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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1907
Page
7
A dense jumble of help wanted and sale notices lists clerks salesmen barbers cooks maids carpenters and brewery workers with hourly weekly and monthly pay. Also offers show cases house for sale farms and an upright piano sale. Names include Paul sen Hartzfelt Moler Barber College and John Gund Brewing Co with addresses across Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Engwell Hanson of St Louis visits his mother and sister Mrs Richie for about two weeks. Henry Clouse of Lansing Ridge visits La Crosse to see his mother in hospital. Odd Fellows hold regular meeting. Telephone workers from Waukon install lines. The Fourth celebrated with Lansing Cadet band, races on Main street, river launch races, a 2:30 ball game May Prairie vs Lansing, and a Germania hall dance. Lansing aims for a strong crowd.
Found long glove may belong to a lady withTribune office call and paid ad. The Inland Printing Co offers letter heads envelopes and business cards at reasonable prices. Furnished front room King Street. Ice cream at the Royal 25 cents per quart.
Wisconsin audit company offers accounting and cost system setup and book service for businesses without a regular bookkeeper. Also lists multiple rental properties in La Crosse area and a high grade soft drink bottling works for sale, clearing about $150 monthly.
Ten thousand strikers in Miyanoshita overran the Suimoto copper district burning the main buildings and killing the chief of police. Miners attacked a regiment sent to quell the riot as rifles fired amid damages estimated at a million dollars.
Strawberries now fetch a shilling per quart with a 2 percent drop noted. In La Crosse area, tobacco growers report planting underway two weeks behind normal but aided by favorable week weather. Beds show rapid growth, though some hail and rain have damaged a few spots. Rockford melons and California plums enter markets at 10 to 15 cents each and 10 cents per dozen respectively.
Readable prices list from a historical market page showing eggs 12 for 16 cents, butter 23 cents per pound, cabbage 10 cents each, potatoes 60 cents a bushel, and assorted fruits and dairy items with varied per unit or per pound costs. Includes notes on fish and meats with scattered OCR garble.
Chicago and La Crosse market notes show wheat opening near last close with fractional gains while corn and oats drift. cables dip on improving crop prospects. Chicago futures list mixed figures for July and September across wheat corn and oats with subdued activity and small range. Hog prices soften amid receipts of 18 000 with bids from $5.55 to $6.10, remaining weak to five cents lower.
Sunday visits and travel among residents of La Crosse Chaseburg and town. Commencement exercises at the M E church featured five graduates Gwyn Hanesworth Elsie Pulver Minnie Johnson Elsie Sandlin and Eddie Granke with diplomas by J C Johnson. Ice cream and cake followed at Mrs G Granke's reception for the class.
The Pennsylvania Railroad and Carnegie Steel clash over Casatt steel rail pricing. Carnegie demands 33 dollars per ton, up from 28. Pennsylvania warns it may start producing its own steel rails if the price isn’t cut by five dollars, with Hem Steel backing Carnegie.
An entomologist announces through a Wisconsin study that the common green louse, not the deadly toxoptera, is present in Minnesota Wisconsin and South Dakota fields. He notes farmers feared a southern pest but no toxoptera has been found and warns of careful verification and rapid response if invasion occurs.
John F. Kowalsky longtime Milwaukee barber died suddenly at his home 725 Thirty-third street on Saturday morning aged 67. He was born in Germany on June 24, 1840 and came to America in 1865 settling in Milwaukee. Survived by Mrs Kowalsky five sons and three daughters he was a member of the Catholic Knights and the North Side Old Settlers club. Funeral will be held at 9 AM from his residence to St Thomas church with burial at Calvary.
Mayor Cook restricted ice sales on Sundays while allowing beer and other liquors. Residents accuse him of forcing people to buy beer in saloons on Sundays instead of at home. More than 50 ice wagons from thirty firms previously operated on Sundays.
A humorous exchange features a church member recounting a dream in which he was in Philadelphia, while Gotham responds with a puzzled remark about its strangeness.
The Green Bay and Western Railway markets service across Wisconsin and Minnesota, linking Green Bay with Winona La Crosse Stevens Point Grand Rapids St Paul Minneapolis and westward. It promotes car ferries across Lake Michigan to New York Boston and Philadelphia.
An old advertisement asserts healthy kidneys filter blood and improve overall health. It promotes Foley's Kidney Cure as strengthening the system and easing kidney and blood issues, crediting O. T. Erhart.
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