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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
4
Crowded grocery stores greet the E-C Girl on her first day in Indianapolis. She tours the city, distributes dollar bills with E-C Corn Flakes, and praises the cereal as superior while shoppers report brisk patronage and enthusiastic responses.
National Geographic magazine states the camel rivals horses in speed and outlasts them in load carrying. It can travel a week or nearly two weeks without water and days without food, subsisting on hump fat stored for sustenance in scarce times.
The New York stock market opened with broad strength as a surge in buying pushed prices up 1 to 2 points. Banking interests led demand for large blocks and low priced speculative issues drew outside buyers, with traction stocks and names like Hil and Harriman, Reading, St. Paul and Anaconda among the gainers.
Wheat in Chicago on May 14 opened steady and advanced for a moment before selling off as professional and pit traders increased pressure. Early quotes show July wheat at 90 3014 cents, May corn at 74 3/4 cents, July oats at 47 1/4 cents, pork at 13.47 44, ribs May at 7.12 dollars.
Hogs receipts 28.00 bulk 245 5.59. light mixed 5.20 5.5. heavy 5.15 5.55. workers 5.45 6.55. pigs 4.40 6%. cattle receipts 6,000 steady Beeves 4.66 7.30. Texas steers 4.75 5.75. western steers 4.60 6.00. stockers and feeders 3.65 6.60. cows and heifers 2.50 9.60. calves 4.75 6.25. sheep receipts 8,000 steady natives and western 4.00 6.00. yearlings 3.60 6.70. lambs natives 5.25 7.60. western 5.25 7.65.
A miscellaneous price list for produce items including Cabbage seed per barrel, onions per pound, various fruits such as grapefruits and apples with price ranges, bananas by hand, celery per crate, beets, tomatoes, sweet potatoes by region, potatoes per bushel, parsnips, turnips per barrel and per bushel, carrots per bushel, navy beans per bushel, and popcorn by pound. Prices vary by item and region.
Fresh eggs listed at 14 cents. Butter country brand. Poultry prices show Hens 10 cents Ducks 6 cents Cocks 6 cents Turkeys 10 cents Geese 5 cents.
The list shows wholesale prices for ham bacon lard and related meats. Items include sugar cured hams black or skinned hams English style hams boiled hams breakfast bacon choice sugar cured bacon English style bacon smoked bacon dry salt bacon English style shoulders sugar cured shoulders dried beef lard pickled pork fresh pork sausage fresh pork loins fresh hams tenderloins dressed hogs fresh beef carcasses fresh veal carcasses and fresh mutton lambs with per unit prices and per barrel rates where applicable.
Wholesale buying figures list Clover seed common and red at 7.50, Timothy 1.75 to 2.50, Orchard Grass 2.00 to 2.25, Blue Grass 2.25 to 2.50, Alsike 1.4? Alfalfa Clover 9.60 to 13.00, Miller 1.00 to 1.25, Rape 7 per pound. Retail prices show Tim seed per bushel 2.75 for choice, Clover seed red 13 to 12.50, Alsike Clover prime 12.00 to 14.00, Alfalfa Clover 12.00 to 13.00, Kentucky bluegrass 2.75 to 3.00, extra clean 2, Orchard Grass 2.50 to 2.75.
Indianapolis on May 14 reports receipts of 10 000 hogs 1700 cattle and 300 sheep. Buyers secured a general price decline with most sales at 5.25 per hundredweight while cattle pens were weak to 10 cents lower. Lambs and sheep fell with spring lambs at 8.50 and clipped lambs at 6.50. clipped sheep at 4.75.
Will L. Franck president of Shannon National Bank distributed posters vowing death by his own hand if slanderers go unpunished. Citizens deemed him insane and he was committed to an asylum in Freeport Illinois.
Carey L Smith, candidate for the senate, stresses labor support and anti injunction emphasis. He cites union ties, education from Butler and Michigan Law, and 41 years old with 20 years in the city. He promises open bids for franchises, annual county books audits, and businesslike public administration.
The Indiana Woman's Board of Missions of the Congregational church elected officers in Elkhart with C. J. Buchanan of Indianapolis as president and C. K. McDonnell as vice president. The Women’s Home Missionary Union also announced officers led by W. A. Bell of Indianapolis as president and Henry Davis of Kokomo as vice president.
The article describes olives as versatile in modern cooking offering novelty. It outlines Olive Sandwiches with butter celery and walnut, Russian sandwiches with olives and mayonnaise, and cucumber or caviar variants. It notes stuffing olives with spiced forcemeat and other innovations.
A promotional note argues money separates thrifty and extravagant people. It urges saving as a path to independence and recommends opening an account with The Indiana Trust Co, presenting figures $1,000,000.90 and 425,000.00 to imply financial strength.
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