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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
6
Daily quotations for capons and butter reported by Bishop Elevator Co. Details are sparse with fragmented lines but indicate prices and market updates for the regional agricultural trade.
Daily quotes from Logansport Union Stock Yards show hogs and calves with varying prices. Hogs medium heavy range 4.25 to 4.35 dollars. Calves good to choice priced 4.60 to 6.10 dollars.
A corrected notice appears from D. Vv. Cook & Co regarding the hides and wool trade. Details reflect updates to earlier statements and pricing, with emphasis on proper records and consumer clarity.
Grain and provisions move firm with strong flour markets in Chicago and steady to tame wheat values. May and July futures show slight changes while corn oats and butter reflect modest shifts. New York reports mixed prices, with rye flour and oats remaining steady and various wheat grades quoted.
Market notes show cattle and hog prices in Chicago and South Omaha on March 13. Chicago lists ranges for steers cows and heifers and hogs with mixed quality. South Omaha reports stronger cattle demand and varied hogs prices including heavy and light categories.
A Siberian Dukhtarminsk district avalanche kills eighteen. Hugh Hollis a Washington treasury clerk born in Louisville shot his wife. German torpedo boat S 12 sunk by an unknown steamer at Elbe mouth. Five criminals die during an attempted jail escape in Orel Russia. John Brown’s wagon destroyed at Iowa City. Five hundred poisoned at a church social in Upper Sandusky Ohio. Amoskeag mills in Manchester NH post ten percent wage cut notices. Roslyn Roslyn board of trade accepts Mrs. Clarence H Mackay for membership. McKeesport Pa St Peters church school scare led to pupil absenteeism. Ontario lumbermen seek removal of tan bark export embargo to the US. Providence fire aboard a Fail River line steamer averted catastrophe in Long Island Sound. David Fratt of Billings Mont named president of the state board.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapensia Triangules for quick relief of indigestion and dyspepsia. The copy claims five minute relief, sour stomach, and stomach cleanliness, urging readers to ask pharmacists for the 50 cent case and to use one Triangule after meals.
San Francisco report profiles Grandma McKay a resilient widow who raised eight children, served as a sentry and spy in the war, built a store after a deadly fire, baked 104 loaves daily, rejects a pension, and earns the title Grandma of the Pacific during 1885 sufficiency era.
J Z Powell argues that closing saloons will benefit families and workmen, asserting prohibition elevates manhood and harms the saloon as a social evil. He contends anti saloon efforts are not aimed at labor but at removing alcohol’s moral and economic damage.
Stock commissioners and a wealthy cattleman pleaded guilty to fencing 7,960 acres of public land. An organized drive to Chicago to clear Lazarus Averbuch’s name emerged, revealing a secret fund of $100,000 raised for the effort.
A socialist demonstration for universal suffrage in Budapest led to three hours of rioting Friday night. Police and rioters were wounded by revolver shots and stones. fifty people were arrested. The clash involved socialists using revolvers and stones and occurred in the city.
A fire at the Columbia Conserve company plant on Meridian street near the Belt railroad tracks in Indianapolis caused about 125000 in damages. Most of the loss was to stock as water flooded the building on Friday evening.
Springfield report states Rev J T Orr aged 78, a 50 year Methodist Episcopal church preacher in Illinois, was found dead in bed at his Sidell son in law Rev J B Pawsom’s home Friday.
A Springfield jury acquitted James Roberts aged 73 of murdering his employer Franklin Larkin operator of a local sawmill. The verdict ends the high profile case that captivated the town through the week.
Carlisle Center resident G B Burhans writes that four years after using Foley's Kidney Cure he remains symptom free. He claims brick dust sediment stopped, pain disappeared, and he remains cured with no relapse. W H Porter endorses the remedy.
Harold Barnes has been re-elected as principal of the Princeton schools for a four-year term. The announcement confirms the continuation of his leadership and outlines next steps for the district.
