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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1930
Page
4
Hogs at Union stockyards showed a firm undertone with prices up 5 to 15 cents from Tuesday. Bulk 140 to 300 pounds sold $9.80 to $10.20, early top at $10.25, receipts about 6,500, holdovers 127. Chicago hogs 15,000 receipts with 3,000 holdovers, opening 10 to 15 cents higher. Cattle and sheep markets with steadier or unchanged trends.
United Press dispatches from Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland and other points show hog receipts around 15 000 with most categories up to 15c higher. Cattle receipts near 10 000 with trade weak to 25c lower on heavies, steadier on yearlings, and calves at various better grades. Sheep and lambs also noted with steady to mixed demand.
The notice lists several marriage licenses with names ages and addresses including Ralph Bradford 18 and Nelle Willoughby 18 both of Sheffield, Norene Clements 44 and Orville Langston 44 of Thirty first and ET, Ruth E Stein 22 and Robert A Babcock 21 of West McCarty, and Thelma Johnson 20 with Armott Wells 23 of West Vermont and West Pratt respectively.
Hogs receipts 1200 with no holdovers. weights above 160 lbs bid 15 to 25 cents higher, bulk 160-200 lbs around None. Pigs under weights 10.50 to 10.75, packing sows about 9. Cattle receipts 250 slow with common grass steers around 6.25, cutter cows 2.50 to 4.00.
Miss Carolin Miller wins a $10 National Letter Writing Contest prize from Eaton Crane Pike Co. safety board members attend a works board hearing on Logan J. Smith’s school bus line proposal between Technical and Short Ridge high schools and Butler university.
Chicago opened with wheat prices down amid Liverpool weakness and demand uncertainty. Corn and oats showed mixed moves while provisions rose sharply. late sentiment improved on securities strength and expectations of steady prices until cold weather boosts usage.
In Chicago on October 15 the market listed carrots and various grains with prices: wheat 20, corn 520, oats 71, rye 3, and barley 20. The brief noting reflects commodity price data for traders.
Oct 15. China today ratified the Root protocol enabling possible U S adherence to the world court. The move signals progression toward formalized cooperation in international justice and set the stage for diplomatic responses from other nations.
Wall Street anticipated a market cleansing as tighter stock lending and a high short interest pressured prices. After a Sunday Hoover White House dinner with NYSE's Richard Whitney and Allen L. Lindley, officials urged self reform to avert federal action.
Ripley style notes in Tuesday Times report sightings of house sized boulders afloat on ice near the Nelson River in northern Manitoba during spring breakup. Observers cite rapids spray freezing under stone, then warm waters carrying the mass away.
The report lists country run markets and price quotes for poultry butter cheese eggs and potatoes from Cincinnati and Indianapolis with figures for hens ducks leghorns and broilers, plus a note on building and loan associations planning to add half a million families to home ownership and the league officials urging stronger lending to homes.
Funeral services were held here for Miss Emma Woodal daughter of Josiah Woodal who died of tuberculosis.
Birth notices list numerous couples with children born at or associated with Methodist hospital and addresses including 1513 Sturm 308 East Minnesota 3547 East Robson 2124 Broadway 97512 Stillwell 7302 East Michigan 319 North Forest and other names such as Keller Sharkey Boylan Singer Fitzpatrick Grob Horrall Van Sickle Osborn Simons Denney Sachs Rabin Koehler Cook Bunce and spouses with no explicit dates or further details provided.
Obituaries and death notices for Angel Matthews 75 Fannie Ann Buchanan 63 William Rogers 72 Frank M Thomson 61 Anna Eubank 83 Jackson Carter 45 John W Collins 74 Mary L Shaughnessy 69 4 Sere Watton 30 Walter Dawson 21 Meredith 12 days and Charles W Dinwiddie 82 former drummer boy in Civil War unit at Newcastle Indiana with funeral today after long illness.
A Pioneer Distributing Company survey for the Indianapolis Real Estate Board finds 2,500 houses or 3.63 percent vacant citywide. Highest vacancy occurs in Southeast and Northeast with Irivington and the north side least affected. notable gaps exclude Broad Ripple and 20,000 Negro residences.
United Press reports a slim trading day with volumes down to summer levels. United States Steel led swings from 150 1/4 to 149 1/2, with mixed moves across General Electric Radio Keith General Motors and other issues as utilities and oils held a tight range and call money steadied at 2 percent.
Indianapolis clearings for Oct 15 amount to 3 776 000 debits 5 731 009 New York statement shows 41 000 000 0 0 000 000 balance pall Bok Or Bal 302 000 000 Treasury net balance for Oct 13 expenditures 721 771 91 customs rects month to date 590 378 85
Closing prices and net changes for principal NYSE stocks on October 14 include American Can American Telephone General Motors General Electric General Theaters Loew's Inc Ward world Pennsylvania Radio Corp Radio Keith International Nickel United States Steel Union Carbide Warner Bros and Westinghouse Electric among others with coffee range and vanadium notes.
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