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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
15
A dense jumble of help wanted notices and real estate listings from a midwestern newspaper. Listings include cooks waitstaff messengers female sales travelers and factory workers plus multiple properties for sale or trade with brief location and price cues.
Classified fragment shows a telephone contact line for placing desires in the want ads with a partial phone hint and unclear formatting. The snippet suggests a house or business seeking ad submissions via a central desk and a listed phone number.
Classified ad fragment listing first class lantern slides hand painted and framed in hardwood for $35, originally $300. Also mentions Poland China hogs and various sales notes including pianos go carts and a shoe repair shop for sale or trade with contact details.
Boston, Mass. reports a wet majority of 23 051 in the liquor license vote. John Barleycorn stays, with Billy Sunday campaigning and Sunday declaring he is a good loser. Four other Massachusetts cities shifted toward dry, increasing the dry tally to six new dry cities statewide.
London on December 20 opened with a generally strong tone after Lloyd George's parliamentary speech. Traders noted robust action by the government though holiday proximity limited trading activity.
The bodies of William Hill and his daughter Ida aged one Indians were found Wednesday in Hill s cabin both badly mutilated by rats and mice The cause of death has not been determined but it is believed to have been apoplexy.
Stocks fell sharply after 2:00 PM with United States Steel dropping to 1084 and Atlantic Gulf & West Indies down 11% from earlier highs. Marine and Bethlehem Steel led losses while the Dow ticked lower and market officials cited peace-talk expectations.
Cattle receipts 5,000 with steady to 10 higher prices. Steers $6 to $11.50, cows and heifers $5.75 to $10.25, stockers and feeders $6 to $8.50, calves $6.50 to $11.50. Hogs receipts 11,000 with strong demand. Prices bulk $9.70 to $10.20, heavies $10.05 to $10.25, mediums $9.90 to $10.20, lights $9.50 to $10.05. Sheep receipts 4,000, market strong to higher. Lambs $11.75 to $12.85, ewes $7.75 to $9, stockers and feeders $6.50 to $12.
New York cotton trading reopened after a sharp drop. February cotton fell to 19.80, down about 2 a bale, with nearby futures sliding 19 to 37 points. July contracts eased to 17.33 as the session began.
Chicago notes a fairly active hog market with top at 10.30 and 5,000 receipts, 45,000 estimated for Thursday. Cattle steady to 10 cents higher with beeves at 11.60 and calves 11.50 while sheep hold steady and lambs reach 13.00.
Hog receipts reach 58 000 with market strong to higher and mixed grading. Prices range from 9.65 to 10.25 for good to heavy hogs and 9.80 to 10.15 for good to heavy porkers. Cattle receipts total 19 000 with steady market and beeves from 7.00 to 11.60. Sheep receipts 17 000 with steady prices native lambs 11.00 to 13.00 and western lambs 11.00 to 13.00.
Chicago market report lists butter creamery extras at 38 and 27 to 38 cents for firsts, eggs ordinary 35 to 46 cents, fowls 14 to 17, ducks 15 to 18, geese 14 to 17, spring 17, turkeys 25 cents, potatoes receipts 20 cars with Wisconsin and Minnesota fares at 1.45 to 1.50 and fancy Western 1.60 to 1.70 per bushel.
Wheat No 3 hard quoted at 1.64 percent. Corn No 2 yellow at 91.5 cents, No 3 fellow 90 to 92 cents, No 3 white 0 to 91.5 cents, No 3 mixed 90 to 111 cents, No 4 mixed 89 to 91 cents, No 6 mixed 88 to 0 cents. Oats No 3 white 50 to 51 cents, No 4 white 50 to 51 cents, standard 61 to 51 cents.
Market prices from multiple sources list fresh eggs at 40 cents per dozen and creamery butter at 40 cents a pound. Grain prices show wheat 1.20 to 1.40 dollars per bushel with barley near 0.60 dollars. flour and feed items include Elmco bran and shorts at 30 to 37 dollars per 100 pounds and white middlings at 37.90.
F. H. Fowler, captain of Company M, resumes his principal duties at Hamilton school after being in Texas with his company this year. The French club, led by Miss Renard, held a Christmas tree gathering with exchanges and a Marseillaise sing along. The German club, led by Mr. Kliewer, held a party singing Stille Nacht after exchanging gifts.
The Wendell Philips and Lincoln Douglas debating societies have rescheduled their intersociety debate to January 8. The issue is whether boards of arbitration with compulsory powers should settle all labor disputes between employers. George Bunge and Charles Weis will uphold the Lincoln Douglas affirmative while Don Carleton supports it for Lincoln Douglas. Ralph Spence Kirk White and Mark Peterman support the Wendell Philips negative.
The high school basketball team will practice at the YMCA gym over Christmas vacation because their own gym is under repair. Alumni game set for January 5, the Friday after school resumes, with veterans seeking a repeat after last decade’s win by the regulars.
The manual training department creates small brass fobs in football shape for the letter men on the squad to be distributed after vacation with the letters.
Baroness Constance Theodora Peppenheim arrives from Java and stays at Ellis Island as her fiancé recovers from fever. City Magistrate Grant Esterbrook, after denying streetcar use, rides part way home from Coney Island police court. a few prisoners are mentioned.
London brokers and stock exchange clerks receive thirty four decorations for conspicuous skill and bravery at the front. One hundred forty two have been killed.
Vienna reports that after battles in Austria, insurers offer indemnity to women for failure to find husbands. Premiums vary by appearance with the least attractive charged highest rates.
In Cleveland Ohio John Biermacher a real estate dealer who vanished a year ago has been declared legally dead by Probate Judge Hadden. The ruling recognizes his disappearance and closes matters tied to his estate and holdings.
In Chicago a three hour exhibition within Professor Frederick Starr's pre historic European archaeology course offered restoratives of ice cream and cake to attendees.
Chicago report says William M. Deneau the Eastland disaster body recoverer may be arrested for failing to pay $200 alimony to his wife. He helped recover 250 bodies from the 1915 incident according to the article.
The La Crosse Chamber of Commerce issued a statement asserting confidence in C B Hosmer of Utica Mississippi Normal and Industrial Institute. It says Hosmer, a Tuskegee graduate, is an authorized representative and that the Mississippi institution has full endorsement from whites in that area.
An inventory filed with Registrar Probate John Costley shows the late Calvin W. Baker estate valued at 139899.28 dollars. The bulk is personal property led by life insurance at 20000 and holdings in the Calvin W. Baker company and Northern Hotel company. Died intestate, his estate will be divided between widow Eva M. Baker and children Virginia 13 and Dorothy 7, with John A. Bayer as administrator.
Robert E. Gonzales, 28, son of United States minister to Cuba W. E. Gonzales, died of pneumonia at a base hospital in El Paso. He served in the machine gun company of the Second Regiment, South Carolina National Guard.
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