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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1907
Page
9
Local notices seek workers and learners for barber colleges sewing plants buggies and farms. Positions include boys and girls La Crosse can company experienced newspaper solicitors teamsters and laborers plus female sewing machine operators and kitchen staff with various address details and pay mentions. Also sale listings for furniture pianos and real estate with rental notices and business services.
La Crosse delegates are invited to Spring Grove for a three day home coming celebration marking the village fiftieth fifth anniversary. A camp fire will welcome returning residents as Minnesota City hosts the event with attendance expected from many former residents. Leaders of the Board of Trade and local union are being urged to send representatives to the June 19 to 21 festivities.
The Kansas agricultural secretary reports state wheat condition at 56.7 percent with 21 percent of the planted area now plowed up or worthless. Harvest is expected fifteen days later than normal and insect damage is not significant. A stray joke about husbands and wives closes the item.
Wheat trends higher amid steady demand as weather remains favorable. Prices show gains for July futures with support from new investment buying, while corn and oats see mixed moves. Minneapolis cash offers for wheat hold at strong premiums, and livestock bids edge up in hogs and cattle.
C H Scott of La Crosse is promoted to superintendent of the Fort Worth Dallas Denton and Henrietta divisions and the Sherman Bonham and Cleburne branches of the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad. He left La Crosse three years ago to join the M E T route and was trainmaster under S M supervisor Irving. He is well known among railroad men and has many relatives and friends in La Crosse.
County Clerk Chas. Rawlinson announces Carl G. Kurtenacker and Miss Pearl Stevens both of this city secured a marriage license yesterday.
A decomposed body found by 15 year old Archie Brooks near Onalaska is thought to be H L Beardsley, missing after a fishing trip on Round Lake on November 2. Beardsley, a painter and paper hanger, vanished with Judge Jos Perkins. authorities suspect foul play amid missing money and a chilling phone call from Winona.
The article recounts Orchard's cross examination as he claims Pettibone ordered him to kill Gregory and to blow up mines. It notes Orchard's complex loyalties, alleged meetings with Haywood and Moyer, and disputes over weapon procurement and who instigated the Independence explosion.
Coroner Edward Cronon returned from Round Lake and said the drowning appears accidental with no new leads. Earlier clues involved a missing overcoat and a disconnected telephone line, but investigators found no connection to Winona or other towns.
A. L. McIntosh of the Northern Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Company says transplant timing depends on sun and rain as weather lapses. Despite late beds and discouraging weather, many growers report four leaf plants and others nearing readiness, with fifteen days needed for transplant if conditions stay favorable.
Fragmentary item notes resources and a bank entry dated May 20 1907 at the National Bank of La Crosse with unclear details and missing context.
A short Theatre Notes item notes audience reaction to a play and questions whether a principal antagonist wrote the script. The piece teases backstage controversy and reader curiosity about authorship.
After ten years Clinton H. Willis, a Monterey road rancher, produced a chicken with a parrots beak and guinea hen traits. The fowl, sixth generation of a cross, speaks a few phrases and a swear word. Cincinnati dime museum owner J H Middleton offered $200, but Willis declined to improve the breed and earn fame as the Burbank of birds.
B Staats sells the property at 1010 Rublee Street to William E Dawes for 2000 dollars.
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