Lou Dillon Trotting Queen Births Her Second Baby
Cleveland report notes Lou Dillon the trotting queen welcomes her second foal. Details on the dam and yearling not yet released.
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1908
Page
6
Cleveland report notes Lou Dillon the trotting queen welcomes her second foal. Details on the dam and yearling not yet released.
Geese capons turkeys and butter prices listed by Bishop Elevator Co with per pound figures. Wheat ranges from 5.40 to 5.50 dollars per bushel and other grain prices noted as 3 to 4 and 12 to 14 in cited units.
Daily market report shows hog prices ranging from 4.50 to 5.55 dollars, with light hogs at 5.40 to 5.50 and medium heavy hogs at 5.50 to 5.55. Calves are listed from 4.00 to 6.09 dollars for various grades.
Daily correction issued by D W Cook and Company lists hides and wool categories with price updates. The notice includes No 1 hides and No 2 hides entries, indicating market quotes for hides as recorded.
Chicago markets show flour steady with varied wheat futures and mixed export bag prices for patni and jute. May wheat ranges from 8% to 9% amid bearish signals. corn and oats slower with prices drifting. butter eggs and potatoes listed with standard farm gate quotes. New York follows with quiet flour demand and spot grain prices easing for several grades.
A Chicago market summary lists cattle and hog prices by grade. Steers range from good to fancy with top values around $6.75 to $7.80, while heifers and cows show broad spreads. Hog quotes cover heavy packers to pigs, with prices from about $2.75 to $8.60 depending on weight and grade.
Cattle market slow and lower in Omaha with native steers 5.00 to 7.00, cows 3.25 to 6.00, western and Texas steers 3.00 to 5.25, range cows 2.75 to 5.00, canners 2.50 to 3.50, feeders and calves 20 to 25, bulls 3.25 to 4.75. Hogs a shade stronger with heavy 5.42 to 5.47, mixed 5.40 to 5.42, pigs 4.25 to 5.00, bulk 5.40 to 5.42.
Cardinal Logue of Ireland denounces divorce as a growing harm and says Catholic law could end the trouble. He prefers polygamy only as a worse option, argues for marrying within one’s country and with trusted partners, and comments on Anna Gould and Prince de Sagan seeking papal sanction. Genoa reports Anna Gould and children with Prince Helie de Sagon arriving from Rome for a brief stop before Monte Carlo.
Baseball results list several league games with teams such as Pittsburg, New York, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Washington, Philadelphia and others. Scores are shown for American League, American Association, Central League, Western League and Three I League, detailing opponents and city names with partial records.
New Orleans on May 13 Raymond Campbell aged twelve declares himself champion one legged high jumper. He won two firsts in a city wide track meet taking first in the ninety five pound class with four feet one and a half inches and then topped the unlimited weight class with four feet nine inches despite losing a leg in a street car accident. He jumps with his left leg after discarding a crutch and hops to the bar before leaping over. His performance helped his school win the meet.
An elderly ad copy-style notice touts Pape s Diapepsin as a five minute cure for sour stomach and indigestion. It claims the remedy digests all food types quickly, purifies the stomach, and reduces symptoms like bloating gas and belching.
Paris May 13 Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch aged forty seven died recently in Paris. Great grandson of Karageorge who freed Servia, he chose work over throne, earning a living as a metal worker and jeweler. He kept a small house with his mother and a Slav retainer until debt forced sale. He laughed at poverty and kept his dignity, earning two dollars fifty cents a day with fellow workers.
Mrs Harriett Doolittle visited the city treasurer to settle a cemetery lot. She paid five dollars and gave a ten dollar note. The treasurer noted eight percent interest exceeded the lot’s price. An attorney advised that interest need not be paid since twenty years have passed since purchase.
James Phillips was identified Tuesday as the murderer of August Schmidt a watchman at the Pullman shops. Schmidt was killed by a burglar.
Excursion to Danville via the Wabash railroad on Sunday May 17. Round trip fare is 1.25 dollars. Departure from Togans Port at 9:33 a.m.
Rheumatism is described as the worst ailment causing pain and sleeplessness. Chamberlain's Pain Balm is advertised as giving relief, enabling rest and sleep, with temporary relief sometimes becoming permanent. Old chronic cases may not be curable, but relief from pain is sold as worth the cost. available in 25 and 50 cent sizes from W. H. for sale.
