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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1925
Page
3
Tuesday trading shows a stronger tone with major industrials rising amid profit taking. General Railway Signal hit a new high while Kelso Wheel touched a yearly peak, May Department Stores gained on earnings expectations, rails remained active amid merger speculation.
Indianapolis banks reported Tuesday clearings totaling $2.43 million and deposits rising as financial activity expanded in the midweek session.
Alexander Hamilton Institute analyzes Belgium debt post Armistice. It compares $246 million loaned after the Armistice with $171 million lent before, describing cancellations, interest reductions, and present value equivalences in 1918 dollars. It concludes America will collect about 380 percent of pre Armistice funding.
Readable items show pricing for assorted fruits and vegetables including pears apples and cucumbers with unit prices for crates baskets and dozens. Also listed are seedless grapes blue fruit varieties and Western Iceberg lettuce with prices per crate or per dozen. The notice ends with a catalog entry for Men’s Athletic Union Suits priced at 85 cents each or three for 2.50.
Market edges higher with gains in select stocks while wheat futures stabilize. Developments touch commodity elevators and farm prices as traders weigh supply signals and demand shifts in the era’s uncertain markets.
Grain futures fell sharply on the Chicago Board of Trade with corn and oats posting new lows. A late rally came from profit taking as selling by commission houses pressured longs. Wheat fell on bearish foreign advice while improved crop news and country offerings weighed on corn and oats. Provisions followed下 hogs and grains lower.
Chicago market bulletin lists wheat, corn, oats prices with August and September futures. It records bid and ask levels, cash quotes, and assorted grain items, mentioning terms and numbers such as 87, 52, 365, 10, 15.00, 5.25, 6.25, and various brand or crop names in a noisy OCR.
Canadian farmers will receive about 250 million dollars more for their crops in 1925 than in 1924 according to the Dominion bureau of statistics. The five main grains wheat barley oats rye and flax are expected to total 195 million dollars more than last year and circulate around 105 million dollars.
The report lists diverse commodity quotes from several markets including Indianapolis and Chicago with varied egg, butter, and poultry prices. Notable entries show fowls 27 28c, springers 28 30c, turkeys 20c, butter around 40 46c, and cheeses at 24 24.5c, reflecting regional price shifts and fluctuating demand.
Readable text indicates steady prices in the sugar market as contracts shift following the removal act. Imports and livestock factors are noted, with attention to the volatile liquidity and bovine meat dynamics affecting rates and anticipated changes in near future.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train collided with a truck in Weeping Water Nebraska last night killing two men from the town and seriously injuring Phillip Wollen Phillip Simmons and four year old Kenneth Hutchens the farmer Faye Hutchens is named among the deceased.
A garbled listing shows numerous marriage licenses with names ages and addresses, including Thom and Bardmaker and others like Ethel Dixon Mary Cooper and Corene Carpenter. The fragmentary notes reference streets and neighborhoods such as 616 N Souste and 533 eassier, plus various occupations and cities.
A long birth notice lists newborn girls and boys with many couples and addresses. Names include Ferguson Frances and John, Tacket La Verne, Kelso Anna, Joseph Hinde, Harman Reasoner, Staton Mildred, Shaffer John, McBroom Edith, Sims Mabel, Banks Cora, Endicott Russell, Brown Audrey, Klopfer Pearl, Clark Roy, Skiles Thelma, and others. Hospitals mentioned include Long Hospital and Methodist Hospital. Addresses span Warman, Roonevelt, Georgia Street, Eighteenth Street, and Langley.
An OCR style list records multiple deaths with ages and residence in the city. It includes Jere B. Marniee 76 of 1509 EB Twenty Fourth with bronchopneumonia. Mark Stewart 16 at city hospital with lobar pneumonia. Dorothy A. Uehlien 3 of 442 N Walcott with mute gastroenteritis. Joseph Berkert 6 at city hospital, and several other young children and adults with various causes and locations noted.
Hog prices slid following national trends with top hog at 13.50 a cwt and most hogs around 13.13 to 13.30. Cattle offerings of about 1 200 head were dull with steers at 8.13 to 10.50, heifers at 6.50 to 11, cows 4 to 8, and calves averaging 13.13 to 13.50 a cwt as lambs 14 and sheep 3.5 to 7 a cwt.
Chicago and Cincinnati market notes show cattle and hog receipts around 7 000 to 8 000 with varied bids. Prices for steers heifers and cows fluctuated with weights and quality. sheep and lambs saw active demand and steady to higher calves. Pricing reflects regional shifts across major markets including St Louis and Pittsburgh with mixed trends through Aug 25 and 26.
H D McClelland chief clerk of the State highway commission is named to become chief of the State highway garage on Sept 1, replacing Harvey G Shafer who resigned. McClelland, a friend of Governor Jackson, faces opposition from highway commissioners while Earl Crawford heads the garage in temporary capacity amid an embezzlement indictment.
Lieut. Cliff Richter plans to testify as Bert Heiss of 223 North Alabama Street is arraigned today on a blind tiger charge. A small quantity of liquor was found at Heiss’s jewelry store at 2970 North Illinois Street in Mon.
