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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1908
Page
4
Price list shows sugar cured hams at 13 134 cents per pound and other hams bacon and pork products. English style and dry salt varieties appear with multiple price points. Fresh pork and beef items listed, including tenderloins and veal carcasses, with prices per unit.
A fragment lists local buying prices for hides: green hides 7 cents per pound, salted hides and green calves priced per pound, with variations for salted and salted horse hides. The text shows several incomplete lines and repeated phrases.
Cattle receipts light and steady with prices ranging from 4.60 to 7.40 for heifers and 5.15 to 6.96 for cows. Hogs receipts ten loads, prices up to 7.30 for heavy and 6.25 to 7.15 for others. Sheep receipts light and active with prime wethers at 4.00 to 4.25 and spring lambs at 4.00 to 6.10.
Hogs receipts 6000 with a strong market for good hogs and weakness in other grades. Prices: bulk 6.50 to 6.85, light 6.25 to 7.00, pigs 3.75 to 5.90, mixed 6.20 to 7.15, heavy 6.30 to 7.20, good to choice heavy 6.50 to 7.10. Cattle receipts 600, mostly unchanged. beef cattle 3.70 to 7.60, cows and heifers 3.50 to 5.00, western steers 3.30 to 6.00, stockers 2.70 to 4.85, calves 2.50 to 8.50, Texas steers 3.50 to 5.00. Sheep receipts 1000, market steady. natives 2.40 to 4.35, western 2.50 to 4.35, yearlings 4.35 to 4.9, lambs natives 3.75 to 6.00, western 3.70 to 6.10.
Indianapol is Oct. 3 hog receipts total 4 000 with cattle 600 and sheep 20 showing more hogs and sheep but fewer cattle from a week earlier. Trading was quiet yet overall sales held near steady with top hogs at 7 20 and good hogs 6 35 to 7 00 while cattle and sheep sold at steady yesterday’s prices.
In early Wall Street trading Union Pacific Reading Rock Island Portland Smelters led gains of 1 to 2 points with mixed moves in Rock Island. Broooklyn Rapid Transit Great Northern Northern Pacific Southern Pacific and Canadian Pacific also rose. Steel stocks gained while Consolidated Gas Illinois Central and National Lead edged up as market activity tapered.
Seed markets show wholesale buying figures for Timothy at 1.50 to 2.00 dollars, Cloverseed common and red at 4.00 to 4.75, Orchard Grass at 1.75 to 2.00, Blue Grass at 1.50, and Alsike at 3.60 to 7.50 dollars. The page records varied bid ranges for several forage seeds.
Evansville Ind Oct 3 The Ohio river sits at a multi year low and almost dries in areas navigation halts between Evansville and Cairo Editor Baker of the Grand View Monitor rode the river on a bicycle yesterday Only in a few spots did he wade through shallow water many tributaries are dry
East Buffalo New York October 3 cattle receipts around 450 with steady quotes. Sheep receipts near 2000 with lambs 4.75 to 7.00 yearlings 3.75 to 4.25 and sheep 2.00 to 4.00. Hogs receipts about 5100 with Yorkers 5.20 to 6.90 pigs 4.60 to 5.60 heavies and mixed 7.15 to 7.30 roughs 5.50 to 6.00.
Toledo grain prices list cash and future months for corn oats rye and timothy. Corn cash 76 44c December 66 46c May 64 c July de. Oats cash 51c December 50c May 52 July 48c. Rye No 2 rye 78c. Timothy cash and October 1.65.
A rooming-house fire in Winthrop Massachusetts destroyed Crest Hall and Oceanview House, trapping guests in smoke filled corridors. Seventy five guests faced danger with fifty saved by firefighters as Mrs Henry Dumont of New York was reported missing and her pony believed buried in the ruins.
Rehearsal confirms new director Prof Rudolph Heyne arriving from Leipzig next week. He will assume control next Friday with a public program, as the chorus of 60 voices plans concerts from Nov 27 to Apr 30 and joins Columbus Maennerchor’s sixtieth anniversary on Oct 26 27. Also reported: Pearl Miller and Huber Patton wed, Presidents Day at the Indianapolis Woman's Club, and Mrs Colbert's Seeleyville church benefit on Oct 7.
A speech lauds doctors and scientists for tackling sleeping sickness, a deadly disease carried by biting flies in Africa. It calls for government support to science and notes the improved status of science and its role in advancing humanity.
In Toledo city court a Smiths marriage proceeded with a single judge Warren L Smith presiding. The officiant, the groom Elmer Co S and S Smith, and bride Frances B Smith, revealed a family pattern of Smiths marrying Smiths across generations involving the bride and groom’s relatives.
City records list births for Albert and Mamie Combs at 211 S Meridian a girl. Omer and Emma Doty 26 Iowa St a fir. multiple other births at various streets.Deaths include Jennie Johnson 30 days N Capitol gastroenteritis and James J Cassady 8 acute nephritis. Marriages: James J Hamer and May States. Benjamin F Fendley and Anna M Price. Lonzo Stamm and Sara M Easter.
P. E. Honeywell of St. Louis and Dr. Frederick J. Fielding of San Antonio plan the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic. They aim to launch next summer from New York in a 300000 cubic foot balloon with Honeywell as pilot. Fielding sent a letter asking for the balloon and voyage team. Honeywell decided to go in two minutes and is now preparing the craft.
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, in Pittsburg, avoids committing to speeches in Indiana counties this fall. He says the situation is grave and he must hurry home to keep Indiana in the Republican column, planning dates between October 3 and 4 but offering no firm pledge.
Stoddard-Dayton agents nationwide push factory stock cars in several October races. Bert Miller and Carl Wright of Dayton drive in the Garden City sweepstakes on Long Island and Jericho sweep stakes. Edgar Ireland, Dayton, guides a model K roadster in Philadelphia’s Founder's Week road race.
Eugene W. Cooper of Greensburg Indiana, a first class electrician on the battleship Alabama, died of consumption September 27 between Naples and Gibraltar in the Mediterranean. He was buried at sea after the ship arrived at Gibraltar.
The Board of Public Works in Indianapolis announces a prima facie assessment roll for two projects. English Avenue from Shelby Street to Laurel Street and to rail tracks on the south side will be graded and sidewalks cemented six feet wide, with lawn grading. Jackson Street from Harris Street to 962.50 feet west and to Second Alley will receive cement sidewalks five feet wide, with double walk stones, marginal stones, catch basins, and lawn grading. Public remonstrance hearing set for Wednesday October 7. The roll is on file at the Board’s office for inspection.
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