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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1923
Page
3
An illustrated note describes a fast electric wired speedster with two carburetors, linked to Harold Hancock as manager at 945 7 Southeastern Ave, Stewart 2707. The fragment hints at a vehicle or display label with technical details and contact reference.
Classified listing of used touring cars, roadsters and pickups with prices and terms. Multiple dealers including Wallerich Company and Wides Miller advertise Cadillac and Chevrolet models from 1917 to 1919 with down payments and monthly balances. Trucks Atlas and Grantston also listed in mechanical condition.
Automobile buyers advertise cash paid for used vehicles with several Indianapolis and nearby listings. Companies include Auto Parts & Tire Co at 518 N Capo Ave, I Wolf Auto Co at 619 N Illinois, City Auto Parts at 411 N Winds Main, Coraz at 519 N Capitol, Antec at 212 E New York St, and Belmont at 4300.
The Wall Street Journal reports a irregular opening with margin calls down and buy orders rising in copper and rail shares. 1,100 shares of Canadian Pacific traded at 145 off 1% as the market ends with unclear trend and notable activity in railroad stocks.
Indianapolis financial figures show Saturday clearings at 3.629 million for the week and 872 thousand for the month of June. Bank debits on Saturday total 374 thousand for the week, 36.177 million for June, and 165.48 million for June month to date.
Market bulletin lists Liberty bonds with high and low prices and closes for several issues. Includes 3% government bonds around 100.17 to 100.14, 4% issues near 98.04 to 98.16, and notes readings for New Gov. at 99.17. Ends with a note about a thirty seconds quotation.
United Financial in New York reports on June 30 that foreign exchange closed steady with Sterling at demand $4.57 and francs at demand 16.36. The brief market note shows stable rates across the board.
Armour preferred holds steady around 73 with minor shifts. Conti Motors trades near 77 percent while Mont Ward remains near 19 percent. Gossard sits at 25 with minimal change. Reo Motors and Swift & Co. hover around mid teens to high teens. Union Car and Stewart W show slight declines amid overall activity. Thomson & McKinnon provide closing figures for June 30 across these names.
Sealed bids requested by the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners for removal, alteration, and repairs to roof and parapet walls on School 46 at 604 E Thirty-Eighth St and for removal and relocation of window frames at School 27 corner Seventeenth St and Park Ave. Estimated costs 15900 and 2900 dollars respectively. Bids due July 21 1923 with certified checks.
Chicago grain prices closed irregular as early gains faded under heavy selling. Wheat rose on crop news, July corn weakened from liquidation, deferred months mixed while oats stayed irregular. Provisions rose with England a steady buyer of beef and improved demand for lards and fats.
Cash grain reports from Indianapolis Toledo and Chicago show mixed bids and steady prices. Wheat and corn values edge or hold steady with No. 2 white and yellow kernels listed, timothy and clover hay priced, and daily receipts noted, reflecting market activity on June 30.
Harvesting of the winter wheat crop in eight foreign nations shows favorable progress with yields surpassing expectations. The International Institute forecasts 1923 wheat output at 750,783 bushels for those nations, while U.S. crop totals compare to last year. English aphid damage appears on Nebraska crops amid uneven corn growth from late planting.
New York reports Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company arranging a 40,000,000 bond issue to finance the purchase of Steel and Tube Company of America with about 35,000,000 for other corporate purposes. Bankers Trust to play a leading underwriting role. Dillon, Reed says Steel and Tube paid in full for the property and cash is held to retire preferred stock at 110 and pay dividends.
New York June 30 The curb market closed a week of irregular activity in a listless short session. Trading was light and sentiment favored waiting for moves in other markets. Oils showed improved technical position with prices stabilizing and most adverse news discounted. Industrials saw gains from Gillette Safety Razor and Stutz amid transfer plans and stock exchange news.
Hog prices held firm at the local livestock exchange with shippers paying 7.30 dollars, later nudged to 7.35 for select lights as packers met 7.30 to supply needs. Cattle and sheep markets were mostly steady with slight weekly losses on higher grades and calves rising to 12.00 dollars. Receipts included 7,506 hogs, 100 cattle, and 400 lambs and ewes combined.
Markets in Indianapolis report fresh prices for butter f orested, fowls, and poultry. butter 25c lb, leghorn 25 percent discount, ducks 12c lb, quabs 5.5 lb to oz, butter fat price 38c per lb. Cleveland and New York follow with potatoes, poultry, cheese and eggs prices. Chicago notes butter 87c and eggs 19 21c.
A list of marriage license applicants from Indiana and nearby states includes FP A Gripe 8 Nellie Mc Alister 18 Nellie Clark 32 E Richey a Bicknell Thelma Sterling 18 Kenrick 36 Beulah Keethler A J Mergale 25 Elizabeth Canaan 25 E Barrett 30 Beech Grove Ind Adah Padrick 23 Acton Ind X YV Stahl 28 Goldie Ponamall 17 E Tenth HP tindermood Jr 25 Gladys C Harris 24 G W Thompson 26 Anna Ray 26 M Hager 19 Dorothy Shields 19 C A Nixon Jr Des Geri Ind Henriettta Stoy 22 M Swaile Bob Sembee Ind Nettie Morgan 45 ay Chamberlain 23 Ethel Straffin 22 G R Kime 21 Irene Carter 17 W Burns 27 Grace Minter 22 R oreppan 1 Wet Ife 22 Mrs Sarah Smith 36 B Barnes 25 Frieda Arthiog 80 Faces Mary fadon 32 Layman R Brayton 26 Bernice Havens 26.
