Tut Tut Sugar Puns Over Weighing Sand
A playful exchange where brown sugar complains to the sand about being in its weigh, delivering a lighthearted pun on weight and frustration.
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1913
Page
7
A playful exchange where brown sugar complains to the sand about being in its weigh, delivering a lighthearted pun on weight and frustration.
The New York stock market opened dull with negligible price changes in the first hour as professional trading predominated. Pennsylvania sold to a low 1105 following a negative tonnage report, United States Steel held firm, and by noon the market stayed flat. In the afternoon it grew heavy and listless, but closed fairly strong.
Chicago cash grains report lists wheat prices for No 2 red No 3 red No 2 hard No 3 hard and No 3 spring with ranges from 87c to 106c. Corn prices show No 2 white No 2 yellow No 8 No 3 white No 3 yellow No 4 and white and yellow with ranges from 54c to 59c. Oats prices for No 3 white No 4 white and standard from 35c to 38c.
New York money on call at 2 percent, time money at 4.42 percent for six months. Prime mercantile at 5.4 percent. Bar silver London 283-16d, New York 6 3/16d. Kansas City cattle receipts 9,000 with steady prices. steers 7.35 to 8.70, cows and heifers 4.50 to 8.25, stockers 6.50 to 8.10, calves 6.50 to 10. Hogs 16,000 receipts, steady market. bulk 8.20 to 8.35. Sheep receipts 10,000, lambs 6.50 to 8.30. Chicago Union stock yards hog receipts 12,000, steady. cattle 2,500, bees 7.00 to 8.90. sheep 14,000, market strong. lambs 6.15 to 8.60.
Chicago markets report butter 27 cents, firsts 25 1/2 to 26 1/2 cents, eggs prime firsts 18 18 1/2 cents, cheese twins 14 cents, Young America 14 1/2 cents. Potatoes 40 to 45 cents, Michigan 42 to 45. Live poultry fowls 16 1/2 cents, ducks 16 cents, geese 10 cents, spring chicks 16 1/2 to 17 cents, turkeys 15 cents.
Minneapolis barley traded 44 to 59 cents per bushel with gains in some lots. Flax moved around 1.28 dollars per unit, with prices showing mixed activity today.
May 13 grain notes reflect easing wheat on good Kansas rains and light selling from morning. July, May futures dip then recover, corn and oats mix with softer morning demand and firmer late pro visions. Overall, wheat closes firmer but near session lows while corn ends near bottom.
E G HADDEN CO offers grains and provisions with options on puts and calls. Associated with Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, located in La Crosse at 417 McMillan Building. Contact N E Wheaton at Old 345 or New 982.
The list shows wholesale prices for lemons Cal and Messinas, strawberries, potatoes, onions, cabbage, various grapefruit boxes, Western apples, pineapples, and bananas. It also lists steer and cow prices and spring lambs from Langdon and Boyd Packing Co. at six to six and a half dollars per hundredweight and up.
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