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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
6
Six percent investment offers first mortgages on improved real estate from $500 up and certificates of deposit for $100 to $500. Each mortgage is guaranteed by a $300,000 Bank and Trust Co. investor nets 6 percent per annum after expenses. Contact for details.
An advertisement touts Trusler's Rheumatic Tablets as an infallible cure for rheumatism nervousness and constipation and a preventive of appendicitis. Easy to take and purely vegetable it claims compliance with the pure food law and offers Locab ox price. Sold by druggists with Porter named as the local contact and manufactured for T E F Trusler Huntington Ind. The claim is sold with a stated guarantee.
Buffalo livestock market reports light cattle receipts and slow demand. Hogs tally 5,000 with heavies at 5.80 to 5.90, Yorkers 5.50 to 5.75, pigs 5.15 to 5.25. Sheep and lambs total 4,000 with a strong tone and top lambs reaching 7.65.
Indianapolis December 16 cattle hog and sheep market update shows hogs steady to 5 cents lower with some buys down 10 to 20 cents, cattle prices steady to strong for cows while steers and heifers weaken, sheep and lamb prices down about 20 cents though lambs bring 38.00 to 46.75 per head. Horses sold on a low basis with 175 head offered and weak demand.
Reading from market quotations, buyers and sellers list price ranges for steers heifers cows bulls and calves by weight. The notes cover Good to prime grades, commission to medium stockers and feeders, and prices for hogs sheep and lambs with varied weights and classifications.
A dedicatory service at the new English Lutheran church Sunday evening prompts First Presbyterian members to attend worship there. The Christmas music program led by organist Mrs Pike is postponed until Sunday week. The Children's Christmas program will be rendered on Christmas Eve.
Miller interests press for government assistance on wheat futures markets as Chicago board trading activity faces calls for relief measures amid price volatility.
Chicago market reports a slow cattle trade with prime steers scarce and prices sagging. Hogs show a weak day with declines across the board. Sheep and lambs slump, prime lambs near steady but overall weaker. receipts plentiful, forcing bearish packers to push prices lower.
Unsettled weather helps corn stay steady amid profit taking in December deliveries. Wheat opens firm with shorts covering, gains modest at first but strengthens late due to brisk flour demand in the southwest, especially St Louis. Oats quiet but firm. provisions ease as live hog prices fall.
Wednesday absentees included Lauree Fridiger Lucille Mc Gann Anna Randall Curtis Espy Ruth Hendee Ruth Todd and Grace Powell on tardy. Miss Sullivan played a piano solo at chapel. Elon Champ was arrested for tearing a letter from a student sweater and released on bond. trial Friday at library hall. Chapel remembered the late Judge Baldwin with a program and a talk by Supt Douglass.
Prominent women are cited for varied feats and roles. Patti promises to sing for Father Bernard Vaughan in London. Mrs. Asquith serves as King Edward's literary adviser. Mary Boyle O Reilly is identified as daughter of the late poet and John Boyle O Reilly as a Massachusetts prison commissioner. Rose Fritz writes eighty seven words a minute for an hour. V A Latram and Mary Booth are noted as elite photomicrographers. Charlotte Braum marks sixty five years with a Berlin ballet company and eighty years old. Anme Surecorf, wife of a famed aeronautical engineer, is a renowned French aeronaut.
Tribune plans a reliable market report for subscribers to buy and follow. It promises focused data, timely updates, and actionable prices for local buyers and investors.
Public sale will occur at the late residence near N Sixth and Columbia streets Logansport Indiana on Saturday December 26 1908 starting at 10 00 a m. Personal property includes tools farm implements wagons buggy household goods and a gray mare with miscellaneous items. Terms require cash under 5 and credit for amounts over 3 with note and 8 percent interest if past due or 6 percent cash discount. Mary Wolf appears as seller with Col Foster and Son as auctioneers.
Corrected daily by L. E. Millar. Chickens 8c, roosters 4c, turkeys 12c, ducks 7c, geese 5c. Corn white 78c per hundred, oats 76c, cloverseed 45c, overall feed rates listed.
President Roosevelt lauds Augustus Saint Gaudens as a great sculptor at a Corcoran Gallery exhibition. He criticizes unfounded judgments of artists and salutes Saint Gaudens for his craft and for designing a beautiful coinage praised as superior to all since Greek times.
Fire at Adams and Johnson hardware and implement store five miles east of Elizabethtown Indiana caused an estimated 3000 to 4000 dollars in loss to building and stock. Defective flue started the blaze. The firm owns the building and an adjoining Morris Cohee furniture and undertaking shop suffered damage.
An old advertisement touts Cascarens or similar health products claiming value for a week's treatment and cites a widely sold line “Amiline” with a mysterious 24 month reference. The copy emphasizes affordability and world-beating sales as a spur to purchase.
A Freeville resident testifies to restored strength and eased breath after using Dr Miles Heart Cure and Nervine. She recalls grippe last fall causing weakness and nervousness and credits the tonic with improving her health. The Miles company offers a refund on the first bottle if no benefit is seen.
The passage states deserts cover 24 percent of the earth's surface. It also notes global earthquake activity with about 30,000 quakes annually and compares lakes to regions, mentioning Lake Huron and Lake Superior. It references Stevenson’s former San Francisco house now a Franciscan convent. It adds demographics on mental health ages and a Danish explorer's Alaska findings. It ends with Henry Hudson memorial bridge plans in New York featuring a reinforced concrete 710 foot span.
A Paris firm prints cards to wear in buttonholes with a message about weather and news. Paris considers a government label to guarantee champagne authenticity costing producers a cent per bottle and boosting revenue by about 700 thousand dollars annually. Paris lists 2,500 physicians, about 1,200 earning more than 1,600 dollars yearly. Dentists fare better with fashionable practitioners earning around 6,000 dollars or more.
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