The bid for general women suffrage failed by a razor narrow margin in Michigan's constitutional convention. A separate provision granting women taxpayers the right to vote on tax questions passed by a strong majority, extending voting rights to any woman meeting age residence registration and tax roll requirements in districts affected by the election.
I, ANY STORE OR BUSINESS MAY BE EFFECTIVELY ADVERTISED IN THE BUSINESS DIRECTORY AT A MODERATE COST ALL BUSINESSES ARE ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED FOR INSTANCE IF YOU WANT A PRINTING HOUSE YOU WILL FIND IT UNDER P
Carl J. Horn office in the Stettiner building offers carefully prepared plans and specifications. Telephone 700.
The Columbia Brewing Co advertises its Columbia beer as peerless and seeks family trade. The ad lists telephone number 40 for inquiries or orders.
Ed F. Leonard at 224 Heath street offers coal at best price with wood and coke. L Dilley & Co. at 515 Market street provides coal and horse feed lime cement and sewer pipe. Telephone numbers 1632 and 87 accompany the listings.
Peek and Kandler advertise carriage and wagon building painting and repairing services at 514 North Street. They offer general blacksmithing, good work, and reasonable prices and provide a phone contact 573.
H Weber at 310 Pearl Street offers clothing cleaning, repair, pressing, and tailoring services.
Dental surgeons listed with office and residence addresses. F M Bozer D D S at Fourth and Broadway over City National Bank with phone 363. D E Delzell at 404 Market Street with stairway east of Ray's grocery, phone 253, residence 1918 North Street with phone 622. Entire satisfaction.
C L Dilley & Co offer flour feed and hay at 515 Market Street with telephone service via number 87. This small ad highlights their range of goods and local contact details.
Ed Osborne at 122 Sixth Street successor to John M. Thompson offers expert horseshoeing with prompt and satisfactory work guaranteed.
The store offers special weekly prices on blankets robes and other winter merchandise to attract customers this week.
Knouff Room 1 Spry block advertises fire life accident and casualty insurance from old and tried companies. It promises prompt settlement of claims and lists phone contact 1240.
George H. Gise lists 5 percent money for loans and offers all kinds of insurance. Contact at 482 office and 238 residence to arrange services.
Parker Johnston offers high grade interior finishing and store fixtures. Yard mill and office located at corner Spencer and Berkley streets. Telephone 112.
Philip Voorhees dealer in lumber hardware and planing mill work solicits patronage. Office and yard at 400 Sycamore Street. Phone not listed.
The Misses Henderson's School Music operates at 1317 Market Street offering instruction in music. The listing notes a local educational venue focused on developing musical skills.
C A Price offers granite and marble monuments from a rear interurban station location. Artistic work priced within reason. Call 1108 for estimates on your monument needs.
All kinds of job printing offered from letter heads to business cards, envelopes, statements, invitations and more. Call 70 to reach the samples and prompt service from the office at 525 Broadway.
GCC advertises buying and selling of second hand goods and new furnishings. It lists rockers dining chairs a cash register two incubators a tailor's and a sewing machine aand other items with high prices paid. Located at 207 Sixth Street and phone 656.
H. Weber offers tailoring and repair services at 310 Pearl Street as spring and summer patterns arrive. Suits start at 15 dollars and up, trousers at 4 dollars and up. Come see.
H J Trah offers slate tin and metal roofing guttering spouting furnace tops and general repairs. Located at 311 Fifth Street. Timely service and workmanship emphasized.
John Mehaffie lists address at 318 Fifth Street and phone 59 offering galvanized iron cornices skylights tin roofing spouting tin and iron repairs and related services in a concise local ad.
A digest of historic major and minor league marks including most runs in a game 30 by Chicago against Cleveland in 1882, longest games 24 and 26 innings, single season win totals, attendance records, and notable fielding and pitching feats featuring names like Barrett Donohue Keeler Evers Allen and Waddell among others.
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