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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
7
Contains multiple classifieds seeking barber students in Chicago and job seekers for army recruiting, timers for a roofing company, and domestic help in Milwaukee and St Louis. Ads request letters to catalogs, recruiters at hotels, and local addresses with contact details.
Multiple classified notices advertise real estate including nine room house with barn on Pine Street and a corner 50 by 150 foot lot near a new normal school. Also items for sale such as a set of 12 volumes Encyclopedia of Law two Singer sewing machines a Davis machine a square piano and household furniture listings with address details and contact notes.
Multiple items offered for sale including two sets of Howe platform scales Buffalo scales 4000 lbs good as new. New household furniture cheap. 160 acres farm land cheap cash or trade. 14 ft cedar canoe with canvas cover. The Free sewing machines with ROTOSCILLO movement. Second hand machines repaired. Good second hand wood furnace. 831 Mill St 518 Ferry St 804 Cass St Tribune 610 Main St 821 State St.
Classified rental list shows multiple entries for furnished and unfurnished rooms and houses. Listings include 919 Market, 6th and Vine corner, 9124 No. 10th, 609 No. 5th, and 1224 Madison St with options for board and utilities. Contacts: J. H. Lightbody and W. J. Hickish. New phone 588-C.
Stenographer position advertised at 311 McMillan Building with old phone 65885 and new contact 452 A. Public notice requests applicants to respond by posting and calling for available stenography work.
State of Wisconsin La Crosse County Court notices six months from August 15 1908 for creditors to file claims against Mauritz Christianson late of Onalaska. Court will March 2 1909 at 10 a m in La Crosse Court House examine and adjust all claims. By the Court John Brindley County Judge dated August 15 1909.
Army poet A. L. Price, once jailed over a wartime verse, returns from the Philippines to pursue writing full time. Known as The Soldier Poet, he sparked controversy with a Marine Corps funeral poem and a line about an officer, then worked for Cable News American in Manila before coming home to craft poems for public occasions.
Washington D C August 24 Some of the politicians that are jealous of the Buckeye state have doped out this cabinet for Judge Taft For secretary of state Theodore E Burton of Ohio For secretary of the treasury Myron Herrick of Ohio For secretary of war Charles P Taft of Ohio For Attorney General Wade Ellis of Ohio For postmaster general Arthur I Vorys of Ohio For secretary of the navy Walter Brown of Ohio For secretary of the interior Jas R Garfield of Ohio For secretary of agriculture Walter Guilbert of Ohio For secretary of commerce and labor Henry Williams of Ohio
Minneapolis management of the American association team paid 500 dollars each for pitcher Vance and catcher C A Johnson of Green Bay. Pitcher Miller of Green Bay is ordered to report to the White Sox next spring. he belonged to the Sox and was loaned to Green Bay.
William Brandt of Fort Madison Iowa and an unnamed bandit exchanged fire with Detectives Harry Hayes and Andrew Crummy on Ninth Avenue South. Brandt was fatally wounded. the other robber escaped wounded. The two detectives survived uninjured as the fourth man stood by to guard the scene.
Mrs. Wylie warned her husband not to boat as he and Ainsworth planned to fish at Lake Kampeska. After she left for town the boat pushed off and Thomas Wylie drowned, his body later found as men dragged the lake. The event shocked Watertown as it mirrored a foretold fate.
Monday quotations show many changes in the local market with a general decline in prices. Grapes cost 10 cents per pound and crab apples appear. cherries are off the market. New items include crabs, Bartlett pears and sweet potatoes.
Fire at South Stillwater caused total loss of about 60000 dollars with 20000 dollars insurance. The Eclipse sawmill, recently outfitted with new machinery, employed about 130 men and cannot be rebuilt for the loss.
Thuro Ducomman seventeen dies after a dispute at a skating rink leads to a brawl in an alley between Jackson and Nebraska Streets. Bert Hilgers eighteen admits to the fatal blow and surrenders to police.
In Fairmont Minnesota on Thursday night burglars entered the Hicks and Goetz clothing store via the rear basement near the city hall but fled before taking any clothing. They left the safe unlocked with $100 inside and took small change and postage stamps from the register. No clothing appears missing and no suspects are yet identified.
Arch Bishop Diomede Falconio of Washington is promised promotion within six months to receive the cardinal's hat in Rome for his diplomatic work for the Vatican. Health concerns prompt officials to hasten his elevation to safeguard his duties for the Catholic Church in the United States.
A dense catalog of prices for fruits vegetables meats and dairy from multiple traders. Items include apples lemons coconuts oranges watermelons and cabbage with per box crate and per ton rates. meat and dairy quotes from Langdon Boyd Packing Co and Haney Co with weekly sawdust and fuel notes. Volatile figures cover crates boxes and pounds across several markets.
The first hour showed extreme dullness versus Saturdays wild trading. Only about a quarter of Saturday’s volume traded by 11 o clock. More active issues declined from Saturday’s closing by about two points.
Cattle numbers reach 15000 with prices 4.25 to 7.25 for steers and 2.80 to 5 for stockers. Hogs 5000, steady. heavies 6.36 to 6.60, lights 6.00 to 6.65, pigs 3.50 to 5.25. Sheep 6000 steady. muttons 3.75 to 4.35, lambs 4.50 to 6.25.
New York on August 24 reports poultry with moderate demand. Butter sells at 23 cents per pound, eggs 27 to 28 cents, and cheese 12 to 13 cents per pound.
The Minneapolis grain market opened lower and fell sharply as good weather, heavy cash receipts, and weaker cables weighed on prices. Trading stayed active with scalpers selling.
Numerous farm entrants visit the city market Saturday with loads of hay and oats. Pat Cain from Brownsville road, Al Proksch from Mormon Coulee, William Berg from Mormon Coulee, Frank Hafner from South Ridge, G Boethe from Mormon Couleé, John Hammer from Brownsville Ridge, William Layman from Myrick Park, H Becker from St. Joseph's Ridge, and George Schams from St. Joseph's Ridge all marketed hay or oats. Theodore Leidel of Nadine sold four hogs to Langdon & Boyd.
Mrs Maud Beissel Ferguson visits from Canada while Oscar Newton and Ralph Nuzum attend a weekend gathering. Gardners Roy Bean and others visit relatives, with Eva Watson arriving for training school and the Third regiment band camping nearby for a pleasant outing.
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