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Newspaper

La Crosse Tribune

Location

La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Aug 25, 1908

Page

9

Help Wanted and For Sale Classified Roundup

Help Wanted male barber trainee offered shop setup or position with diploma after a few weeks. U S Army able bodied men 18 to 35, English literacy required. School manager position near La Crosse. Delivery boy, farm hands with housing. Multiple sale ads including piano, saddles, 160 acre farms in Iowa, 14 ft canoe, wood furnace, engines, housewares, and real estate listings. Local contact details and addresses provided.

Maler Barber College Chicago U. S. Army United States Hotel Grand la Crosse Wis

Help Wanted Classified Notices From La Crosse

A collage of Want Ads itemize positions including light house work cook chambermaid and mangle work. Listings mention Goetzingers La Crosse Clothing Co Stamping and Tool Co Amer ican House Green Bay Hotel and Steam Laundry with various locations and contact hints. Several ads seek young ladies with experience and one offers board for work and another lists a set of engineering books and a Singer machine for sale.

Goetzinger’s Campbell Ave la Crosse Clothing Co Stamping and Too! Co Cass Street American House ae + Railsite Iealee Adiss P. B. X Germania Hote Madison St P.O

Lost items notices from Miss Francis Sill and others

Lost grey jacket seeks return to Miss Francis Sill at 929 State Street with reward offered. Lost fox terrier of 10 months answers to Billy. return to 1825 State Street. Lost locket and chain engraved E. W. to be returned to this office for a reward.

Francis Sill State Street Billy State St E. W

For Rent Listings of Furnished Rooms and Houses

Nicely furnished rooms available through multiple listings including Mrs. Herman Holtz at 1220 So 4th and 611 Main. Additional units: Sept i four or five rooms at 1107 Jackson. Tri bune Bldg second floor. 919 Market two houses. 124 No 10th eight rooms. 609 No 5th furnished modern rooms. large furnished room with phone 588-C. 1224 Madison St two rooms with or without board. 615 So 7th St five rooms with gas range and zinc.

Herman Holtz Jackson W. J. Hickish Larege Madison Ste

Loans Made Salaried People on Furniture and More

La Crosse Mortgage & Loan Co offers loans on furniture pianos horses wagons with no removal and no publicity. Also advertising rent and sale listings for houses and offices. Insurance Notary Public and loans available at 208 McMSlap Building La Crosse Wisconsin.

la Crosse Mortgage & Loan .Co Main Street Cc F. Klein la Crosse Wis

Wanted notices list job board lodging and help

WANTED washing inquire 1711 Adams. WANTED places for young men and women to work for board and lodging apply to J H Rapelje To land's Business School City. WANTED $10.00 returned which was lost between 4th State and Bar ron's store Mangner 1224 King St. YOUNG man would like a position as collector Address M care Tri une.

J. H. Rapelje Toland’s Barron’s Mangner King St Care Triune

Public Auction Planned For Unpaid Bicycle Repair Debt

State of Wisconsin La Crosse County delivers notice to P P Olson that a bicycle left for repairs will be sold at public auction at 509 Main Street La Crosse on September 5 1908 at 10 am to satisfy a $9 claim for unpaid repairs. Dated Aug 5 1908. CHAS L WETS.

State of Wisconsin la Crosse County la Crosse P. P. Olson Main Street Chas. L. Wets

Woodard v Woodard summons in La Crosse Circuit Court

State of Wisconsin to Frank Woodard is commanded to appear within twenty days after service to defend the action. If he fails, judgment will be entered as demanded in the complaint. The summons and complaint are on file with the court clerk. attorney A C Bleekman, La Crosse.

State of Wisconsin la Crosse Nellie Fay Woodard Frank Woodard A. C. Bleekman la Crosse County Wisconsin

Lost Black Purse With Keys and Pass

Mrs. Brosch, care Linker Bros., seeks return of a black purse containing $7.00 a bridge pass and two keys plus an email change. A reward is offered upon recovery.

