed common and red at 7.50, Timothy 1.75 to 2.50, Orchard Grass 32.00 to 2.25, Blue Grass 2.25 to 2.60, Alfalfa Clover 9.00 to 13.00, Millet 1.00 to 1.25, Rape 8e per lb. Indianapolis retail prices list various seed grades and per bushel rates for Timothy, Clover, Alsike, Alfalfa, and grasses with Kentucky bluegrass and orchard grass details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Timothey
Historical meat prices and lard listing
A detailed 19th or early 20th century price list outlines sugar cured hams and bacon by type, English style products, hams and shoulders, dried beef, lard, pickled pork, fresh pork sausage and loins, fresh hams, tenderloins, dressed hogs, beef and veal carcasses, and mutton lambs with per unit or per barrel prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tierces
Indianapolis Coal Prices Report
Coal prices listed for anthracite and Pocahontas grades with various lump, stove, egg and nut sizes. Prices include grate markets at six to seven dollars and smaller fractions for mine run and cannel fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Ohio
Pittsburg
Winifrede
Hocking Valley
Luhrig
Linton Egg
Brazil
Farmer Dies in Chair in Martinsville Sanitarium
Stephen Fix, a farmer from Shelbyville, died at a sanitarium in Martinsville while seated in a chair. The report notes the death occurred on a May 4 date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville
Ind
Stephen Fix
Martinsville
Wild Flowers Cheer Sick Children and Aged Women
School children from Miss Lula B. Hoss’s room at No. 46 collected wild flowers to cheer sick children at Eleanor hospital and later the Home for the Aged Women. The gesture moved the elderly residents to tears, spurring plans for another flower gathering trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HIGE
Lula B. Hoss
Hog Market Slumps as Hog Prices Fall at Indianapolis Sale
Indianapolis reports receipts of 3000 hogs, 300 cattle, 50 sheep with a general price decline. Hogs chiefly sold $5.65 to $5.70 while best pigs ranged $4.25 to $5.70. cattle and sheep showed steady or slightly higher prices amid active demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Pittsburg Stock Market Quotes May 4 Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Cattle receipts reach 60 head with mixed prices from 6.10 to 7.10 for top grades and heifers bringing 4.00 to 8.50. Hogs receipts 430 head lower with heavy and medium at 6.00 and workers 5.89 to 6.00. Sheep and lambs light and steady with prime wethers at 5.50 and spring lambs 9.00 to 11.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Chicago Live Stock at Union Stockyards May 4 Report
Hogs receipts 57 000 with prices from 5.20 to 5.65 for various head, pigs 4.30 to 5.10. Cattle receipts 20 000 with values from 2.50 to 6.50, Texas steers 4.00 to 5.50, western steers 4.75 to 6.00, calves 4.75 to 6.25, cows 2.50 to 6.50. Sheep receipts 21 000 steady with natives 4.70 to 6.20, western 4.75 to 6.25, yearlings 6.25 to 6.80, lambs 5.75 to 7.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
UNION
Reeves
Texas
Indianapolis Produce Prices Report
Fresh eggs four cents per dozen and country butter available. Hens priced at sixteen cents, cocks at one cent, turkeys at eighteen cents, geese one cent, ducks six cents. Poultry prices summarized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Produce Exchange
Man with initials H. Schuyler commits suicide at Hotel Netherland
A well dressed young man identified only by initials H. Schuyler checked into the Hotel Netherland New York and died by his own hand in his room. Police investigated the death as suicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
H. Schuyler
Fort Wayne Hotel Fire Kills and Traps Guests
