Help Wanted and Wanted to Buy Classified Fragments
A collage of early 20th century ads and notices seeking a yard man, clerks for railway exams, teen labor, wood for sawyers, canned foods, barber training, live flies, and a carpet sweeping brush business. Also listings for lost items including a gold watch and a pointer dog. Local addresses and contact details included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel Law
Otto Granke
Park Store
Park
A. Gundersen
Kansas City Brush Company
Main Street
Kansas
City Market Prices and Financial Totals Listed
Market quotes from Hawley Co and others cover butter eggs cheese flour grain and livestock with figures for creamery butter dairy butter eggs cheese lard hams bacon and hay. Also listed are city market totals, cash balances and related sums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawley Com. Co
Prices on eggs fruit vegetables and fish in local market list
A market price listing shows eggs at 30c, butter 30c to 35c, and a variety of produce such as apples 25 to 40c per peck, oranges 35 to 50c per dozen, lemons 25 to 30c per dozen, head lettuce 10 to 15c per bunch, potatoes 50c per bushel, and other items including grapes, squash, pears, and onions. Fish prices include pickerel 8c, pike 12c, trout 12c, salmon 15c, halibut 12c, with poultry rates for chickens 10c, turkeys 16c, ducks 15c, geese 26c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Malaga
H. M. Sieger
National Bank of La Crosse Balance Sheet 1906
The National Bank of La Crosse reports resources including loans and discounts, U.S. bonds, banking house, and real estate, totaling over 4.27 million dollars. Liabilities show capital, surplus, undivided profits, and deposits with United States depositary status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Wis
the National Bank OF LA Crosse
U. S
Pittsburg Heiress Weds Lord Ellenborough in London
Miss Hermione Schenley, heiress of the Schenley family of Pittsburg, married Lord Ellenborough at St Peter's church Eaton Square. The reception followed at Rutland Gate, with the bride’s mother Mary Schenley noted for a large will of 48 million dollars. Lord Ellenborough, born 1841, is the fifth holder of the title and a retired naval officer with a notable career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
London
Hermione Schenley
Mary Schenley
Pittsburg
Lord Ellenborough
St. Peter's Church
Eaton Square
United States
France
England
Hermione
Atlantic
Edward Law
House of Lords
Baron Ellenborough
India
Neighboring good boy contrasted with mischievous child
The mother remarks that she has never seen such a life less child as the good boy next door, contrasting his behavior with her own misbehaving child.
A Miraculous Cure Promised by Electric Bitters
H M Adams and wife Henrietta Pa claim their child, once with five years of eczema deemed incurable, improved after taking Electric Bitters. They report noticeable changes after two bottles and full cure after seven, praising it as a modern blood medicine and body builder. Available with a guarantee for one dollar at O T Erhart's drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Adams
Henrietta
O. T. Erhart
Highway Petition To Lay Out New La Crosse County Route
Notice from the County Board Road and Bridge committee in La Crosse County Wisconsin to meet at Onalaska City Hall at 10:00 AM on December 24 to decide on a petition by over thirty freeholders for a new highway from La Crosse north boundary to Onalaska south boundary. The project would replace the present route along George Street and Campbell area with a straight line to Onalaska. Dated November 28, 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Wisconsin
la Crosse County
County Board of Supervisors
Said County
Campbell
City of
la Crosse
Onalaska
George Street
Bergland Lawsuit in Wisconsin Circuit Court
State of Wisconsin La Crosse County Circuit Court action with Anne Bergland as plaintiff and Albert Bergland as defendant. Defendant summoned to appear within twenty days of service or a default judgment will be entered. A P Parsons, plaintiff's attorney, La Crosse Wisconsin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Wisconsin
la Crosse County
Anne Bergland
Albert Bergland
A. P. Parsons
P. O
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Darwin Taught Harsh Respect for Books and Leaves
The remark notes that Darwin showed little respect for books by cutting large volumes in two for easier handling or tearing out leaves needed for reference, illustrating a practical approach to reading and study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darwin
Girl A Tramp Then A Nun In Madrid Story
Senorita Esperanza Vasquez, 19 and wealthy, vanished for three months then reappeared in Madrid as a male tramp. Disguised, she joined a tramps refuge after fleeing an engagement and later took the veil at the Hermanas de Caridad convent in Madrid. She recalls wanderings and a failed betrothal before seeking a life of mercy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Senorita
Esperanza Vasquez
Santander
Vasquez
Pablo Y Cerda
Bilbao
Paula Christina
Sennemart
Orita
Hermanas de Caridad
Mercy
Low excursion fares to National Wool Growers Assn event
Low round trip excursion tickets offered to Salt Lake City Utah via the North Western Line. Tickets available January 14 15 and 16 with favorable return limits. Apply to agents Chicago and North Western Railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Wool Growers’ Association
Salt Lake City
Utah
North-Western
Chicago & North-Western R’y
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lamb
the Royal
South Seventh Street
Allen Hotel
Mill Street
Eagle Hotel
South Fifth Street
South Third Ladies
Moser College
Chicago
Ill
South Eighth Street
Knotie
South Third Street
Miss Millie Ofterdinger
S. Fourth St
Cedar Rapids
W. H. Emily
Tenneson’ Grocery Store
Sun Restaurant
North Third Street
Moler Barber College
Chicago, IL
Tribune Office
GK Sale
la Crosse Street
Henry Kinder
Caledonia
City
King Street
South Seventh
Division Street
S. J. de Ranitz & Co
South Third
Cass
Coniaeahc
King
L. F. Easton
Henry Anderegg
Longhorns, Inc
Dairies
A. Grams & Sons
Bran—Perton
W. W. Cargill Co
Langdon & Boyd
A. B. Moll
U. S. Ban
Banser
John Ambrose
North la Crosse
Wringarten Bros
Broadway
THE
Elliott-Loeffler Company
Mc Wines & Liquors
Pearl Street
Nebuer
North Side Bottling Works
Rose Street
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
Superior
Pacific Northwest
Northern Pacific
Burlington
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Lincoln
C.L. Townsend
4Th and Broadway
St. Paul Minn
Northern Pacific Railway
A. M. Cleland
St. Paul, Minn
ARTHO
D. J. Shanely
Q. Ry
Dickens
Clark & Clark
Gateway City Transfer
Vine Street
J. F. Thompson
Barron Building
J. E. Wheeler
Orlando Holway
Jos. P. Gohres
Robt. B. Lowry
Ass’t
W. B Tscharner
Wm. F. Gohres
J. Waite
Batavian National
West Ave
South Ninth Street
J. H. Lightbody
Munn £, Co
Scientific Almerican
L.argest
All Newsdealers
Munn & CO
New York
F St
Washington
D.C
Hollister
Genuire
Hollister Dive Company
Madison
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