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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1908
Page
4
List of early 20th century market prices for home grown produce and staples. Items include beets, beans, cabbage, celery, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, lettuce, bread, mushrooms, onions, mint, parsley, tomatoes, watercress, kale, apples, bananas, melons, grapes, berries, lemons, limes, pears, plums, oranges, butter, chickens, squabs, and eggs with per unit or per measure prices.
The Indianapolis Produce Exchange lists varied coal prices for anthracite and Pocahontas coal grades, with lump and lumped forms, egg stove nut sizes, and related coke products. Prices include 7.50 for anthracite egg stove nut and 4.75 for Pocahontas shoveled lump, plus 0.60 to 0.75 per ton for bagged or cellar-delivered coke and ground coke options.
The advertisement lists feed prices from Rouse Bros. at 136 Kentucky Ave. Corn Ninety Three Cents per unit. New Smolied Oats at 12 14 cents. Sheaf Oats ten to eleven fifty. Old Timothy eleven fifty to twelve. New Timothy eleven ninety to twelve fifty. New Clover nine fifty to ten fifty. Mixed Hay nine to ten fifty. Straw four fifty to five fifty.
Fresh eggs priced at 19 cents per dozen. Butter listed as country style and Mc type. Turkeys offered at 10 cents per pound with poultry section mentioned.
Reading stocks rise to a new high as activity increases in early trading. Wall Street waits for Harriman’s move with bearish sentiment among his circle while professionals anticipate a market upturn and a possible reorganization of eastern rail systems under Morgan and Harriman influence.
Chicago Sept grain prices show wheat at 9.95 to 9.14 cents, corn at 3.03 and 4/5, oats at 4.87, pork October at 16.32 to 16.27 dollars, ribs September 9.75 to 9.00, lard September 10.17.
Miss Tudle Howe, a bride elect, was guest of honor at an afternoon party on Park avenue. She will wed this month to Read Bradford Laycock. Lily Kraut and Carl High wed at St. Joseph's church and will reside in Madden flats. Mare Horn, to marry E. G. Butler, attended a shower in Highland place. Other items note visits and travel of local residents and a trip for Agnes Keefe to Emmetsburg and St Joseph's college.
Wholesale buying figures list prices for Timothy seed Cloverseed Orchara Grass Blue Grass Alsike and alfalfa. per bushel wholesale ranges and retail Indiana figures show Timothy seed from 2.00 to 2.50, Cloverseed red 5.00, Alsike 10.00 to 12.00, Kentucky blue grass 1.25 to 1.50, Seed wheat 1.00 to 1.35, Seed Rye 1.10.
The subscriber gives notice to Firet Award citizens of Center township Indiana that he will apply to the Marion county Board of Commissioners at the October term 1908 for a license to sell intoxicating malt and spirituous liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises drinking. The business place is 15144 feet by percent feet, one door north one east, Massachusett avenue, first floor, two 15 Hutchinson's Darnell's property in Indianapolis Center Township Marion County Indiana known as No 87a Massachusetts avenue Ward No 1.
Receipts total 7000 hogs 1500 cattle 1000 sheep with weaker week comparison and year ago drops. Demand fair for good to choice hogs with strong to higher prices. light weights slow and often not fully steady. Top hog price $7.50. typical sales $6.90 to $7.35. Also lists on cured meats and pork products and mentions Mr and Mrs William Hayman visiting in Vincennes Indiana with their daughter Mrs Withee Romer.
At a delegates gathering of the Alliance of German Societies of Indianapolis held Monday at Turner hall a mass meeting was planned for Oct 3 in Tomlinson hall and a resolution urged opposition to Indiana's extra legislative session aimed at enacting County or Local Option laws. The group condemned the governor for calling the session as wasteful and undemocratic.
The Board of Public Works of Indianapolis announces plans for Liberty Street from Pogue's Run bridge to Georgia Street, including brick paving on a six inch concrete foundation, curb lines twenty feet wide, gutter bricks, drains and inlets, and private service connections. Bids require a two and a half percent certified check, contingent liability insurance, and contract within five days. the board may reject all bids.
The Board of Public Works announces improvement resolutions across streets and avenues with grading, paving, curbing, and sidewalk work specified. Notices invite remonstrances on September 14 1908 and September 11 1908 for vacation of Twenty first Street and related parcels, with assessments fixed August 27 1908 and bids to meet contract terms.
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