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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1907
Page
9
Market data from Chicago exchanges shows open high low and after hours figures for various commodities and pork futures. The noise-filled OCR lists prices such as 103 102% and 56% with unclear product labels.
A jumble of sale postings and rental notices lists items such as a wood sawing machine, a Victor Talking Machine, sheet metal course, and several room rentals. Also included are partnership dissolution notices, business investment pitches, and small want ads seeking offices, attendees, and equipment. Street addresses and partial names appear, with scattered telephone cues and dates.
Liverpool market notes show wheat higher by 4s in bin and corn up 44. Receipts vary with shays and shipments: rice, cable, and Chicago grain figures listed. London forecasts 1907 wheat crop short of 400 million bushels, with total world shipments around 680,000 thousand. Hogs and cattle weaker. Liverpool closes with mixed gains and losses in wheat and corn.
The Houston Kilmore County Medical Association met in Caledonia with 10:00 a.m. sessions at the Masonic hall and a noon paper session on skull fracture. Dr. Browning, long-time president, hosted a dinner, and W. Penn Wytheoff was elected president as Browning declined another term. A separate case notes Fred Mills arraigned and remanded to jail on a charge linked to Osmund Jor wenson, with grand jury action pending.
A Greek contact in Baltimore revealed a plan to export 1,500,000 bushels of wheat to Athens. The shipment would involve five steamers and be linked to Brown Bros of New York.
Market prices remain steady with a small local egg price drop to 6.00 per case on the track. Turkeys for Christmas are coming in. Groceries and provisions listing includes eggs, grain, dairy, meats, produce, and fuel items with varied prices from wholesalers and packing firms. Local journalists Hawley Cam and Ga. Greainery report wholesale rates and shipment notes for the Monday December 16 edition.
A fringe-era narrative argues railroads opened the Northwest between Minnesota and the Sound. It recalls Lewis and Clark, early settlers, and pioneer lines proving agriculture and settlement possible. The piece extols rail transport as essential to farming, mining, and population growth in the western frontier.
Fragmented text outlines railroad ferries and ship routes around Lake Michigan with mentions of Green Bay & Western and other towns. It threads a speculative claim about a future empire built on grain markets and civilizational wealth, interwoven with remarks about insomnia and stage money as motifs.
The War Department locates a national artillery range east of Sparta boosting fortunes for Col. R. B. McCoy Monroe County judge and Wisconsin National Guard inspector of small arms. Congress has appropriated 150000 for land purchase and action awaits joint survey approval. McCoy reportedly owns thousands of acres between Sparta and Tunnel City suitable for the range.
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