10 Mar 1916
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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1916
Page
1
War summaries from a Western Newspaper Union dispatch detail Russian advances in the Caucasus and heavy artillery duels in Alsace. Reports cite Verdun fighting, mass French artillery, and large German losses with 750,000 in the Verdun drive. Also noted are Frontier Days plans, local trials, and political moves in Denver, Chicago, and Washington.
Reports from London Tokyo and Madrid detail naval losses and port seizures while political shifts unfold. Sinking of the Dido and Marechiaro linked to wartime danger. Carranza Diaz fighting in Vera Cruz as Anglo French talks on mails near. Senate bills liquor ad bans and Ford comments frame domestic policy. General Diaz gains first skirmish in Vera Cruz.
March events loom from Grand Junction to Pueblo with conventions and expositions while Hotchkisy Farmers Days attract crowds. Denver sees leap year births and a crop of new marriages, crime stats dip post prohibition, and forest-fire prep plans. Major losses include a snowslide, postal retirements, and a courthouse suit against the Denver Tramway Company.
The senate maintains a demand attributed to Wilson while others proposals are tabled. No further context available due to fragmented OCR text.
The U S Senate defeats Senator Gore and McCumber substitutes by 68 to 14 in a motion to table regarding warning ships in the crisis with Germany. The vote backs President Wilson and his demand for no sinking of merchant ships without warning. House Foreign Affairs committee also moves toward backing the President.
Gen. Felix Diaz forces reportedly control about eighty percent of the Mexican Southern railroad as he advances toward Mexico City in a revolutionary move against the Carranza government. A detachment under Gen. Higenio Aguilar moved from Oaxaca City toward the northwest, facing only minor resistance at Ciudad Cuicatlan where Carranza troops fled after a one and a half hour battle.
Paris reports the French auxiliary cruiser Provence sank in the Mediterranean on February 26 with about 4 000 aboard including staff from the Third Colonial Infantry regiment and Second Machine Gun company. Survivors estimated at 870, indicating roughly 3 130 lives lost in the disaster, the greatest ocean loss of modern times. Also noted are a Dallas obituary for James William Lee cousin of Gen. Robert E. Lee and brief Verdun and Ypres battlefield updates from the front.
The document lists cattle and sheep prices including steers good to choice at 7.25, cows good to choice at 5.75, breeding cattle around 5.50 to 6.25, veal calves 8.00 to 9.00, feeders and stockers 6.50, sheep and lambs near 9.50 to 10.60, and various farm inputs such as Colorado upland hay at 14.00 to 14.50 per ton, Nebraska upland 12.00 to 15.00, Timothy 16.00 to 16.50, alfalfa 10.00 to 11.00, and wheat, oats, corn, and flour prices. Also includes prices for live poultry, eggs, butter, fruit and vegetables, and other staples.
In London a miscellaneous selection of 7,700 bales was offered at the wool auction sales. Demand was slow and prices trended in buyers favor, except for good scoured merinos which held firmer.
Chicago market figures show hog prices at various cuts from $7.25 to $9.10, with bulk bids around $8.85 to $9.10 and rough trades noted. Cattle demand lists native beef steers at $7.25 and western steers $7.10 to $8.25, stockers and feeders $5.75 to $7.55, cows and heifers $8.45, calves $5.25 to $11.25. Sheep prices include wethers $7.90 to $8.60, ewes $5.65 to $8.50, and lambs $9.25 to $11.35.
Chicago grain and provision prices listed for wheat corn oats barley timothy clover and lard with bids in various red and yellow varieties. Prices show No. 2 red wheat at L.1153 and No. 2 yellow corn near 6%c with white corn 68¢. Livestock items include lard 10.32 and ribs 11.00 to 11.60.
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