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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1908
Page
8
Livestock and grain listings reveal varied prices across states with cattle heavy steers up to 8.79 and western markets mixed. Hog and lamb futures show slow trade and modest gains while grain quotes in Kansas City reflect steady to higher prices for wheat and corn futures.
Continued light receipts of wheat in the Northwest reduce winter wheat stocks and support prices across Chicago Kansas City and Minneapolis. May wheat gains to about 1 1 4 cents in Chicago with a close near 1 1 4 cents higher. exports and world shipments ease while weather favors U S crops and spring sowing progresses.
Receipts of butter eggs and poultry are moderate with butter weak due to heavier supplies. Strawberries show wide price ranges from soft stock to high as 3.50 per crate. Texas Arkansas berries, choice at 2, poor stock at any price. Potatoes steady at 78 for Colorado stock and 70 75 for Northern in car lots. Hides prices higher. Eggs vary by grade. butter exchange quotes listed. poultry prices cover broilers to squabs. Fruits and vegetables include oranges, lemons, figs, apples, and various vegetables with notable crate and basket pricing. Overall grains show large on hand and import/export movement with weekly and yearly comparisons.
The visible grain supply in the U S and Canada is listed by the Chicago Board of Trade with figures for Wheat Corn and Oats. The table shows today week ago and year comparisons along with changes in the visible supply for Wheat Corn and Oats. Also included are world wheat shipments from exporting countries for several dates and notes on butter poultry and the cotton market in recent trading sessions.
The Kansas City park board has awarded C. T. Enright a contract for 4800 yards of macadam to extend the city park driveway. The project lengthens the driveway from its current end to the proposed Muncie boulevard entrance.
The Old Time Clown visits the 101 Ranch Wild West show grounds at Fifteenth street and Kansas avenue. He finds tents, concessions, and a flashy modern act lineup with slang-filled canvas workers, a refined snake charmer, and a distant parade call. He leaves disappointed as the show has changed beyond his era.
Eighty two Indians from the Cheyenne Sioux Ponca and Arapahoe nations led a colorful parade through downtown Buffalo as part of the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch show. The procession featured painted faces bands a cowboys' band stage coach water buffalo oxen and a calliope. A 2 PM show was held at the fairgrounds on Fifteenth Street and Kansas Avenue with further performances tonight and tomorrow.
Senator Borah of Idaho in his Senate maiden speech condemns any leniency for Harry Orchard and condemns sympathy for the Brownsville attackers. He denounces the act as cowardly and unfitness for government, argues against conspiracy defenses, and asserts the Twenty-fifth Regiment soldiers’ guilt in the Brownsville riot.
A fragment suggests a possible plan to attack soldiers but contends that any conspiracy, if real, likely would not target the public. The text hints at internal doubts about the motive and scope of the alleged plot.
Topeka couple Mr and Mrs D W Mulvane visited over Sunday. Real estate dealer H Taylor of Larned was in Kansas City. S Goodfriend of Robert Mantell’s camp arrived in KC. Joseph H Ferguson joined Commerce Trust bond dept. I W Avitt of Slater Mo was in KC. W T Dunn departs for New York tonight. E M Alvord Missouri Kansas Texas sup was in KC. J L Watkins of Lawrence was in KC on business. G T Guernsey of Independence was in KC. William Busby of McAlester, a presidential elector, was registered at the Midland. W C Gunn and party visited. George W Hagenbuch of Santa Fe is in Chicago. G L Cobb returns from Omaha. L H Swisher takes control of Brown Bros stock in Independence. A car controller stopped traffic at Eighth and Grand, delaying lines. Funeral for Augusta Gilliland will be at 2 PM tomorrow at home 508 Myrtle. Mrs Lucy D Webb’s widower sues Royal Neighbors to collect $1000 life policy.
Arrived yesterday Pottsdam Rotterdam from New York and Columbia Glasgow from New York. Marriage licenses issued for Curtis Lovell and Dottie Whitehead of Kansas City. Gus Rogers and Sadie Corwin of St. Joseph. Earl Salisbury and Aubie Ebert of Missouri towns. Pearl Cavanaugh and William Heter of Liberty and Kansas City. Addie Durham and others listed. Also entries for Gustave Pearson and Cora Coffman of Harrison county, Iowa, and several Kansas City residents.
Atlantic City on Easter sees an expansive display of hats with 30 000 women parading in tailored dark dresses along a sunlit boardwalk amid a five minute hailstorm. Mme Nordica attends a Damrosch concert as hotels fill and 150 000 visitors arrive Friday through Saturday, signaling a prosperous holiday.
J W Seibert a gardener at Grandview sanitarium west of Kansas City reported his horse and buggy valued at 200 dollars missing after leaving a restaurant at Sixteenth and Main streets last night. Police were notified.
The Paris Medicine Company promotes GROVE'S NEW DISCOVERY for catarrh with a nose spray and complete nasal treatment set. They guarantee satisfaction with a money back offer after trial, charging 26c for nose medicine and 26c for nasal douche, with a 59c mail option if not sold locally.
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