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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
9
The Office Man’s Look In urges La Crosse readers to check The Tribune classified pages each morning for new chances to earn income without leaving current work. It suggests selling items for others, placing a friend, or finding a job or line suited to the reader, claiming classifieds have launched many careers.
Multiple classified ads seek male applicants for barber training at Moler Barber College Chicago. army recruiting in La Crosse Wisconsin. experienced timers and canvassers in La Crosse. a porter at Heileman. 25+ workers for Martin Bros Co coats. post office clerks and carriers with free exams. sailors for U S Navy with training and travel. various hotel and kitchen positions. several domestic and housework roles in La Crosse area. note of an ill child in Wood Street.
A dense string of classified sale notices offers farms houses furniture and rooms. Listings include a 316 acre Trempealeau Co farm near Centerville and Galesville with timber pasture and 10 room house plus outbuildings. nine and eight room houses. various rental rooms and a millinery stock. Also bargains on Encyclopedias law volumes and household goods. Contact L M Pittenger P H Sheldon Augustus Maloney and others.
Classified rental notes list furnished rooms and houses with addresses such as 611 Main, 762 So 9th St, 326 Cass, 1220 So 4th St, 1224 Madison, 107 Main St, 2123 Cameron Ave, corner 6th and Vine, 130 N 7th St. Also ads for 5 room cottage and 6 room modern house plus a city ad box. Also loan and cough remedy notices from local businesses.
Lost beagle hound with white breast four brown feet and black leather collar seek return to 607 No 9th for reward. Lost long black lace gloves on July 4 between fair grounds and cemetery return to Tribune office for reward.
Tornado season prompts insurance pitch. Real estate ads offer 5 room house 1510 La Crosse and 6 room cottage 322 Cass St plus office suite Beck block and other city and farm properties. Agent Co F Klein 208 McMillan Bldg La Crosse Wis. Average woman quip ends note.
A collage of classified lines shows tornado insurance rates at four dollars per thousand for three years and six dollars per thousand for five years. It also lists stenography services by Miss Car men Lambert, home treatment for mothers and daughters, and a call for a night watchman position. Other notices seek a missing ten dollar bill return and boarders at 420 No. 4th St.
To make room for large shipments of free machines for fall trade the R L Kenyon Co offers their stock of new Royal sewing machines at half price. Automatic lift drop head cabinet stand with updated ball bearings six or five drawers. Also a French stand writing desk cabinet with monthly payments and 10 percent cash discount.
In Scranton, Mrs. John Semnick of Jessup gave birth to a 12 pound boy high in the Moosic mountains after berry picking with companions. The mother and baby are healthy, and the family adds a son and nine quarts of berries to their harvest.
City mayor W A Anderson urges common council to adopt a noiseless Fourth of July similar to Toledo and Cleveland. He cites 1908 incident injuries, national death and injury statistics, and urges ordinances to ban sale of explosives except for authorized public displays.
Daily markets note pears on the local market at 30 cents per dozen at Burns' fruit house. Med. Sweets are off the markets with no other changes in yesterday's quotations. Farmers welcome today's steady rain as beneficial for crops, followed by warm sunshine expected to add great value.
Chicago livestock reports show cattle steady and unchanged, hogs 10 to 15 cents higher with light good and heavy ranges, pigs 5 to 5.90, sheep steady. In New York, stock market opened feverish with heavy selling and price recessions. Amalgamated weak under 75 and copper stocks weak. government bonds unchanged and other issues lower.
Cattle 500 head steady with steers 4.50 to 7.50, stockers 2.85 to 4.50. Hogs 5,000 head up 5 to 10 cents, bulk 6.35 to 6.65, heavy 6.60 to 6.70, pigs 3.50 to 5.25. Sheep 200 head steady, muttons 3.75 to 4.25, lambs 4.50 to 6.00.
Chicago notes no fresh wheat developments while corn receipts rise slightly and oats movement slows due to heavy rains. Packers stay bullish on provisions as hogs run may end soon. Minneapolis forecasts a large wheat crop across three states exceeding 105 million bushels with better quality. cash sales total 80,000 bushels and Seaboard exports 100,000 bushels.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West will bring William Sweeny’s Cowboy Band and mounted performers to town. The show features battle scenes, military drills, expert horsemanship, four open-air melodramas including The Battle of Summit Springs and The Great Train Hold-Up, bucking bronchos, Zouave drills, and Ray Thompson's high school horses. Col. William F. Cody will supervise in the saddle throughout.
A farmer drives to town on a hot morning in July after his chores have brought his team about ten or twelve miles, noting they are not in the pasture.
The itemized prices show hay at nine to ten dollars per ton, straw per hundred or unspecified unit, and various wood costs. Old oak and second growth prices appear alongside dry wood cords and bottom wood at several dollar amounts.
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