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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1908
Page
6
Estimated receipts at the principal market list hogs and cattle with figures: 900 500 400 200 6,200 8,500 6,000 5,500 2,000 1,500 5,000 6,700 totaling 60,700 and 23,350 in related categories. This brief item records livestock totals and valuations.
Hogs 10 to 15 cents lower with 13,000 received and prices $5.25 to $5.60. Cattle slow with light demand. calves and bulls show varied prices. Receipts: hogs 13,000. cattle 1,500. sheep 600. latest week totals compare with last week and year ago. Western markets report larger hog runs. price declines persist for lambs and sheep.
Chicago May deliveries for wheat corn and oats showed sharp price swings with May futures firm briefly before closing weak. May wheat ranged 1.06 to 1.11 and closed around 1.10, May corn slipped to about 0.80, oats near 0.52. Provisions firm with July contracts mixed, receipts noted and market closed quiet for Decoration Day.
Good to choice steers 1 300 lbs and up six sixty three to seven hundred Commission to medium steers 1 300 lbs upward six thirty five six seventy five Good to choice steers 1 150 to 1 250 lbs six thirty five six seventy five 900 to 1 100 lbs five seven five to five seventy five Good to choice steers 900 to 1 000 lbs five twenty five six twenty five Extra choice feeding steers 900 to 1 000 lbs five twenty five five fifty Good feeding steers 800 to 1 000 lbs four seventy five five zero zero Med m feeding steers 700 to 900 lbs two six four twenty five four seventy five Common to best stockers three fifty four fifty Heifers and Cows Good to choice heifers five zero zero six zero zero Fair to medium heifers four fifty four eighty five Com n to fair light heifers three fifty four thirty five Good to choice cows four twenty five five twenty five
Daily corrected grain and livestock prices from Galveston to New Waverly, with wheat at about 90c a bushel and hogs from 5.00 to 5.30 per 100 pounds. The page also includes a humorous Philadelphia anecdote on the origin of the chloroform use in dentistry from Dr. John M Kitchen in Indiana.
Buffalo stock market summary reports on May 29 with hog receipts 5,000 and prices from 5.00 to 5.80, sheep and lambs 6,000 with top lambs at 6.25, and a steady cattle market.
The Loganport Tribune lists corrected daily figures from Bishop Elevator Co. for wheat and corn, and W. C. Routh & Co. for stock prices including hogs, steers, heifers, cows, calves, and sheep. Regional stock yards and various traders report mixed prices across hogs, calves, and produce like butter eggs lard and potatoes.
The Shanty Sluggers beat the East Enders in a ten inning game Friday afternoon by a score of 135 to 14. Batteries: Sluggers Harold Kimmey and Frank Morris. East Enders Phillip Burgman and Ralph Martin.
An Indian merchant tries to sell an old elephant at a fair. A silent man circles the beast and is paid 50 rupees to keep quiet. After the sale, the merchant asks how the defect was found, but the man reveals he has never seen an elephant before and cannot tell head from tail.
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