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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1913
Page
9
Hogs receipts 12,000 with mixed market and price ranges from 6.85 to 8.95 for pigs and heavies. Cattle receipts 200 with steady market. beeves 7.29 to 9.30, cows and heifers 3.60 to 8.00. Sheep receipts 1,000, market strong. natives 5.75 to 7.00, lambs 7.75 to 9.00.
Market prices for produce and meats include bananas lemons oranges cranberries apples and grapes, with weights and package sizes. Also listed are livestock prices for steers cows lambs sheep and poultry, plus dairy items like butter eggs and cheese from various suppliers.
In a country house visitors signed the guest book with professions. Beaconsfield wrote Patriotism, while Gladstone, unaware of the joke, signed Apprentice.
A wedding breakfast hosted by a prosperous farmer with five daughters prompts a guest to quip to the groom about “the pick of the batch.” The four unmarried sisters’ surprised faces are noted in this London Graphic item.
The New York stock market opened dull with slight New Haven trading due to hurried liquidation. Union Pacific shares rose at open then fell on word of a planned Union Pacific Southern Pacific dissolution underwriting at a lower price. Midday and afternoon trading remained weak. closes showed extras 27 to 28c, firsts 25c, with eggs cheese potatoes and poultry prices listed.
New York money market reports call money at 4 percent and time money at 5 percent for six months. Bar silver quoted London 265 6d, New York 57 1/2, demand sterling at 4.87.
Cattle receipts 8,000, market strong to higher. Steers 8.00 to 9.00, cows and heifers 3.50 to 8.50, stockers and feeders 3.50 to 8.10, calves 4.00 to 4.10. Hogs receipts 3,000, market 5 to 10 cents higher. Bulk 8.85 to 8.95, heavy 8.75 to 8.85, medium 8.90 to 9.50, light 8.80 to 8.90. Sheep receipts 9,000, market strong. lambs 8.90 to 9.00, ewes 6.00 to 6.80, wethers and yearlings 5.00 to 6.65.
Chicago market reports show hogs with 30 000 receipts and mixed butchers priced at 8.70 to 9.15, heavy hogs at 8.65, light hogs 8.90 to 9.25, and pigs 7.15 to 9.10. Cattle receipts 17 000 with beeves 7.35 to 9.25, cows and heifers 3.50 to 8.10, stockers 6.10 to 8.35, Texans 6.50 to 7.65, calves 7.50 to 12.00. Sheep receipts 20 000 with natives 6.25 to 7.15, westerns 6.40 to 7.20, lambs 8.10 to 9.10.
Chicago March 17 report lists butter prices with extras at 35 cents, firsts between 31 and 32 cents, and dairy product notes for the day.
Chicago grain prices list crops by grade with bid ranges for wheat and corn and oats. No. 2 red wheat trades around 99 to 104 cents, corn No. 2 yellow 50 to 51 cents, No. 3 white 49 to 50 cents, oats No. 3 white 30 to 31 cents, standard 32 to 33 cents.
Barley prices shown from Minneapolis 41 to 56 cents and Chicago 46 to 69 cents. Flax quotes list Minneapolis at 1.25 dollars and 1.25 percent and Duluth at 1.27 dollars.
Chicago March 17 All grains were firm with mixed shifts as traders paralleled foreign cables. Wheat firm on small world shipment cues. May opens up after last week's close. Corn rallies on light offerings. oats open weak then firm as buying returns. provisions stay steady.
E G Hadden Co offers grain and province options with a Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce affiliation. La Crosse office at 417 McMillan Building. N E Wheaton handles inquiries via Old 345 and New 982 phones.
Milwaukee grain market details show opening options and price range with high and low figures at room 41 percent McMillan Building. The note indicates an active trading desk operated by E G Hadden Co. within the McMillan Building.
Under Chinese social norms a man cannot seek a wife himself. A third party arranges marriages, sometimes leaving men bound to unsuitable spouses due to brokers paid high fees by the bride’s father.
The brittleness of glass comes from rapid cooling. Slow heating and gradual cooling in a weak salt solution improve toughness. Glass globes for lighting benefit, with less breakage when treated this way.
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