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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1908
Page
9
If you cannot find a buyer for a party or item you want to sell, compile a list of your available goods and place it in the Want Columns yourself. Start by reviewing the Want Ads for insight and tone.
Classified notices list multiple job and sale items including WANTED canvassers at Northwestern Hotel with $2.00 per day plus commission and older firm Fabric Implement Co. Also numerous FOR SALE and FOR RENT postings across La Crosse locating properties vehicles and household goods from addresses on Farnam St Main St and State St with various room counts and amenities.
A brief quotation notes a woman preserves her old love letters not for utility but for memory, implying their emotional value outweighs practical use. The line suggests sentimentality over practicality in handling past romances.
A family seeks a 6 to 7 room house with a large lot and July 15 possession. Also a young man is offered training to make half tones and zine etchings for 100 dollars with potential 20 to 30 dollars weekly after learning.
For sale five acres garden land with buildings on macadam street in city limits priced around 3000. A two story seven room house with two lots at 1229 Farnam offers 2900. A 150 lot property described as very desirable priced 4000. Two lots with fine buildings 108x, one residence 7500. A lot with two large dwellings and modern amenities except furnace. 58h shows multiple parcels and an open listing for 120 acre farm ten miles away. Main thoroughfare property 50x172 with large brick residence and smaller frame dwelling listed at 5000. F Klein Insurance and Money to Loan at 208 McMillan Bldg. Prices noted: 3000 2900 4000 7500 5000 7150.
A woman explains her belief that packing fur niture in bedquilts can make anything perfectly safe, noting quilts as a universal protective method.
Special in Machinery One 20 H. P. and one 50 H. P. slide valve engines. One 36 inch substantial power driven paper cutter, boilers, pulleys, shafting, pipe, flues, belting, water tanks. We buy sell or exchange. High est prices paid for scrap iron or metals. Call at once La Crosse Scrap Iron and Metal Co. 430 La Crosse Street. Both phones.
In the Western District of Wisconsin a bankruptcy sale is set for July 10 1998 at 2 PM at the Partridge Cigar Company factory 113 Main Street La Crosse Wisconsin. Trustee A E Bleekman will auction desks chairs a safe typewriter office furniture cigar factory equipment and related personal property to the highest cash bidder subject to court approval.
The La Crosse Rubber Mills Company seeks court approval to vacate a portion of Wachter's Addition in La Crosse County Wisconsin The vacation targets land west of the alley on block nine and would be heard at the La Crosse Circuit Court’s general term starting September 8 1908 The petition is filed with the La Crosse County Register of Deeds
State of Wisconsin probate notice from La Crosse County Court for the estate of Katherine Moran late of La Crosse. Letters of administration granted to John F. Doherty. Creditors have six months from June 22 1908 to present claims for examination and allowance. Court to examine January 5 1999 at 19:00 in La Crosse Court House. By the Court, John Brindley County Judge.
The Committee on Buildings and Grounds of La Crosse County invites sealed bids for two hundred tons of smokeless coal lump egg or run of mine to be delivered at the County Court House and County Jail during winter 1908 1909. Bids due July 7 at 2 30 p m at the County Clerk office. The committee may reject any or all bids. W F Baker J C Swan W G Garber.
Washington reports that reformers in the Philippines failed to gain traction as the first island assembly rejected a ban on horse racing and blocked attempts to curb cockfighting and the import of playing cards. The scene drew protests from American women and Spanish authorities while 2,500 Filipinos opposed exploitation of vice.
Weather bureau past thirty five year figures give July climate hints for farmers. Normal July temperature 73 degrees, extremes include 104 degrees in 1901 and 46 degrees in 1895. Precipitation averages 4.17 inches with record 11.03 inches in 1883. Winds from the south average 6.1 mph.
Cattle numbers 2 500, beeves 6.10 to 8.40, stockers 2.50 to 5.35. Hogs 14 000, gains 10 to 15 cents. light 6.00 to 6.55, heavy 6.10 to 6.65, pigs 4.85 to 5.80. Sheep 14 000, natives 2.75 to 4.75, lambs 3.75 to 6.50. New York stocks show fractional gains and declines after a moderate supply with government bonds unchanged.
