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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1911
Page
12
In New York at a dinner Rev Dr Jowett jokes that high living leads him to accept a salary he previously declined. He then shares a parable of a minister likened to a shepherd and children’s punchline about the shepherd shearing the sheep.
A narrator recalls a June morning where a drunken bumblebee lies on a plantain leaf while the garden buzzes with life. The school bell rings but is not heard, and reflections on hair color, scoring, and love at first sight follow in a cento of observations from The Outlook.
Quotations show live hogs at 5.00 to 5.35 on the wholesale market with slight gains for hams and shoulders. Prices for poultry and fruits vary with oranges up to 4.00 per box, bananas from 1.25 to 2.00 per bunch, and fresh produce across multiple lines.
A committee of French doctors proposes radical theater safety steps to Paris police. The plan calls for each theater to be disinfected after performances with antiseptic sawdust, wide open windows between shows, cushions wiped with antiseptics, cloakroom staff inspected regularly, and weekly air sterilization with formaldehyde steam. The Westminster Gazette notes the measures are drastic against hardy microbes.
Last night's temperatures ranged with the Lo and Hi columns recording minimum and maximum readings across locations. Precipitation in the prior 24 hours is shown in the P column, indicating rainfall intensity alongside temperature extremes.
New York stocks start with a generally heavy tone as most issues yield about a point in the first fifteen minutes. A report that the interstate commerce commission ordered coal rate reductions dampens Reading shares. Government bonds steady, other bonds weaker. By noon activity dull with small price changes.
The market turned strong in the afternoon with an upward movement in progress as trading ended with firmer prices and a strong close.
Cattle receipts 15 000 steady to 10c lower with steers 5.00 to 6.35 cows and heifers 2.60 to 8.10 stockers and feeders 3.10 to 5.25 calves 4.50 to 7.50. Hogs receipts 27 000 5c lower bulk 6.05 to 6.15 heavy 6.05 to 6.10 medium 6.05 to 6.20 light 6.10 to 6.20. Sheep receipts 8 000 lambs 5.75 to 7.00 owes 3.00 to 3.50 wethers and yearlings 3.60 to 4.50.
Hogs receipts 20 000 at 5 to 6 dollar range with 5c lower market. Cattle receipts 2 500 and market steady with beeves up to 6 50 and cows 2 40 to 5 85. Sheep receipts 18 000 with market weak and lambs 4 to 6 35.
Chicago cash grain prices show varied bids across wheat corn and oats. Wheat ranges 85 to 92 cents for various grades while corn bids run from 49 to 55 cents and oats from 37 1/2 to 38 3/4 cents per bushel, reflecting market-wide price spreads.
Cash rye No. 2 sells at 91 cents while barley trades 65 to 98 cents. Market notes show cash rye and barley prices in Chicago.
Chicago market notes on June 13 list butter extras 22c firsts 19c dairy extras 20c firsts 18c eyes prime firsts 14c firsts 18c cheese twins 10 1 2 to 10 3 4c Young Americas 11 1 4 to 11 1 2c potatoes new 1.85 to 1.90 old 90 to 1.00 live poultry fowls 13 to 13 1 2c ducks 12 to 12 1 2c geese 7 to 8c broilers 1 to 13 4 lbs 22 to 24c broilers 13 4 to 2 lbs 25 to 26c
Chicago reports nervous wheat trade at the opening as prices slid sharply on Saturday and Monday, signaling renewed selling pressure and investor caution in the brisk market.
Bearish sentiment from July wheat sales faded as local traders covered positions. European crop reports and firmer Buenos Aires closes steadied markets while oats and corn showed firmness amid light selling. Hog futures drove provisions lower as big western hog runs spurred selling on both local and outside accounts.
Janesville reports Harry Forbes the comeback ban tam champion will fight Joe Home land a Chicago rival in a ten round match here on Thursday night. The note hints Woodrow Wilson may need night work if New Jersey stays favorable.
June 12 market report shows hog receipts at 42 000 with steady to lower prices, butchers 5.95 to 6.35, heavy 6.09 to 6.32, light 6.00 to 6.32, pigs 5.65 to 6.20. Cattle receipts 23 000 with cattle and heifers 2.40 to 5.65, stockers 3.85 to 5.65, Texans 4.50 to 5.75, calves 5.00 to 5.75. Sheep receipts 23 000 with natives 2.75 to 4.50, western 3.00 to 4.50, lambs 4.25 to 6.50, western lambs 4.25 to 6.75.
Hogs receipts 35 000 with a strong mixed trend and butcher prices from 5 75 to 6 10. Heavy hogs 5 85 to 6 05 light 5 80 to 6 15 pigs 5 55 to 6 05. Cattle receipts 19 000 market slow and steady beeves 5 15 to 6 45 cows and heifers 2 40 to 5 80 stockers and feeders 3 85 to 5 65 Texans 4 50 to 35 50 calves 5 25 to 7 75. Sheep receipts 20 000 market steady to strong native 3 00 to 4 50 western 3 00 to 4 55 lambs 4 25 to 6 95 western 4 25 to 7 20.
The text quotes two professional humorists debating seriousness and self importance and adds a proverb about stealing a base as a boy foreshadowing a broader moral about ambition and theft.
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