Colonial Country Club Hotel West Baden Springs Indiana promotes mineral water cures for kidney liver stomach ailments and nervousness. It offers five gallons of mineral water shipped with physician's advice for home treatment for a $2 fee.
A mother's friend asks a boy what he wants for New Year. He jokes that he would like a dozen shirts. He explains he cannot do it, as it would cost him a day’s work and ten francs.
John McWatt of Morocco reeled sixteen pickerel from the Kankakee River weighing six to twenty pounds each. The catch highlights a productive day for the local angler along the riverbank.
The Logansport business directory notes that all listings are alphabetically arranged, with every business category ordered by name such as printers under Pp. The structure helps locate vendors quickly by standard letter grouping and sectioning.
Advertising a professional office of Carl J. Horn located in the Stettiner building with telephone number 706. Plans and specifications are prepared with care for clients seeking design or drafting services.
Columbia Brewing Co makers of the Columbia beer promote a family trade with the slogan a beer that has no peer. Telephone number 40 listed.
Flour, feed and hay offered by L Dilley & Co at 515 Market Street. Telephone number 87 listed for inquiries and orders.
The Merrill & Son store at 422 High Street hawks high test gasoline and coal oil that resists gum in stoves. They advertise prices of 14 cents for gasoline and 19 cents for coal oil and invite customers to drop a cart for a trial order.
Merrill and Son at 432 High Street advertises coal oil at 10 cents and gasoline at 14 cents and states they are not in the trust inviting readers to give them a trial order.
Ed F Leonard offers coal and fuel at competitive prices under the slogan The best coal for the least money He sells wood and coke from his Heath street shop contact number is 1632 for orders and inquiries.
Co L Dilley and Co at 515 Market Street advertises high grade coal horse feed lime cement and sewer pipe with telephone service listed as 87 for customer inquiries.
Carriage and wagon building painting and repairing general blacksmithing offered. Good work with reasonable prices. Phone 573 for Peek and Kandler on North Street.
H Weber offers clothing cleaning, repair, and pressing services at 310 Pearl Street plus tailoring.
F M Bozer D D S dental practice listed at the corner of Fourth and Broadway over City National Bank. Includes telephone Bece 363 and residence 1463.
Office located at 404 Market Street with stairway east of Ray's Grocery. Phone 253. Residence at 1918 North Street with phone 622. Satire satisfaction.
An old reliable dealer advertises honest goods at reasonable prices. Locations listed are 310 Fifth Street phone 728 and 318 Market Street phone 248. The ad promotes harnesses buggies and wagons as the product line.
Insurance notice for Cc Knouff room 1 Spry block offers fire life and casualty coverage with prompt settlement of claims and contact by phone 1240.
George H. Gise offers five percent money and a full line of insurance. Provides office phone 482 and residence phone 238.
L. Lumber and Parker Johnston specialize in interior finishing and store fixtures. They offer high grade workmanship with a yard mill and office located at Spencer and Berkley streets. Telephone 112.
Price at 315 Court Street offers granite and marble monuments. Located rear interurban station, Phone 1100. Manufacturers invite estimates and present artistic work at reasonable prices.
A listing notes Misses Henderson's School of Music located at 1317 Market street. The brief item confirms address and existence of the music school in the city directory.
The office at 125 Broadway offers job printing including letter heads envelopes statements business cards invitations and more. A phone call will bring the man with samples for prompt service.
Second Hand 30008. D. C. Mathews offers bargains in new and second hand house furnishings. High and low grade bicycles and sundries at second hand prices. Highest prices paid for second hand goods. Motto: Satisfaction, many sales and small profits. 207 Sixth street. Phone 636.
H Weber, merchant tailor and agent, announces spring and summer patterns ready for inspection. Suits start at 15 dollars and up, trousers at 4 dollars and up. Come and see.
H J Trah at 311 Fifth Street offers slate tin and metal roofing guttering spouting flue tops furnace repair and general repair services. All work performed in best possible manner.
John Mehaffie offers galvanized iron car tin skylights tin iron slate and iron repair housing spouting services at 218 Fifth Street telephone 59.
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