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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
15
Classified columns show half cent per word insertions with monthly rate and minimum line counts. Listings seek a good woman for child care near Northwestern hotel, cooks, maids, and various home help across La Crosse with contact numbers and addresses. Several sales, real estate, and equipment ads include vehicles, launches, stoves, and furniture with prices and locations.
Multiple lost items listed with vague descriptions and contact returns. An imitation diamond ring between Fourth and Division and 1 South Fifth. a gold bar pin with diamond at 821 King Street. a brindle bull pup with initial F.W.H. at 230 Pearl. a tan purse with money. rewards offered and return addresses provided.
Dr and Mrs E Steiger learn their nephew, son of Mrs Ellen Rising of Minneapolis, serves with British forces at the Dardanelles. City Treasurer Fred Hammerly begins work on a new South Church street residence. Ahrens Brothers build a fifteen room farm home north of the city. William Huard visits daughter Mrs DD H Dyer in La Crosse for her high school commencement.
Sixteenth annual encampment of United Spanish War Veterans opens in Marinette Wisconsin with receptions and delegate registration. Officers from Milwaukee La Crosse Ashland and other cities named as candidates for 1916 leadership. events include a grand crawl parade and a military ball.
The item lists graduates including Miss Sadie Dyer, Hiram Wagner visiting Fond du Lac, Addie Loeper returning from Hibbing to attend university summer school in Madison, and illness updates for the Atchison family with William at Columbus, Mrs. Atchison at his bedside. Also mentions Mr. Walker home from Tarpon Springs for business and relatives, William Mueller's return after a serious operation and weight loss, and Mrs. E. T. McClosky hosting the St Vincent de Paul society.
The market page lists prices for fruits vegetables and dairy. Cantaloupes bananas lemons oranges and grapefruit are priced by box crate or size. Lard bacon and ham quotes appear alongside flour meal and feed costs from several suppliers.
London receives over 60 million gallons of milk annually via rail from at least 120000 cows. The supply sustains the city’s dairying network and marks a major agricultural logistics feat.
In the sixteenth century dictionaries were chained in schoolhouses much as Bibles were in churches due to their high cost and rarity, underscoring how valuable reference works were in learning centers.
Thursday afternoon at her home on Minnesota street Miss Wheeler and Miss Erwin of Minneapolis are guests of Mrs. Hir am Wagner. Rev. W. A. Munday of Lancaster will hold services Sunday at Trinity Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. George Huard were La Crosse visitors Thursday. Mrs. R. MacLenahan and two children arrived Thursday for a visit at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Paris.
In New York on June 18 Baldwin Locomotive led specialties with a one point advance as steel and other issues moved mixedly. Distillers' Securities rose while Union Pacific and Chesapeake & Ohio fluctuated. market closed weak after a broad noon session and dull afternoon trade.
Kansas City Mo June 18 cattle receipts 190 market steady steers 7.00 to 9.00 cows and heifers 4.60 to 8.70 stockers and feeders 7.00 to 8.30 calves 5.99 to 10.00 hogs receipts 15.9 00 market steady to higher bulk 7.35 to 7.55 heavy 7.35 to 7.50 medium 7.35 to 7.60 light 7.35 to 7.60 sheep receipts 59 market steady lambs 7.00 to 9.50 ewes 4.50 to 5.50 stockers and feeders 4.25 to 7.50
Hogs receipts 13 000 market slow with mixed and butcher grades 7.30 to 7.75 heavy 7.45 to 7.65 rough heavy 7.00 to 7.20 light 7.50 to 7.50 pigs 6.00 to 7.45 Cattle receipts 1 000 market strong beeves 6.80 to 9.50 cows and heifers 3.25 to 9.00 Texans 6.80 to 8.30 calves 7.25 to 10.25 Sheep receipts 7 000 market weak native 5.50 to 6.35 western 5.70 to 6.40 lambs 6.75 to 9.25 western 7.00 to 9.25 spring lambs 6.25 to 9.75.
Butter creamery extras quoted at 27c and 26 to 26 2 3 c for extras and firsts. Cheese prices for Twins 13c. Poultry and live stock notes include fowls 13c, ducks 13c, spring geese 14 to 15c, turkeys at 18 to 23c. Potatoes receipts show 37 cars with Wisconsin white 30 to 35c and red 30 to 32c. New Texas potatoes 75c to 90c per bushel.
Chicago cash grain quotes list wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, timothy, and clover with bid ranges for No. 2 through No. 6 grades and various colors and classes. Prices show wheat from $1.13% to $1.20, corn from 75c to 77c, oats up to 50c, rye around $1.16–$1.17, and forage grasses priced between $5.00 and $13.50 per unit.
Chicago June 18 The lower wheat prices from weak foreign demand and bumper crop forecasts were offset by late night and early morning reports of heavy rains and tornadoes across Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma and Iowa. Prices opened higher due to the weather news.
Night trading showed a 1 percent advance then selling to flatten the gain. Wheat led with early strength and corn followed, while July oats slipped and September held steady. Provisions rose on wheat strength and tighter receipts.
Fortunate lands with rare quake activity include Africa Australia Russia Siberia Scandinavia and Canada as reported in the note on seismic stability.
Readers express annoyance at constant weather coverage. The piece notes frequent updates from meteorologists and the public’s desire for more varied reporting on daily events.
A home remedy explains how Sage Tea and Sulphur darken hair naturally. It recommends Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound, 50 cents at drug stores, applied with a sponge to a strand, promising instant gray disappearances and improved scalp conditions.
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