Local grocery prices list from mid century column
A reader’s fragment lists various food prices: ducks and geese pound rates, pork cuts with per pound prices, dried beef and flour fees, butter and eggs quotes, and cheese options from multiple suppliers. The prices appear in old style cents per unit, with occasional per barrel and per ton figures. Including items such as lard, hams, bacon, flour, creamery butter, eggs, and several cheeses with varying prices.
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Listman Milling Co
Hawley Com. Co
Utter
Daily Markets Fruit and Livestock Prices Displayed
Wholesale prices list lemons celery apples potatoes onions cranberries and other produce per unit or per box or barrel. Livestock quotes include hogs heifers and spring lambs with per unit prices, plus oysters and chickens with gal and dozen rates. Local market figures show varied price ranges across categories.
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Ben Davies
Langdon & Boyd
John C. Burner
Wis
Livestock trends at Union Stock Yards Illinois
Hogs receipts reach 9000 with a strong mixed market and price ranges from 5.00 to 7.49 per hundredweight for various classes. Cattle receipts 500 with steady market and prices from 2.70 to 9.75. Sheep receipts 1000 with a strong market and ranges from 3.90 to 8.15 for natives and westerns.
Livestock Receipts and Prices From Union Stock Yards
Hogs receipts 8 000. market steady mixed and butchers 7.05 to 7.45. good heavy 7.20 to 7.45. rough heavy 7.00 to 7.20. light 7.00 to 7.37. pigs 5.00 to 7.00. Cattle receipts 700. market weak beeves 7.10 to 7.50. cows and heifers 2.85 to 7.65. stockers and feeders 4.40 to 7.65. Texans 4.50 to 5.50. calves 6.75 to 11.00. Sheep receipts 10 000. market steady native 4.10 to 5.10. western 4.50 to 5.10. lambs 6.35 to 8.35. western 6.50 to 8.35.
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Union Stock Yards
Chicago Livestock Union Stock Yards
Special Term County Court Hearing Final Account
Notice of a La Crosse County Court special term to review D S MacArthur as administrator of Eloise J MacArthur estate. Hearing set for January 14, 1913 at 10 A M at the La Crosse Court House to adjust final account and assign residue to lawful heirs. Dated December 9 1912. By the Court John Brindley County Judge. McConnell Schweizer Attorneys.
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State of
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la Crosse County
la Crosse
D. S. MacArthur
Eloise J. MacArthur
John Brindley
McConnell & Schweizer
New York Stocks End Week With Uncertain Slowdown
Stocks opened irregular in New York with fractional gains early, then firm at noon, and a sluggish, uncertain afternoon as traders awaited the Supreme Court ruling on the Minnesota rate case. Extras and dairy prices varied, while eggs, cheese, potatoes, and poultry showed modest movements.
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New York
Supreme Court
Minnesota
Money rates and commodities in New York
New York money on call 4 ¾ percent. Time money 4 ¾ percent for six months. Bar silver London 28 ¾ pence, New York 62 4 8 per ounce. Commercial paper 6 percent.
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New York Money
New York
Money
Time Money
London
Kansas City Livestock Prices From Kansas City Market
Cattle receipts 7,000 with strong demand. Steers 7.00 to 9.00, cows and heifers 3.50 to 6.00, stockers and feeders 3.00 to 6.00, calves 4.00 to 10.00. Hogs receipts 6,500 with steady market. Bulk 7.10 to 7.35, heavy 7.30 to 7.42, medium 7.25 to 7.45, light 6.50 to 7.15. Sheep receipts 5,000 with 10 to 15 cent gains. Lambs 7.00 to 7.90, ewes 4.00 to 4.35, wethers and yearlings 4.25 to 4.80.
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Kansas City
Chicago Livestock Prices See Mixed Gains Across Markets
Chicago livestock markets show a strong overall tone with mixed classes up five cents. Cattle receipts reach 10,500 with beeves offered from 5.55 to 9.80, cows 2.75 to 7.60, stockers 4.25 to 7.60, Texans 4.50 to 5.75, calves 6.50 to 10.00. Sheep receipts hit 24,000 as values rise about 10 cents with natives 4.00 to 5.20, westerns 4.00 to 5.25, lambs 5.90 to 7.95, westerns 6.35 to 8.20.
Market Quotes Barley and Flax See Range Shifts
Barley prices range from 42 to 60 cents with Chicago bids at 46 to 75 cents. Flax trades around 1.23 to 1.24 dollars, with arrivals at 1.24 and Duluth flax at 1.24 dollars.
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Duluth
Chicago
Grain Prices in Chicago Markets for Wheat and Corn
Chicago quotations show No 2 red wheat at 1.09 to 1.10 dollars as No 3 red ranges 1.04 to 1.07. No 2 yellow corn 0.48 to 0.49 dollars, No 3 0.46 to 0.47, No 3 white 0.47 to 0.474, and No 4 white 0.46 to 0.464. Oats listed for No 3 white 0.33 to 0.333, No 4 white 0.33 to 0.334, standard 0.34.
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Chicago
Wheat and corn markets slide after Liverpool reports
Chicago grain futures opened dull with bearish Liverpool signals. May wheat edged up to noon while December held, oats and corn mostly steady, and provisions rose as hog receipts declined. Trade was subdued by light holiday activity and favorable weather.
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Chicago Grain Review
Chicago
Liverpool
Commission House
Grains and Prov Puts and Calls from Hadden Company
E G Hadden Co issues grain and commodity data for investors. Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce member firm lists La Crosse office at 417 McMillan Building with N E Wheaton as manager and telephone lines Old 345 and New 982.
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Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
la Crosse
McMillan Building
N. E. Wheaton
Difference of Opinion on Ideal Female Figure
The Tailors' association argues that 67 36 23 0 inches define the perfect female figure, while others contend that a figure valued at $1,000,000 is more desirable. The clash reflects contrasting standards of beauty and wealth in society.
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Tailors’ Association
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