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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
11
Numerous help wanted notices and sales offers span barber college recruitment U S Army painter solicitor salesman and tinner positions plus general housework dishwashing and furnishing goods. Listings include secondhand carriage piano bicycle refrigerator lumber and real estate including a lot and nine room house. Loss items note discarded glasses purse and a white English setter with contact details.
Classified notice seeks a modern safe in usable condition with inside dimensions 20 by 14 by 12 inches. It must not be new but be safe and a bargain. Address 8S. T. Tribune office.
Washington May 15 Wisconsin Governor Davidson declared Wisconsin the nation's leader in natural resource conservation. He cited Wisconsin as first to establish a bureau of forestry and a pioneer in land reclamation and argued for stronger federal and state action to regulate iron coal oil and timber wealth. Wisconsin's first state forest commission evolved into a broader board overseeing forestry with strong technical staffing and funding. The state has acquired over 3,000,000 acres for forest reserves, extended wetlands protections, and authorized reservoirs to stabilize river flows with regulated tolls to fund public interests.
In Chicago on May 15 cattle held steady while hogs and sheep fell 5 to 100 per cent. Hog receipts rose to 33 000 with prices 5.15 to 5.75. Sheep traded 4 to 7.40 for natives and lambs. In New York the market improved in early trading with many stocks rising one to over two points. Reading led gains with 1 1/7 percent, St Paul and Anaconda also firm amid brisk demand for leaders.
New York, May 15. Poultry unchanged. Butter creamery 21 ½ cents per pound. Eggs nearby white 20 cents. Cheese creams 14 ½ cents.
Kansas City reports 5 000 cattle steady with steers 5.25 to 7.00 and stockers 3.25 to 5.60. Hogs 10 000 with 5 cent decline. bulk 5.20 to 5.40 and pigs 3.75 to 4.25. Sheep 4 000 weak with muttons 4.75 to 5.50 and lambs 6.00 to 7.10.
Crop gossip from Kingman Kansas notes wheat in fair condition with 75 percent yield expectation as rains help. Hessian fly damage has reached stage two in Sumner and Sedgwick counties with reports of wheat falling in fields from Peck in Sedgwick. In southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, damage runs 15 to 50 percent, while chinch bugs appear amid warm, rainy weather and drying winds are urged to aid crops.
Cattle prices softened with light demand for common stock and feeder bids. Feeder buyers were scarce with calves down about 25 cents. Choice yearlings sold at 6.80 a load. good bulls 4.40 to 4.50. Hogs showed slow trade but slightly better clearance, with many sales above 5.40 and top reporting near 5.55 previously. Fruit, vegetables, and dairy items on the same market page list varied prices from cucumbers to butter and eggs, with buyers and sellers noted in several entries.
Farmers report the best prospects and grains above ground across the district. Strawberries have risen to 15 cents a box while crops are advancing similarly to last June. The Dakotas foretell a record year as small grains emerge.
Spring lambs sold at eight to eighteen dollars with a weak undertone all day. Quality on par with Wednesday. Few bids on plain arrivals. Top shorn wethers last year around six dollars, best wool lambs eight forty five to seven fifty six previously. Horses of plain or blemished quality met feeble demand and cleared unevenly at various prices.
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