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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1908
Page
7
Multiple want ads advertise learning barber trade with shop equipment and diploma, grocery department work, childcare assistant, girl and dining room help, hotel and house duties. Listings note wages and locations like Park, Wilson House, Hotel Bronson, and streets such as 7th, 4th, and 11th streets.
A collage of sale notices and classified items including high grade pianos, real estate at 1602 Johnson St and two story brick houses, a 16 foot Racine launch with boat house, stock of jewelry suitable for a small store, two story brick home inquiry, organ sale from Fred Leibold at 325 Main St, Kleist Studio negatives, three lots for sale, trade offer for city property near Mor mon Coulee Road, an invalid chair for 15 dollars, and a Circassian walnut piano offered for sacrfice with installments.
For sale notices list a medium size safe in good office condition with care Tribune. Also offered is a 6 H. P. gasoline woodsawing rig in good condition with address given as H. Tribune. A new 6 H. P. gasoline engine is advertised with a Tribune care line.
For sale a well established dry goods gents furnishings and shoe business of 18 years on a prime south side Chicago corner. Up to date in every detail. Will take part payment in income property or farm land. Lease of building offered. Address Z. F. 123 Tribune.
Several rental offers listed including furnished rooms on the Tribune Building second floor and rooms for light housekeeping at 611 Main Street. Four rooms upstairs at 526 Mississippi and four rooms at 508 No. 8th. Modern rooms at 223 No. 6th and a city heated house at 122 So 7th Street via Security Savings Bank inquiry. Miller's farm north of Golf links advertised for sale for dairy or truck farming with Mrs. J. P. Miller in La Crosse Wisconsin.
Miscellaneous notices advertise unfurnished rooms with outside entrances north of Market Street seeking $100 monthly, a 19 room house for rent, daily or weekly meals, lace curtain washing and ironing services, plain sewing at reasonable prices, and a copy of The Tribune from July 1, 1907 offered for five cents.
A found item notice reports rice cream at the Royal priced at 25 cents per quart. Also found a bunch of keys on 1st Street with instruction to contact this office and pay for the advertisement to claim.
A lost bill book containing several bills offers a reward if returned to the office. A mink is lost Wednesday evening near Loomis Street and Charles Street Lutheran church with a reward for its return. A sable and white bicolor otikie dog with old phone 8971 listed for contact.
Lost a Parker fountain pen with rubber bands around the cap. Finder to return to Tribune Office and receive a reward. Lost a child’s locket with pictures on Sunday morning, reward offered. Contact G. W. Thompson at New York Life Office by phone. Money to loan diamonds and valuables bought by Stevens at 209 McMillan by phone.
La Crosse Mortgage and Loan Company offers loans to salaried people secured by furniture pianos horses and wagons with no removal or publicity required. Located at 322 Main Street upstairs.
Local ad for Klein Insurance and Money to Loan located at 208 McMillan Building. Offers general coverage and short-term loans with unspecified terms.
La Crosse Brush Co. at 618 Mill St lists brushes of every description for home use with saving prices. The ad notes floor brushes and a specialty in made to order items. It ends with a light remark about how the average woman is shy about telling her age.
La Crosse announces a Typewriter Exchange at Weis' Book Store 509 Main St offering buying renting exchanging and repairing services. Call at the Register of Deeds Office to update records. FH Aiken Register.
Wm A Dourn offers prompt neat shoe repair at low prices at 817 Logan Street. Wm Rehfuss seeks a lot of second hand windows at 919 South 17th Street with old phone 3103.
In Rapid City South Dakota on February 18 A L Lee narrowly escaped when his digging pick struck an old powder hole with giant powder. The blast destroyed the tool, hurled him 125 feet into a creek, and left him with serious facial burns and multiple rib fractures.
Everyone welcomes improved digestion as stomach liver and bowels work smoothly with Dr King’s New Life Pills. Regulate digestion, promote wellness, and leave you feeling good. 25c at O T Erhart’s drug store. Advertising pays. Try it.
Alderman Kelliher, newly married, proposes an ordinance barring any alderman from council duties unless legally married, over 25, of good character, within sixty days of passage. Alderman Fred Craig remains the sole unmarried member and vows to oppose or resign if required.
George Moore of Grimesland North Carolina says consumption nearly ended his life before using Dr King’s New Discovery. He reports improvement after one bottle and full recovery after twelve bottles as a remedy for coughs colds and lung weakness. Trial bottle free. Available at O T Erhart druggist 50cc and 1.00.
Chippewa Falls Wisconsin February reports a three foot lemon tree in J. L. Jerome's home bearing fruit. New Auburn residents see a large colorful butterfly in town and a Wheaton Springs farmer spots a snake on the road, highlighting an unusually warm spell before spring.
Rev. George B. Satterlee asks if hell exists after life, arguing humans create their own hell on earth. He asserts no map can condemn or absolve a soul based on earthly life, delivering the talk at Carnival Park Methodist Episcopal church in St. Paul on February 18.
Northwest in brief reports Lincoln where the board of regents authorized Chancellor Andrews to withhold degrees from all students who celebrated Sneak Day or engaged in class fights. Also notes Kadoka alignment with a commercial club, a rifle ball injury in Rochester, and a liquor case in Winona with a $75 fine.
John Flood of Duluth an undertaker died here from blood poisoning contracted while handling embalming fluid. He was engaged in the undertaking business in Duluth and passed away after the exposure to the embalming materials.
Market notices report Chicago wheat May at 91 92 and July 88 88 with corn near 59 60 and oats around 52. Liverpool wheat and corn prices lower while New York stocks stay firm. Morse indictments cited. Chicago packers claim normal forces at work. steel earnings for January similar to December with March improvement expected.
Co. B completed a final practice ahead of tonight’s big game against the New York Giants. The lineup includes Burke at right forward Phillips at t forward Kenetchy at center Schaldach at right end Ritter at left guard. Officials expect the contest to be the best yet played here.
Statewide contractors work on plans for the La Crosse Normal school and bid closing moved from Feb 26 to March 12 for contract award. Several local firms are reportedly in the competition.
Irene Nichols Hancock failed to appear before Judge Brindley for a county court trial. The case likely will be dismissed as Hancock has moved from Sixth and Pine streets where she operated a rendezvous and is reported ill. Prosecution sought to remove her from the city residence area.
Austin Riley, elevator attendant at the McMillan building, broke through the ice in the marsh near Summit Store yesterday evening. He is ill at home from a cold contracted after the accident.
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railway sent its Pacific coast extension train service to Terry Mont and crosses the Yellowstone river for the first time. The daily line runs between Aberdeen South Dakota Marmarth North Dakota and Terry. A separate note urges attention to fire escapes.
The Edgerton Tobacco Reporter notes local market prices are stationary with no broad movement in 1907 leaf despite buyers purchasing a few lots. Traders cite low prices and unclear underlying reasons, while trust dynamics and equity concerns are hinted at as influencing activity.
A dense price list shows apples, citrus, cranberries, oysters, potatoes, onions, cabbage, strawberries, flour, mill feed, grains, hogs, chickens, turkeys, lard, butter, eggs, vegetables, fish, cheese, and wood. Quoted sources include Listman Mill Co. Hawley Corn, W. W. Cargill Co., Langdon-Bo Hogs Packing Co., H. M. Steger, Henry Andregg, and City Scales with varied regional figures and package sizes. The itemized entries cover multiple states and markets, reflecting a broad wholesale to retail snapshot.
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