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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1908
Page
6
An advertisement asserts that rheumatic tablets can cure rheumatism and promotes their use as a remedy. It emphasizes the effectiveness of the product and urges readers to try the tablets for relief.
Receipts show hogs 500, cattle 1,100, sheep 600 with week-to-week declines and outside demand pushing buyers to bid higher. Hogs gained 10 to 15 cents, most sold 5.35 to 6.10 with some loss of early advance. cattle trading active with 10 to 15 cent gains. bulls and veal calves higher. sheep and lambs brisk with steady prices. horses also improving.
Buyers tightened bidding on drafters with several large horses selling at 200 dollars or more. Demand for chunks and harness horses improved while overall prices were not quotably higher. A fair clearance was reported.
Tuesday offerings show range cattle and feeding steers in demand with strong lamb and hog prices. Prime natives reach 6.35 for lambs while hogs command 5.85 to 6.05 for heavy butchers with various weights quoted across classes.
The fragment references a pricing note for bucks per 100 pounds with figures like 2 50 and 3 00. No clear entities, dates, or context to identify the exact item, date, or source publication.
Chicago market notes hogs opening strong yet activity limited and buyers cautious. Packers slow to heavy while scalpers hesitant. Receipts light helping the trade. week-to-date offerings about 12,000 fewer than last week. Cattle demand strong at first then slow as weather delays buyers with 6,000 cattle reported and 18,000 prior day total.
Chicago price data show wheat rising over a cent on the local exchange amid crop damage reports from Argentina and slow movement in the northwest. December wheat at 1.00 3/4 and May at 1.03 1/4. corn oats and provisions also firm as traders note Argentina shortages and Liverpool market strength.
The report notes grain strength boosting demand for provisions while profit taking weighs on market sentiment. Investors watch for further price moves as supply dynamics influence buying. The tone reflects cautious optimism about agricultural commodities and related stocks.
Tribune daily market page lists Best timothy hay 9.00 and mixed hay 8.00. Loganport Grain Market shows Wheat 94c Corn 80c White and mixed 78c Oats 44c Rye 65c Clover seed 75c. Country produce quoted with Butter 23c Eggs 24c Lard 10c Potatoes 75-80c.
An advertisement from Hooley & Tucker at 4th & Broadway emphasizes making garments to fit a man’s individuality with good judgment. It pledges to follow customers’ ideas, catch their spirit, and provide reasonable profits while pleasing clientele.
General Manager G. L. Peck and staff of the Pennsylvania lines depart Chicago by local division for a morning inspection tour. They will travel to Winamac today and stay over on the spiked switch once used by President McCrea, then arrive here Thursday to inspect local yards and properties noted as in fine condition with many improvements to the tracks.
Receipts of hogs at principal western markets yesterday are listed with figures for current and previous year comparisons. The data show varied volumes across locations and include quantities such as 18,000 and 8,000 alongside monetary amounts and other numbers.
Market observers note mixed receipts with 739 cars last week and smaller spring wheat arrivals. Weather unsettled and export activity in Duluth supported demand while corn stayed firm amid stronger wheat, with cash and December prices firm. Oats trade quiet but steady, hogs and cattle show varied prices in daily corrected reports.
The M. E. church Aid society of Hoovers elected officers: Mrs. Charles Farley president, Mrs. John Rea secretary, and Mrs. Joe Buskirk treasurer. Attendees included Mr. John Cohn, Mr. and Mrs. Buskirk, Mrs. B. T. Fivecoats and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Farley and son Forrest, Tod Skinner, John Rea and sons at Marshall Day in Lagansport.
A Scotch visitor to the Carlyles in Cheyne House is impressed by a soundproof attic room. The visitor, astonished, praises the space saying it lets the sage write and study unseen by outsiders, remarking that no human would be wiser for hearing it.
Mrs. Margaret Heitzman has left for Chicago where she will shop and visit friends. The brief reads as a local note on her travel plans and social errands.
It is alleged that passes were issued to traveling men and hotel guests and that thousands have been issued. Young Johnston has been released from custody on a bond of 2000.
Andrew Gray a veteran of the Pennsylvania Railroad Pittsburg division was buried Saturday at his Pittsburg home. Born in Scotland he came with his parents at age four and retired three years ago after reaching the qualifying age.
A brief note suggests a group or team aims to win another prize for having the best looking right of way, tying it to a social or competitive context and referencing ongoing festivities.
Officials of the Pennsylvania line west departed Pittsburg on three trains to inspect the Panhandle and the Pitts burgh Ft Wayne and Chicago and Pittsburg and Cleveland routes. They plan four days on the lines under General Manager Peck while eastern division inspections were completed last week.
A Pittsburg press telegram reports the arrest of Frank M. Johnston son of a Pennsylvania trainmaster and a union station clerk, and Guy Mangan manager of issuing and selling forged Pennsylvania passes. Auditors uncovered the scheme after conductors reported numerous passes turned in, with forged official names.
The text notes it is unlikely that either OF or these subjects will be discussed again until next year, suggesting a pause or deferral in topic reopening.
Charles Buchanan formerly of this city now of Washington DC is in the city visiting friends.
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