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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1903
Page
10
The week opened with brisk trade as supplies tightened. Navy beans and Irish potatoes led price gains while apples and oranges stayed scarce. overall produce and wholesale grocers reported strong demand and active movement in salt fish, sugars, coffees, and butter amid firm prices and large flour sales.
Wagon weighmaster reports 70 loads with corn at 41 tic per bu and mixed clover and timothy hay with several lot numbers noted. White and yellow varieties listed among car counts, with 53 cars total and 13 cars rejected. Hay includes No 1 timothy two cars.
Prices listed by shippers include poultry, geese, ducks, and turkeys with varied cents per pound. wholesale and retail halftone commodities such as hides, tallow, candies, coffee, coal and coke prices, and chemicals. The jobbing trade shows wholesale selling prices while retail prices appear under separate headings with numerous city names and specific item quotes.
Chicago Stocks report shows activity across bonds and leading issues. Albert R. Thompson and Co. wire notes open high low and close figures for American Can National Biscuit and other listed stocks with brief monetary context.
Indianapolis clears and balances show 1 312 310 41 and 365 501 79. New York calls money firm at 1 4 to 4 per cent with closing offered at 2. Sterling easier with 87 90 for demand and 4 55 for sixty days. Paris rents at 8f35c and London money at 24 2/3 per cent. Silver bar price in London 24 2/3, Mexican dollars 42. Treasury reports available cash balance 27 058 442 and gold reserve 150 000 000 in redemption division.
Union Traction common rose from 48 to the 50s and 61 on limited shares yesterday as offers met strong demand on the local Stock Exchange. Twenty shares of common and ten at 50 and ten at 50% plus twenty at 61 sold on the second call with a closing bid of zero. twenty shares of preferred advanced to 85. Atlas Engine Works and other listings followed with varied sales on both stocks and bonds.
Topeka reports Governor W. J. Bailey of Kansas will marry Mrs. Ida M. Weed of Kansas City in Kansas City tomorrow. The announcement came from Bailey's private secretary. Mrs. Weed works at a Kansas City cloak company.
A poem fragment reflects on summer breeze songs, skies, hills, and bees with lines from Samuel Minturn Peck quoted as appearing in the Boston Transcript. It contrasts fleeting summer eve with impending grief.
A playful snippet features Hamilton Phatts claiming the ghost walked with the orchestra and Sue Bret joking about repayment. Phatts adds that the trombone player loaned ten, and the banter ends with the remark that the debtor does not know he owes the money.
Chicago grain markets fell as weather dominated trading. July wheat closed 4 1 4c lower with mixed shifts in corn and oats. provisions held steady. Receipts and futures ranges noted amid continued weather influence and outside selling.
Trade in general quotes from St Louis Baltimore and Cincinnati with prices for flour timothy seed corn meal and wheat. Reports show No 2 red wheat cash No 2 white rye and various corn and hog byproducts with steady to firmer trends and receipts by grade across markets. Prices include flour 3.20 to 3.55 per barrel and wheat lower while pork lard and bacon vary. Receipts list thousands of bushels for wheat corn oats and more with regional variations across markets.
Prices at major markets show livestock at steady levels with cattle trading muted. In Saint Louis the market remains firm on strong lambs while Kansas City reports no cattle activity due to high water, keeping the cattle market quiet across the region.
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