Western markets report by city totals yesterday
Western markets yesterday show Chicago 20000 Indianapolis 5500 Kansas City 14000 Cincinnati 4700 Omaha 4000 St Louis 5600 Sioux City 8000 St Joseph 69000 totals 69500.
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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1908
Page
6
Western markets yesterday show Chicago 20000 Indianapolis 5500 Kansas City 14000 Cincinnati 4700 Omaha 4000 St Louis 5600 Sioux City 8000 St Joseph 69000 totals 69500.
Chicago reports a net advance of 13 4 4 cents in wheat on the local exchange driven by record flour sales at Minneapolis. Corn and oats also rise with firm cash grain demand and improving overseas inquiries. Primary receipts total 1 6 1 3 0 0 bushels. Minneapolis stocks swell but brisk flour demand offsets.
The listing shows corn at 0.3 and 79c per bushel, oats at 79% purity and 511c for No 3 white, chapter items note creameries and dairies at 20 and 18 percent, eggs firsts at 22c and prime firsts at 23c per dozen.
Buffalo market notes show light cattle receipts and slow demand. Hog receipts reach 6,000 with heavy hogs at 6.40 to 6.60 and a deck at 6.75, pigs 5.50 to 5.60. Sheep and lambs receipts total 3,000 with prices for top lambs at 6.75.
Chicago reports a modest uptick in hog prices with scalpers paying more after the first hour. Light hogs rose at least 5c from yesterday, some mixed hogs 10c higher, while Armour held steady. Cattle activity was light amid rain and delayed trains, tops around 6.15 with weak cow stock. Lambs and natives showed softer demand with lamb prices 10 15c below yesterday’s low, total receipts near 2,000.
Market brief shows hog pricing ranges by weight class and grade including good to choice tights and medium to mixed categories. Several figures report 1500 to 1800 ranges, with references to weights from 190 lbs upward and various price markers.
Indianapolis October 8 hog receipts 500 versus 3168 a week ago and 6441 last year. Hog market steady to 15 cents lower for top loads with prices from 5.00 to 6.50 and most at 5.50 to 6.50. Cattle, calves, and sheep active with steady to strong prices. calves 50 cents lower. lambs 4 to 6 per head, sheep 2.50 to 4.00. Sheep and lambs receipts near demand and selling brisk.
Catalog of steer and heifer prices with weight ranges from 300 to 1250 pounds and up. Describes Good to Choice and Medium stock, commission rates, and feeding classifications for lots and cattle categories.
Fragmentary OCR item records a lady leaving home for the day, locking up carefully, and leaving a card for a grocer's benefit. The readable bits show a domestic scene with a note left, but no full names, places, or dates are present.
Daily corrected market listings for hay feed, grain and stock prices. Includes Loganport and Galveston markets with wheat corn oats clover seed and Hog, steer, cow and calf valuations, plus poultry and country produce quotes.
Howard Anderson, an ex slave in Philadelphia, writes to the Public Ledger urging colored voters to avoid the Democratic ticket. He argues Democrats have long opposed his people and that a Bryan win would further disenfranchise black voters in the solid South.
A fragmentary text line likely notes a price or amount in pounds with unclear units. The readable portion mentions a sum around fifty eight pounds, but the context and item are not identifiable from the OCR snippet.
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