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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1908
Page
7
Numerous help wanted ads for barber training, U S Army service, canvassers, and sales agents alongside housekeeping positions. Public notices include sale listings, rental offers, and property advertisements plus various goods for sale such as lumber, furniture, and farm equipment from local businesses.
Reed Allen Realty Co promotes Panhandle land for home seekers and investors. Will pay your fare to view options. Also features H W Barkers Cough Remedy and Runckel's Drug Store. Tornado insurance rates listed by C S Van Auken. Lost items include a black bicycle and a black lace shawl with reward for return.
E H Jaekel offers electric laundry irons priced at 4.00 dollars. Located at 1100 South 6th, the seller advertises compact devices ideal for home use.
A small family seeks a six to seven room house with a large lot and wants possession by July 15. Respond with rent and full description to F. W. & care Tribune. Also listings include a job ad for half tone etching training at National Engraving Co and sales manager positions at Frank W. Williams Co in Chicago with cash capital and references required.
Caledonia Minn June 29 Special The Caledonia Commercials beat Harmony 2 0 at home in a well played game. Eiken pitched superb ball for the Commercials with strong support. Hildebrand pitched for Harmony and struggled in the field. Merlo doubled and scored the second run as Duxbury and Merlo contributed two-base hits.
A special meeting of the common council is called this evening to act on granting saloon licenses. This morning 113 applications were filed, and it is expected about 1235 licenses will be acted upon by the time the meeting opens.
The board of review was organized this morning in the mayor's office and adjourned until tomorrow at 7 p.m. It is composed of the mayor, city attorney, city clerk, and two assessors and will begin work tomorrow morning.
Bodies of William Patterson and Miss Dorothy N. Flagg were recovered from the Illinois River near Peoria after a boat they rode in near Virginia Beach overturned following a struggle. Miss Flagg, 23, left a mother in Galesburg. Patterson was an amusement concessionaire at Virginia Beach and reportedly a nephew of a wealthy Kansan.
Cleveland June 27 After a restful night the condition of Congressman Sherman is practically normal today. He plans to leave the hospital Monday or Tuesday to return to his home in Utica New York.
Miss Maude Stearns a graded school teacher from Elgin Illinois is spending part of her vacation in the city with her sister Mrs H A Greene.
Summary lists lacrosse results with Freeport Green Bay and Columbus outcomes. Scoring details note runs, hits, and errors across multiple innings and venues including Minneapolis Kansas City St Paul Indianapolis.
At Rockford first game Barton and Erickson bats powered a 5 10 win as Deane and Kempf paired in the field. Second game went 10 innings with Kempf and Erickson handling the battery as Rogers Kempf Dunbar Lang and Erickson contributed on offense. At Madison MeGIGOR and colleagues posted strong numbers with Towneson Smith Converse Warren and Selbaum among the contributors. At Freeport both games featured Scott Stark La Belle McCloskey Johnson and Smith handling pitching and defense with Scott and Stark combining for runs in the first game and Shaw Smith Es handling duties in the nightcap.
In Milwaukee and Minneapolis venues, teams faced off in the American Association games. Milwaukee edged Toledo 9 to 6 at Milwaukee with key plays by Bateman Roth and Land while Pape Brown Ville Steen Landa Wakefield contributed for the Batteries. At Minneapolis, the score stood 4 to 3 in favor of the Batteries with Wakefield involved and multiple players listed in the box.
Viroqua Wisconsin hosted Galesville with Heppler sealing a six inning rally as Viroqua won 9 to 3 in Saturday play. In Sunday action Viroqua again triumphed 5 to 2 as Galesville managed a lone run in the final frame.
La Crosse adds left handed pitcher Scarry from the Cardinals as a possible rotation fix. Eberly starts this afternoon with Flynn likely to pitch tomorrow as the team battles Wausau and seeks to regain first place. Conley, new Central league recruit, to officiate in the series replacing the sick Fuller.
The Wisconsin Illinois state league shows rising attendance as Rockford joins and leads gains. Fond du Lac draws most fans, followed by Madison and Wausau with Rockford fourth, La Crosse fifth, Oshkosh sixth, Green Bay seventh, and Freeport eighth. Upcoming games include Milwaukee next Sunday with Wausau and Madison, then Wausau and Freeport, Oshkosh later in the week.
The Diamonds beat the Noxalls 12 to 8 with 16 hits to 9. Haley pitched well and Davis and Wuest starred in the field. Meinert and Bartel led at the plate with Bartel clearing the bases three times on two doubles and a long single. The Diamonds face Galesville next Wednesday.
A Tomsk dispatch dated June 26 reports the German car in the New York Paris automobile race has arrived in Tomsk and expects Moscow in a fortnight and Berlin in twenty days. It covered 572 miles in seventy eight hours before arriving. The American car is presumed to be behind.