List of individuals with causes of death including pulmonary tuberculosis and chronic myocarditis. Names include Genevieve Feist Pantle 33, Laura Milburn 77, Beatrice Robinson Cosby 17, Nancy M. Thomas 67, and others with partial addresses and ages.
Hog receipts near 8 000 to 8 000 range with top hogs at 7.25 and bulk around 6.60 to 7.10. cattle receipts about 1 000 with mixed declines and veal calves up to 12. sheep and lambs receipts 4 000 with ads and killers at 15.50. regional notes from Cleveland East St Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh and more show varied gains and losses across hogs cattle and sheep.
Local market notes show oats at 50 cents per bushel and corn at 20? with wheat and red wheat prices around 1.05 dollars. No buyer names or specific locations provided.
Births recorded for Frank and Bessie suchen Naomi. Viola Harden and accompanying details. John Murphy and Emma Murphy at 1030 West Thirty-Sixth. Bosons Board address 310 Frese pilots. Gnifford Albert facet Summa. Jay Nanee. Girls John and Lena Ellaby at 1314 Blaine.
Sheriff and federal officers raided eight tents and shacks on Hammond Grove Allisonville Road and Keystone Ayve. Harry Raskauph and Edward Henn were arrested for operating a blind tiger. A buried mule was found. Three gallons of buried beer and sixty gallons brewing beer were seized.
A new livestock commission firm Coburn Schwab and McMaster will open at the stock yards Monday with offices at No 65 Livestock Exchange Building William Coburn of Middlesworth Benson Coburn is the senior member Harry G Schwab long time cattle trader in the alley and Alex McMaster who has assisted Coburn in the hog department for six years form the partnership.
Police arrested Wilbur Zeigler 23 and John Zeiger 21 on drunkenness charges after finding them asleep on a sidewalk at Indiana Ave and New York St. The brothers said they came from St Louis and had been in Indianapolis only a few hours. An additional vagrancy charge was filed.
Detectives search for three men who held up Russell and Guy Troutman at 710 N Belle View Place late Friday. The brothers were on Michigan Street and Holmes Avenue when one attacker showed an open knife and demanded money. Guy Troutman was struck on the jaw before the suspects fled.
Governor McCray announced the Indiana delegation to the Christian citizenship conference at Winona Lake from July 1 to 8. The committee includes William E. Wilson Evansville Arthur H. Greenwood Washington Frank Gardner Scottsburg Harry C. Canfield Fatesville Everett Sanders Terre Haute Richard N. Elliott Connersville Merrill Moores Indianapolis Albert H. Vestal Anderson Fred S. Purnell Attica William R. Wood Lafayette Samuel E. Cook Huntington Louis W. Fairfield Angola Andrew J. Hickey La Porte.
A silent orator at Daylight Corner unveils plans for the national elimination balloon race starting July 4 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Thirteen giant balloons will compete in what organizers call the greatest American air event of the year under the auspices of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce led by General Secretary John B. Reynolds.
City attorney James M. Ogden drafts an ordinance after daily complaints of street cuts by contractors and utilities. City engineer John L. Elliott cites rough, dangerous roads from gas water and sewer work. The measure would ban street tearing except in extreme emergencies by board of works order.
The Rev. Otto B. Moore will conduct funeral services Monday at 2 p.m. for Charles R. Williams 60 who died Friday at his home 1151 EB Southern Ave. Burial is in Crown Hill. Born 1863 in Indianapolis he lived here all his life and worked several years for Eli Lilly. Surviving are widow Caroline Williams two daughters Mrs Virgil Ginn and Mrs Albert Buescher and son Robert C. Williams all of Indianapolis.
American Legion national officials will testify at the Chicago trial of Arthur Lorenz on criminal libel charges against the Illinois department of the Legion. Judge advocate Robert A. Adams and Al C. Lindberg will represent the organization as Lorenz, editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, is alleged to have denounced Legion members in an editorial.
Mrs Kathryn W Grotendick 28 died Friday morning at Deaconess Hospital. Rites set for Monday at her father James Walkup home on Lafayette Pike north of Flackville with burial at Crown Hill. She was born in Danville End and survived by husband Frederick C Grotendick, her parents four sisters and six brothers.
Dennis McGrenery, 88, a Philadelphia war veteran twice wounded and gashed, toils with a ten pound wheelbarrow from Philadelphia toward San Francisco to curb auto addiction and regain health. He traversed Indianapolis today and aims to reach California by October 15.
A thief entered the residence of Mrs Selma Beck at 1019 North West Avenue and took two diamond rings valued at 125 dollars.
Two beaded black dresses were missing today from the Levey shop at 62 West Ohio Street. The dresses were valued at 50 dollars.
Rev J M Downey of St Catherine's Catholic Church Shelby and Tabor Streets embraces stray baseballs as signs of healthy boyhood. He rebuilt a $50,000 school near the church, now with eight grades and 230 students, plans to hire one more teacher, and cites church debt reduction through doctrinal sermons rather than pulpit fundraising.
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