Frank P. Manley president reviews twenty year history at new home offices Meridian and Thirtieth Streets opening a three day celebration. Field representatives from eight states attend with a luncheon at the Indianapolis Country Club and a banquet at the Indianapolis Club with notable speakers and a public flag raising planned Wednesday.
At Calvary Lutheran Church Hillside New Jersey the pastor Rev Oscar E Brandorff supervised erection of a new chapel while continuing pastoral work. Many builders joined the church after completion and contractors made large donations cutting over 500 from the bid. The general contractor funded a ceiling valued at 600 to 700.
C A Wise formerly of Indianapolis spoke at the International Bible Students Association convention held today at Cable Tabernacle. He serves as vice president of the association.
Mayor Shank will travel to Chicago for a lecture on Wednesday then return to the city Thursday. He will depart Sunday for a two week East vacation and speak in Rochester New York and Johnstown Pennsylvania. He joked about hoping there is no flood in Johnstown during his visit.
In a Chinatown shootout tied to tong rivalries, three men were killed. Police believe On Leong tong members attacked after a Hip Sing report to authorities. Investigations continue as authorities probe gang links and motives.
A Hip Sing man was shot in Boston within half an hour of a telephone warning. Ho Kee, a cook, was killed in a restaurant basement. Twenty detectives were dispatched to the troubled section.
Special police patrolled Boston's Chinatown to contain a tong war that flared during the night. H. Yen Nng and Yee Kin Yu were in serious condition after a clash between the On Leongs and Hip Sings. At least three more Chinese were wounded and carried away by friends before police intervened.
In St. Louis on August 25 Leon Choey a restaurant man was shot down and seriously wounded on a dark street off Hop Alley by five assailants who reportedly waited for him before opening fire. Police learned details of the attack.
Prominent On Leong tong member Shing Sun was shot and killed in his laundry by two nattily dressed Chinese men during a Chinese tong war flare up in Pittsburgh. Sun’s employee Tung, not a tong member, survived unharmed.
Detectives in Cleveland guard tong headquarters amid reports Hip Sing and On Leong gunmen from eastern cities heading here. The threat follows a Hip Sing man’s death in Boston and fears of a Tong war breaking out locally.
Walter Wilson age 30 of 1140 West New York Street was injured in a crash today when a truck driven by Clarence Wilson 30 of 1705 North Naomi Street hit an automobile driven by Charles Pope 2970 School Street.
Orr cites postponement of bids on the Plaza building foundation and investigates whether Rivet-Grip steel from a Cleveland firm, with Walker and Weeks as officers, was used to the exclusion of other steel. The board weighs Orr's recommendations and considers appointing a special auditor to the Memorial Plaza project.
Harry Weeks vice president of Walker and Weeks, designers of the Indiana World War Memorial, refused to discuss charges raised by the state accounts board. He said no word had been received and noted controversy but that the project remains on track.
A fire at the Grege farm near Sheridan Indiana destroyed the residence of A Brandburg. Fire officials from Sheridan responded to the blaze caused by a defective flue. Loss estimated at 3000 dollars.
The government announced a rule linking female eligibility to peak performance in top national postal races. Officials cite performance standards and historical participation as the basis for the new eligibility framework, signaling potential changes for women competing at the highest levels.
Theodore J. Bernd rejects rumors that the council inquiry into the board of works will result in a "washout." He says data from aggrieved parties will be submitted, while Mayor Shank defends current personnel and vows action if crookedness is found. The probe contrasts with Freeman and other officials over a track elevation clause affecting the Belt Railroad. A special meeting of city council will set powers and next steps.
A car failed to stop and struck Sarah Gold, 30, near 801 West Tenth Street, injuring her ankle. Police seek H. Loughery of 668 North Temple Avenue, owner of the car linked to the incident. Mrs C A Hiner and Mrs A F Craig were struck by a parked auto at 141 Marlowe Street. Arthur Carpenter of 239 West Michigan Street faces assault charges after his car allegedly struck Rudolph Pfister, 14, on Shelley Street.
Jess Clayton of 224 N Noble St and William Mabrey of 222 B Vermont St were arrested today after a crash at Keystone Ave and 63rd St. Deputies charged them with drunkenness and operating a blind tiger after finding a bottle of Mquo in the car. Clayton also faces operating a motor vehicle while drunk.
Ray Casey of San Francisco who teamed with Nat W. Nil of Boston won a first round doubles match on Monday but fell ill with acute appendicitis and underwent surgery at Phillips House Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. His condition was listed as satisfactory. Casey had partnered with John Hennessey of Indianapolis in the international journey in England this summer.
An insurance notice explains that a $2.00 accident policy with Fidelity Life and Fire Company carried by John Sulteen, a window washer, lapsed for non payment of the April premium. The fall occurred August 18 and reports had claimed Sulteen missed his latest payment.
Brownsburg man Carl L. Herring was fined 250 dollars and costs and sentenced to ninety days in the Indiana State Farm for driving a car while drunk. Jess A. Clayton of Nobili Street received a 200 dollar fine and sixty day sentence on the same charge.
Police under Lieut Walta Claffey rushed to Garfield Park on a report a woman was thrown from an auto. They found the supposed victim to be a white piece of oil cloth among the bushes. The item suggested a mistaken sighting rather than an assault.
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