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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
6
Daily market notes derived from Beyer Bros Bishop Elevator Co and W Routh listings. Animal and grain prices shown include turkeys butter per pound, corn white mixed yellow, rye, and cattle categories such as steers heifers calves cows and old sheep with varied per cent hundredweight ranges. Corrected rates indicate small fluctuations across commodities and livestock categories.
Quoted daily by the Logansport Union Stock Yards. Hogs range from 5.10 to 5.20 for light hogs about 5.15 to 5.25 for medium to heavy. Calves, common to fair, priced from 3.00 to 5.50.
Corrected daily market notes note hides and wool values with details on hides, peat hogs, and sale prices. Includes references to dealers and regional market activity with brief price guidance and adjustments.
Grain and flour markets show steady to firm prices with multiple grades. Wheat and corn futures move within narrow ranges alongside butter eggs and potatoes in a detailed commodity snapshot from Chicago and New York markets.
Omaha Nebraska May 27 cattle market active and stronger with ranges for natives westerns Texas stockers and calves. Hogs show mixed prices with heavies and mixed barrows and sows trading and light barrows and pigs noted. Sheep market steady with yearlings and lambs listed.
Washington Prohibitionists cheer as both major parties pledge local option and prohibition at state conventions in Spokane. Democrats back a constitutional amendment to ban manufacture and sale, while Republicans endorse local option and Taft support. Prohibitionists may merge with major parties or endorse both platforms.
Toledo May 28 Roy Knabenshue the famed aeronaut plans a ten day attempt for the American airship record flying from Toledo to Cleveland a 112 mile route. He will pilot a new 112 foot long airship with a fifty horsepower motor and a dual forward wicker basket for passengers.
A Clinton, May 28 item reports a prominent local woman’s letter offering a thousand dollars amid the Snell will case. The missive hints at marital trade and social corruption, with witnesses recounting how Col Tom Snell ogled women on street cars and spoke with audacity.
Wednesday results across leagues show scores for the National League American Association Central League Three I League and Western League with teams from Chicago Pittsburg Cincinnati New York Boston Philadelphia Detroit Washington St Paul Milwaukee Louisville Minneapolis Zanesville South Bend Fort Wayne Terre Haute Evansville Clinton Dubuque Rock Island Cedar Rapids Peoria Sioux City Des Moines Lincoln Pueblo Omaha Omaha and others totaling multiple games and innings logged. Standout tallies include high scoring in some games such as Terre Haute 12 Evansville 13 and Denver 3 10 7 as well as doubleheader notes for Pueblo Omaha and other matchups.
Eddie Green known as Hettie's Eddie entertains at the Dallas base ball park. He arrives in a $7,000 auto, carries a diamond studded gold case of Turkish cigarettes, and sits beside reporters. His wealth comes from railroads real estate and other ventures.
A quip comparing enduring humor to a tired Merry Widow Hat joke notes the Potomac bones gag has longer life. The exchange mocks weak jokes while highlighting sharper humor in a light editorial aside.
John W. Greene, a laborer at Mun cie, was overcome with heat while putting on a sewer and is in a serious condition.
Henry McDonald of Terre Haute, who killed Detective Dwyer and injured himself, has recovered enough to stand trial. Local authorities plan proceedings to pursue charges related to the fatal shooting.
The four year old child of Taylor in SRE for Oakland City ate several strawberries and died. Physicians say the fruit was poison.
Chicago police round up men with prior records in a bid to solve the murder of Robert C. P. Holmes purchasing agent for Commonwealth Electric. A bloody thumbprint on Holmes’s shirt guides the probe. investigators suspect a robber’s motive.
Dr. Raymond Sullivan of St Marys hospital saved Policeman Coles Carpenter after a trolley car crash left a torn leg and mortification. He first heated the limb to 209 degrees to draw blood, then cooled it in an ammonia ice bath to remove impurities, preventing amputation and saving life and leg.
A legless man arrested in Brooklyn told the magistrate he is a buck and wing dancer and would likely get help from the Arm less Wonder, a referenced performer.
A man sees a transfer slip as a required formal step and a sign of proper procedure, while a woman may follow differently due to personal habit or perceptions of rules. The behavior reflects individual practice rather than a universal rule.
The three year old son of Andrew Rubb of Oakland City fell into an open well and drowned in the presence of his parents.
West Baden Springs Indiana offers year round rooms at 2.50 to 3.50 dollars with American plan and private baths. Special weekly rates. Guests are invited to drink the mineral water and bathe for cures of kidney stomach nerve and related ailments. Send symptoms and two dollars to receive five gallons of mineral water with physician guidance for home use.
Readers are urged to enjoy the new serial The Yield starting this panel Saturday. It promises nine chapters of thrilling romance set against life on southern cotton plantations and includes vivid depictions of the White Riders terrorizing Kentucky.
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