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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1912
Page
7
The listing records per unit prices from several suppliers for dairy and grain products. Butter eggs cheese and creamery items show varied price ranges by item, with per ton and per pound figures for grains and middlings, reflecting market quotations from Hawkey Co Thomas Phaison Co and Hy Anderegg.
Storage eggs quoted 18 to 21 cents on the local market. Fresh eggs and butter prices unchanged. Grain market shows rye 40 to 48 cents and corn 45 to 50 cents. Bananas a bunch 1.50 to 3.00 dollars. lemons per box 7.00. grapefruits 1.00 to 1.50 each. oysters and other produce listed with varied per unit prices. Livestock quotes include steers 3.00 to 5.00, cows 2.00 to 4.25, and lambs 5.00 to 5.50. poultry and lard prices also provided.
Market slow with 10 cent declines. Beefs and calves show varied lines, butchers $7.10 to $7.50, good heavy $7.20 to $7.50, rough heavy $7.05 to $7.20, light $7.05 to $7.42, pigs $5.25 to $7.20. Cattle receipts 500. cows and heifers $2.75 to $7.50, stockers $4.25 to $7.40, Texans $4.60 to $5.70, calves $6.50 to $10.00. Sheep receipts 2,000. natives $4.20 to $5.50, westerns $4.25 to $5.50, lambs $6.10 to $8.65, western $6.45 to $8.65.
Hog receipts total 9,000 with a strong mixed market. Butchers 6.95 to 7.40, heavy 7.10 to 7.49, light 6.85 to 7.27, pigs 5.00 to 6.80. Beeves 5.45 to 9.75, cows and heifers 2.70 to 7.50, stockers 4.20 to 7.50, Texans 4.40 to 5.65, calves 3.50 to 9.75. Sheep receipts 1,000 with a strong market. Native 3.90 to 5.15, western 4.00 to 5.20, lambs 5.85 to 38.15, western 6.25 to 8.15.
President Taft and family arrive in St Augustine and Panama with a carload of Christmas gifts. Charley Taft also brings back gifts including sugar cane and cocoa fruits. The Tafts plan to celebrate Christmas again in Washington tomorrow.
Scientists from around the world gather in Cleveland for the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a joint event with thirty-six societies. Mayor Newton D. Baker will welcome delegates at a Statler Hotel banquet tonight.
The New York stock market opened moderately active and lower. By 11 a m the market was dull and uncertain, noon showed irregular activity with no major changes, and by 2 p m prices were well maintained with some demand to push modest gains, closing steady.
New York money markets report on call money at 4 percent and time money at 4 a half to 5 percent. Bar silver quoted at 62 7 8 cents and demand sterling at 4.84.
Cattle receipts 15 000 slow market steer 7 00 to 9 10 cows and heifers 3 50 to 8 00 stockers and feeders 4 00 to 7 85 calves 4 00 to 10 00. Mogs receipts 7 000 market 5 to 10 cents higher bulk 7 15 to 7 40 heavy 7 35 to 7 45, medium 7 35 to 7 40, light 7 00 to 7 25. Sheep receipts 5 000 market steady to strong lambs 8 00 to 8 50 ewes 4 00 to 4 65 wethers and yearlings 4 65 to 5 50.
Chicago livestock desk reports 30,000 hogs receipts with market strong 5 to 10 cents higher. Hogs split by class with good heavy and rough heavy ranges. Cattle receipts 23,000 market steady beeves from 5.70 to 9.50, cows and heifers 2.75 to 7.50, Texas 4.60 to 7.50. Sheep receipts 32,000 market strong native 4.20 to 5.50, west 8.75, western 6.45 to 8.75.
Chicago December 30 market report lists butter extras 35 to 35 1 2 c, firsts 30 to 32 c, dairy extras 31 to 32 c. eggs prime firsts 24 to 25 c, firsts 23 to 24 c. cheese Twins 17 1 2 c, Young Americas 17 c. potatoes 47 to 53 c.
Market notes show live poultry prices with fowls 12 to 18 cents, ducks 14 cents, geese 13 cents, spring chicks 11, turkey licenses noted.
Barley in Minneapolis trades 42 to 60 cents with arriving prices noted. Flax in Minneapolis ranges 1.22 to 1.24 dollars, arriving at 1.24. Chicago barley listed from 48 to 75 cents. Duluth flax priced at 1.24 dollars.
Chicago market closes with No 2 red wheat at 1.09 to 1.10 and No 2 yellow corn at 48 16 to 48 16 cents per bushel. Prices shown include various grades for wheat corn and oats with ranges across red hard spring white and yellow varieties.
Bullish news from Russia and bearish Argentine shipments seed early momentum as December wheat holds and May gains. Argentine corn surprise raises crop hopes while oats advance in December and May weakens. Provisions rise due to hog shortages but ease as receipts improve by noon.
E G Hadden Co announces services in grains and provisions with members of Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce. La Crosse office at 417 McMillan Building. N E Wheaton named manager. Telephones Old 345 New 982.
Milwaukee grain market quotes show wheat May at 89 89 88 88 percent and July at 87 87 87 87 percent. Corn futures May 48 percent, July 49, with soybeans May 32 percent and July 32. The market opened with highs and lows listed by E G Hadden Co. in the McMillan Building.
In Albany New York on a rainy morning General Rosalie Jones and her active lieutenants directed the marching suffragettes who express clear disapproval as Governor Sulzer is due to arrive late afternoon to hear the women's message.
Three people two men and a woman were found asphyxiated in a Chicago flat on Armour avenue. The victims were John Kline 35 Rosa Kline 30 his wife and Charles Kaffaher 33 the brother in law of Mrs Kline.
A terse aphorism notes the priority of wealth over fame among the less affluent, suggesting money dominates ambition and social standing more than public recognition. The line emphasizes economic influence on personal goals and status.
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