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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1909
Page
4
New York stocks steadied higher as the Bank of Germany kept its discount rate unchanged. The market opened with broad advances led by Union Pacific up about 1 1 2 points to 198 1 2, Reading rising more than a point, and Steel common advancing from 71 2 to 87 1 2 as 6 000 shares moved.
Prices for a variety of pork and beef items listed by cut and style include sugar cured hams at 15 to 17 cents, English style hams at 17 to 18 cents, rolled hams at 25 cents, breakfast bacon at 22 cents, sugar cured bacon at 19 to 20 cents, English style bacon at 18 to 21 cents, smoked bacon at 17 cents, sliced breakfast bacon at 21 cents, shoulders at 14 to 14 1/2 cents, lard at 15 cents, fresh pork sausage at 12 to 12 1/2 cents, fresh pork hams at 13 to 14 cents, tenderloins at 22 to 25 cents, dressed hogs at 12 to 12 1/2 cents, fresh beef carcasses at 10 1/2 to 11 cents, and fresh veal carcasses at 11 to 13 cents.
Major Horace Bell of Berkeley and Mrs Emily J Culver, founder and sole owner of the famed Culver Military School at Lake Maxinkuckee, were married in Culver Ind. He was born in New Albany and moved to California in 182. He served as scouts for Grant and later became a respected California lawyer. The couple will spend the winter in California.
The dialogue contrasts a plain looking girl with a singer named He Miss Alighnote, noting she isn’t a beauty but her singing may change that impression. The exchange implies strong opinions about appearance versus talent.
Receipts today include 300 hogs 800 cattle and 10 sheep with hogs up while cattle and sheep fall from last week yet rise versus year ago. Market movements vary by region with stampede of hogs near midweek and cattle and sheep holding steady to lower. Representative sales list multiple hogs steers cows and calves across several weight classes with prices noted for each.
Chicago cash grain prices list wheat and corn grades with bid figures and adjustments. Wheat quotes cover No 2 red No 3 red No 2 hard winter No 3 hard winter No 1 northern spring No 2 northern spring No 3 spring. corn quotes show No 2 and No 4 white and yellow varieties. oats quotes for No 2 white No 3 white No 4 white and standard grades.
Chicago October 23 Wheat starts slightly higher then eases, Corn holds near opening, Oats dull. Provisions rise with January pork at 18.65 to 18.62, January lard 11.10 to 12.00, ribs 9.80 to 9.55. December wheat 1.05 to 1.47, Corn 59% to 44, Oats 40c.
Wheat steady with No 2 red at 1 19 and other futures listed. Corn quiet with No 2 white through billing at 614 cents, various white and yellow grades shown. Oats weak with No 2 white at 40. through billing figures vary by grade and quality.
Investment activity dominated Saturday trading as Silver Leaf fell to 18% with an 18% bid and La Rose closed at 6.25 while offering 6.20. Kherr Lake finished at 8% bid, Beaver at 3%. Crown Reserve listed 6.46 with little overall market change and a Thanksgiving market closure noted in Toronto.
The curb market in New York opened irregularly with mixed quotes across many issues. Stocks including Standard Oil, American Tobacco, Ely Central, Nevada Cons, and Chicago Subway showed varied fractions and percentages as traders priced copper, coal, and transit shares amid scattered buying and selling.
Toledo grain markets show Wheat cash at 1.05 with several futures names listed. December Wheat at 1.35, May 1.20, July 1.00. Corn futures quoted. cash 6 cents, December and May around 68 to 44? rye and oats prices noted with December and May figures.
Fragmentary report lists Smeeth North Butte 565 and Shannon with 14s, then Arizona and Nevada Conus, Utah 4 2 Copper Range 74 Cal te Hecla, suggesting a mining context but text is garbled and hard to interpret. Entities include Copper Range and Cal te Hecla.
In a series of explosions near a dust house and other structures, dynamite shattered floors and damaged a mill, barns, a shed, and a library in Indianapolis. Investigators attribute the act to labor tensions over open versus closed shops, with Albert Von Spreckelson central to the plot and two night watchmen stationed at the Shriners temple. Police report no firm leads or suspects.
A notice describes an auction on Wednesday Oct 27 at 2 pm at Ale Talbott Avenue featuring four rooms of Wee clean furniture including chairs tables bed set and kitchenware among about 100 items. W. 3 Co Auctioneers 42 Lomhach Building also advertises a 46 NICE storeroom down owl with steam heat near SHIEL APARTMENT 220 N Illinois St.
Police revealed a large network investigation with four detectives assigned to locate genuine evidence before any arrest. Captain Manning warned no arrests on suspicions and noted time fuse tactics may have allowed suspects to flee and establish alibis.
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