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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1908
Page
6
Daily market quotes show turkeys and butter linked to Bishop Elevator Co corn prices. Prices for live cattle calves cows old sheep and hogs are listed with per hundredweight ranges from regional traders.
Daily stock market prices from Logansport Union show bid ranges for cattle hogs and calves. Cattle quoted around 4.30 to 4.50, hogs at 3.75 to 4.35, calves between 4.05 and 6.19 depending on quality.
Correction notice from D. Cook & Co. clarifies terms on hides and wool dealings. Read as a brief business erratum indicating adjustments to previous price or duty details and instructing buyers and sellers to reference updated rates.
Chicago grain and provisions show a strong flour market and mixed wheat with May and July futures. Corn remains unsteady while oats hold steady, butter and eggs quoted with various grades, and live poultry prices noted alongside potato ranges. New York flour and wheat futures show spot prices modestly steady, with corn and oats also listed.
South Omaha Nebraska March 16 cattle steady to stronger with native steers 4.50 to 6.00, cows and heifers 3.00 to 5.25, western and Texas steers up to 5.40 and 4.25 respectively. Hogs show a shade stronger with heavy 4.40 to 4.50, mixed 4.40 to 4.45, light 4.00 to 4.75. Sheep bids lift 10 to 15 cents with yearlings 5.75 to 6.76, wethers 5.40 to 6.40, lambs 8.0 to 8.6.
Mrs. A H Mitchell former Wisconsin club leader dies in La Crosse aged 5. Bernard Latsky Newark expressman wins a three story house in a temple raffle. Margaret Borden 15 of Trenton commits suicide after father objects to a suitor. Raymond Hitchcock acquitted on one indictment after Florence Whiston testimony. Rev Ernest Willoughby Jewell joins Roman Catholic clergy in Manistee. London Times sale ended by court order for private takeover. Countess Buena Vista vs Brooke damages case decided against countess by US Supreme Court. Harvey wills support Illinois institutions with gifts including Wesleyan University 20000 and land 25000 to Grand Prairie Seminary.
An old vegetable treatment described as a simple prescription cleanses the kidneys and aids filtration of toxins. It targets age related kidney and bladder weakness with compounds Kar yon, Fluid Extract Dandelion, and Syrup Sarsaparilla taken after meals and at night, with ample water.
A land gift valued at 25000 is made to the Methodist church as part of a larger endowment. The transfer benefits the church by expanding its property holdings and potential future use.
Police reveal and arrest in Paris tied to an attempted theft of 240000 from C B Richards and Co bankers in New York. Gustavo Bozzo, 28, a former stenographer, confessed and named two forgers who allegedly executed the letter of credit fraud and had recently been released from prison. The gang had already obtained 36025 before discovery.
Nearly 800 beer bottlers and handlers at the Anheuser Busch brewery walked out in sympathy with 450 wagon drivers who refused union membership and were discharged last week. The company promptly filled vacancies with both union and non union workers.
A quip about Lent surfaces with a devilish reply. The speaker asks why Lent is kept and the devil responds with a pun on lending. The exchange frames a playful moral pun within a compact line of satire.
Colonial Country Club offers Ameri can Plan rates from $2.50 to $3.50 daily with private baths and weekly specials. Readers are invited to drink the water and bathe for claimed cures including kidney liver stomach ailments and nervous complaints. For home treatment five gallons of mineral water can be shipped with doctor’s advice after sending $2 and symptoms.
An old dime museum scene features The Professor Sammy and Sambo debating second sight and fortune telling. Sammy answers with clairvoyant quips while Sambo jokes about stolen watermelons and a fortune that foretells a shot after amassing millions. The exchange mixes slang and stage banter in a vaudeville tone.
Richmond March 17 Miss Elizabeth Lamb president of the Society of the Daughters of Senators and Representatives says the group aims for social activity with no politics. Membership starts at over fifty and may reach several hundred. dances and card parties will begin in Washington after Easter with married daughters of congressmen eligible.
During a summer trip to New York several White Sox players dined at a fine restaurant. Charley Hickman called for toothpicks the garden supplied and his interest was drawn by the name of the maker on a toothpick container.
