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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
9
Save moving costs by selling unused attic and basement items through The Tribune Want Ads. Hundreds of La Crosse residents use the classifieds to buy and sell old furnishings, clothes, carpets, and more, turning junk into cash before you move.
Classified items list job bids services and sales from Moler Barber College to household goods and real estate. Entries include employment for trades, boarding house management, collectors, painters, a boy at a drug store, and military recruitment. plus numerous sale and rental notices for furniture appliances vehicles and real estate with locations like La Crosse Wisconsin and Wino na Minnesota.
Classified page itemizing rental and sale properties including a 2 story 7 room house with 2 lots at 1229 Farnam for 2900, 108x150 lot for 4500, a prime residence in best city location, 7500 modern residence with 2 lots and a factory building, store with double dwelling above, and other property notes. Also lost glasses and purse notices, tornado insurance rates, carpet cleaning and pickup, and a pasturing season opening notice at Hartley Farm Pastures with facilities and contact.
Norman New York reports the heated contest for New York mayor between Hearst and McClellan. The piece outlines the political stakes for the state and nation, questions recount viability, and notes McClellan’s governance while Hearst seeks a stronger platform for future runs. Over 500 witnesses testified, most saying ballots and boxes were not interfered with, with only minor discrepancies observed.
La Crosse Mortgage & Loan Co offers loans on furniture pianos horses wagons with no removal or publicity required at 322 Main Street upstairs. Also listing TABLE BOARD at 118 South 9th with a light business quip about a young man promising a dime to a sister.
Beloit leaders met Judge Grimm to discuss calling a grand jury to investigate alleged registration frauds in Beloit during the recent municipal election and to push a thorough examination of disorderly houses in Beloit and Janesville.
In Williamite, Conn., Alvin H. Stimpson credits Foley's Kidney Cure with his full recovery from acute kidney trouble after many failed remedies. He reports that four bottles cured him completely and he is now free from suffering. O. T. Erhart attests to the effectiveness.
Beloit Wis May 14 E H Smythe 66 a wealthy retired farmer with Neb property interests shot himself on a moving train at Davis Junction Ill while returning to Beloit from the west after acquiring new property through a relative's death.
Cattle slid about 10 with light receipts while hogs fell 5 to 10 cents and sheep weakened despite scarcity. Chicago bids show cattle $6.10 to $7.20, hogs $5.15 to $5.52, sheep $4.25 to $5.90, lambs $7.25 to $7.36. Kansas City lists steadier cattle and softer hogs with similar ranges. Chicago futures opened higher but settled near late losses as May and July contracts moved in narrow ranges.
Cattle see limited trading with yearling steers to 1.00 and Angus heifers at 6.90 while stockers and cutters weaken. Hogs bring up to 5.65 with many at 5.50 to 5.60. Sheep and lambs fall as shorn export wethers reach 5.20 and ewes at 6.00 to 6.25 amid thin business and large receipts. Horses remain in demand at 125 to 140 for standard mounts.
The local market lists hogs at 4.75 and 5.10, down from 5.00 to 5.25 amid Chicago declines. A spring flood year reference marks 1890s strength, while fruit and produce prices span cucumbers to pineapples with assorted per unit and per crate costs listed by vendors and mills.
New York May 14. Strength from yesterday carried into the open with broad advances in most issues of one to two points. Prices reached new highs as government bonds remained steady while other issues stayed strong and active.
New York May 14 poultry both live and dressed steady. Butter creamery 22c. Eggs nearby white 19c. Cheese creams 14c.
Wet weather delays corn planting though time remains. Winter wheat outlook steady. Dry spell desired in many areas. Oats thriving where seeded early. Chicago buyers consider declines in wheat with a break today. Sid Love selling September wheat.
Rose Tovey Doyle, while rummaging through rags in Stockton’s abandoned house, discovered $680 in bills and coins tied in an old sack believed to be hidden thirty years by her grandmother who previously lived there.
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