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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1908
Page
4
The listing describes street and evening gowns fabrics priced at $1.00 with 24 inch stripes and various plaids. Pekin Stripes and other fabrics include dark two toned surahs, ribbon striped Persians, brocade and taffeta options, regularly selling at $1.25, offered in 20 and 22 inch widths.
Indianapolis November 30 receipts total 5 000 hogs 830 cattle and calves and 50 sheep with prices advancing ten cents amid strong demand. Top hog price 6 00 with few sales below 8 25. Cattle fat stock firm to ten cents higher with steady feeders bulls and calves. Lambs and sheep plentiful enough to show steady prices with best heavies at 5 75 to 6 00.
New Corn 73 7asc Shelled Oats 52 5i Sheaf Oats 14.00 15.00 Timothy 12.00 13.50 New Clover 10.00 11.00 Mixed Hay 11.00 12.00 Wheat Straw 5.00 6.00 Oats Straw 3.60 7.00 Baled Hay No 1 12.50 13.60 No 2 11.00 12.00
Chicago Union Stock Yards reports hog receipts at 43 000 with prices from 4.90 to 6.85 for various weights and types. Cattle receipts near 21 900 with beef and steer prices listed. Sheep receipts around 1 000 with native and western lamb and yearling prices noted.
Rock Island shares led a brisk session as trading opened, with the preferred up two points and the common about one. St Paul rose to a record 151 1 2 while Alton climbed to 50. Harriman showed little movement as steel stocks wilted and the market edged lower late in the first hour after a bond sale by American Telephone and Telegraph.
The H. B. Claflin company in New York announces a revival of business by doubling their traveling salesmen. Each department will now be represented on the road by special salesmen, in addition to the existing general force.
The market lists Wheat No 2 red at 1.6, No 3 red 1.02, No 4 red 0.99, December 1.044%, January 1.0444, February 1.04, wagon 1.03. Corn prices firm with No 2 white 624c billed, No 3 white 624%c, No 4 white 61c, No 2 yellow 62c, No 3 yellow 62c, No 4 yellow 61c, White mixed around 61%c. Oats firmer with No 2 white 50c, No 8 white 30c, No 4 white 49 1 4 c, Mixed 47 3 4 c. Hay easy with No 2 timothy 10.00, No 1 clover mixed 9.50. Rye No 2 8c billed. Inspections and totals show 79 cars for all commodities with varied grades and car counts by grade.
Rev Rawet a New Zealander tells of South Sea island life at Tabernacle Presbyterian under Christian Endeavor, assisted by wife and children. Once a naked forest child of 12, he was adopted by an English woman and grew into a gifted speaker. His tale covers his people's development since white contact, a vivid life romance.
Governor Hanly will deliver a temperance lecture in Newton Kansas Monday night, continuing his campaign messaging. The speech aims to highlight prohibition principles and advocate for public virtue through moral reform.
Harold Ives, who came from the east to Cincinnati last spring, was arrested Saturday in Chicago on a warrant from Chief Crawford charging obtaining money by false pretenses. The alleged total taken reaches about 700 to 800 dollars, with a specific 50 dollar claim. Ives, a former solicitor for Reuben A. Donnelly Publishing, allegedly used a town visit to aid a collector and to solicit ads while cashing checks at Shubert's cafe on Walnut Street. He previously disappeared from Cincinnati and is also wanted for a separate 0 dollar theft from D. B. Keeler involving a race track partnership. He has prior ties to Indianapolis and had recently arrived back in custody via the Chicago arrest.
Harold Ives a 30 year old solicitor for R A Donnelly Publishing Cincinnati was arrested at the Palmer house by Detectives Sharpe and Trafton. He is alleged to have embezzled 300 dollars from the firm tied to an 18 000 contract payment and refused to discuss the arrest.
Obituary notices list multiple individuals with ages and causes of death. Names include Samuel L J Morrison age 59 of 2459 Park Avenue with fibroid phthisis. Levi Hunt age 50 of 1204 Vandes Street due to uremic poisoning. Joseph Rieser age 41 of 1204 E Vermont Street with tuberculosis of the spine. Henry Snyder age 68 of 942 Stilwell Street from diabetes mellitus. Henry M Robinson age 79 of 1366 W Twenty seventh Street from cerebral hemorrhage. Sylvester F Earhart age 66 of 629 Lexington Avenue with mitral insufficiency. Anna Dosenbach age 88 of 121 N Noble Street arteriosclerosis. Giuseppa Miceli age 88 of 480 S East Street gargstone of foot. Norman Sachs age 7 of 27 Palmer Street diphtheria. John Fegbert age 75 of 102 N Pennsylvania Street cancer of the esophagus. John G Hill age 45 from hydrophobia at State College hospital. Ernestine Whrensperger age 43 of 1314 Broad Avenue Sonnson at 6 City hospital with eson and pendicitis.
City Birth notices list Lee and Mertie Burns 541 Colorado street a boy George and Mary Wilson 119 S Liberty street a girl Samuel and Maud Kingston 1725 8 East William and Mamie Desch 24 Wheeler William and Hattie Anderson 409 Hanson street a boy Elmer and Lillian Welshams city hospital a boy Thomas and Alta Spellman 545 W Morris street a boy Floyd and Mary Dye 1221 W Thirty fifth street a girl William and Mary Gibson 319 S Temple avenue a boy Francis and Florence Richardson 55 Jefferson avenue a girl Leo and Sadie Ettinger 41 Indiana avenue a boy Frank Patrick Columbus Ind and Alice C Twicoat Arthur F Postec and Benda Engdahli Charles W Boswell and Hazel E Evans Frederick W Raab Irvington Ind and Blanche Vereage Tom Roberts and Bertha Rodenberg Otto Schopp and Bertha M Blair Building Permits F M Ebert addition 416 W New York street 85 Henry Dollman two houses 2006 2012 Weedlawn avenue 1 80 Henry Dollman office 318 E St Joseph street 1 500 Rickhoff house 627 Tecumseh street 1 400 Leeson Thomas flat Illinois street berth of Thirtieth street 10 000
The third Musikverein dance of the season will be held Saturday night with dancing starting at 8:30. Rev. W. E. Atchison of Minneapolis visits the Adamsons. The Sherman club plans a dance at St. Joseph's hall on Monday evening November 30 1908. Committee members are Martin Donahue Aloys Muehlbacher Fred Pflum Will Soeechle and A J Miller.
Indianap olis Produce Exchange itemizes fresh eggs at 30c and a range of poultry offerings including butter country lic turkeys ducks roosters geese and spring chickens with terse market notes slanted toward sale emphasis and price hints.
Pittsburg Pa figures show 55 loads of cattle received with strength and higher bids. Extra cattle bring 6.15 to 6.40 per hundredweight, prime adds 5.90 to 6.10 range, nod cattle around 6. Cows and heifers trade from 3 to 5 dollars for heifers and 18 to 53 dollars for cows.
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