In a twin bill, the Cardinals faltered losing both games while the Cubs swept the Reds. Minneapolis and Columbus split their pair, and Milwaukee broke even with Toledo in yesterday's results.
Daily markets report in Chicago shows cattle 21,000 head with 15¢ drop and prices from 6.10 to 8.40 for beeves and 2.50 to 5.35 for stockers. Hogs total 31,000 with 10–20¢ gains,Prices range 5.90 to 6.45 for lights and 6.25 to 6.55 for heavies, pigs 4.75 to 4.65. Sheep 22,000 with 10–15¢ decline natives 2.75 to 4.75 and lambs 3.75 to 6.50.
Games today feature the American Association with Toledo at Milwaukee Indianapolis at St Paul Louisville at Kansas City and Columbus at Minneapolis. In the American League Washington at Philadelphia Boston at New York. The National League has Chicago at Cincinnati Pittsburg at St Louis Philadelphia at Boston and New York at Brooklyn.
New York stock market opened June 29 with slow trading and narrow price movements. Government bonds remained unchanged as leaders stayed near Saturday's closing levels.
Toledo edged Milwaukee 3 to 0 while Louisville lagged Kansas City 1 to 5. Minneapolis beat Columbus 4 to 3 and Indianapolis downed St Paul 5 to 2. Detroit routed Chicago 10 to 5, and Chicago lost 3 to 2 against Cincinnati. Pittsburg topped St Louis 6 to 3.
Kansas City cattle sale strong with 12 000 head and steers bringing 5.25 to 8 per cwt while stockers move 3 to 5.25. Hogs rise 10 to 15 cents to 6 to 6.20, pigs 4.50. Sheep run 8 000 head with lambs 5 to 6 and muttons 3.75 to 4.50.
Milwaukee 4 Louisville 1. Indianapolis 5 0 Minneapolis. Kansas City 6 1 Toledo. Detroit 1 St Louis 0. Cleveland 6 Chicago 3. New York 7 Boston 6. Philadelphia 6 Washington 0. Cincinnati 4 Chicago 1. Pittsburg 4 St Louis 1. Boston 4 Philadelphia 1. New York 4 5 Brooklyn 3 2.
New York June 29 market report shows dressed poultry prices for turkeys 12 to 17 cents and chickens 12 to 30 cents, ducks 8 to 14 cents, live geese 7 to 8 cents, ducks 11 to 12 cents, turkeys 2 cents. Butter at 22 12 cents, eggs 23 cents, cheese 13 14 cents.
The St. Louis Browns extended their AL lead by defeating Cleve land, while Detroit beat Chicago 10 to 5. St Louis Cardinals lost a doubleheader to Pittsburg 6-3 and 4-1. Chicago beat Cincinnati in both ends of a doubleheader. In the American Association the Brewers split with Toledo as Minneapolis swept Columbus. Louisville and Kansas City split, and Indianapolis and the Saints also split.
Baseball scores from St Louis and Chicago show Pittsburg and Cincinnati performances. Batteries listed include Reeves Hostetter Willis Phelps Higginbotham Bliss Camnitz Gibson Pfeister Kling Weimer Schle Campbell McLean and Reulbach.
In St Louis the St Louis team lost 13 to 4 to Cleveland with battery names Petty Dineen and Spencer Joss Thielman and Davidson. In Chicago the Chicago team lost 10 to 2 to Detroit with batteries Altrock Walsh Sul livan Shaw Mullin Summers and Schmidt.
A playful dialogue about a double negative from Bohemian Magazine shows a Grammar Teacher noting Mr Stuper’s refusals and his promise not to return. The exchange hinges on language rules and miscommunication.
Quoted prices from multiple vendors list flour sacks at 1.60 and 1.55 per sack, vegetables by the bunch or per unit, eggs at zero to small cents, butter and dairy around 25 to 28 cents, and a wide range of produce including cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, cantaloupes, strawberries, and melons. Poultry and meat prices appear with chickens, turkeys, ducks, and bacon in varied per pound or per piece terms.
Chicago traders weigh new wheat supplies against cautious demand as winter crop prospects remain average. Reports from Darlington and Maryland note strong harvests and weather benefiting corn and oats, while hogs and cattle trade mixed in Chicago notes. Prices pressured by plentiful surplus expectations and easing provisions markets.
Fresh supplies are arriving this week with no change to the prices of staple items. Burns reports heavy shipments expected next week, while strawberries rise slightly and corn jumps five cents per bushel.
A dense list of current market prices includes produce such as potatoes bananas oranges lemons onions plums home cherries and carrots. Quoted by several firms including J C Burns W W Cargill Co Listman Milling Co and Landdon Boyd Packing Co with figures for crates bushels and sacks across fruits vegetables grains and livestock.
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