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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
6
Corrected market notes list prices for dairy butter per pound and livestock by the cwt. Steers, heifers, calves, cows and sheep show ranges from about 2.00 to 5.10 per cwt with occasional per pound figures for certain items. The legible items identify dairy and livestock price quotes from two dealers.
Prices for hogs show light hogs at 4.50 to 4.75, medium and heavy 4.40 to 4.50, rough packers 3.90 to 4.50. Calves range 4.60 to 6.10 for good to choice and 4.05 to 5.05 for common to fair.
Fragmentary notice notes corrected daisy products by Dr Cook & Co with references to hides and associated business details. The readable text hints at revisions or adjustments dated in the early 1900s.
Sparking incidents fill the wire, reporting six prisoners escaped during a jail delivery in Fairmont West Virginia. Names or further details are not provided in the readable text.
Indianapolis March 30 The Indiana Republican state convention will meet Wednesday and Thursday to adopt a platform select four delegates at large to the national convention and nominate a state ticket. The body will instruct the Indiana delegation to vote for Vice President Fairbanks for the presidential nomination. Watson Miller Tay lor and Hugh Miller contend for the gubernatorial nomination with Overstreet likely as temporary chairman and Chaney as permanent chairman candidate. Two candidates for lieutenant governor Emmett Branch and Fremont Goodwine. seven nominations are uncontested.
The National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City reopened after a three month closure, carrying $6,000,000 in cash and exchange to cover a $12,000,000 deposit base. W. B. Ridgely becomes president and largest stockholder, with Edward Ridgely as cashier and George T. Cutts as vice president. Directors include D. R. Francis, W. A. Pickering, and Theodore Hemmelman of St. Louis.
Special to the reporter Rudolph Anholz the Boer lightweight dispenses boastful talk in New York before a planned forty five round showdown with Joe Gans in San Francisco on Decoration Day Gans seeks a $12000 guarantee. Anholz claims coast fame and ring dominance and vows to fight only after meeting Gans.
In Logansport a business directory offers broad exposure with alphabetic listing. Print shops and other services appear under appropriate letters, with moderate advertising costs and easy access for readers.
A Architects announces plans and specifications prepared for Carl J Horn with offices in the Stettiner building and telephone number 700.
The Columbia Brewing Co makers of the famous Columbia beer advertise a family trade and solicit customers by telephone, listing Telephone No. 40 as contact.
Advertising notice for Ed F Leonard at 222 Heath Street promoting coal at low prices plus wood and coke. L Dilley & Co at 515 Market Street advertises coal, horse feed lime cement and sewer pipe. Telephone numbers 1632 and 87 are listed.
KK Flour and Feed advertises flour feed and hay with street address and telephone number 87.
The store advertises special week pricing on blankets robes and other winter goods highlighting low prices and value for shoppers this season.
Insurance agents advertise fire life and casualty coverage with prompt claim settlement. J Knouff at Spry block Room 1 and George H Gise above Lewen bank offer 5 percent money and general insurance services with office and residence phones listed.
Peek and Kandler at 114 North Street offer carriage and wagon building painting and repair services. They advertise general blacksmithing, good work and reasonable prices with contact by phone 573.
H Weber offers clothing cleaning, repair, and pressing services at 310 Pearl Street. Tailoring available.
S Lumber Parker and Johnston run an interior finishing and store fixtures business. They claim the highest grade of work with a yard mill and office located at corner Spencer and Berkley streets. Telephone 112.
Eight business houses burned in Norris City Illinois on Sunday with contents destroyed. The drug store owned by J J L Burnett started the blaze, wiping out the East Main street business block and leaving a single brick chimney. Estimated losses run about 37800 dollars.
A wagon carrying Henry Gilhouse his wife and two infants swamped by a swollen Meramec river two miles west of Pacific Missouri. Gilhouse and one child drowned. Mrs. Gilhouse and the other child were saved by fishermen.
Father W S Reamey of the Brooklyn navy yard parish and Manila chaplain for Admiral Dewey was elected exalted ruler of the New York lodge of Elks in a close Sunday night contest. Reamey formerly hailed from Detroit.
