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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1902
Page
9
Columbia National Bank announces officers Mortimer Levering as President W F C Goit as Cashier A A Barnes as Vice President and W K Sproule Jr as Assistant Cashier. Safe deposit vaults are available to customers.
Broad June trading activity outpaced last year with lower greens and steady fruit demand. Prices rise modestly for Irish potatoes poultry butter apples and oranges while flour weakens as wheat softens. Grain and wagon markets see light offerings and slightly lower cereal prices. coal and hides ease with general provisions and canned goods staying firm.
Chicago June 7 Excessive rain hindered grain bears yet cables abroad also warned. July wheat rose on wet harvest fears and strong seaboard clearances. Corn firm with modest gains while oats slipped. Provisions tough with hogs supported prices but packers seen manipulating. June reports note strong overall receipts and export activity amid volatile market signals.
The Atlanta Constitution argues there is a need for a party of defenders of Adam to remain the true founder of humanity. It condemns calls to replace Adam with scientific notions of evolution, insisting Moses and Adam deserve acknowledgment over ideas of mankind evolving from primates.
A New York Chemical Society report highlights the German Goldschmidt process using powdered aluminum to generate extreme heat for welding rails and steel parts. The method promises portable, intense heat, enabling quick melts and strong joints, reducing trolley wheel shocks and eliminating flat wheels.
A dense patchwork of commodity prices and market notes across cities. Wheat and flour values appear with varied figures, alongside oats, corn, beans, hay, and lard. Mentions of rye, bacon, beef, and cot ton ties intersperse with shipment data and domestic prices in several ports and cities.
Hogs rise and fall through the week amid larger receipts at Indianapolis and Interstate yards. Cattle demand stays steady for butcher stock while common grades lag. Sheep and lambs show modest gains with limited outside demand. Kansas City and St. Louis markets reflect mixed trends. New York reports softer sheep and hogs.
In New York on June 7, detailed grain and commodity figures show wheat and corn futures strengthening on bullish cables and harvest rains before closing mixed, with July at 78 1 4 cents and September around 76 1 2 cents. Spot oats and rye firm, with soy and lard and beef prices listed. market activity driven by exports, receipts, and shipping factors.
New York and Philadelphia markets show butter steady or unsettled with varied prices. Cheese and eggs mixed to weak in several cities. Spirits of turpentine and rosin firm. metals quiet with mixed copper and tin values. Cotton and wool markets display thin activity and steady to soft tones.
A list of veterans and widows receives pension certificates for service and disability. Names span Indiana towns such as Indianapolis South Bend Fort Wayne Goshen and Warsaw with amounts ranging from 4 to 24 dollars. The notice includes multiple individuals from Origina War with Spain and others like Samuel L. Moore Henry Powell Jo seph Forsythe and James A. McKeehan along with widows Rozilda Modlin Nora Hatton Louisa Adams and Prudentia Rockwood.
Herbert Spencer, lifelong devotee of music, presents essays in Facts and Comments on music as art and its mission. He argues music should please, not educate, and condemns descriptive and program music as well as corrupt teachers and performers, while praising emotional engagement and culture through art.
A Salt Lake Tribune essay argues advertisers stay alive through newspaper presence while nonadvertisers risk obsolescence. It notes some ventures cannot be advertised yet markets favor those who reach homes via the family paper, urging advertisers to persist despite limits.
The Providence Journal argues that people willingly rebuild homes on dangerous sites after disasters, citing Mont Pelee Vesuvius Naples Lisbon Galveston and Hoang-ho coast areas. It notes workers accept hazardous factories and poor living conditions for wages, and claims urban districts with bad ventilation and disease risk expose men to greater dangers than island disasters.
A British Weekly correspondent cites Lincoln Milton Handel Johnson Richardson and others reaching notable success after fifty. The piece urges optimism for the elderly noting Hindostanee study at eighty embroidery at seventy and view that later years can hold true achievement beyond early struggles.
Not Superan nuated, Youth's Companion notes that both young and old play standard roles in public life. Bragg of Wisconsin, consul general at Havana, has passed his seventy fifth birthday, while George H. Williams of Oregon, a former attorney general, is nominated for Portland mayor. Senator West of Missouri recalls Confederate service as he reflects on aging in Congress.
An item in the Kansas City Journal notes that Dowie summoned a physician when his daughter became ill, reflecting the era's response to family health matters and public figure expectations. The report hints at scrutiny of improvised medical actions among prominent personalities.
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