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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1908
Page
6
Receipts of hogs at principal western markets yesterday totaled 74 200 at Chicago Omaha Kansas City Sioux City St Joseph Indianapolis Cincinnati St Louis and 84 500 at ar age 18 000 6 000 8 006 3 500 7 000 2 500 4 500. The day saw varied overages and a combined total.
The market lists various weights and grades for pigs, sheep, and lambs. Prices shown include good to choice yearlings at 4 75 to 5 50 per head, bucks per 100 lbs at 3 50, and spring lambs from 4 50 to 6 75, with bulk and light pig categories and roughs noted.
The readable fragments show numeric tallies and city names, including St Louis St Joseph Pittsburgh Buffalo and multiple large totals. Without full sentences, the exact event or context remains uncertain, but the data resembles sports scores or financial tallies tied to several teams and locations.
Liberal cattle receipts and heavy fill due to heat kept cattle prices weak with declines for butcher cattle. Hogs opened active and higher with top at 6.20 while spring lambs showed strength around 7.00. corn and oats firm despite damage reports. provisions quiet.
Indianapolis hog market shows 10 to 15 cent gains with 180 to 210 pound hogs selling well as outside demand stays firm. Cattle prices fall with slow demand and some packers skipping canner cows, calves and bulls cheaper, while overall receipts reach about 5 000 hogs and 750 cattle.
A crowded sale notes prices for steers, cows, calves, and hogs with Good to prime steers at 6 75 to 7 25 per cwt and cows from 3 50 to 5 50. Calves range 3 50 to 6 75 with heavies 6 75. Sheep and lambs show steady demand. spring lambs not at top prices. Breeding ewes and yearlings appear at 4 75 to 8 25 depending on class and condition.
Buffalo June 22 cattle receipts 3 500 heavy steers lower butcher cattle steady export steers 7 25 7 60 shipping steers 6 00 7 00 but cher steers 5 00 6 50 heifers 3 50 6 00 cows 3 00 5 00 hogs receipts 8 000 pigs 5 75 6 00 all other grades 5 40 6 50 sheep and lambs receipts 6 000 top spring lambs 7 50 8 00 yearlings 5 50 6 00 sheep 3 00 5 00
In Chicago on June 22 wheat trading showed an irregular session with July futures steady at 86 1/4 and September higher. Small world shipments and continental market strength supported a bullish mood though overall sentiment remained nervous. close favored the bulls.
Camden markets list poultry and eggs with turkeys at 10 and 12 cents, ducks seven, geese six, eggs thirteen, butter eighteen cents. Corn forty cents per bushel, wheat ninety, oats forty seven, butter or per pound fifteen, eggs fourteen per dozen, lard eighty one and three quarters cents, chickens ten cents per pound.
Jacob Ritz, after a bullet wound to the brain in April, is near discharge from St Marys hospital Brooklyn. Doctors report one of the most remarkable recoveries with preserved sight and taste despite skull fractures and brain injury. A tumor drained via the bullet hole and four ounces of brain tissue removed.
The Tribune prints a daily market snapshot with corrected prices from Bishops Elevator Co for wheat corn oats and wool, and from Logansport Union Stock Yards for hogs steers heifers cows calves and sheep with regional rates including Galveston Royal Centre Walton Flora markets and poultry figures.
Rev. Dr. Elwood Worcester argues that the church must engage personal lives using science and the gospel. He says unity of mind and body reshapes salvation and predicts the twentieth century will be mystical and spiritual.
The passage argues men are more romantic than women and that many wives find poetry recitation dull. It notes wives should not show boredom or admit lack of interest, implying spouses overestimate their partner’s poetic devotion and have a fault in their own attitude.
The National Magazine notes New York City holds 31 distinct islands within its boundaries, more than any city except Venice. Encircled by deep water, these islands promise unlimited shipping, docking, and future growth for commerce as past trends suggest expanding prosperity.
A New Haven barber recalls Tad Jones, Yale’s catcher, visiting his shop and joking that Yale lost the game after declining a shave with the quip about a throat cut. The barber praises the base ball spirit as continually surfacing in humorous exchanges.
Farmer Corntassel remarks that a college education gives a Dent polish and thinks Josh shows improvement by his refined pipe smoking style. The exchange hints at values and aspirations in rural life.
A row of old houses along the Panhandle right of way east of the Wa bash crossing north of the South vanish as tracks approach. Freight house relocation or passenger car storage needs unclear, but land between the main line and the river likely to be acquired for the railroad’s future use.
The Chicago American reports Secretary Taft escaped a wreck on the Pennsylvania lines near Coshocton Ohio when a piston rod on the leading engine broke and wrecked the cylinder but stayed off the rail. A towerman flagged the engineer to stop the train just in time. Taft remained calm throughout, likely unaware until after the incident.
The Wabash carried twenty five excursionists to Fort Wayne on Sunday and twenty one to Toledo while twelve went to Detroit. The Vandalia transported about ten to Lake Maxinkuckee and twenty five to South Bend as part of the Wabash Valley outings.
A local traction company sold eighty four tickets to residents who traveled to Peru to attend a Christian Science lecture.
Rail lines plan heavy Fourth of July travel with a round trip at one and a half fare. Tickets go on sale July 3 and 4, valid to July 6. Wabash sets 9.55 to Cleveland for late next week for the National Educational Association meeting. Pan Handle runs excursions to Indianapolis and Chicago.
Nine colored members of the Eastern Star passed through the city yesterday en route to South Bend for the state convention. Delegates hail from Indianapolis and Louisville.
J. Q. Van Winkle general superintendent of the Big Four traveled through the city in his private car en route to Culver and will return to Indianapolis today. James Pendleton secretary of the railroad Y M C A and Mrs Pendleton will spend the rest of the summer at Dykeman Springs and have prepared their summer home. O R Litz Panhandle brakeman begins an eastward tour stopping at Atlantic City for some time. H G Warre Vandalia operator spent Sunday in Peru amid the Panhandle school trainmen still in progress with a second notice issued for absent examinees. Miss Grace Knauss stenographer to Chief Clerk Hutton spent Sunday in Chicago.
Otis and Miss Vera Spaulding of Sharpsville visited Otis and Chalmer Spaulding in Galveston. Day Thomas wedding drew relatives from Frankfort Marion Peru and other towns. Rev. L C Taylor resigned from the Baptist church. D S Hull moves barns for S Z Scott. Will Frier family visited Peru sub station. Verne Woolley marked his 15th birthday with a large family dinner. Mrs Allie Bailey returned to Indianapolis after visiting relatives. Dr Miller and wife move to Griffith street. Mrs John Pearcy lies seriously ill east of town. Gus Peters dray painted between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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