Fire at a long troubled hotel in Fort Wayne killed and injured many guests after a fuse ignited the elevator shaft. Rescue efforts saved some, while others leaped to safety or perished in the flames. Losses include the hotel building and furnishings totaling about 115000 with numerous missing or burned guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Sill
Philadelphia
Agnes Nadeau
Margaret Meechan
Anna Block
Nathan Bell
F.C. Phillips
Calumet
Mich
John Long
Charles Baird
D. J. Leahy
Cincinnati
Hipson
Hillbrecht
Ankenbruck
Infantry
National Guard
Hanly
R. S. Johnson
Pana
Ill
Flo
St. Joseph's Hospital
Claude H. Varnell
Ft. Wayne
John Hendricks
Chicago
Hendricks
Varnell
E. M. Matthews
Columbus
Sarah Hathaway
Mishawaka
Indiana
Alexandria
Indl
John H. Miller
Sheboygan
Jones & Stevens
O. H. Brown
Co. B. Woodworth & Co
Postal Telegraph Company
Straus Bros
George Streicher
Lee Ivins
Straus -Bank
Fish resigns from Gould interests ending long railroad ties
Stuyvesant Fish quits from the executive committee and directorate of the Missouri Pacific railroad severing his only official link to the Gould interests. He offered no explanation and remained vague about any ties with E H Gould. Wall Street reacted with surprise and rumors swirled about possible disputes between Fish and the Gould faction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Stuyvesant Fish
Gould Interests
Missouri Pa
Cific Railroad
Wall Street
Fish
Gould
Mr. Fish
Drill Slanted for Oil or Gas at Batesville
The German Mutual Oil and Gas company began the first well near Batesville Indiana on 1800 acres of land. Officers include President William Kluge Vice President L C Mullins Secretary Harry Becker Treasurer W A Rosener and Trustee Dr John H Rosenberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
German Mutual Oil and Gas Company
Indianapolis
Batesville
Ind
R. William Kluge
L. C. Mullins
Harry Becker
W. A. Rosener
John H. Rosenberg
Edwin Ray Brotherhood Meets At Church On Monday
The Brotherhood of Edwin Ray M. E. church will meet Monday night at the church. George Whitlock, president, has matters of importance for the men to consider and urges all to attend. The official board will meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood
Edwin Ray
Two Wells Fargo Officials Arrested in Mexico City Heist Confession
Lon's Cutting and Rodolfo Averey, longtime Well Fargo Express employee, were arrested in Mexico City. Cutting confessed both men took eighty thousand nine hundred sixty dollars missing from the strongbox on Friday, with the money found in Cutting's room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo
Tex
Lon
Cutting
Rodolfo Averey
Well-Fargo Express Company
Mexico City
Firm Chicago futures rise on open as rains offset by yields
Chicago grain prices firm at the open on May 4 with wheat leading gains as firm cables and lighter receipts offset rain in Kansas and Nebraska. May wheat at 1.04 1.41, corn 0.68, pork and lard data incomplete, July pork around 13.30, oats near 0.89, with mixed adjustments across futures and staples including cabbage onions grapes and citrus in Vegetable and Fruit notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas
Nebraska
A. W. Thomson
Barbers Hear Sermon On Sunday Work Ban
Rev H C Glippinger denounces Sunday barbering as violation of God and state law at Edwin Ray M E church. He voices solidarity with barbers to keep shops closed on the Lord's day citing long hours and little family or religious time. Congregants include many barbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Clippinger
Edwin Ray M. E
Capital Y Wil Open Meeting Notice
Capital council No. 276 M L will hold an open meeting at their club room in Fountain square hall Tuesday evening May 5. An elaborate program has been arranged. All members are requested to attend bringing a friend eligible for membership.