Wooley and Hanson Complete Brick Paving Contract

Messrs Wooley and Hanson finished their contract for brick paving in the city at noon yesterday The work covered Vine Street Fifth Street and the valley near the Mitchell brewery

Messrs. Wooley & Hanson Vine Street Fifth Street Mitchell Brewery

Lion to Receive New Hull for Rebuilt River Packet

The Lion steamer, built over fifty years ago and long laid up near Rock Island, is set for a hull replacement and refit at Rock Island dry docks. Owned by Hugh Shannon and Sheldon H. Ruby, the ship may return as a Tri-City river boat with modern amenities and renewed service on the Mississippi between Rock Island and La Crosse.

Wabasha la Crosse Lion Silver Lake Hennepin Canal Rock Island Mississippi River Hugh Shannon Sheldon H. Ruby Capt. Wilcox and Son Here Minn Shannon Ruby Moline Harbor United States Rock Island Dry Docks C. W. Durham

Foley’s Honey and Tar Ends Hay Fever Breath Trouble

Advertised remedy Foley’s Honey and Tar promises immediate relief from difficult breathing and inflamed air passages. The genuine product is in a yellow package labeled O. TM. Erhart.

Foley Erhart

Bonds Issued By Synod For Small Amounts

Appleton Wisconsin August 25 A report from the finance committee of the Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States notes a $60 000 general treasury debt borrowed from bequests to synod educational and charitable institutions. To liquidate, the synod votes to sell $100 interest bearing bonds to congregations. Capital University Columbus Ohio receives a $15 180 annual appropriation for two years plus other funds. A $10 000 bequest from Mrs Christine Rudolf of Allegheny Pennsylvania to Capital University is set aside as an interest bearing sum for library purposes.

Appleton, Wis Joint Synod of Ohio General Institutional Joint Synod Capital University Columbus Christine Rudolf Allegheny Capital University At Columbus, O

Local Man Inflicts Self Injury In Wisconsin Incident

Albert Middleton attacked himself with a knife on the outskirts of Chippewa Falls Wisconsin Aug 25. He suffered deep cuts about the loins and severed arteries. He walked home and collapsed in bed. Family discovered him. Hospital says recovery is unlikely.

Chippewa Falls Wis Albert Middleton

Workmen Find Second Skeleton on Concord Farm

Workmen digging on the Spence farm in Concord near Oconomowoc Wisconsin unearthed another skeleton this Saturday the second found there this year. The remains were three feet underground and well preserved with no clues to identity.

Oconomowoc Wis Spence Farm Concord

Local wholesale prices steady as flour market eyed for rise

No changes are quoted in today’s local wholesale and retail market prices. Flour merchants expect an advance in flour and possibly in feed, but no official announcement has been made yet.

Smuggling Charge Targets Mrs Gardner in Back Bay Home

Boston Aug 24 Mrs Jack Gardner faces smuggling allegations tied to art imports from Chicago via Mrs Chadbourne. Authorities say Gardner used a legal loophole to present her home as a public art gallery charging high admission while reopening only sparsely. Her recreated Italian palace in Back Bay stands as a famed, costly residence.

Boston Jack Gardner Black Bay District Chadbourne Chicago Washington America Italy

Local Markets Show Slight Shifts in Prices

Daily markets report small changes with Elberta peaches selling for 1 dollar per box and Susquehannas advancing to 1 dollar per box as trading continues.

Elberta Susquehannas

Local Market Prices on Fruits Vegetables and Provisions

A dense listing of regional produce and commodity prices. Values include oranges Valencia boxes at 5.00, lemons crates at 5.50, Cocoanuts per crate and per 100, Watermelons by weight with several size ranges, apples and pears, bananas, peaches, plums, potatoes, carrots, and onions. Grain and feed quotes from Listman Milling Co., cheese and dairy prices from Henry Andregg, and livestock and poultry prices from Landdon-Boyd Packing Co. Continuous per-pound and per-ton figures noted.

New Lemesa Ivaanie Elbertas Susquehanna California Oy Vets Celery Michigan Wickson Kelsey Japan Listman Milling Co Henry Andregg Limburger A. Grams & Son Landdon-Boyd Packing Co Hawiey Com. Co J. C. Burns Valencia

Regional Grocer Price List With Produce and Fish

A fragmented price list shows multiple vendors quoting daily produce and seafood, including Flour at 1.60 and 1.55 per sack, vegetables by bunch or peck, dairy per pound, and assorted fruits. Quoted items include beets cucumbers corn blackberries grapes pineapples cantaloupes peaches watermelons and several fish such as pickerel trout salmon herring halibut and perch with varied unit prices.

