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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
6
An advertisement offers mortgages on improved real estate from $500 and up guaranteed by a $300,000 Bank and Trust Co. They yield 6 percent net investor earnings free from collection or tax expenses. For smaller investments, $100 to $500, certificates of deposit bearing 6 percent secured by first mortgages are available. Contact W. T. Giffe for details.
Advertisement proclaims Trusler's Rheumatic Tablets as an infallible cure for rheumatism nervousness and constipation and a preventative for appendicitis. Claims the tablets are easy to take purely vegetable and comply with pure food law. Loc price per box and sale through druggists. Manufactured for T F Trasler Huntington Ind.
Receipts total 15 090 hogs 1 600 cattle 750 sheep amid slow demand from outside sources. Hogs priced 5 to 10 cents lower with lighter grades weak. prime mids steady. Cattle large runs but steady. Christmas grade cattle unchanged. calves up to 25 cents higher. Sheep and lambs ample and steady. lambs at 7.00, culls 4.00. yearlings 4.50. sheep 2.00 to 4.00. Horses few but prices hard to steady amid slow bidding.
The listing shows bid prices for steers from 3 00 to 6 00 with weights from 700 to 1 250 pounds. Heifers and cows range from 2 00 to 6 00 with various quality grades. Bulls and calves are priced 2 75 to 8 39, hogs priced up to 9 10 per 100 pounds, and sheep and lambs offered with spring lambs and bucks pricing listed.
Three in junction causes were begun in Porter circuit court at Valparaiso led by Western Union Telegraph Postal Telegraph and Lake Shore Michigan Railroad against the Chicago Lake Shore South Bend interurban system. They seek a perpetual injunction restraining use of the present system of voltage claiming it sometimes renders their telegraph lines worthless.
Buffalo market ledger records hog receipts for slaughter cattle in December 1915 with double deck lots and assorted grades. Prices shown include 5.40 to 6.00 per unit for hogs and pigs, signaling varied value tiers among hog categories.
Chicago trading opened with ongoing selling pressure in wheat and a mid day decline of more than a half cent due to Liverpool weakness. A government report later sparked a brisk finish as buyers, led by commission houses, steadied futures. Corn dipped at open but firmed on demand for feeding stock while oats stayed quiet and May deliveries dominated. Provisions eased on profit taking.
Political discussion swirls as Indiana G A R members prepare for the Crawfordsville encampment likely in May. About six veterans seek the department command with Capt M N Lacey likely a leading candidate. John W Dyer and several others including O A Somers Judge Dey Waugh A R Tucker and Col C G Thompson are named contenders. A large Indiana G A R delegation will attend the Vicksburg monument dedication December 29.
Chicago market reports lighter hog receipts 6,000 below last week, with a 22,000 drop for the first two days. Packers enter late with steadier prices, top hogs around 58.14, and cattle receipts about 6,000 with a weak close. Livestock markets in Loganport Walton and Galveston show mixed grain and poultry quotes.
Tribune plans daily market summaries to aid subscribers in buying and selling. Readers are urged to call with wants and notes to the office at No. 312 Street Market. Best Timothy hay and mixed hay prices are listed.
More students were absent than in any day this term with listed names for morning and afternoon absences and full day absence. Tardy students were Dorothy Wilson and Grace Winters. The Tattler staff promises a stronger issue. football photos planned at Spencer Park and Nichols Studio. A mock court will be held Friday with Judge Frank McHale and jurors listed. Girls Glee club to practice after school. I B 1 club dined at Miss Madge Denbo's home at 808 High Street.
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A Camden Ohio mother Miss Taylor left her baby on a bench in the women's waiting room at an Ohio station while boarding train No 18 to Cincinnati. After a telegram to 1826 East Market Street, the baby was found safe with the Murphy family and returned.
Evaline Hardy aged 66 died at home at the corner of Main and Burlington Avenue at 4 o'clock yesterday morning widow of Alex Hardy. Son Edward survives. Her cortege leaves the home for Woodville Thursday morning for funeral. Infant son of Cyrus Hobaugh buried in Idaville. William Newcomb aged 73 died at 717 Eighteenth Street at 9 p m with funeral plans not yet completed.
Rev. A Greenman one of the oldest in the Northern Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference marked his 82nd birthday in Marion Monday An Indiana boy from Kendallville became a minister serving many churches in the district He moved to Marion with household goods via the Wabash canal to Lagro and by wagon footnotePast twelve years he has not been active in ministerial work An old people's service was held in the Marion M E church in his honor.
Special memorial services will be held at St Genevieve church in Gas City on Wednesday at eight o'clock to mark the third anniversary of Father Weichman's death. Rev Father C Mccabe, current pastor, will lead the service.
The article recounts H. H. Asquith, then junior counsel to Sir Charles Russell, seizing a chance during the Parnell commission cross examination. A hasty lunch led Russell to assign the witness, MacDonald, to Asquith. His simple question exposed MacDonald as simple, launching Asquith’s fame and reputation as a brilliant barrister.
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