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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1908
Page
6
Daily Detroit to Mackinac steamship service offered by the D. and C. Line. The City of St Ignace is the express boat with three weekly trips between Detroit Alpena and Mackinac. City of Mackinac and City of Alpena provide daily Northern Michigan resort service.
A brief numeric rundown lists totals for Chicago and Kansas City with figures 5,000 11,000 2,800 1,000 800 100 and grand sums 26,700 and 42,500. No context or event is provided.
Receipts totaling 6000 hogs, 1250 cattle, 450 sheep contrasted with prior weeks. Buyers present but bidding slow. light hogs 5 to 10 cents lower with prices from 6.25 to 6.75, most 6.40 to 6.70. Cattle receipts steady but trading dull, best steers steady, commons down. bulls and calves steady.
Chicago drive notes hog prices steady at session start with few higher bids from shippers while big packers hold back. Later trading drops as sellers resist lower offers, widening gap between good and common hogs. Cattle dull and nominal. sheep demand lifts native lambs to $6.50 early.
The report lists bids and prices for cattle, hogs, sheep, and calves with terms like good to choice steers 1300 pounds upward, cows and heifers price ranges, and hogs priced by weight bands from 150 to over 210 pounds. It presents various classifications and quotations used by traders at the Chicago market.
Buffalo July 28 Hogs receipts 2 000 mediums and heavy bringing 6.85 to 6.90 workers 6.75 to 6.85 pigs 6.00 to 6.10 Sheep and lambs steady lambs 6.25 cattle market steady.
Wheat No 3 at 1.02 1.14, No red 90% case. Corn No 2 75% or 77c, yellow 77c. Oats No 2 white 52c, No 3 50 54c. Butter creamery 18 20c, dairies 17 20c. Eggs Firsts 1%
Chicago July 28 Wheat opens active and weak on Liverpool drop and US receipts. September futures rise to near 89 1/4 cents on rust fears in the Northwest before closing steady at 89 1/2 cents. Corn declines across the board with July down about 3 cents and September around 234 cents amid favorable weather. Oats open active and weak. provision market quiet.
Daily market summaries from Loganport and surrounding towns list corrected prices for wheat, corn, oats, rye, and butter, eggs, lard, and poultry. Hogs, steers, heifers, cows, calves, and sheep vary by weight across markets in Galveston, Royal Centre, Flora, Adamsboro, and more.
Royal Centre July 28 notices list visiting relatives and local gatherings including David An trim in Monticello with daughter Mrs Will Fisher and Miss Nora Lowe of Logansport. A Sunday school class traveled to Fletcher Lake with a long roster of boys. Market data shows CG D Morgan & Bro wheat 83c corn 1.00 oats 40c hogs 150 to 200 lbs around 6.00.
Receipts of hogs at principal western markets yesterday totaled 30 400 head. Trade activity and price signals were reported steady as buyers and sellers assessed supply.
Miss Jones visits Frank Bowyer family in Gas City yesterday. Mrs Harriet Praker of Ohio visits niece Mrs William Crave. Mrs Mary Bebee entertains Mrs Frank Brown of Dayton. Mrs Frank Powell and daughter Ethel visit Mrs Esther Vernon. Grace Baughman leaves Huntin for Ft Wayne after week with grandmother O M Barnard. Mrs Henry Small hosts Mrs Will Harnart and children. Automobile party including Ab Morrow family Dudley Dalzell family visits Oscar Ferguson.
Miss Beth Lines is reported better and will be out soon. Arthur Richey made a business call in Delphi Tuesday. Charles Voorhees was in Delphi Tuesday. Miss Ball and Miss Little visited their grandfather William Little Monday. Joseph McCune reports a good yield of mangoes this year. Frank Spitler and bride departed for Grass Valley California.
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