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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
6
An explosion of firedamp in the Dudweiler mine near Saarbrucken Germany on Tuesday killed fifteen miners and left six injured. The blast occurred as workers were handling fuel and the disaster is under investigation by authorities.
The Chicago market shows firm flour with various wheat classes and dairy fat notes. Butter ranges from extras to firsts with creamer and packers pricing, while eggs move with case counts. Potatoes, poultry and New York futures complete the day’s snapshot of grain, dairy and farm products.
Cattle and hog quotes from Chicago and Omaha markets show steady to higher pricing. Chicago lists steers and cows across grades with values from about 4 to 9 dollars, hogs ranging from around 5.00 to 6.90, and various categories like stockers and canners. Omaha notes market steadiness for natives and western cattle, with hogs up about a dime and a wide spread across weights and grades.
The value of fish sold in the United States in a year totaled 20,547,075 dollars. The figure highlights the scale of the domestic seafood market and market activity across producers and retailers nationwide.
Louisville report outlines for readers a rural Beechmont wooden house used as the S P railroads stockholders meeting site each year. Judge Alexander Humphrey attends as local attorney, voting thousands of shares to conduct the annual session before the house is closed for a year.
In Camp Sierra Sequoia California August 5 the author laments Hume Bennett Lumber Co plans to cut fifteen square miles of ancient giant sequoias. He condemns land theft and frauds that gave rights to the company and warns that 50 million board feet in the Murphy McRae tract could be sold for over a million dollars. He calls for conservation congresses and action.
Hogs mixed per pound range from 6.30 to 6.50 dollars with mediums to heavies at 6.40 to 6.60. Calves, common to fair, fetch 3.00 to 5.59 dollars per head.
Corrected daily by B. V. Cook & Co. Pe A ONS shows numbers and entries for hides and wool. The snippet lists end dates and pricing details with emphasis on market terms.
A Port Blair photograph shows Adaman Islanders marching in hot weather with umbrellas as the essential costume, illustrating the march of civilization on the islands.
Logansport to Indianapolis via L U S company lines next Sunday. Round trip price set at $1.25. Special tickets valid on trains leaving Logansport at 5 00, 5 45, and 9 00 a m.
Jacob Snyder of Shelbyville fell from a telephone pole and is reported possibly fatally injured.
A column traces boxers plotting returns like Mike Schreck heading to London to fight Jack Johnson and Eddie Hanlon seeking belated chances. It notes Battling Nelson inspired comebacks, discusses Hyland and Ketchel aiming for big names, and recalls humorous anecdotes about fighter measurements and biceps.
An old chocolate cake style recipe lists eleven eggs whisked with cream of tartar and salt to a stiff froth. It adds sugar then flour sifted five times and folded in. The instructions emphasize cregy tar tar and granilla as ingredients in the mix.
John H. Zirkle of Philippi West Virginia touts Cham berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a five bottle lifesaver. He claims his father suffered diarhoea for eighteen months and was a constant sufferer before taking the medicine. After one bottle he recovered and is now sound and well able to work like a younger man. Sold by W H Porter druggist.
Columbia Brewing Co makers of the famous Columbia beer invites family trade. Telephone number 40 appears in the notice as a contact for sales inquiries and distribution.
Local mercantile listing for Flour and Feed at 515 Market Street with flour feed and hay products and telephone number 87 current as a classified item in the newspaper.
At 432 High Street Merrill and Son offer best coal oil at 10 cents and best gasoline at 14 cents. They declare they are not in the trust and invite readers to place a trial order.
Coal and feed items offered including the highest grade of coal horse feed lime cement and sewer pipe by a street business with telephone contact 87.
Peek and Kandler offer building painting repairing and general blacksmithing on North Street 5114 with reasonable prices and a focus on quality work and good service.
H Weber at 310 Pearl Street offers clothing cleaning, repair, pressing, and tailoring services. The shop advertises thorough alterations and garment care for customers in the local area.
Advertising notice for F. M. Bozer D. D. S. dental parlor located at the corner of Fourth and Broadway over City National Bank. Office telephone 363, residence 1463.
Office at 40444 Market Street stairway east of Ray's Grocery lists phone 253 Residence at 1918 North Street phone 622. Hative satisfaction.
Merrill and Son at 432 High Street advertise high test gasoline and coal oil that does not gum the stove. They state they are not in the trust and offer best gasoline at five cents and best coal oil at ten cents with an invitation to drop a card for a trial order.
Ed Osborne succeeds John M. Thompson at 122 Sixth Street offering expert horseshoeing with prompt and satisfactory work guaranteed.
Local merchants Young and Custer advertise two storefronts at 310 Fifth Street and 318 Market Street offering honest goods at reasonable prices with contact phone numbers 729 and 948 respectively.
George H. Gise advertises 5 percent money and insurance services. Corner room over Bowen Bank offers office contact at phone 482 and residence phone 238.
Parker and Johnston advertise as interior finishing specialists offering high grade work at their yard and office located at the corner of Spencer and Berkeley streets. Telephone 12.
Eureka Novelty Works run by Carl Nickum at 313 Sixth Street offers nickel plating repairing oxidizing bicycle and general machine shop services. The shop handles model and novelty work as well as wood and metal patterns.
H Weber offers tailoring and repair services at 310 Pearl Street. Spring and summer patterns are ready for inspection. Suits start at 15 dollars and up, trousers at 4 dollars and up. Come and see.
H J Trah offers slate tin and metal roofing guttering spouting flue tops and furnace repairs at 311 Fifth Street. All work done in best possible manner.
John Mehaffie offers galvanized iron corners skylights tin iron and water roofing spouting and all kinds of tin and iron repairing at 218 Fifth Street Galena.
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