New York prices show poultry quiet at market. Butter sells at 22 cents per unit, eggs at 23 cents, cheese at 13 cents.
Kansas City market totals show cattle at 13 000 head down 10 cents with steers 5 to 38 and stockers 3 to 4 3/4. Hogs 16 000 up 5 cents bulk 6.10 to 6.25 pigs 4 1/2 to 5. Sheep 8 000 down 10 cents with muttons 3 60 to 4 25 lambs 4 75 to 6.
Market notes show Paris wheat 2c to 4c lower, Berlin and Budapest wheat down, Buenos Ayres holiday. Bradstreets data detail declines in U S and Canada grain, Europe stocks and cargoes, with corn up and oats down. Prices on vegetables and dairy vary, with butter at 28c per lb and various per unit quotes for produce and poultry from multiple shippers.
In Neenah Wisconsin on June 30 a wedding happened at a dying mother’s bedside. Miss Eleanor Miller wed Geo Sherman at 8 PM Sunday as the Rev Reichert officiated. The bride’s mother Mrs Miller died at 3 AM Monday after expressing a wish to witness the marriage.
Bennet and Schick Roth did not submit any sketches as the school boards refused to hire an expert adviser. Parkinson and Dockendorf submitted their plans this morning, bringing total submissions to three. Two of the sketches are from outside the city. No selection has been made.
Circuit Judge Craig directed the jury to acquit Andrew Withlow a Black man charged with wearing the Independent Order of Red Men emblem while not a member. The court ruled the prosecution failed to prove the emblem was official or restricted to members.
In Carnegie Library Park Waukesha Wisconsin Mike Regan 50 a longtime Bethesda Spring bottling works foreman unmarried killed himself with a firearm near a park bench Evelyn Lamb and Marguerite Laughlin both 15 were nearby hearing the shots and mistaking them for Fourth of July preliminaries Regan lived with his widowed mother at 204 East St Paul Avenue
Tommy confronts his father asking why the box of cigars remains hidden, and the father answers with a cautious yes and a demand for trust, implying tension between piety and secrecy within the household.
Wheat traders after hours note excess bullishness among local professionals who are heavily long but cash out on small bulges. Other traders hesitate to follow, fearing these traders would unload their long positions. Ware Leland favors buying Sept wheat at current price and on any setbacks.
William Jones of Dakota markets two hogs in the city yesterday. Thomas Burns of Pine Creek sold three cows and two loads of hogs on Monday. Golden Turnbull from Pine Creek Valley brought two cows. Frank Schneedecker sent two hogs from Bush Valley Monday to Langdon & Boyd. Frank Breidel of La Crosse Ridge brought a load of hay yesterday. August Jacobs of South Ridge sold a cow Monday morning. Taylor Eden of Pine Creek sold three hogs to local dealers yesterday. Frank Seals delivered a load of sheep from Dakota Valley to a local butcher. John Hammer of South Ridge sold a load of hogs to a La Crosse buyer yesterday. Frank Jungen of Chipmunk Coulee sold a load of hay in town. George Hughes delivered 26 bales of hay from Brownsville to town on Monday. August Anderson brought a hay load from La Crescent and marketed it in town. Frank Stark of Chipmunk Coulee marketed a load of hogs yesterday and reports crops as fine in his district.
A remark notes the discouraging effect when a man acts gallant in public to his wife and she responds as if unaccustomed to such behavior. The quote underscores social expectations of decorum in private versus public displays.
Miss Ada Henry and Miss Anna Fry of Orangeville near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, aided by quick wits arrested an alleged burglar yesterday. The women fainted when the handcuffs went on, overcome by the strain of their successful discovery and pursuit.
Local markets report changes in fruit quotes with Bananas up 5c and strawberries at 15c per quart. Oranges steady near 40c, and Langdon and Boyd livestock show declines of 25 to 50c on steers and cows. New fruit cars expected this week while existing fruit prices stay largely stationary.
An archival price list shows wholesale figures for fruits vegetables and staples. Items include Onions Cabbage Strawberries Persimmons Cucumbers apples peaches lemons and bananas with per crate or per bushel pricing, plus feed flour and grain rates and livestock values from multiple suppliers.
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