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Newspaper
The Richmond Palladium And Sun Telegram
Location
Richmond, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1908
Page
7
Wanted day labor by widow seeking companionship or housework at 07 NS G street. WANTED work including cooking baking or general housework at 19th 25 8. WANTED cook and servant at 14 North 13th street Leah. WANTED men to learn barber trade with shop and tools, diplomas granted, Saturday for wages. FOR SALE OV.
A string of mixed sale offers and lost items appears including plants furniture and household goods for sale with contact hints and prices, plus several lost items such as a brown purse and a horse collar. The fragmentary text lists various sellers and locations and asks readers to contact via phone or at the office for rewards or further details.
A morning collision near a busy highway endangers several bystanders as a speeding auto veers off course. Driver and passengers sustained critical injuries. rescue teams transported them to nearby hospital for urgent care. Witnesses report chaotic scene with debris scattered along the roadway.
Chicago grain and provisions report by Correll and Thompson indicates higher receipts and mixed hog prices. Cattle and sheep are steady with sizable volumes, while hogs close mixed with light at 5.70 and heavy at 5.40. Prices reflect gains of 5 to 10 cents in some futures.
Wheat at 96 cents per bushel corn and oats at 53 cents Timothy hay average price 81 cents with a per ton or bundle value listed as 12 dollars. Market notes indicate current grain values in Indianapolis on June 1.
In Indianapolis market notes buyers find heavies best, with beef steers and heifers in good to choice range. Medium to good steers, yearlings, and veal calves run fair to good, while stock cattle offer fleshy feed values. Sheep show choice lambs and best yearlings among strong demand.
Richmond. CATTLE. Paid by Richmond Abattoir. Best hogs average 200 to 250 TDS. Good to heavy packers. Steers corn fed, heifers, fat cows, bulls, calves shown with prices. Fragmentary data indicates ranges around 5.85 to 6.00 per unit and tonnage like 1,600 to 4,10.
Local ad lists prices for young chickens and old chickens by pound, turkeys and ducks per pound, along with creamery butter and country butter. Advertised by Bee Hive Grocery with payment terms noted.
Market list shows Timothy hay bated at 72.00 and loose at 10.00 per unit. Clover hay bated and donsey priced around 8.00. Additional entries include corn per bushel and oats per bushel with varied figures, reflecting typical late 19th century commodity pricing in Richmond.
Grain prices for Richmond Roller Mills list wheat at 2.5 per bushel, corn at dpe ba per bushel, yeast at aoe per buy, bran at OW per ton, middlings at $25.00 per ten. The text is garbled but shows market quotes and unit prices for wheat corn bran and middlings.
Range and Co lists Clover Seed at 19 dollars per barrel and Timothy at a rival price with unclear units, reflecting a seed pricing note from the Richmond market page. The fragmentary listing shows market quotes but lacks full context or complete figures.
Pittsboro Jina t Catth-Receipts show hogs, sheep, and veal with prices ranging from 4.70 to 7.25 dollars. Spring term bids listed at 7.50 while total receipts impression is light and numbers indicate down trends.
Cincinnati market note reports receipts of cattle hogs and sheep steady with cattle receipts 271 and hogs 101. Butchers weights and prices listed with sales totals and a general auction tone. Sellers and shippers noted with price references like six fifty and totals around five thousand dollars.
East Buffalo reports June 1 receipts across categories including veal sheep and lambs hogs and mixed stock with various down payments. Notable figures include veal receipts 2600 at 36.79 down and hogs 13009 with 5.95 down.
Toledo traders note wheat at 94 percent and rye steady while clover and alsike prices rise with October futures at 7.53 and 15.50 dollars respectively. An editorial fragment on stomach health promotes Dr Calwell's Pepsin as a remedy with claims of relief and dosage pricing.
A fragmentary 1774 correspondence by Roger Atkinson and peers discusses Patrick Henry, Virginia figures, and the role of religion in politics. The text portrays Henry as a strong yet moderate patriot, contrasting religious restraint with wartime zeal and labeling him a significant American voice.
