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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1901
Page
7
A listing of wholesale rates across numerous goods including candies, nuts, coffees, sugars, flour, and groceries with prices per pound, per ton, per bag, or per crate. It also notes construction materials, oils, molasses, and farm produce, reflecting a broad market snapshot with numerous brand and origin entries.
Fragmentary list of goods and prices including butter roll per pound, beeswax, wool grades, merino, feathers, hides and tallow, various grade tags and measurements. Contains multiple misspellings and inconsistent terms, with no coherent event or narrative.
New York May 31 The stock market opened buoyant and strengthened throughout the day with broad gains led by rail equities and industrials. Prominent stocks such as Atchison and Pennsylvania Railroad surged amid rumors of Pittsburgh and Midwestern interests shaping control. Union Pacific Missouri Pacific Southern Pacific and Southern Railway posted notable increases as financial players speculated on railroad consolidation and dividends. The market closed strong with bonds rising and total sales near four million dollars par value.
Financial bulletin notes INDIANAPOLIS and NEW YORK rates for loans, exchange and clearings. Citations include sterling, bankers’ bills, commercial paper, and money market levels with brief values for cities such as CHICAGO, DELPHIA, ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI, LONDON, PARIS, BERLIN, MADRID, and precious metals pricing.
Prime cattle in strong demand with steady to high prices. Hog receipts light with mixed sales. some packer competition followed by weaker later sales. Sheep and lambs scarce. spring lambs quoted at 5.75 to 6.00, yearlings around 46.50, sheep about 3.50 to 3.75. Interstate stockyards report steady local demand and quiet closing.
Chicago May 31 weather was the main driver in used wheat futures as July corn and oats moved in step with reports of drought and Hessian flu damage. July wheat closed fractionally higher while corn rose about half a cent and oats eased. hogs and provisions showed small declines with mixed export activity and receipts.
Cattle receipts and hog prices vary by city with strength in some steers and mixed hogs. Chicago, Kansas City, and New York markets show steadier or softer trends. Western lambs and stockers hold firm while calves, cows, and bulls display wider ranges. Hogs lead with steady to higher quotes in several markets.
Agricultural notes show receipts and shipments for flour wheat corn oats barley with totals in thousands of bushels. Prices quoted for seeds and meats include Maxseed timothy $1.70, prime timothy $2.00 3.40, pork $14.60-14.70 per barrel, lard $0.87-0.89 per 10 lbs, and various dried goods. Grain futures firm on bullish crop news. wheat July 7 11 16 8 5? cents, September 7 11 16 77 cents. corn July 48 49 cents, September 45 4? cents. oats steady to firm. markets for lard and tallow steady. cotton and other commodities cited with regional price ranges.
Market notes show flour steady in St Louis with patents and extras. corn meal and oats mixed prices, pork firm and lard down. whisky steady. Baltimore and Kansas City report mixed grain futures, firmer wheat, firm corn, steady lard and bacon, and whiskey activity. Liverpool and Milwaukee follow with varied cash and future quotes across wheat, corn, oats, rye, and barley.
Reports from Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati Boston St Louis detail steady butter and eggs with varying cheese firm demand. Western creamery and prints show modest gains while regional wool markets in Boston and St Louis trend uneven with small gains in some grades and steadiness overall.
Patchy market brief reports prices and shipments for turpentine rosin and petroleum across Wilmington Oil City Charleston and Montpelier with mixed credits balances and yields. Data shows small fluctuations and varied ship counts, with several figures partially garbled.
Poultry trade reports from New York Louisville and Cincinnati show steady prices for spring chickens and turkeys as May trading continues. Buyers and sellers note general firmness with varied weights and sizes across markets.
New York May 31 The market shows no change in general conditions today with small upticks in certain fractions. Prices for brown and colored cottons remain unchanged while prints stay active at prior levels. New fall print prices indicate slight declines in some areas. Linens are in moderate demand and firm, and Burnape trends upward on firmer foreign guidance.
Fragmentary report from New Orleans and New York markets with scattered figures. Mentions receipts, stock, and bales but text is garbled, hindering precise interpretation. Contains references to metals and gulf trade contexts, without clear dates or entities.
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