Listman Milling Co A. B. Moll H. M. Sieger

Cattle and Hogs Trade Mixed in Chicago Markets

Chicago markets show cattle steady to firm with beeves 5.60 to 7.70 and stockers 2.50 to 4.60. Hogs ease slightly with light 5.80 to 6.65 and heavy 6.35 to 6.80. pigs 4 to 5.60. Sheep steady natives 2.50 to 4.20 and lambs 3.59 to 6.00. New York stocks rise as short-covering extends early gains in UP, NP, SP and others. Smelting leads advance at 11 o'clock.

Chicago Livestock Chicago New York Union Pacific Northern Pacific Southern Pacific National Lead London

Poultry Catry Etc Price Report from New York

New York August 25 steady prices listed for dairy and poultry items including butter at 23 1-3 cents, eggs 28 to 29 cents, and cheese from 12 1-4 to 18 1-4 cents.

Catry New York

Kansas City Livestock Market Report August 25

Cattle from 7000 head steady with steers 4.25 to 7.25, stockers 2.80 to 5. Hogs 9000 head steady with bulk 6.30 to 6.60, heavies 6.60 to 6.70, lights 6.00 to 6.55, pigs 3.50 to 5. Sheep 6000 head weak with muttons 3.80 to 4.25, lambs 4.50 to 6.00.

Kansas City Livestock Kansas City

Hay and oats traded in city markets yesterday

Pale Al Stieger and Otto Nickolai from Mormon Coulee delivered hay. Pat Cain from Brownsville and J. Doyle from Brownsville brought hay. William Stroeh from St. Joseph's Ridge, Walter McArthur from La Crescent, Frank Feldmeyer from Pine Creek, Henry Becker from St. Joseph's Ridge, John Paul from La Crescent, G. Emily from Dakota, and J. Smith from Dakota also delivered hay or oats with several selling or marketing batches in the city yesterday. One bull was brought in by J. Smith from Dakota and went to local butcher Otto Bremner of Bostwick Valley.

al Stieger Mormon Coulee Pat Cain Brownsville Road Otto Nickolai William Stroeh St. Joseph's Ridge Walter McArthur la Crescent Frank Feldmeyer Pine Creek Henry Becker St. Joseph’s Ridge John Paul J. Doyle Brownsville G. Emily Dakota J. Smith Otto Bremner Bostwick Valley

Jerome's Record Held Un tainted

Albany Aug 25 Commissioner Richard L Hand reported to Gov Hughes that evidence does not sustain charges against New York City District Attorney William Traverse Jerome The commissioner says Jerome has discharged his duties with zeal and public-spirited motive and shows no incapacity or neglect in any case.

Albany N. Y Richard L. Hand Hughes William Traverse Jerome New York City Hand Jerome

Racine man charged with murder after saloon incident

Gustave F. Reth, 56, died from injuries in a saloon at 713 Fourteenth Street after an attack by Owen McCarthy, 19. McCarthy fled the city. a murder warrant is issued. Mayor Horlick ordered the saloon closed.

Racine Wis Gustave F. Reth Twelfth Street Owen McCarthy Michael Shinski Fourteenth Street McCarthy Horlick

Robbers Attacked Woman and Crushed by Street Car

Two assailants robbed and beat a woman on Amsterdam avenue between Ninety first and Ninety second streets just after midnight. In view of about a dozen passengers they hurled her before an Amsterdam avenue car and she was crushed under the front tracks. Police watched but two culprits escaped.

New York Amsterdam Avenue Ninetieth Ninety-first

G A R Delegates Attend Wisconsin Session

Mr. Charles Weiss Mrs. A C Radke and Mrs F O Chamberlain of this city traveled to Madison Wisconsin to attend the state convention of the Fraternal Reserve association Weiss serves on the supreme council and Chamberlain is the delegate from the La Crosse lodge

Charles Weiss A. C. Radke F. O. Chamberlain Madison, Wis Fraternal Reserve Associaton Weiss Supreme Council Chamberlain la Cross¢ Lodge

Also Mentioned on This Page

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