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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1902
Page
2
Local wholesale trade shows a dull period ending August with fruit vegetables competing, vacations reducing merchant activity, and steady demand for poultry dairy and cereals. Prices vary, butter cheese flour and produce trade held firm with strong meat, fruit and vegetable lines while wagon market offerings thin out and inspections show limited carload movements.
Chicago grain markets weaken as favorable weather, ample receipts, and light demand pressure September wheat and other grains lower while oats and corn drop, with bulls offering little support. Prices closed weaker across wheat and corn, with oats and provisions showing mixed to slight gains in New York and other hubs.
A dense catalog of prices and goods including poultry meats such as hens ducks geese and turkeys, various fats and lards, hides and tallow, candies and nuts, fruits like peaches raspberries pineapples strawberries and tomatoes, oysters and shellfish, vegetables, coal types and coke, lumber, and assorted dry goods with quoted per pound or per unit rates and regional references to warehouses and routes. The fragment blends commodity pricing, transport notes, and wholesale descriptors across many items and locales.
The Brooklyn Eagle reports on Lord Roberts and Kitchener as Britain's leading generals. It notes Kitchener's popularity for force, his reluctance about India posting, and possible War Office moves including a potential succession to command. It discusses public opinion, royal views, and the balance of promotions amid war.
The piece laments overworked men starting days with constant mental labor and sleepless nights. It argues for daily relaxation to restore balance, citing figures like Gindstone who shut out work to read or pursue sport. Relaxation, not constant toil, preserves health and long term productivity.
August 16 dispatches describe quiet wheat and flour markets in London and New York, with prices for No 1 California and American mixed wheat steady. Pork, lard, butter, cheese, and tallow values are listed in varied ranges, while St Louis reports quiet flour markets for new winter varieties.
In New York the dry goods market remained quiet at first hands through the week end, while jobbers stayed active. Anticipated Western buyers next week suggest firmer demand across fall fabrics, with prices firm and unchanged. In St Louis wool markets firm on finer grades and easy on medium to coarse grades with various micron grades and combing, tub washed at 16 to 26 cents.
In the Natural History Museum an elderly country woman bursts in with two hawk eggs claiming they are worth a thousand pounds each. Professor Edwin Ray Lankester misreads them as hawk eggs until a joke reveals they are the eggs of an extinct bird, leaving her disappointed as she departs.
A West woman and friend discuss New Yorkers' habit of staring. She recalls a Broadway car scene where a young mother and her bright boy attract everyone’s gaze. The boy asks his mother in a clear voice if all the passengers have glass eyes.
Henry Crews, perfectly bald, rode a Western railroad car when a rough haired man teased him about hair. The bald man quipped that he was late for the hair and had only “stuff you wear” left, eliciting a wry exchange.
At Union Stockyards Indianapolis on August 16 cattle receipts reached about 200 with a small shipment. market saw minor changes, better grades selling higher while common stock remained weak. Hogs moved steady with prices near 4.50 to 7.45 while calves and sheep fluctuated modestly. overall week closed with few cattle unsold and a steady or slightly higher tone for select lots.
Time table effective May 23 1802 from Union Block 119 West Maryland Street lists departures from Union for Anderson Muncie Marion Alexandria and intermediates starting 4 14 a m hourly to 3 15 p m and 21 15 am. Limited trains serve Anderson and Muncie with additional morning and midday runs. Direct connections at Anderson with Elwood trains. Combination passenger and express car departs 5 15 a m and express car 9 30 a m from West Maryland Street station.
Timetables list morning departures from Georgia Meridian streets and connections to Indianapolis via Kentucky Avenue and Washington Street. Services include passenger, express, and combination cars with hourly and specific start times, last car departures, and Mooresville pickups for Sunday connections.
In a brief market summary, bids and prices appear for heavy, mixed, and stocker cattle alongside lambs and ewes. Notable quotes include 79.00 for Trent, prices around 96.65 for bulk sales, and 23.50 for stockers, with several notes on market steadiness and regional feeds.
Walter Barr profiles Shacklett in a political narrative tracing lobbying and practical politics. The Journal will publish the Tuesday issue dated August 1, not appearing in the Sunday edition.
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