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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1908
Page
6
Receipts show 6500 hogs, 750 cattle, 250 sheep versus 12794 hogs, 1103 cattle, 511 sheep last week. Demand from local packers kept hogs at steady to strong prices with top at 6.00. most 109 pounds up sold 5.25 to 5.75. Cattle receipts were higher but demand eased. sheep and lamb sales remained steady.
The market shows 200 cars above prior estimates with weak selling by elevators and cash houses on looser receipts. Provisions are dull and firm while locs packers exhibit modest buying activity.
Dec. 19 Chicago reports show hogs at strong prices but buyers insufficient to clear supplies. Cattle closed nominally steady while sheep and lambs held or fell. lambs suffered the sharpest drop though overall sheep were weak.
The listing shows cattle categories including steers native yearlings and range steers with prices per hundredweight. It includes cows stockers cutting beef cows and bulls with various quality grades and price ranges. Some lines are fragmented or corrupted but indicate market quotes for different stock types.
The notice lists prices for steers heifers bulls calves hogs and lambs with ranges from good to prime quality. It includes figures for feeding cattle weigh-ins and bulk sale trends, highlighting bids for heifers cows and various weight classes across categories. Specific entries note prices per hundredweight and general quality descriptors.
Chicago reports weak prices as ideal Argentina harvest weather and a renewed corn selling pressure push down grains. Traders who bought on yesterday's rally unload holdings amid disappointing European markets and higher elevator selling, with 644 cars arriving.
Buffalo, Dec. 19 cattle receipts 10 cars market slow hogs receipts 30 cars market strong heavies 5.90 6.46 Yorkers 5.50 5.75 pigs 5.10 5.20 sheep and lambs receipts 20 cars market lower top lambs 7.65 calves 24.50
A Cass county traveler reports strangers in rural towns looking through pocket slips of paper with Tribune horse theft ads and rewards. The man’s rig drew scrutiny and he was questioned under suspicion of involvement.
A Cass County group maintains a public lost horse watch in the Tribune offering early warnings to 660 members and law enforcement statewide. Members and local farmers gain 48 hour notice of thefts with legal reform dialogue, boosting recovery odds by about 75 percent. Other nearby towns host similar groups.
Mrs Hannah Stuck returns to her Toledo home after an extended visit with sister Mrs Maria Himman. Mrs Menervia Stumbaugh is listed as sick.
Cass County Horse Thief Detective Association issues notice from Logansport Indiana on December 16 1908 reporting the theft of a brown gelding five years old sixteen hands white star on forehead cap knocked down with two white hind feet top buggy piano box red running gear rubber tire and name plate Post Bro plus a long grey overcoat and white buckskin gloves. Information to the sheriff Kokomo Indiana. Charles A Spry president Cass Co Horse Thief Detective Association.
Article lauds John Keip’s fourteen year leadership of the Columbia Brewing Company in Logansport. Output grew from 2400 to 24000 barrels annually, with temperatures of public involvement and employment for over forty families. Endorses beer as healthful, compares alcohol levels to cider.
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