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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1909
Page
10
Classified listings show several rent notices for furnished rooms and modern flats in La Crosse area with specific addresses and contact hints. Also items seeking horses, a two story property trade, second hand items, wallpaper cleaning, and small loans offered by local firm. Includes dates and advertiser identifiers like Tribune and Clark & Clark Livery.
The report compiles quotations that indicate the general price movements across markets for the proceeding week. It highlights overall directional shifts, noting whether prices rose or fell in key commodities and figures cited by multiple sources.
Cattle receipts 1,500 with market steady. Prime beeves 5.50 to 7.10, cows and heifers 3.30 to 5.60, stockers 3.30 to 5. Canners 1.85 to 3. Hogs receipts 22,000, steady to higher. Light 6.25 to 6.75, heavy 6.45 to 6.85, pigs 5.25 to 6.15. Sheep receipts 4,000 market strong. Native sheep 3.35 to 4.15, westerns 3.50 to 6.20, native lambs 5.75 to 7.85, western lambs 5.75 to 7.90.
Cattle receipts 2 000 with market steady and prices listed for prime and common cattle. Hogs receipts 22 000 with higher market and varied price ranges by class. Sheep receipts 8 000 with weaker native and western sheep and lamb prices. Grain futures show May July Sept quotes for wheat corn and oats with mixed percentages.
An obituary style notice lists undertaker Mrs Theodore Mannstedt, funeral director at 411 So 3rd St La Crosse Wisconsin. It notes prompt calls day or night with old phone 6763 and new number 827 C. The line ends with 3 11 1 yr.
Stocks opened unsettled with Interborough Metropolitan down about a point and steel issues mixed while most issues fell. By 11 a.m. the market firmed but closed weak as bonds and banks showed varied activity. Weekly bank statement reported reserve rises and loan declines while cattle and hogs at Union Stock Yards posted higher and mixed prices.
Treasury statement from Washington lists receipts of 1 649 179 dollars and disbursements of 1 910 000 dollars for March 206.
In the matter of the estate of Albert Schroeder late of La Crosse City Wisconsin Letters testamentary granted to Caroline Schroeder notice to creditors six months from March 6 1909 to present claims for examination and allowance and the court will on September 14 1909 at 10 a m examine and adjust all claims at the court room in the court house La Crosse County By the Court John Brindley County Judge John F Doherty attorney for Executrix
Kansas City cattle receipts total 200 with steady bids. Native steers $5 to $6.85, cows and heifers $2.50 to $6, stockers and feeders $3.75 to $5.75, bulls $3 to $4.80, calves $3.75 to $7.50. Hogs receipts 4,000 with prices $6.40 to $6.76, heavy $6.55 to $6.75, light $6.29 to $6.60, pigs $5 to $5.60. No sheep reported.
Chicago market report lists Eggs Ex tras at 21c prime firsts 19c firsts 18c seconds 14 1 2c Butter Extra creamery 29c firsts 25c seconds 22c Cheese Brick 11 to 15c twins 14 1 2c to 15c young Americas 16 to 16 1 2c Live poultry Turkeys 7c chickens 15 1 2c spring chickens 15 12c ducks 14 1 2c geese to 9 Potatoes 80 to 90c.
At a meeting of 800 milk shippers from Milwaukee Waukesha and surrounding counties the group decided to oppose a Milwaukee city ordinance requiring milk suppliers to certify cattle are tuberculosis free and to challenge a similar state law They note the ordinance mirrors Chicago's measure and aims to bar shipments without TB free certificates.
Milwaukee report notes Victor Berger a national socialist leader answering Theodore Roosevelt by asking which trusts Roosevelt ever busted. The remark appears in the Outlook as part of Berger's critique of Roosevelt’s socialism stance.
A concise remark contends that eyeglasses are worn to enhance appearance, implying utility is tied to aesthetic improvement and social perceptions.
In Chicago on March 20 the wheat market showed increasing heaviness with little support and scattered longs selling. Corn and oats traded weakly while a large local grain house liquidated September futures, signaling broad dullness across cash grain trading in the region.
President Taft arrived at Union Station Washington at 2 20 AM in his private car Constitution hitched to the regular train. U S Marshal Palmer of DC welcomed him formally while about 200 passengers cheered as the president exited the train sheds.
A jocular pair questions a pearly-pated stranger about baldness. The stranger wheeled, eyed them fiercely, and snapped the blunt answer, “Brains.” The Pittsburg Gazette records the terse exchange.
Prices show no other changes from yesterday while corn rises 5c to 65c a bushel. Readouts list dairy eggs produce and fresh vegetables with many items priced per pound per bunch and per dozen across markets and regions.
After eighteen ballots the jury found the Coopers guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced them to the maximum ten to twenty years. State’s Attorney McCain expressed satisfaction and urged bail pending supreme court review as Col. Cooper and Robin prepare to leave town for rest.
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