Captain Del Chandler U S A explains the sensation of rising in a free balloon. The ascent feels imperceptible with a slow, gentle lift, creating an optical illusion of the earth dropping away. The landscape appears flat like a map while distant noises fade and altitude changes become hard to gauge.
The Webb Lodge of Masons plans a Wednesday night banquet with initiation of five candidates and an address by Grand Master Charles N. Mikel of New Castle. The event marks year’s end work and invites all in good standing to attend.
The note recalls the completed St Peter's Basilica in Rome after centuries of work by eighteen architects and forty three popes. By the late 1600s its cost reached 50 million dollars excluding sacristy and adjacent works. Pope Pius IX commissioned final edge work marking Michelangelo's birth four hundredth anniversary.
A humorous note from a society page describes a wife deeming her husband unreasonable for reacting to a burned steak by tossing a vase of fresh flowers onto the table at breakfast. The exchange captures domestic tension in lighthearted tone.
A garbled excerpt cites a London Express line about a child, with phrases implying a father and mother scolding, and a sense of unrest or confusion surrounding March. The text is fragmented and difficult to parse but centers on family discipline themes.
A postal official notes stamp misprints become prized finds. Examples include a Mauritius two pence stamp altered to Post Office Mauritius selling for 1450, a British Guiana issue bearing Tatimusque, a Cape of Good Hope penny sold for nearly £1 due to color, and an upside down swan in Western Australia whose surviving example reached £400.
A fragmentary narrative describes a Persian tree named the sorrowful tree that opens its buds after sunset and closes at dawn, leaving a white dust on the ground and a strong evening fragrance. A nearby tree blooms in daytime. The text shifts to a description of Bank of England strong rooms with thick concrete beds, deep water, iron doors, and impenetrable walls, alongside a mention of ancient tech and medical references.
The readable lines reference a residence at 44 Factory on Union Pike near Richmond, with notes about a large project on dwellings, a factory alert, and a stock removal incident. Names like Timpsoms and Antamate Pines appear mixed with scattered addresses and building concerns, indicating a damaged OCR clipping of a community notice.
A dispatch from St Louis reports that Employment Day, promoted by the National Prosperity association, led to seventeen thousand five hundred workers resuming jobs. Manufacturers have on land orders totaling millions, as factory owners engage over seventeen thousand men. The Richmond Commercial Club was urged to join the effort but debated whether the movement was political, fraudulent, or merely a wishful belief the times are improving.
Deaths and funerals are listed for Campbell Fontain G aged 62 at Earlham Heights with funeral Wednesday at 16 o clock and burial at Earlham cemetery. Schnieder John a longtime contractor dies at 615 South J Street, with funeral plans to be announced. Edward Dillenbach dies Saturday evening aged 0, carpenter with 50 years in the trade. funeral details pending. Additional notices include births, a politics-poised anecdote about Lord Trevelyan, and assorted local obituaries and family mentions.
Local grocer Jorrmosta advertises Gold Medal Flour stock and GE SeTeEe products in a brief promotional display. The note highlights pantry staples and household essentials available at the store.
A survey of global practices shows trial marriages as a common norm. Greeks regard marriage as temporary, often lasting one year, leading to many unaffiliated offspring. Among American Tadlam tribes, Greenland, Botocudos, Tasmania, Samoa, and the Indian archipelago, unions are frequently temporary or intervals of feasting and change.
A naval officer in 1885 New York Bay shows an autograph he claims to be Shakespeare’s to a visiting Englishman and a girl, provoking a lecture on forged autographs. The piece also explains the linguistic distinction between faint and feint, tracing fainting origins from French and Latin roots.
The Wayne Circuit Court of Indiana appoints CHARLES A. ROBERTS administrator of the estate of Thomas W. Roberts, deceased, late of Wayne County. The estate is insolvent. Shiveley & Shiveley, Attorneys for Administrator. 25-18
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