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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1916
Page
11
Classified columns offer sales positions, agency opportunities, and shop jobs. Advertisers seek ambitious men and women for door to door and general sales, plus clerical and repair duties. Local firms list commissions, training, and prompt earnings with no capital required.
New York trading Saturday saw gains led by United States Steel and railroad shares. market turned steady with prices generally up one to four points from Friday as investors bought. Key issues like Union Pacific, Reading, and Southern Railway advanced while Sears Roebuck jumped.
New York money reports Bar silver in London at 36 13-16d and New York at 76 1-4c. Demand for sterling stands at 4.759-16.
Kansas City Missouri December 16 cattle receipts about 8000 with steers 6000 to 12000 cows and heifers 525 to 1050 stockers and feeders 600 to 850 calves 361 to 1115 hogs receipts around 1000 with 970 to 1100 bulk market steady heavy hogs 1000 to 1020 medium 990 to 1000 light 960 to 1005 sheep receipts 2000 market steady lambs 1200 to 1310 ewes 775 to 900 stockers and feeders 600 to 1200.
Hogs closed slow with a top of $10.20 and receipts about 3,000 above estimate. Cattle finished steady with beeves at $10.25 and calves at $12. Sheep weaker with a top of $10 and lambs at $13.35. Estimated Monday receipts put at 60,000.
Hogs receipts 16 900 market steady to higher with mixed animals and prices ranging from 7 35 to 10 25 for pigs and 9 65 to 10 10 for heavy hogs. Cattle receipts 500 market steady with beeves 7 00 to 11 75 cows and heifers 3 85 to 10 10 stockers 5 00 to 8 10 Texans 7 99 to 9 10 calves 8 50 to 12 00. Sheep receipts 3 000 market steady native 8 85 to 10 99 western 9 00 to 10 00 native lambs 11 00 to 13 35 western lambs 11 25 to 13 35.
Chicago prices for dairy eggs cheese and poultry list Butter extras and firsts by cents per pound and quality ratings. Potatoes receipts from Wisconsin and Minnesota show $1.40 to $1.90 with fancy westerns at $1.69 to $1.70. Grain markets note cash barley at 85 to 120 cents and Timothy and Clover prices.
Elgin Il December 16 butter market reports all sales at 38 1/2 cents per pound. Prices show a 1 cent rise over last week, with strong demand noted for creamery and farm butter alike.
Chicago cash grain prices for corn and oats show No 2 yellow at 92 to 93 cents per bushel with variations across grades. White and mixed corn prices range around 86 to 93 cents. Ratified white and standard categories listed at about 51 to 52 cents.
CHICAGO wheat markets rippled as speculators scrambled to buy after Germany signaled peace talks and the Russian Duma rejected a settlement. Traders chased prices amid volatile sessions, absorbing news of shifting diplomacy and global demand.
The Wisconsin County Court of La Crosse County will hold a special term at the La Crosse Court House on December 26, 1916, at 10:00 AM. Ernest E. Blashek, executor of Johanna Blashek’s will, seeks settlement and allowance of his final account and distribution of the estate to rightful heirs. Court order by County Judge John Brindley.
In La Crosse County Wisconsin a special County Court term will hear the application of H A Tausche administrator of Edward J Tausche deceased to sell real estate. The property is an undivided one half interest in the south forty feet of the east one hundred ten feet of Lot Four in Block Thirteen of Dunn Dousman and Cameron's addition to La Crosse. The hearing is set for the second Tuesday of January 1917 at ten in the forenoon at the County Court House La Crosse. MORRIS HARTWELL and A T HOLMES, Attorneys.
Ordinance No 574 amends Ordinance 512 to fix annual salaries for La Crosse Fire Department officers and staff. Chief, captains, lieutenants, drivers, tillermen, linemen, pipemen, and truckmen receive listed pay scales effective January 1, 1917. City officials Bentley and Hoffman authenticate the measure, passed December 8 1916 and published December 16 1916.
H. M. Stokes, formerly of Tucson, Arizona, walked into Seattle Police Chief Beckingham's office and confessed shooting Alexander Miller in the Mutual Life building, claiming the fatality arose from a business deal. Miller lay dead when officers arrived at the Kauffman & Miller office.
Cambridge Mass December 16 Harvard University psychologist Professor Hugo Munsterberg dropped dead Saturday while lecturing to a Radcliffe College psychology class. He fell ill, died within minutes, and the medical examiner took note of the sudden collapse.
McGregor Iowa voters approved a community Christmas tree to be set in Triangle Park on lower Main. The McGregor band will play and church choirs will sing on the Saturday before Christmas. Santa Claus will give candy sacks to children as crowds gather for holiday cheer.
A reflection contrasts a man not in love with an unhappy state and a man in love with occasional unhappiness, exploring how love's presence can both soothe and strain emotions.
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