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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1901
Page
7
A detailed listing shows wagon market cargoes with car numbers and colors, hay, clover, oats, straw, and diverse produce prices. It includes cheese, butter, wool, hides, candles, nuts, canned goods, dried fruits, grains, coal, dry goods, and numerous per ton or per pound rates across meats, dairy, vegetables, and miscellaneous commodities.
Reported figures show various loan amounts and monetary rates including promissory and mercantile papers, call money, and sterling exchange. Notable data cover New York balances and clearings, Philadelphia and Cincinnati figures, London discounts, and Paris exchange rates with silver prices and bullion balances.
Chicago June 11 marked weakness in wheat with July closing lower by a fraction. Corn and oats also fell amid rains offsetting a government crop report, while provisions stayed mostly steady. Export demand remained light as receipts and shipments shifted in a sluggish market.
Market bulletin from New York reports flour and rye flour prices steady to down, wheat futures weak on weather and crop concerns, corn and date reserves, and mixed grain receipts. Lard and pork futures show modest firming. sugar and oilseed rates listed with small shifts, while spot prices reflect cooling demand and ample supply.
Traders in Baltimore, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Toledo and other hubs report mixed grain prices with Western wheat futures slipping and corn and oats wavering. Wool in Boston shows quiet demand with territory and Australian lots remaining price stable amid softening mid grades.
New York reports butter receipts 17 820 packages. market firmer creameries and dairies. Philadelphia notes butter steady in fair demand. cheese dull. Baltimore lists butter firmer and eggs varied. Chicago and Kansas City show firm or weak trends in butter and eggs. Louisville markets provide prices for Elgin butter and poultry. Spot Petroleums and rosin quoted in New York and Savannah. Overall, dairy and poultry prices show mixed movement across major cities.
Evaporated apples moved slowly with light on hand supply keeping prices steady. California dried fruits remained near prior levels with varied prune sizes. New York cotton area demand rose slightly with good orders for prints at prior prices and export demand for heavy brown cottons to China persists. Print cloth market stayed quiet but steady while ginghams, hosiery, and underwear held firm amid moderate business.
New Orleans on June 11 reports a steady cotton market with sales totaling 1,260 bales. Prices listed for grades range from low ordinary to good middling with specific quotes including 59-16c for ordinary and 7 1-16c to 7 1b-16c for various middle grades. Receipts reach 2,230 bales and total stock stands at 117,162 bales.
Manila June 11 Surgeon Dudley Welsh confessed in trials of Forty third Regiment officers on bribery and trade with Leyte’s closed south. He named Capt. Michael Spellman and Lieut. Delbart R. Jones as involved and refunded a thousand pesos. Maasin president detained for alleged involvement. Manila firm agents tied to the acts. S. Brown said Garry Herrmann will skip the American Derby on June 22 due to horse condition. horse to be rested three months.
The High Island Land and Oil Company in Galveston Texas claims the property sits among Texas oil gushers atop the cap rock over an oil lake and urges the public to buy stock. They offer 30 shares at 50 cents full paid non-assessable until June 21, with an expectation the stock will double in value in under a month.
At Union Stock Yards Indianapolis June 11 cattle receipts 700. best steers steady, heifer stock weak. Hogs receipts 5,500 with active demand. prices risen above yesterday’s. Sheep light, demand indifferent. mutton and lambs weak to lower amid varied small lots. Interstate and Kansas City spots show steady to higher cattle and mixed hogs. market outlook cautious.
Percy and Katherine Motian and others listed with addresses across Vermont, Michigan, West Sixteenth, Kappes, Park Avenue, Elm, and Columbia Street. Names include Ermine Booth, Belle Kurtz, Elizabeth Beste, Shannen, Myrtle Chrysler, Emma Pantser, Edna Greenough, Susie Willis, Mary Parker, Kellum, and Albrecht.
Marriage licenses list multiple couples including Royden V. Lesley with Cora M Ertet and Frank Lehring with Anna Hogan. Others show David W. Vinson with Ida Fenton Peter Alpert with Anna Hormnast Raymond Stockton with Ethel Adel Heath, Gottlob Heleworth with Lizzie Strawback, and more.
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