Col Huffman Visits Statehouse Residents and Officials
Col W W Huffman of Anderson former custodian of the statehouse and active Republican figure visited the state building Monday and spoke with several politicians. Thomas J Sullivan 63 director of the bureau of engraving and printing died today in Washington of pneumonia after a brief illness. He had held the post since June 1907 succeeding William M Meredith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
W. W. Huffman
Anderson
Statehouse
State Building
Sullivan
Washington
Thomas J. Sullivan
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
William M. Meredith
Will Call on Roosevelt In Washington Visit
Cardinal Logue Archbishop Farley and Monsignor Hay left New York for Washington to call on the president. Secretary to the Archbishop Lewis accompanied them as they traveled May 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
New York
Cardinal Logue
Archbishop Farley
Monsignor
Hay
Lewis
Washington
President
Grain Market Prices and Stockyard Report for East Buffalo
City Grain lists bids for No 2 red wheat and No 2 white corn with through billing and May through July terms. Oats, rye, and hay bids shown with no bids for some grades. Inspections note cars in for wheat, corn, white, yellow and mixed varieties. East Buffalo live stock market reports steers, cows and hogs with prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hay
Rye
Timorthy
Stewart Exiled to Ft Grant Again in Arizona
Col. William F. Stewart of the coast artillery is ordered back to Ft. Grant, an ungarrisoned Arizona post, after a prior exile in October. Roosevelt and Florida senators oppose moving him to St Francis Barracks, citing leasing conflicts with Florida militia HQ. Officials remain uncertain on final disposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Col
Stewart
Spirit as material claims photographed after death in Chicago
Dr Rose M Reading argues spirits are material and visible after death, citing personal experiences and belief in Dr Jean Baraduc of Paris. She says souls float from bodies at death and can be photographed in flight from Earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
tVe
Rose M. Reading
Lexington Avenue
Jean Baraduc
Paris
Earth
Boy Wanders in Goldhain After Alleged Beating
Chester Yiolin a 7 year old was found soaked and shivering at George Smith 3107 E Washington St at 1 am Monday. He said he ran away from a New York Street home after being beaten. Humane Society investigation underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Yiolin
George Smith
Washington Street
New York Street
Humane Society and
Humane _ Inspect Shine
Brownsburg Defeats Fayette In Close Bout
Brownsburg won a tight game at home, edging Fayette 6 to 4 with Emmett Herring and Phillips contributing in the Batteries. In Cleveland a threatened strike at Municipal Traction Co is to be settled by arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsburg
Ind
Burg
Fayette
Emmett
Herring
Phillips
Cleveland. O
Municipal Traction Company
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. S. Ayres & Co
T. C. Shotwell
Lafayette
John Sullivan
Wabash River
Nannette Grote
Dowd
Edward Jones
Miss Grote
Mayme Murphy
Alice Shie
Annabelle Fox
Augusta Rentch
Edward T. Kenney
Dr. Dowd
Helen Cross
Charles Cross
Louis G. Buddenbaum
Irvington
Jess Cross
Lawrence Townsend
Donald Cross
Frank Kuhns
Mary Gould Johnson
Franklin W. Shook
Liberty, Ind
Thomas A. Alford
North Meridian Street
8. A. Sherman
Bessie Lucile
Thomas Allen Sims
Ethel Louise Collins
East Twenty-first Street
Grace Kavanaugh
Morion Place
May Barr
Miss Collins
Joseph Coppage
Kokomo
Edith Egbert
Marion
Hartwig-Rally
East
Y. M. 1. Hall
Ruth Stacey
Gosport
Needle Club
George W. Early
South East Street
Muaennercher Ladies’ Society
Fort Wayne Hotel
James A. Foster
Fort Wayne
A. M. Meth
Lyman Campbell
Charles Falls
Columbus, C
Gladiator
St. Paul
Edwin Ray Brotherhood
Vadencia
Rev
Glippinger
God
Capital Y. Wil
Col Huffman
East Buffalo
Col. Stewart
FT. Grant
Gar
Goldhain
James Sulsbacker
Ernest and
Louise Payne
Hawthorne Jane
George and
Sarah Bruce
College Avenue
Richard and
May Holding
Dorman Avenue
John and
Julia Staley
Harlan Street
Ada Shaw
Udell Street
Harry and
Clara Elliott
Cornell Avenue
H. Jowell
Lottie Wills
Michigan Street
Rich and
Almina Royston
Dean Avenue
Henry H
Winnie Hornburg
Bates Street
Charles and
Myrtle Arnel
Spruce Street
William and
Amelia Borcharding
Arsenal Avenue
Nathaniel and
Saraida Link
Bertram and
Clara Vawter
S. Audubon Road
Ethel Grostbach
Miley Avenue
Ella Noble
Yandes Street
Virgil and
Rose Burris
Villa, Avenue
Bay
Robert L. Chessum
Nineteenth
Louis DeBurger
S. Alabama ‘Street
Ethel Ellison Harding
Boswel Avenue
Bright
Johnnie Risher
New Jersey Street
Charles L. Schambon
Mercey
Murry
Parke Avenue
Joseph Frank McCormick
Twenty-first Street
Mary E. Ryan
Loringter
Search the Indianapolis Sun Today with a Free Trial
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Indianapolis Sun?
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
Browse Newspapers
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
By Location
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
By Date
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
By Publication
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.