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Newspaper
The Richmond Palladium And Sun Telegram
Location
Richmond, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
7
A jumble of small classified style notes seeking help and services. Entries advertise a live-in helper with own room, professional vault cleaning, laundry work, barber training, shorthand and bookkeeping instruction, and general clerical or domestic tasks. Multiple phone numbers and addresses are listed, detailing diverse requests.
Today's market quotations list prices for outs per day rye bran middlings per ten and other grain items as reported by Correll and Thompson brokers in Eaton Ohio. The brief snippet notes New York quotes dated June 6 but contains incomplete commodity names and figures.
Chicago grain and provisions update shows Wheat Corn and Oats activity with open high low and close figures for Sept Dec July and nearby contracts. Bank statement notes reserves loans deposits and circulation declines while US Yards reports hog and cattle receipts and price ranges alongside sheep and bread market activity.
Richmond abattoir advertises best hogs at 200 to 250 pounds, common to choice steers and cows with calves, lambs, and other cattle. Poultry prices paid by Bee Hive Grocery include dressed chickens at 18 cents per pound and assorted country produce. Creamery butter 4.2 cents per pound, country butter similar.
Indianapolis grain prices June 6 show Wheat at 92, Corn 70, Oats 53, Rye 81 with Timothy at 12.20 per unit. Market data lists Indianapolis as the source and notes current commodity values for traders and buyers.
Indianapolis Livestock Market shows hogs heavy at 5.60 to 5.75, beef steers and heifers varied with good to choice ranges, butcher cattle mixed, veal calves good to fair, stock cattle midrange, and sheep with choice lambs and best yearlings priced around 5.00 to 5.50, reflecting market tiers and quality segments.
County commissioners inspected the Home for Friendless Women this morning finding conditions fair. The report notes Richmond Roller Mills as a private institution with the county maintaining a woman's jail on site and identifies the largest source of income as wheat per bushel.
Omar G Whelan reports livestock and grain prices. Fat cows and helper cows available. Bales and hay quoted. Corn and oats prices listed per barrel and per bushel with small town market tone.
Richmond seed market report notes Runge and Co offering Timothy at a per bushel price. Trade activity appears light with inquiries about availability and delivery terms. Prices andExact quotes unavailable from the fragmentary OCR.
Pittsburg cattle receipts light and steady with prices about 7.10 lower for cattle and veal ranging from 5.00 to 7.20. Hogs receipts light with loads at 5.70 down. Sheep and lamb receipts light with sheep around 4.60 and spring lambs near 7.25 down.
East Buffalo June 6 cattle market steady with veal receipts 200 priced 5.25 to 7.00 per hundredweight. Sheep and lambs receipts 3,600 with lambs 5.26 to 97 and 3.40, hogs receipts 8.00 with mixed and yorkers 5.50 to 5.58 and pigs 5.00 to 5.10.
Fragmentary Toledo market note shows June oats and grain prices with October wheat and corn. Contains clover and a price of 7.45 dollars for October futures, indicating a brief snapshot of commodity quotes from the Toledo grain market.
A telephone message from a large employment agency notes that appearance matters in hiring. An employer cites a young bookkeeper who dressed poorly as a hindrance, while a sharp, well groomed look improves chances. The piece argues New Yorkers judge applicants by dress, affecting advancement.
A Kansas City Star excerpt describes a wholesale grocery house numbering streets by aisles and labeling stacks with numbers to speed orders. It contrasts with the Free Lance’s freelance culture in New York and ends with a humorous Scots anecdote about jubilees and a medical teaser for Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin.
Wayne county advisory board met at the office of County Superintendent Jordan to decide the No 9 school house site amid renewed dispute. Mrs Anna Moorman proposed trading the National Road land for the present site but was told the board cannot make such a trade. The board can only purchase land and abandoned sites go to auction, yet no action could be taken as the proper notices had not been issued.
Mrs Walter Rossiter signed her husband s name to a remonstrance against an alley improvement and then offered an explanation to the board of public works She says her husband s signature should govern the action and cited a belief about the Koran and music in paradise Also includes unrelated quoted text from Philadelphia Press and a cottage gag about Specks family conversations
There were twenty six deaths in May. Most were white except two. Three deaths from pulmonary consumption. Brights disease same severity as consumption. Spinal meningitis, cancer, and heart trouble each claimed one life. Four children under one year died. Thirty five babies born. fifteen boys and eighteen girls. Four contagious disease cases: typhoid four, smallpox one, scarlet fever one.
The T P A and Commercial club committees issued a statement praising Henry W Denker for aiding in settling traction troubles. B B Johnson, a Commercial Club member, says he was not asked to sign, would have refused, and disputes Denker's conduct, refusing to vouch for his character.
Jennie Scearce was granted a divorce from John L. Scearce on desertion and failure to provide. The defendant, said to be in California, did not appear. Anna Runge’s divorce from George Runge was continued until Monday. Gabriel Anderson versus Blanche Anderson proceedings were not completed and also continued. Medal Four is very highest Lariste.
Joe Banks, a former Richmond high student, was injured last Monday when a fractious horse kicked him in the head at the Frank Morris livery barn. He was moved to Reid Memorial hospital this morning in a serious condition, with doctors noting convulsions and empty whiskey bottles found near his bed suggesting possible neglect. If recovery occurs his mental state may be affected.
Detective John Englert and a posse cornered a gang of bandits in a Bellebridge house. Two fled, firing. Thomas Travers was killed. Englert was wounded three times but not fatally. The gang had terrorized the county for weeks. several members may remain in the house. Ollie James was delivering a political speech when a heckler challenged him about Cleveland and Roosevelt.
George Gay, proprietor of the Weet cot hotel, charged with conducting a blind tiger. These cases were set for trial week after next. Court may continue due to July August vacation, possibly to the October term.
In Alabama Scott voted to seat delegates chosen by his faction for Taft. Arkansas Fifth district delegates were seated for Taft after a brief session. A late meeting in Indiana's Auditorium Annex, with Knox Fairbanks and Cannon representatives, urged that contests be settled by properly chosen bodies and warned against centralizing nominating power with campaign managers.
On Supt Bail ey’s instruction Ollie King, a well known character, was arrested on suspicion and locked up. He is believed to hold information of interest to the police department. No charge has been placed against him.
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