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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
11
Classified notices list multiple job offers including a barber college training in Chicago, U S Army recruitment in Wisconsin, Evening Post boy orders, Blacksmith position, and a fruit farm. Also multiple rental openings from furnished rooms to a 16 room hotel and a double brick storefront in La Crosse with lease options.
Wanted experienced dining room girl at Hotel Bronson housework 525 King. Wanted competent girl for general housework. Mrs Alfred James 224 North 7th St. Wanted competent cook 1141 Main Street. Wanted girl at 232 So 8th. Wanted retoucher at the De Luxe Studio over Lyric Theatre Main Street. Now ready for business Swellest goods in La Crosse 25c 5c $1.00 and up Post Cards too.
A collage of property and item listings including homes for sale or rent, a 1602 Johnson address house with 60x150 lot, multiple small wares, a 190 acre farm in Bostwicks Valley, hay land near La Crosse, and various goods from coats to a gasoline launch. Names include Mrs. Phillip Schmidt and Frank G. Roth. addresses span La Crosse Wisconsin to Barron Kidg.
At the Register of Deeds Office readers are urged to call where records are kept up to date. F. H. Aiken serves as Register.
The report centers on a general insurance and liability claim including fire and burglary elements connected to WLiahil Plate Glass and sprinkler leakage. C. 5. Van Auken is referenced with matter numbered 328 Pearst.
An ad notes ice cream at the Royal selling for 25 cents per quart. It lists Dr. E. E. Burritt, formerly with Dr. J. R. Foster and now at 133 South Fourth Street, with a line about using same air in extracting and an old phone.
Market notes from Miner & Co show May wheat at 1.02 percent, July wheat at 98 percent, corn bids around 61 percent, oats around 64 percent, and pork at 13.25. Delivery figures for Minneapolis and Chicago hog estimates point to modest gains and strong demand, with grain opinions urging buying in corn and noting insect worries affecting new wheat.
The market remains stationary with no change from yesterday as tobaccos show little movement locally and nationally. Shippers are inactive and buyers absent, according to the Viroqua Censor report on tobacco conditions.
The item lists price quotations from Fruit Oysters Produce with values for apples oranges cranberries onions cabbage strawberries celery and other staples. Quoted by Listman Mill Co Hawley Co Moll Langdon Boyd Packing Co H M Sieger and Henry Andregg, with various per unit and per bulk amounts.
D A Jonas noted socialist agitator is jailed in Aurora charged with involvement in the dynamiting of Capt Thomas J Nicholas home early Monday. Austrian suspects John Oflin and Anton Marlovic await arraignment as village marshal August Knull led the arrests.
J. H. Hammond of Ottumwa has been appointed United States marshal to succeed Eugene Craft of Davenport, who resigned. Hammond takes over duties in the Northwest region as announced.
Mr. E. E. Chamberlain of Cline ton Maine testifies the balm “does the business” for piles chapped hands and old sores and heals without scarring. Sold for 25c at O. T. Erhart's drug store.
A verse from The Children's Visitor celebrates pockets on animals and a girl’s own pocketed dress. It notes the bumblebee, pelican, and squirrel with pockets, and marvels at the kangaroo’s large pocket as the oddest.
Robert LeRoy a Detroit art studio traveling salesman died of pneumonia at the Plankinton house in Milwaukee. Funeral planned from a local undertaker with Forest Home burial unless relatives appear. He was described as an Italian painter of distinction and pastelle artist with works shown in eastern exhibitions. He spent years in South Africa's gold fields, with unclear success.
An assortment of small ads offers spectacles and eye glasses from Crystal Optical Co at 310 Pearl Street, mortgage and loan services for salaried people by La Crosse Mortgage & Loan Co at 322 Main Street, plus household goods services by G. E. Kelberger and milk deliveries by Joseph Beutler at 721 South Fourth Street.
An advertisement touts a profitable stock offering from A. C. C. Co at 253 Kinzie Street Chicago. It promises 590 percent annual gains, 400 shares at $25 par, a ten year 6 percent mortgage bond as security, with stock expected to reach $100 per share in a year or two.
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