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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1910
Page
7
A fragment describes room 12 at the Majestic Theater Building addressing liabilities, live stock insurance, bonds, loans, and notarial work amid disaster concerns. The note references fire and tornado contexts affecting these services.
The page lists prices from multiple vendors for fruit, vegetables, grains, livestock, poultry, and dairy. Items include gem melons, cherries, peaches, pineapples, lemons, oranges, figs, dates, onions, watermelons, cabbage, potatoes, bananas, flour, mill feed, hay, wood, butter, eggs, and various meats with price ranges and supplier names such as Langdon & Boyd Packing Co, Thomas Phalon Co, City Scales, Hawley Co, and A. B. Moll.
Readers view a scanned grocery ad listing produce and prices. Lettuce two bunches .56 dollars, fresh mushrooms .75, head lettuce .10 to 12 cents, New beets bunch .8, tomatoes per pound .12, spinach, celery two bunches .6, asparagus bunch, pie plant per pound, strawberries per box .12, radishes two bunches, new carrots bunch .3, new turnips bunch .8, Bermuda onions per pound .8, cucumbers each listed as well.
Chicago cattle receipts reach 20 000 with steadier prices and calves to 9. Hogs total 26 000 up 10 to 15 cents with light to heavy ranges from 9.15 to 9.75. Sheep receipts 12 000 rise 10 to 15 cents with natives and westerns at 3.25 to 5.50 and lambs 5.00 to 7.65.
Cattle receipts 22 000 weak to ten cents lower with ranges 5 25 to 8 50 for beef cattle and 2 60 to 6 70 for cows. Hogs receipts 33 000 ten cents lower with typical quotes 9 30 to 9 60 for many weights. Sheep receipts 16 000 steady natives 2 75 to 4 80, western 3 to 4 85, lambs 4 75 to 7 90 natives 5 to 7 50.
The New York stock market opened on a steady note but soon declined a point or more across many issues. By noon a rally formed around steel common and several names like St. Paul Union Pacific and Reading, with bonds mostly steady. In the afternoon a firmer tone returned and the market closed firm.
New York money on call stands at 2 3 4 percent with time money quoted at 4 1 4 to 4 1 2 percent for six months. Bar silver in London is 24 5 8 pence, New York 63 3 8 cents. Demand sterling sits at 486.20 to 486.25 in New York.
Cattle receipts 6 000 strong native steers 5 35 to 8 25 southern steers 3 75 to 6 35 southern cows 2 75 to 4 50 native cows and heifers 2 75 to 7 stockers and feeders 3 35 to 6 15 bulls 3 40 to 5 50 calves 3 75 to 7 50 western steers 4 25 to 8 western cows 3 to 5 50 Hogs receipts 15 000 10 to 15 cents lower bulk 9 10 to 9 25 heavy 9 to 9 15 packers and butchers 9 10 to 9 25 light 9 20 to 9 30 pigs 8 75 to 9 30 Sheep receipts 5 000 steady muttons 3 75 to 5 lambs 6 to 7 50 fed wethers and yearlings 4 to 5 75 fed western ewes 3 to 4 75
Chicago cattle receipts 2500 with prices for beeves Texans western stockers and feeders cows and heifers and calves listed. Hogs receipts 17000 with price ranges for light mixed heavy rough and pigs. Sheep receipts 13000 with natives western lambs and prices noted as steady to higher.
Chicago prices list butter eggs cheese and produce for June 28. Butter extras 27 firsts 25 1 2. egges extra firsts 18 1 2, firsts 17. cheese twins 13 3 4, young Americas 15. Old potatoes 15 to 20, new 69 to 80. Live poultry fowls 14, ducks 13, geese to 10.
Auction notes show barley prices ranging from 45 to 66 with Chicago barley at 45 to 66. Flax values appear for Duluth at 220 and cash flax at 217 to 220, while barley in general runs 51 to 61.
Cash wheat prices for No. 2 red No. 3 red No. 2 hard and No. 3 spring range from 95 cents to 1.06 ½ dollars. Corn prices show No. 2 white 61 ½ to 62 ½ cents No. 2 yellow 60 to 60 ½ cents No. 3 58 to 58 ½ cents No. 3 white 60 to 60 ½ cents No. 3 yellow 58 ½ to 59 ½ cents No. 4 55 ½ to 56 cents No. 4 white 55 ½ to 58 cents No. 4 yellow 55 ½ to 58 cents. Oats No. 3 white 38 ½ to 39 ½ cents No. 4 white 38 to 38 ½ cents standard 39 ½ to 40 ½ cents.
Chicago reports a steady opening as July wheat reaches 101, September to 101 1 2, and December 103 with a later pullback in September. Northwest heat and drought buoy prices while Winnipeg and Minneapolis quotes climb. Corn and oats open higher then retreat. Provisions ease amid hedging in cash meat demand.
United States Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery died in New Orleans at 10 am. His death followed a sudden onset with the cause not yet known. Born May 28, 1837 in Monroe, he served in the Confederate army and held multiple Louisiana offices before entering the Senate in 1896.
In Romeo Michigan on June 28 county authorities report Wm Watson deliberately crafted a fatal assault on his 11 year old niece Ruth Ferguson after plotting the crime for days. He lured her and her brother on an outing, killed Ruth in the woods, hid the body, then returned home and killed himself.
Carl Olson known as the Prince of Sweden will entertain crowds at the Onalaska Fourth of July celebration next Monday. Prof. Johnson urges all to attend by 8 o'clock for the opening events, with a large portion of the program set for the morning.
The La Crosse County Board announces sealed bids June 6 1910 for 152 bonds of 500 each totaling 76000 for asylum additions at West Salem. Bonds pay 4 percent interest semi annually and mature 15 years after July 1 1910 with redemption after eight years. Bids must meet par plus accrued interest and be delivered in La Crosse Wisconsin.
Sealed proposals for a solid brick and stone addition to the La Crosse county agricultural school at Onalaska will be received by the La Crosse county school board in La Crosse Wisconsin until 2 p m on July 1 1910. Plans by Parkinson Dockendorff are available on request. A 2 percent certified check with bid and a 50 percent performance bond will be required. The board may accept or reject any bids. Signed by J L Pettingill F I Bolles B F Oltman County School Board.
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