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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1908
Page
6
Trading opened with 12 000 hogs 1100 cattle and 250 sheep receipts. Hogs sold steady to strong with lightweights weak. Cattle and bulls rose 10 25 cents with limited fat cattle demand. Lambs at 7 down yearlings 4 50 down sheep 4 down. Horses scarce $100 165 range.
A dense price table for steers cows calves and sheep shows bids by weight from 500 to 1500 pounds and up. Entries cover good to choice steers 600 700 1100 1250 pounds, various feed and stocker grades, heifers cows bulls calves and hogs with prices per hundred or per head and ranges for light roughs and spring lambs.
Mrs Harry Berry departed yesterday morning for Raton New Mexico where she will join her husband who is employed by the Santa Fe railroad.
The fragment notes lambs at 7.85 per head with steady demand and mentions pigs and receipts. No other clear entities or places are identified in the readable text.
Cattle and sheep receipts are listed with multiple figures across markets. The data shows totals around 15 000 for cattle and 6 000 for sheep along with varied smaller sums, including 2 800 1 000 5 000 and others.
In Chicago on December 22 light wheat receipts in the Northwest and a firm Liverpool market spurred short covering in wheat, lifting prices. Corn opened firm, with a shade to a half cent rise, while oats gained on short covering and strong cash activity. Provisions stayed firm as pork and lard shipments increased.
December sees unusual springlike field activity as Cass county farmers break ground in winter. Traction cars expose multiple fields being plowed, preparing oats for spring sowing and hindering cut worm damage per university guidance and farmer experience. Winter plowing likely to grow in popularity.
Chicago open shows steady to firm hog prices with top at 5.75 as packers buy light mixed hogs late. cattle stay slow and mostly steady with prime lambs in demand, prime sheep strong to close. Buyers prefer prime lots with killers active on light stock.
Market quotes list steers cows and calves by grade and weight with prices from 3 00 to 8 75 in dollars per hundredweight. Hogs beef cattle and pigs are priced by weight with ranges from 2 25 to 8 75 and slaughter grades shown for variety of farm stock.
Delaware county temperance advocates plan to delay a county option election until Billy Sunday the evangelist begins his religious campaign in early April. Church workers expect Sunday to tip Delaware county toward prohibition, a plan saloonkeepers oddly support hoping his extended stay advances their cause.
Fragmentary figures indicate yesterday's hog receipts at principal western markets with totals from Chicago and Omaha. Data shows large year ago comparisons and high volume in some markets, though several numbers are unclear due to OCR gaps.
Daily market roundup lists prices for hay grain and stock feeds, with corrected figures by Bishop Elevators, J. H. Foley Co., Stuart & Burg, Mccaffrey & Co, F. W. Kinney, W. G. Sweet, Phillips Elevator, and Galveston Grain Co. including wheat corn oats rye butter eggs hogs steers cows calves and poultry across Loganport and Royal Centre.
The Delaware WCTU plans to christen the 20,000 ton battleship Delaware with water at its Feb. 5 launch in Newport News. The Kentucky, previously christened with whiskey, faced popular resistance as bottles shattered against the hull when she moved down the ways.
The Van Buren post office safe was blown open after 2 AM and thieves stole $170.50 in money and $286.50 in stamps. Nitroglycerin destroyed the lock as burglars drilled through it and entered via a rear window. The crime remained undiscovered until morning when staff opened the post office. Mrs. Humphrey, who lives nearby, felt the explosion.
Christina Micheal aged 94 died at her son Albert Micheal's home on Market Street at 6:20 yesterday morning. She was one of Cass County's oldest residents. The funeral will be Thursday at 2 PM from Zion M E Church Harrison Township with burial in the adjoining cemetery.
In Philadelphia at Keneseth Israel Rabbi Joseph Kraskopf denounces “man catching” by frivolous women as fueling a significant portion of American divorces. He warns that society pushes daughters toward marriage while neglecting true happiness and the ease of entrapping a husband.
Wabash announces a new time card to take effect Sunday January 3, with only No 6 train altered by moving up two hours and thirty five minutes. The message notes other services unchanged and briefly mentions Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil as a remedy for accidents with pain healing claims.
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