Philadelphia March 30 The condition of United States Senator Penrose who is ill at his home here continues favorable and his recovery is now hoped for.
George R. Pulford reports from Mallen Texas on his encounter with Tim Murtiana the famed baseball editor known as dean high priest and chief jabernak of the honorable clan while observing the Rostein Red Stockings training camp at Little Rock tests.
In a playful note, Van Oeyen shoots Tim in a photo, illustrating his enduring youth and upbeat mood after 473 years. The image showcases Tim’s spirited demeanor and a keepsake moment.
A military qualifications committee in St. Petersburg asks Generals Fock and Reiss to resign over alleged complicity in the Port Arthur surrender to Japan. General Heiss complied. Fock resisted pending investigations into his duel with General Smirnof. General Stoessel remains imprisoned and is writing memoirs.
D DENTISTS listing for F. M. Bozer D D and D E Deizell with office addresses Fourth and Broadway near City National Bank and 404 Market Street plus residences 1463 and 1918 North Street. Includes telephone numbers 363 253 and 622. Whole satisfaction promised.
Philip Voorhees dealer in lumber hardware and planing mill work solicits patronage. Office and yard 400 Sycamore Street phone 364.
The Misses Hendersons School on Music operates at 1317 Market Street offering music lessons and classes. Details on programs and schedules are not provided in the fragment.
Martin, Tex, March 30. Manager McGraw pushes the Giants to a pennant with a stronger team, a hard driving routine, and a deep pitching staff led by Matthewson Ames Taylor McGinnity Wiltie and others. The squad trains under a demanding manager who demands full effort, precision, and a winning mindset.
The fragment notes that those who owe no coal bills may not feel spring is arriving late, implying differing perspectives on seasonal timing based on financial obligations.
The dialogue notes a Chicago group of anarchists with Emma Goldman as their spokesman. The exchange questions the existence of a formal group and suggests Goldman speaks for anarchist ideas.
Reporters recount a rural house raising where Jasper's wife reacts to a cider binge with a sharp quip. Her quick comeback follows the moment the crowd laughs, sparking lighthearted chatter among neighbors.
Co A Price at 315 Court Street advertises granite and marble monuments with artistic work and reasonable prices. It invites customers to obtain estimates and outlines location in rear interurban station and contact by phone 110.
All kinds of job printing available at Reporter Office 525 Broadway. Services include letter heads envelopes bill heads statements business cards invitations and more. A phone call will bring the man with samples for prompt service.
CDC Mathews buys and sells second hand house furnishings and articles of every description. Highest prices paid for second hand goods. Bargains in stores rockers dining chairs and more including a cash register two incubators a tailor and a collier Singer sewing machine. Other articles too numerous to mention. 207 Sixth street. Phone 636.
H Weber merchant and agent tailor offers spring and summer patterns ready for inspection. Suits start at 15 dollars and up, trousers at 4 dollars and up. Come and see.
Advertisement for H J Trah Tinners at 311 Fifth Street offering slate tin and metal roofing guttering spouting and furnace repairs plus general repairs with promise of best possible workmanship.
John Mehaffie offers galvanized iron corners skylights tin iron slate roofing and spouting repair services at 218 Fifth Street with telephone 59. All kinds of tin work provided.
In the heart of the theatre district a la carte cafe breakfast and table d hote dinners are offered. Music runs from 6 p.m. to 12 p.m. Five rooms have baths and European plan rates are one dollar fifty per day. Managed by W. Tuller and M.A Shaw.
The report notes the Giants lack a hitter list to compare with the first seven in the Giant lineup. It adds that the Cubs’ batting strength, combined with team play and defense, should make for a tight race this year and possibly a pennant.
The union label presses for an eight hour day as job relief, signaling pressure on labor standards. The push aims to improve working conditions and curb excessive hours within the industry.
A Waynetown Indiana man hails Chamberlains Cough Remedy as unequaled for curing croup when given at the first sign of the cough. The product is sold by W. H. Porter.
An advertisement invites readers to visit Colonial Country Club Hotel to drink the springs water and bath for kidney liver and stomach ailments. It promises affordable benefits and offers five gallons of mineral water shipped with the physician's advice for home treatment for a $2 fee.
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