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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
7
Miscellaneous classified items advertise catering help for 1000 positions at $1,009 a dozen, and request two or three furnished rooms in a modern house for light housekeeping. Also seeks repair work and permanent job, with various contact hints across a cluttered ad page.
Market notes show Chicago wheat futures for May and July with tentative quotes around 6.6 to 6.9 dollars, oats trading near 40 cents, and pork values around 12 dollars. Regional totals list Minneapolis wheat and oats with modest gains and minor volatility, reflecting typical daily fluctuations in grain and livestock.
Market summary reports Chicago cash wheat and corn gains with Thursday totals of about 50 000 bushels of corn and 70 000 bushels of oats. Estimates show export demand lifting prices while Bartlett Pravier and Northern Grain influence corn. New York buzz on large short interest. London stocks hold parity. seasonal steel and iron trade little changed. rail tariffs expected unchanged.
Oysters advance at the Clarket Wholesale Market with prices up to 1.40 per gallon and standards to 1.80. Fruit prices also higher with apples, oranges and bananas quoted by John v. Buns' Fruit House.
Mant Feb 7 two rare pieces of money gifted to the state library are hailed as valuable. An early 1776 Proclamation money bill for New Jersey shows thirty shillings and lists signers Denham Wiy ber Dennis. The 1779 United States money bill promises fifty Spanish milled dollars or gold or silver per congress. Both are on glued cards with crude engravings and preserved in near pristine condition.
A 1903 market listing cites prices for apples bananas oranges lemons onions cabbage oats and other produce. Included are figures for Baldwins Ben Davis Washington apples oranges lemons onions cabbage potatoes oats and oats by the ton along with livestock pricing from Lengdon Boyd Packing Co showing hogs steers and cows.
Fragmentary text suggests Timas as possessor in a decades long dispute over money. The fragment mentions no money for about fifty years and a long lineage, with references to translation and multiple generations, indicating a contested inheritance or wealth matter.
A Viland Indian named Zenas Graham of Viaudrean offered to play the organ when the regular organist was absent at an Episcopal service in Vankton on February 7. He, with another Indian to pump, took the bench and led a volunteer organist style performance, amid initial dismay from the congregation.
Feb 7 in Yaneton D. the family of Volin records a newborn labeled Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw Peterson. The Petersons, avid supporters of Mrs Thaw, plan to honor her by preserving the memory of her fight related to her husband and boat.
Ja. Web reports Reynolds of Garner seeks an uncle named John Wilay or J W Vaughn last heard of in 1863. He believes the uncle may be involved in settling an estate at Garner Iowa and is asking for information on his whereabouts.
William Edwars, a trapper and hunter from Saginay Michigan, ended a long period of business failure concealment by shooting himself in his shack near Allen Junction station. The body was discovered with a rifle.
The report recounts a man from Saginaw Michigan who took his life after a troubled year, destroying letters from his daughter before his death. His body lies in a morgue as relatives seek truth amid confusing local notices and lingering questions.
In Joel justice court at Keystone a jury acquitted Mrs August Dell, charged with shooting two men while defending her husband’s mining claim near here. Dell confronted intruders at the claim site with a six shooter after learning George Jelngon and Casper Dillings held the ground. they fled, leaving the scene.
Joseph Bermayer was released after being alleged to shoot his brother George at Twins Brooks. The incident began in a saloon and led to a confrontation that left George with a non fatal wound. Citizens gathered with a petition from Twin Brooks residents urging Bermayer’s release.
Hid Carr of Leslie reports numerous buffalo roaming north of Pierre in South Dakota. He sighted a herd of eleven and brought back two after a long chase, indicating a larger population than previously believed.
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