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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
6
Jefferson City Mo Aug 18 Harold Norbery 22 of 1142 North Party fifth avenue Chicago drowned Tuesday in the Missouri river while swimming. He and three other Chicago men were en route to Mexico.
Grain and provisions quotes show a firm flour market with various wheat grades listed. Wheat futures are unsettled for September and May, corn is steady, butter and eggs print mixed retail and wholesale levels, potatoes cheese and poultry prices noted, with spot rye and flour details and futures activity across multiple contracts.
Cattle prices range from fair to fancy with steers similar to yearlings and cows listed at various dollars per hundredweight. Hogs show heavy packers at 6.50 to 6.70 and shipping barrows and sows around 6.75 to 7.00, with other weight classes cited in dollars per hundredweight.
South Omaha Nebraska August market notes show steady to slightly higher bids. Cattle prices for native cows and heifers around 2.00, steers about 5.00 to 8.50, stockers 2.50 to 6.60, mixed lots near 4.06, porkers 6.25 to 6.50, yearlings 4 to 5, sheep and lambs around 3.00 to 6.25 per unit, with overall market steady and careful demand.
A historical statistic estimates that 64 people in every 1,060,000 of the world population are blind. The figure reflects a broad public health concern about visual impairment across regions and eras.
Sullivan Indiana reports the demise of the 12 foot giant rattlesnake known as Big Jim. A boar fought the snake at a Thompson farm pig pen until John Bascomb shot the reptile in the neck. The milky skin measured twelve feet five inches with fourteen and three quarters inches at the widest, and the tail bore twenty nine rattles. the hide will be mounted.
American athletes returning from Britain recall courteous dinners offered by English hosts. Dorando reportedly accepted one invitation, while others note declined offers would have affected their condition.
Hedgewood Bay won both heats at Kalamazoo pace race, clocking 2 03 for the first and 2 03 for the second, setting a season record.
W M Corley a Des Moines Ill merchant was arrested in New York in front of a Broadway store where he met his wife awaiting him. A warrant charged him with abandonment after a Gerry society and district attorney investigation. Corley previously left his wife for Miss Gussie Solomon and moved to Chicago then Des Moines where he prospered in business.
President Schurman of Cornell declares there is only one Republican nominee for governor this year Charles E Hughes. He warns that rejecting Hughes would repudiate reform policies the party champions and could jeopardize Taft in New York and other key states.
Doc Newton of Newark in Eastern League struck out ten in a losing effort as his hoodoo follows him. A London correspondent reports Narganes losing a wrestling bout due to judges at a swimming crowd. he had not scored a fall. Ketchel plans to beat Joe Thomas, Papke aims for Burns, Kellermann pursues cash, Moonlight golf at Onwentsia under moonlight, Moonlight. White Sox acquire Easterly and Ellis, Giants lease polo grounds for 50 000 seats amid crowd rumors.
Market notes show daily corrected prices from Beyer Brothers. Items listed include butter at 15 cents per pound and spring chickens at 12 cents, with other poultry and produce entries poorly legible.
Four women jailed for street speaking without permits in Los Angeles host regular jail at home events on visiting days. Dorothea Johns, Bertha M Daily, Alice V Holloway, and Helen A Collins invite friends to attend gatherings at the city jail, with the first event drawing many callers. The women refuse bail and face trial on September 21.
A grain market brief notes mixed and white corn prices with references to yellow corn as a market term. It lists no clear bidders or quantities, but indicates ongoing price coverage and trading activity for corn across categories.
Market notes show Leghorn Steers at 6.40 to 6.50 dollars per hundredweight and Heifers 4.00 to 5.10 per cwt. Calves 4.50 to 5.00 per cwt. Cows 2.50 to 3.00 per cwt. Old sheep 3.50 to 4.00 per cwt. Bard at 9 percent per pound.
The Logansport Union Stock Yard quotes dairy prices and hogs with ranges for light and medium to heavy hogs. Calves sell from three to five fifty, while general dairy quotes and mixed cattle figures are shown in the market update.
John H. Zirkle of Philippi West Virginia reports his father long troubled by diarrhoea tried Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after seeing it advertised in the Philippi Republican. One bottle cured him and he has remained well though sixty years old and able to work as a young man. Sold by W H Ferter druggist.
The Logansport directory explains that all businesses are alphabetically arranged, citing printing houses under the letter Pp. This note illustrates the cataloging method used for locating trades and services within the city directory.
Columbia Brewing Co makers of the famous Columbia beer promote their product as a peerless brew. The ad notes a family trade in brewing and lists Telephone No. 40 for contact.
I Flour and Feed Co L Dilley and Co 515 Market Street offers flour feed and hay with telephone service at number 87 for local customers.
A historic ad from Merrill and Son at 432 High Street offers coal oil at 110c and gasoline at 14c. The message proclaims not being in the trust and invites readers to place a trial order.
Co L Dilley & Co at 5115 Market Street offers the highest grade coal along with horse feed lime cement and sewer pipe. Telephone number 87 provides contact for customers needing fuel and construction supplies.
Peek and Kandler at 514 North Street advertise carriage and wagon building painting and repair services with general blacksmithing. They promise reasonable prices and good workmanship.
Merrill and Son at 432 High Street advertise high test gasoline and coal oil that resists gumming stoves. They claim not to be in the trust and offer best gasoline at 14 cents and best coal oil at 10 cents with a call 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.
Cleaning and repairing services offered by H. Weber located at 310 Pearl Street. Clothing cleaned repaired pressed and tailoring available.
F. M. Bozer dentist advertises a downtown office at Fourth and Broadway opposite City National Bank with telephone 363 and residence at 1463.
A fragmented advertisement lists D. E. Deizeli with an office at 404% Market Street near Ray's grocery stairway and a residence at 1818 North Street. It provides phone numbers 253 for the office and 633 for the residence.
Advertisment for Young and Custer promoting harnesses buggies and wagons. Mentions two locations: 310 Fifth Street and 318 Market Street with phone numbers 723 and 948.
George H. Gise announces 5 percent loans and a full range of insurance products. Contact the corner room over Bowen bank with office phone 482 or residence phone 238 for details and arrangements.
S LUMBER Parker Johnston advertises specialty interior finishing and store fixtures. Yard mill and office at corner Spencer and Berkley streets. Telephone 1:4.
Eureka Novelty Works operated by Carl Nick at 313 Sixth Street offers nickel plating oxidizing bicycle and general machine shop repairs and model and novelty work plus wood and metal patterns.
H. Weber at 310 Pearl Street markets tailoring and repair services. Spring and summer patterns ready for inspection. Suits from $15 and up, trousers from $4 and up. Come and see.
H J Trah-Phone 92 offers practical timer and roofing services at 311 Fifth Street. Slate tin and metal roofing guttering spouting flue tops furnace repair and general repairs. all work promised in best possible manner.
An advertisement lists John Mehaffie of 318 Fifth Street offering galvanizing and roof work. Services include galvanized iron cornices skylights tin iron slate roofing and spouting. Also notes kinds of iron repairing.
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