Wall Street Opens with Broad Advances In Stocks
Wall Street opened with brisk trading and widespread gains led by rail shares and large industrials. Union Pacific Southern Pacific and Chesapeake & Ohio posted notable advances while St Paul slipped.
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1909
Page
4
Wall Street opened with brisk trading and widespread gains led by rail shares and large industrials. Union Pacific Southern Pacific and Chesapeake & Ohio posted notable advances while St Paul slipped.
Chicago market notes show cash wheat at various futures levels including No 2 red $1.09 and No 3 red $1.05 to $1.09, with other wheats and corn figures. Cincinnati hogs and cattle receipts test prices as hogs slip and cattle stay steady or weaker, top lambs around $7.25 with mixed sheep values.
The Children’s Aid Association incorporated in February at 453 Lemcke Building. Officers include M M Feuerlicht president and Frank O Loomis superintendent. It aims to improve poor children’s environment through prevention, with departments for Recreation Play Grounds Bath House Child Labor and more. Needs voluntary contributions.
Notice states that Philipena Jones has qualified as Executrix of the estate of Whilimena Meyer, late of Marion County Indiana, deceased. The estate is deemed solvent. Case No. 9241.
Receipts show 2 000 hogs 1 150 cattle 300 sheep in Indianapolis with hogs and sheep higher while cattle lower versus last week. Prices ranged from 7.45 to 7.55 for hogs with most at 5 14 25. cattle steady to lower. sheep lambs steady. Pittsburgh reports mixed cattle receipts 165 loads with varied price levels and steady to lower bids, sheep and calves also listed with steady to lower tones.
Nipissing stock rose to 12 with about a $1.40 gain from the previous day after news of an upcoming dividend increase. Beaver and Crown Reserve also closed higher while the market as a whole showed renewed strength and optimism for higher prices.
A fragmented stock list shows Standard Oil and American Tobacco with small figures, followed by multiple firms such as United Copper and Kerr Lake with minor percentages. Several entries include unclear numbers and punctuation, yielding a cluttered recap of market quotes and ratios.
The report lists commodity quotes for wheat corn and hay from Indianapolis markets. It includes No 2 red wheat prices for September to November and wagon wheat, various white yellow and mixed corn grades with through billing adjustments, and hay values for Timothy and clover mixes. Inspections show car counts for wheat and total in and out, plus hay tallies by grade.
Boston markets report opening prices for Smelting 58 Nipissing 12 Arizona Commercial 15% Helvetia 74 Butte Coalition 26% North Butte 55% Superior and Boston 16 Calumet and Hecla 680.
Opening values for commodities include Smelting 57 575, Nipissing 11, Arizona Commercial 46 percent, Greene Cannanea on Shannon 16 percent, Franklin 17 percent, Smelting pfd 5 percent, Quincy 91, Utah Apex 4, Superior and Boston 16, and Indianapolis Produce Exchange quotes. Fresh eggs 22 cents, country butter 18 cents, turkeys one cent, ducks live Te, hens 13 percent.
Market notes show wheat No. 2 red at 1.04 and 1.02 for milling and poor samples. Corn figures listed as T4 T5e with oats at 3i, new sheaf prices around 10 to 11 per ton. Straw and hay prices vary by type with baled hay around 13.50 to 14.50 and mixed hay at 12.60 to 13.50.
Lists dozens of births with parent names and addresses across Payette and city streets. Also notes several deaths and medical conditions at city hospitals and residences, including cases of cancer, tuberculosis, and cerebral hemorrhage, plus ensuing marriages and pairings.
Burglars broke into J. Hudson's Grocery at 684 S. Alabama Street Sunday night through a side window and took five dollars from the cash drawer.
Tens of thousands flocked to Indianapolis for the Central Verein Catholic parade rated among the era’s notable events. The 90 minute march covered five miles with reviewing stands at Meridian and Fourteenth streets and featured grand floats recounting church history watched by bishops, priests, and dignitaries. A pontifical mass at Sacred Heart and civic welcomes by Mayor Bookwalter Gov. Marshall and others preceded sessions at St. Marys and St. Cecelia halls with the Ancient Order of Hibernians marshaling a large division and a Germany Ireland float symbolizing unity with Columbia.
The record lists multiple city permits for residences and commercial works. F T Roberts requests a house at 4 End avenue valued at 1400 while Mrs L wees plans a Broadway rear addition at 3rd Street for 300? Ss Stoianton at Market and Highland for 1500. Laycock Power House Co seeks steel roof at 10th Canal for 1500. Boilers for Laycock project cost 7.56. A Brooks at 98 Parker street 2 dollars. Walter Vonnegut remodel at 15th Alabama for 2000. Charlee F McLain 1308 Reisner for 2000. John FE Harley 617 Blackford for 1300. R B Sinclair remodel at Capitol and Michigan for 1000. J Flack brick burging on Massachusetts near Michigan for 3000. Eli Litly Co brick building at McCarty and Alabama for 42000. E B Porter building at Fort Wayne and Alabama for 4000.
Toledo Ohio September 20 cash and futures quotes for corn rye data and wheat show cash September December and May terms. Specific values include Cash and September 1 12 1/2 cents for wheat and corn at 72 cents cash September 61 1/2 cents December 68 cents May 1 13 cents. Rye cash 7 14 cents.
Sydney residents gathered along the water front to greet Commander Peary aboard the Roosevelt due at 4 in the afternoon. Plans for a large Century Club banquet with G H Murray premier of Nova Scotia and the American consul were cancelled as Peary wished to hurry home to Eagle Island. A small fleet will meet the Roosevelt near the outer harbor with a civic committee representing the municipality.
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