Plans and specifications carefully prepared by Carl J. Horn for office in the Stettiner building with telephone number 700.
A brief advertisement notes Columbia Brewing Co the makers of the famous Columbia beer inviting family trade and listing Telephone No. 40.
C Coal and Flel offers coal at best prices with wood and coke options. Ed F Leonard at 22 Heath Street provides contact number 1632. C L Dilley & Co lists 515 Market Street with phone 87 offering high grade coal and horse feed lime cement and sewer pipe.
Local advertisement for a flour and feed firm, listing L. Dilley & Co. at 515 Market Street with flour hay and feed supplies and telephone number 87.
Ed Osborne successor to John M. Thompson offers expert horseshoeing at 122 Sixth Street with prompt work and guaranteed satisfaction.
Advertises Young and Custer offering discounts on blankets robes and winter goods for the week with focus on harnesses buggies and wagons.
Peek and Kandler advertise carriage and wagon building painting and repairing. General blacksmithing offered with reasonable prices and good workmanship at 514 North Street, phone 573.
H Weber offers cleaning and repair services at 310 Pearl Street including cloth ing cleaned pressed repaired and tailoring.
Insurance advertisement listing Knouff agency in Spry block Room 1 with Fire Life Accident and Casualty coverage. Promotes prompt settlement of claims and mentions old and trusted companies.
George H. Gise offers 5 percent money and insurance of all kinds. Corner room over Bowen bank. Office phone 482 and residence phone 238.
S Lumber Parker and Johnston advertise interior finishing and store fixtures with high quality work. Yard mill and office located at Spencer and Berkley streets. telephone 112.
D DENTISTS. F. M. Bozer D D S at Fourth and Broadway over City National Bank. Office phone 363 residence 1463. D E Delzeli Office 404 Market Street stairway east of Rays Grocery. Phone 253 residence 1918 North Street Phone 622. Entire satisfaction.
Philip Voorhees operates a lumber and hardware business with planing mill work and invites patronage. The office and yard are located at 400 Sycamore Street. Phores Yoda.
A local school for music is listed as The Misses Henderson's School Music located at 1317 Market Street.
Hick finds each toothpick stamped with a name and suspects the unidentified maker. Nick Alt rock jokes the autograph proves the man is conceited, while Doc White questions the habit and the motive behind stamping names on every piece.
Three young socialites from Cleveland fell ill after drinking lobster cocktail at a city restaurant. Prone to pto maine poisoning, the women remain dangerously ill at their homes, with one mother confirming the festive drink caused the incident. The two men at the table did not drink the cocktail.
Price 315 Court Street in rear of interurban station offers granite and marble monuments. Manufacturer provides artistic work at reasonable prices and invites estimates. Telephone 1106.
P Printing offers all kinds of job printing from letter heads to invitations. Quick turnover and samples available by phone at Office-525 Broadway.
G C Mathews offers new and secondhand house furnishings bought and sold. They pay top prices for used goods and current bargains include rockers dining chairs a cash register two incubators a tailor's and a cobbler's Singer sewing machine and many other items. 207 Sixth Street Phone 64.
H Weber at 310 Pearl Street advertises tailoring and repairing services. Spring and summer patterns are ready for inspection with suits from 15 dollars and trousers from 4 dollars.
H J Trah offers slate tin and metal roofing guttering spouting flue tops furnace repairs and general repairs. Located at 311 Fifth Street. Timely work done in best possible manner with attention to detail.
John Mehaffie at 318 Fifth Street offers galvanised iron cornices skylights tin iron and slate roofing and spouting plus all kinds of tin and iron repairing including repairing services for sheet metal and barns.
Vivian Edwards, a Nebraska pioneer scout and paraplegic, aims to drive a goat team coast to coast from San Diego to New York. He traveled 4 000 miles in 272 days from Hastings to San Diego, aided by his son and another rider, with plans to continue with J R Johnson joining for the eastward leg.
Mary Schmidt an instructor in chemistry at a Black Creek school died in Chicago from blood poisoning. She attended a January 23 masquerade in Appleton dressed as Satan and could not remove the home-made grease paints. Doctors failed to remove the paints at first and she was later moved to Chicago for treatment.
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