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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1907
Page
9
A busy weekly classified page lists help wanted ads for various trades including printing, brick works, barber training, and sales agents, plus numerous for sale and for rent notices for farms, houses, rooms, and stores. It also features miscellaneous listings for supplies, real estate, and services with contact names and locations across Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The local market shows butter rising to 20 22 cents per pound with daily at 23 cents. Tomatoes fall two cents to 12 1/2 cents a pound amid good week weather boosting crops. Retail and wholesale price lists note creamery butter at 24 25 cents and various grains and livestock values from regional merchants.
Chicago and Minneapolis grain notes show wheat opening steady to slightly lower on weak cables and favorable weather. The market absorbed offerings and reversed initial losses with south western buying and covering shorts, closing modestly higher. Corn oats pork and livestock quotations follow, with steady to firmer price ranges across contracts and cash markets.
In a southern Scotland village an elder reproves an elderly drinker in the parish church. He warns Sarah to flee the tempter, but she retorts with sharp humor while the elder insists he has flown, and Barab remarks the next flutter may not wake her.
In a humorous note from Lippincott's, three brothers who went west to build ranch fortunes asked for a fitting name. The reply was Focus, followed by the explanation The place Where the sons raise meat.
A reflective note on male self perception suggesting that marriage status or facial traits like freckles or baldness do not guarantee female admiration. The speaker ponders societal expectations and personal insecurities about male appeal.
The article explains the construction of a large modern balloon using balloon cloth and silk sections to prevent collapse. It describes the top valve, descent rope, neck filling, three coats of drying, and precautions against spontaneous combustion. It notes netting, concentrating ring, anchor, guide ropes, and a rip cord for emergency earth landing, citing J. P. Thomas in Apple- final line.
Wisconsin Free Employment Bureau head Thomas McMullen reports a labor shortage with 53 workers employed last week and a need for 20 men to work on a dam project at Kilbourn City. He notes high demand for farm help and common labor, while counts show 42 male and 11 female positions filled across clerks, domestics, factory hands, machinists, teamsters, and cleaners.
Dr S Hammerstad visited from Westby and banker George Tate of La Farge called in the city. Prof D E Smith returned home to Platteville after staying with brother Ben. Henry Stevlingson of Stevlingson Call Westby visited his parents in Virqua. Grandma Hudson died at Bishop Branch on Thursday June 13 with funeral at the house led by Rev C E Butters. Mrs L Landsmark visited her parents in Lovaas today.
Gottlieb Bosshard born in Switzerland in 1846 came to the United States in 1854 with his uncle. He served as town treasurer and later agent for Shelby Mutual Fire Insurance. survived by five of nine children. His funeral at his late home in West Salem was conducted by Rev. McKee and E Koehler with local singing groups. Large crowd braved a storm to pay last respects.
Timetable fragment notes rail schedules at Deesa with daily service except Sundays and Saturdays. The OCR lacks complete details but implies regular departures and exceptions affecting travel planning.
A daily and Sunday only timetable states trains operate from C B and Q depot. Sunday arrivals and departures are specified, with operations differing on other days.
The ledger shows loans and discounts totaling 3 105 872 06 with overdrafts of 1282 72 and U S bonds to secure circulation listed as well as other bonds and real estate. Cash resources include U S bonds to secure deposits of 50 000 with banks 592 528 03 and in vaults 260 669 55. Surplus and profits, circulation reserves for taxes and unearned interest, sum to deposits of 3 731 136 84.
The New York Evening Telegram notes Canadian touring companies rely on cars for travel. The old actor needed ten roles a week and a wagon to drive. now he must also be a chauffeur due to changing touring demands.
A breach of promise case ends with the defendant admitting nightly visits to her home to prevent singing. The plaintiff’s lawyer presses for truth, but the jury returns a verdict for the defendant without rising from their seats.
A parcel shower was given Thursday evening for Miss Teresa Fuchsel of 1008 Mississippi Street who will wed Mr. John Bott on June 25. Refreshments were served at 10 45 with guests including Mayme L Foerster Mayme Fries Lucy Cavanaugh Anna Fries Bergundis Foerster Clara Pancer Josephine Fuchsel and Teresa Fuchsel.
Announcement states the marriage of C Arthur Worth a La Crosse Leader-Press editor to Lillian Heiberg daughter of Mr and Mrs John P Heiberg of 1024 Main Street. After a honeymoon they will reside in La Crosse.
A. A. Herren of Finch Ark states Foley’s Honey and Tar is the best cough and lung remedy and has cured consumption in early stages. O. T. Erhart adds that no one who uses the product is unsatisfied.
The Department of Justice broadened a long inquiry into coal operators and coal cars in the anthracite trade. The federal suit in Philadelphia seeks dissolution of the alleged monopoly, end to exclusive practices, and removal of contracts, asserting control of 75 percent of output and transportation to tidewater.
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