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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1915
Page
11
Classified ads show one half cent per word per insertion with a minimum of fifteen cents. Various WANTED notices for cooks, maids, and house help follow. SALE items include furniture, vehicles, real estate, and specialty equipment with prices and contact details. Multiple local listings provide addresses, phones, and brief descriptions of goods and services available.
Market list shows farm goods and commodities with quoted prices for produce and provisions. Details include cantaloupes, bananas, lemons, oranges, grap fruit, strawberries, cabbage, pineapples, cherries, onions, potatoes, and various meats, along with flour and feed, shoes, grain, oats, butter, eggs, and cheese from multiple suppliers.
Multiple rental notices list five to seven room flats and furnished rooms in central locations. Properties include addresses on Badger Street South Eleventh South Ninth and State areas with prices from seven to thirty five dollars monthly. Contact numbers and names such as H L Taylor W A and 712 Cass appear for inquiries.
A fragment shows an exchange about a car described as beautiful and old fashioned. The dialogue hints at admiration and a playful question about its features or provenance.
In Poughkeepsie on June 17 Columbia Syracuse Cornell and Pennsylvania crews trained on the river despite a heavy shower. The Pennsylvania boat's shoemaker returned to stroke in the varsity. Even casual observers would draw the line at contagious diseases.
Real estate items list several properties for rent and sale. Includes a five room flat on 309 King Street, a room house at 219 Island Street, an eight to twelve room house with multiple baths and outbuildings, and parcels on Madison and Pine streets near a normal school. Also notes exchange option and nearby streetcar line with a C F Klein & Son General Insurance listing.
Hogs receipts 25 000 market slow with gains 5c mixed and butcher grades 7 10 to 7 60 good heavy 7 20 to 7 50 rough heavy 6 80 to 6 95 light 7 35 to 7 70 pigs 6 00 to 7 35 Cattle receipts 14 000 market steady beeves 6 65 to 9 35 cows and heifers 3 20 to 8 75 Texans 6 65 to 8 15 calves 7 25 to 10 25 Sheep receipts 8 000 market slow native 5 75 to 6 60 western 7 50 to 9 75 lambs 7 00 to 9 75 western 7 50 to 8 50 spring lambs 7 25 to 10 50
Union Stock Yards Newfoundland June 9 hog receipts 30 900 market lower mixed and butcher prices range 7 40 to 7 75 heavy 7 55 to 7 70 rough heavy 7 16 to 7 25 light 7 59 to 7 80 pigs 6 00 to ?. Cattle receipts 16 000 market steady to strong beef calves 7 50 to 10 25 cows and heifers 3 20 to 8 75 Texans 6 59 to 8 00. Sheep receipts 8 000 market strong natives 6 40 to 7 19 western 6 50 to 7 20 lambs 7 75 to 10 25 western 8 90 to 16 40 spring lambs 8 90 to 11 15.
Chicago June 17 Mayor Thompson said he would seek a settlement to the weeks long building strike that has tied up construction and cost millions in wages and losses. He invited leaders of the carpenters and affiliated trades and contractors to his office at noon.
State of Wisconsin County Court La Crosse ss In Probate. At a special term the court will hear Louis Koblitz executor of August Koblitz deceased on July 13 1915 at 10 AM at the Court House La Crosse. He seeks final account settlement and assignment of the residue to those entitled. Dated June 1915. By order of the Court John Prindley County Judge.
In New York on June 17 the market was active in the second hour with motor issues leading trading. Money on call stood at 1 1/2 percent with time money at 3 percent for six months, and prime mercantile at 3 1/2 percent. London quotes and demand sterling figures noted.
Hog receipts reach 13 000 with mixed and butcher classes priced from 7.25 to 7.70 for heavy and light hogs. Cattle receipts 3 500 with beeves 6.80 to 9.50 and cows and heifers 3.25 to 9.00, Texans 6.80 to 8.30, calves 7.25 to 10.25. Sheep receipts 9 000 with native 5.50 to 6.25 and lambs 6.75 to 9.25.
Cattle receipts 3900 with steady to firm values: steers 6.50 to 9.30, cows and heifers 5.50 to 9.30, stockers and feeders 6.00 to 8.00, calves 5.75 to 10.25. Hog receipts 4000 show steady to strong trade: bulk 7.25 to 7.45, heavy 7.20 to 7.45, medium 7.25 to 7.50, light 7.30 to ? Sheep receipts 5000 show weak demand: lambs 6.55 to 9.75, ewes 4.25 to 5.50, stockers and feeders 4.25 to 8.00.
Butter creamery extras bid 27c and 26 to 26 1 2 c for firsts. seconds 24 1 2 c. Cheese varied with Twins 13 c and Young Americans 15 c. Live poultry fowls 13c, ducks 13c, young 15c to life. Turkeys 11 c. Potatoes receipts 26 cars Wisconsin white 32 to 35c, red 30 to 32c. Michigan white 32 to 35c, red 30 to 32c. New 20 cars Texas 85 to 1.00 per bushel.
Chicago cash grain bids for wheat corn oats barley rye timothy and clover listed with various by the bushel ranges. No. 2 hard wheat at 1.16 to 1.16 percent and No. 2 yellow corn around 75 to 76 cents per bushel accompanied by different grades and percentages for other grains.
Scattered rains in Oklahoma and the northwest sparked an early wheat rally in Chicago grain trades. Prices then slumped, slipping below opening levels as selling intensified. Corn rose at first but faded, while oats weakened with the market. Producers reported generally higher provostones on reduced receipts.
Eleven year old Elizabeth Nolte was found dead in a garbage can behind her Cincinnati home. Her throat had been slit and she had been missing since Tuesday. Police have no clues to the killer as the crime occurred in a dense tenement district. A man accused of improper conduct, with the girl as principal witness, was detained by police and awaits police court tomorrow.
Bantamweight champion Kid Williams and Alvin Miller of Lorain meet in a ten round bout over 118 pounds at 3 o clock in Lorain. The fight is scheduled on the eve of the Eagles State convention.
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