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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
22
An ad offers ANLED men training at Moler Barber College Chicago with diplomas and a catalogue. A sale item lists an eight room house on a lot with barn for 2100 dollars at 127 Denton. Additional listings promote lumber View Farm Otto Rose Street, second hand phones from five dollars, woodwork machines, repairs, and household goods at End Market.
A mixed listing of items for sale including a gas stove 518 Ferry a 28 ft launch with 12 hp engine boat fully equipped and cheaper price or trade. a wheelchair mandolin music stand 313 Caledonia St. three iron beds mattresses rug chairs fridge 511 Vine St. a gentle horse 1000 lbs call new phone 96. Also numerous rental ads for small house furnished rooms apartments and modern houses with various street addresses. LostMexican double yellow head polly reward 5. Boyd Transfer Co. offers cut rates to Pacific Coast. cornet and band instruments instructor Geo E. Birdsell contact details provided.
Real estate notices show multiple listings including flats stores two story residences and farms. Properties range from $25 to $9 500 with details on location lot size modern features and income potential. contact 208 McMillan Building for more information and the Madison Court lot at $1 100.
Classified notices advertise a nursing position with a contact at 149 So. 9th and a separate helper for children at 322 North 11th Street. An ice cream cone business prospect offers up to 31 dollars daily profit with 8.50 capital, urging immediate write-in.
The Mexican federal government guarantees 250000 dollars in ten yearly installments of 25000 starting 1910 to support Mexico's National Derby. A formal contract with Fomento and the Jockey Club has been signed. Nominations for the first Derby are due by December 1. Changes to race conditions are expected.
Chicago, June 6. George Siler, veteran boxing referee and writer on pugilistic topics, suffered a heart attack shortly before noon Thursday and remained in critical condition at midnight. He had visited Papke and Ketchel at their training quarters earlier in the week and planned to go to Milwaukee for the weigh in of the boxers that afternoon.
Louise Waller of Chicago captain of the basketball team broke records in the fifty yard dash and hop and step and jump at the Rose Mary Hall field meet in Stamford Connecticut. She also won the standing jump of seven feet three and a half inches and the hundred yard low hurdle in nineteen point one five seconds.
Baseball score table shows Columbus defeating Milwaukee 11 to 2, and Indianapolis beating Minneapolis 7 to 4. Louisville edged St Paul 3 to 5, while Toledo defeated Kansas City 15 to 27. Batters credited with pairs of pitchers in each game. A closing aphorism notes a man is rarely willing to admit he was never wild.
Wisconsin Sealed proposals for two year state printing binding ruling and blank books. bids due by July 20 1908 at noon at the Secretary of State Madison. terms base on maximum prices set by law with discounts required and various bid forms guaranties and certificates provided.
Clement C. Smith of Milwaukee has been elected president of the Eastern Wisconsin Railway and Light Company at Fond du Lac. The firm operates a local line and the interurban between Fond du Lac and Oshkosh. Smith is popular in this city and the vote gives satisfaction.
Eveleth Minnesota reports a temporary stoppage of iron ore shipping last week, quickly reversed within a day and continuing at a steady rate. The Fayal and Adams-Spruce allotment totals 40,000 tons weekly, with ore drawn from stockpiles and Fayal No. 3 extension pit expected to yield first grade ore soon.
Fond du Lac Wis June 6 Miss Minnie Perkins principal of the Washington school gave an exhibition of hypnotism to entertain the school using Arthur Zachert a pupil and Miss Kittie Evans assistant principal as subjects making the pupil sing and the assistant principal act as if eating ice cream.
The Wisconsin railroad commission issued an order readjusting milk and cream transport rates on state railroads. The new rates are in many dairy districts considerably reduced.
Markets report a generally higher tone with stocks lifting while cattle hog and sheep prices vary by region. Chicago cattle 6.50 to 7.75, hogs 5.15 to 5.55, sheep 3 to 4.90. Kansas City cattle 5.25 to 7.40, hogs 5.40 to 5.50, lambs 5 to 6.25. New York poultry unchanged with butter 24 cents, eggs 19.5 cents, cheese 14.75 cents.
New York stocks opened higher with most issues gaining fractions to about one point. Missouri Pacific fell about 2½ points at the open and slid another ¼ point on dividend discontinuance. Union Pacific led gains and Steel common showed heavy activity while government and other bonds stayed steady.
Chicago wheat, oats, pork, and lard futures listed with opening, high, low, and close figures for July and December contracts. Minneapolis prices show July and September grains, patent barrel costs, mill feeds, and livestock ranges. Also cited are dairy and produce quotes from Hawley Dairy, A. B. provisions, and H. M. Sieger fish, plus Andregg dairy products and Langdon Be packing.
Grain gossip notes late wheat bright but harvest hindered by weather. Tornado damaged Riverton near Franklin and wiped out Scandia near Chester with no reports yet. Corn and wheat brokers show varied activity with Bartlett Frasier Barrell cited as top buyers. Chapin bought early.
Mrs. Alice Johnson was arrested on insanity charges after striking people with an umbrella while attempting to hand out $5 bills. She was picked up by Officer Hamberg and claimed the name Johnson, but is believed to be Mrs. Donaghue of Creston who fainted at Union Station last week during treatment with Dr. Schlitz.
Tony Nelson, tracked from Foxhome to Fergus Falls by a bent nail mark on his horse shoe, was arrested on a charge of burning the Zuehlsdorf saloon in Foxhome yesterday morning. The fire stemmed from kerosene sprinkled on floor and furnishings. Nelson, son-in-law of Zuehlsdorf, denies knowledge of the blaze.
O. T. Erhart promotes Foley's Kidney Cure claiming it makes sound kidneys and can positively cure all kidney and bladder diseases while strengthening the whole system.
The local market is quiet with modest shifts in fruit prices. Strawberries sell for 15 cents a quart, peaches at 20 cents a dozen, apricots at 15 cents a dozen, and home grown berries around 20 cents a quart.
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