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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
9
A Tribune Want Ad pitch encourages housewives to find outside paid work through the newspaper. It promises a break from routine, new interests, and the chance to earn money, framing it as joining a larger, exciting “big game” beyond the home.
Wanted men to learn barber trade with shop equipment or position. completion in weeks, constant practice, careful instruction, diplomas granted. Saturday wages. Write for catalogue. Moler Barber College Chicago Illinois.
Nine room house with barn water and utilities in good condition. Inquire 1322 Pine St. Four passenger automobile in good condition and cheap. Address C. K. care Tribune. 200 acres level land in Adams county four miles from county seat. Inquire 2331 Green Bay St. Gilt edge coal or wood furnace and a Jewel wood cook stove. 416 S. 6th. Corner house and lot in southern city. Inquire 920 Jackson St. Set of 12 volumes of 'Caenessee of Law' bargain. Address B. F. care of Tribune.
Multiple rental notices advertise furnished rooms and small houses with modern amenities. Listings include 721 S. 4th 611 S. 5th 609 S. 5th 419 S. 3rd 129 S. 4th 125 S. 3rd 712 State St and 1704 West Ave So with details on room counts and prices.
La Crosse Mortgage and Loan Co offers loans to salaried people on furniture planes horses and wagons with no removal or publicity. Located at 3223 Mein Street upstairs.
Public stenos notes advertise H. W. Barker's Cough Remedy available at Runckel's Drug Store. Contact is listed as 211 McMillan Blog and a phone number 5885 with a reference to a new iPhone 452 A.
Miscellaneous want ads seek six solicitors with preference for middle aged women, pleasant work and good wages at Y General Delivery. Also night watchman position for a trueworthy middle aged man with references. Buying or renting secondhand invalid chair. Young married man seeks typewriting or shorthand work and offers bookkeeping, etc.
Chicago Aug 7 Mike Kelley former first baseman and later manager of St Paul is slated for reinstatement in the American Association by a vote of the league Representatives from Columbus Toledo Indianapolis Milwaukee and St Paul attended the meeting All but one voted in favor with a possible Minneapolis vote to come The drive followed a petition signed by 11 000 St Paul business leaders the mayor and local commercial groups.
Louisville Ky Aug 7 Geo Tebeau who owns most stock in the Louisville baseball club has nearly closed a sale of the controlling stock to local investors led by D Long Miller and Sebastian Zorn. The club is valued at 590000 and could sell controlling stock for 30000 while remaining under current management with Thomas Chivington as manager. The club projects a 50000 profit after expenses this season as it leads the American Association pennant race.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb known as Ty Cobb of the Detroit American League club married yesterday in Augusta to Miss Charlotte Lombar daughter of a prominent local citizen.
Special report from Plauen Germany outlines lace manufacture as a major yet underrecognized German industry. It notes Plauen produced embroidery lace valued at about 70 million marks last year, with most exported. The Schiffli machine era began in 1857, expanding to around 2,500 hand and power machines by the 1890s, producing about 7.5 million marks yearly.
The article outlines three lace methods needle, pillow, and machine, with hand embroidery remaining strong in Vogtland. It notes Elbenstock as a major hand embroidery center famed for bead work, growing Bohemian bead use, wage comparisons between Swiss and German operatives, and the German government support via specialized schools at Plauen and networked branch museums to foster design.
The New York stock market opened buoyant with prices rising to new highs in the first hour amid heavy buying. London traders were moderate sellers while government bonds held steady and other bonds firm. Liverpool quoted wheat down about 5 to 6 pence and corn down around 4 pence with afternoon shifts showing some declines.
Hogs opening notes show 18 000 head with price ranges from 6 25 to 6 85. heavy 6 25 to 7. light 6 30 to 6 97. mixed 6 30 to 6 85. rough 6 25 to 6 50. Cattle 1 500 slow and steady. sheep 5 000 weak. At 9 a m hogs 14 000 market 5 to 10 c lower. prices 6 70 to 6 85 for mixed, 6 25 to 6 40 rough, 6 05 to 6 70 light. bulk 6 70 to 6 80. Cattle 2 000 steady. sheep 2 000 steady. Regional totals: Omaha hogs 13 000 cattle 200 sheep 1 300. Kansas City hogs 8 000 cattle 3 000 sheep 3 000. East St Louis hogs 14 000 cattle 3 000 sheep 200.
Chicago market notes cattle 1,500 head steady with beeves 5.50 to 7.60 stockers 4 to 4.40. Hogs 18,000 head down with light 6.10 to 6.85 heavy to 6.90 pigs 5.40 to 6.25. Sheep 5,000 steady natives 2.40 to 4.40 lambs 4 to 6.50.
Kansas City market notes cattle 3,000 slow and weak with steers 4 to 7.25, stockers 3 to 4.75. Hogs 8,000 down 5 to 10 cents. bulk 6.50 to 6.70, heavies 6.70 to 6.80, pigs 3.50 to 5.50. Sheep 2,000 weak. muttons 3.90 to 4.50, lambs 4.25 to 6.20.
New York on August 7 reports poultry unchanged while butter holds at 22 to 22 1 2 cents per pound and eggs quoted 26 to 27 cents. Cheese ranges from 12 1 2 to 13 1 2 cents per pound.
A dense price list shows flour and feed quotes from Listman Milling Co and multiple sellers. Items include flour and vegetables with per sack and per dozen pricing, along with eggs butter and dairy products, fruits, and market produce. The fragment ends with a stray line about a woman and chocolate sundae.
Chicago traders await tomorrow's government report at 1 pm with bullish talk on wheat and oats. Estimates show 416 million winter and 250 million spring wheat, spring condition at 80 versus 89.4 last month. winter yield around 14 bushels per acre. Corn condition 83.5, oats 80, with recent rains and market losses across grains. oats rose late while corn and wheat fell on selling.
Farmers and traders from Brownsville Pine Creek and surrounding areas loaded hay for market in town on Thursday and yesterday. Notables include Henry Koethe Pat Caine George Shaffner Louis Kock L. Williams Henry Abnit James Ferral Joseph Linse and Frank Fuhrman with hay or hogs bound for Langdon Boyd and local sales.
In Washington DC during August the spring wheat condition rated at 80.6 while winter wheat yield reached 425,940,000 bushels with quality 90.1. Oats condition 76.8, corn 85.5, and tobacco 85.8.
Market reports show no changes today with hay and wood scarce yet sufficient to meet demand. Farmers welcome cooler weather and a rain to improve crops, while fruit and vegetable quotations may shift tomorrow as new products arrive.
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