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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
7
The corrected daily coal market report from Sever Brothers provides updated prices and trends for coal shipments, reflecting adjustments in supply, demand, and regional pricing across key markets. It outlines price changes, delivery remarks, and potential impact on buyers and sellers in the sector.
Daily market data shows prices for hogs calves and hides with ranges. Hogs medium and heavy quoted 4.10 to 4.50 dollars, rough packers 3.80 to 4.20, calves good to choice 4.60 to 6.49, common to fair 4.05 to 5.05, hides listed as No 1 and No 2 with corrected daily notes.
Chicago reports flour firm with spring wheat quotes and export bag prices. May wheat and corn futures show limited gains while oats dull. Butter creamery grades rise. eggs and potatoes edge higher in New York and mixed commodity activity spans rye flour and grain futures.
Chicago market shows calves at 6.00 to 6.73, hogs 4.85 to 5.15, cows 2.50 to 5.50, and bulls 2.75 to 5.00 while Omaha reports cattle 3.50 to 6.75, cows 2.75 to 5.50, steers 4.00 to 5.75, hogs steady near 4.70 to 4.90, and sheep at 5.50 to 7.90 with yearlings 6.25 to 7.00 and lambs 6.75 to 7.90.
The American car in the New York to Paris race arrived in San Francisco far ahead of rivals. A separate report notes a deadly railway collision in Mercer county Kentucky with 3 dead and 17 injured. John Good, ex president of National Cordage, died of pneumonia in Brooklyn. Reichstag leader Groeber apologized for calling reporters swine after a ban on Reichstag news was lifted. Pasquale Pati, wealthy New York banker, fled after killing a Blank Hand member. John W. Stewart of Middlebury, ex governor of Vermont, named to the U S Senate to fill Redfield Proctor’s death vacancy.
San Lake Michigan March 25 The floor of a kitchen collapsed during an auction at the Loren Gage home eight miles west of the village. Twenty persons were injured as occupants were dumped into the cellar with two boilers of hot coffee.
Four hunters sighted a hand protruding from the water at Carabel slough near Granite City as they searched Tuesday, leading to the discovery of a murdered man. Police cordon off the area and begin identifying the victim and motives.
Digestive aid Papes Diapepsin is described as harmless and effective for indigestion sour stomach and heartburn. A 50 cent case contains 22 grain triangules to aid digestion after meals, with claims of rapid relief and improved appetite.
Washington column recalls the March 23 dispatch by Rath noting public fascination with man carrying flying machines. It cites Baldwin’s 319 foot hop at Hammondport New York and references Wright, Santos-Dumont, and Farman as precedents, pondering how air travel could reshape war, commerce, and diplomacy.
The speaker contrasts early rail travel with modern speeds and luxury, noting the B and O locomotive era and the Chicago to New York limited. He argues true prophets are astronomers who project future events through logic and mathematics across years and beyond.
Hot Springs Ark March 25 Can the Detroit club repeat the trick and win another American League pennant The Tigers led by Hugh Jennings face questions about pitching batting and fielding with Summers the likely starter Donovan absent and Joss unavailable The outfield of Crawford Jones McIntyre Cobb remains strong but the infield and catcher positions draw scrutiny as Detroit weighs a repeat bid built on Jennings leadership.
The surface of the stream yielded the body of William Stein, missing two weeks. A bullet wound in the head indicates murder. Stein worked at a rolling mill earning $10 daily. In his pockets were a silver watch, a razor, and 15 cents.
Walter L. Weaver a prominent young attorney and son of Supreme Court Judge 8 M Weaver has vanished. Reports say he left town about a month ago claiming a short business trip with visits to Iowa City and Des Moines.
August Hudlebrink aged 21, temporarily insane, set straw afire in his father’s barn near Genoa Ohio and shot himself. The blaze burned the barn and contents, valued at about 2000 dollars, and Hudlebrink perished.
Ralph C. Many a Rhodes scholar from New Orleans was washed off rocks and drowned at Port Isaac in Cornwall on Tuesday. He secured his Oxford appointment in 1905 and studied at Queens.
In Logan I a at midnight the jury found Editor A H Sniff not guilty of the murder of M and Brundridge. Sniff pleaded self defense and was acquitted.
"Besides being an excellent remedy for colds and throat troubles, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is unequaled as a cure for croup," says Harry Wilson of Waynetown Indiana. When given as soon as the croup cough appears, this remedy will prevent the attack. It is used successfully in many thousand homes. For sale by W. H. Porter.
A letter discusses applying logic to invention and predicts a powered flying machine will transform geopolitics within fifty years. The author cites the Hammondsport Red Wing and compares it to Langley’s aerodrome, noting patent office misclassification and his own cautious stance. The writer signs as Rath, addressing readers with Cassandra-like caution.
Caney Kansas reports the famous Caney gasser has gone cold after two years of a spectacular flame. The column of fire once roared by day and glowed like a giant beacon, drawing wide attention to the field and its history.
The Caney gas well, once visible 24 miles away and drawing visitors from the Mississippi valley, shows no outrush after a recent test. A cave-in may have shut off gas. prior immense flows reached 66,900,000 cubic feet daily, and the well burned dramatically during a thunderstorm before the third cap.
In Jeffersonville Indiana a historic chapel collection raises 882 dollars for a pipe organ at the Indiana reformatory attracting 1200 inmates as funds approach 900 with Governor Hanly and Rev W E Edgin leading the effort. The drive taps inmate overtime pay and promises a milestone in penal church services.
Colonial Country Club advertises American plan rooms for 2.50 to 3.50 per day with private baths and yearly rates. It promotes mineral water baths claiming to cure kidney liver stomach ailments and nervous complaints and offers home treatment by mail with physician guidance.
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