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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1902
Page
10
Columbia National Bank announces new appointments including Mortimer Levering H W Miller L P Newby Alex F Ramsey Ernest H Tripp and N Catsip in a formal organizational update.
Week ended March 1 shows prices held with high ranges across many goods. Demand for poultry eggs and canned goods remains strong. produce and fruits expect softer prices due to moderating weather and rising receipts. Wheat corn oats inspections steady. wagon market light with corn and oats offerings, and assorted farm inputs and groceries listed with varied prices.
An excited oats market triggered shorts to cover with a 2c May oats rise while May wheat and May corn eased. Reports said the heaviest May oats holder ordered No 2 mixed out of elevators to move contract stock. Receipts were light and storms slowed movements ahead of the March 10 crop report. May oats closed 1/4c higher at 44 1/4 to 45c. May wheat down fractions. May corn down about 1/4c. provisions lower amid mixed demand.
Prices paid by shippers for turkeys chickens ducks geese and hens. wholesale quotes for cheese butter wax hides and tallow. varied goods include canned fruits beans peaches nuts and dry goods with regional sources and per unit or per ton figures. notes on coal coke drugs and general merchandise appear interspersed.
A Colorado prospector explains to a Milwaukee Sentinel reader how to outrun a bear in hilly country. He describes a strategy of zigzagging along the slope to gain distance as the bear struggles to match a curved line, then retracing steps to prolong the chase until the animal is out of sight.
A fragment from Harper's Bazar speaks of a bluebird wing as a bright, transitory symbol. The text notes life shifting toward a lighter era with a hasty horizon and fading past, evoking a poetic mood.
Reports from multiple cities show butter and eggs steady or firm, with dairy and creamery variations. Metals in New York remain weak on copper and tin while lead and spelter hold. copper holders worry about selling. Also notes on cotton goods and poultry prices with steady to firm trends.
A Washington Post report analyzes how post offices across the United States bear names linked to Prince Henry and Emperor Wilhelm, noting many places named Alice Teddy Berlin and others. The piece links names to events such as the yacht launch at Shooters Island and cites offices named Admiral Navy Gunpowder and Potsdams in several states.
New York March 1 Flour receipts exports total 21 085 bushels market steady rye No 2 Western 66 1 2 cents coarse grain futures rally then drift closing mixed wheat oats corn prices and market activity described with futures data and spot quotes delayed by time of report
Trade in general at St. Louis shows mixed commodity moves with flour quiet and prices for red winter higher for some grades, while corn meal and oats show varied bids. Pork and lards steady, dry salt meats and bacon soft, whisky steady, and basic goods like bagging and hemp twine maintain small gains amid a generally muted session.
A commercial traveler known in the cycle trade shares a joke about a new baby. The nurse follows a formula and telegrams a single word to the amused father, signaling the arrival of a boy or girl with “Gentleman’s safety” or “Lady’s safety” and ending with “Tandem.”
Secretary Hay urges keeping the open door, noting the Manchurian situation. His measured, nature anxious reassurance carries weight in Peking and St. Petersburg, more than five years ago.
An eyewitness dispatch from Settlement Morocco describes Mulai Abdul Aziz leading a royal march from Marrakech to Rabat with about 40,000 people. The article details daily routines, tents striking, palanquin processions, and the elaborate escort including viziers, guards, and tribal governors. It notes audiences en route, tribal salutes, and diverse attendees from beggars to sect representatives as the cortege traverses plains and hills.
Description of Mulai Abdul Aziz's royal camp with mosques and private tents, the royal stables, and a white procession of women entering the sultanate. It notes the sultan’s public business hours, provisioning of thirty thousand people and twenty thousand animals, and reforms reducing local extortion funded from imperial treasury. Also mentions forester shortages and Philippines Forestry Bureau offers opportunities with salaries from seven to three dollars annually.
The Forestry Bureau Bulletin urges a structured path to a forestry career. Students should study geology geography chemistry botany and mathematics with physics meteorology and political economy, then attend a forest school such as New York State College of Forestry Yale Forest School or Biltmore. Hands on woodlot study in the US and six months to a year in Europe are advised to grasp practical forestry and lumber methods.
The Columbus Railway Company and others adopt wage dividends matching stockholder returns. President Robert E. Sheldon touts worker morale and mutual gain while Eysenbach of Peacedale and Proctor & Gamble report early success. Bourne Mills notes varied 2 to 7 percent dividends with profit sharing boosting efficiency and labor quality.
Maine trappers praise this winter as the best in years with fur prices up 3 to 5 percent from last season. Dealers note scarcity drives higher costs for raw pelts and finished coats, predicting possible price easing if Russian and Siberian furs flood the market. Locally, trappers face slower gains and cautious optimism about next season.
Syracuse Herald recounts a humorous exchange where a polished suitor in overalls asserts success in farming, claiming twenty acres of potatoes yielded a crop failure, prompting the skeptical elder to admit pride in the unlikely marriage and remark on his own status as a farmer.
A Baltimore Herald note praises Wheeler as a critic of sycophancy and lauds his Congressional Record speech printed without edits or reductions, calling it astonishing for a congressman to act so openly. The remark frames Wheeler as a steadfast denouncer of flattery in politics.
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