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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1908
Page
11
A guide urges spending time on an old trunk to uncover profitable items. Don’t discard out of date clothing as someone will buy it. Selling usable books magazines and even torn covers can yield value. Gather items, then place a Tribune want ad to find buyers.
Classified items show求人 for men to learn barber trade with instant practice and equipment. Notices seek Army applicants 21 to 40, English literacy, and temperate habits. locations include Hotel Grand La Crosse Sts. Also multiple sale listings for furniture, hous es, lumber, and real estate. rentals and job ads. lost and found notes. small-town classifieds with various addresses and names. later a fashion line remark about women dressing to provoke envy.
Summer special offers for teachers at La Crosse School of Music include free piano practice for out of town students and low terms for beginners and children. Call or write today at 209 So. 5th St.
Tornado insurance rates offered at four dollars per thousand for three years and six dollars per thousand for five years. Carpet services include taken up cleaned relaid with satisfaction guaranteed. Oriental Rug Co. and La Crosse Mortgage & Loan Co advertise services from La Crosse Wisconsin, with contact details and endorsements.
Advertising list shows charter rates and dates through F J Fugina of Fountain City Wisconsin. Also notes shoe repairs by E Anderson at 932 Caledonia Street, Newphone 761M. Painting services offered by Christian Schmidt at 530 Berlin Street with old phone 3411. Also mentions discounted household goods shipping by The Ad Transfer Co Minneapolis Minnesota. An ice cream cone business opportunity from Chas Mechel & Co Milwaukee promising up to 31 dollars daily.
Reed Allen Realty Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes Panhandle Texas as a land of opportunity. The notice invites buyers to discuss farm land, offers to pay travel fare to inspect properties, and lists rental and sale ads including a 2 story 7 room house, several lots, a fine Main Street property, and a 120 acre farm near Sa GOOds.
When planning a picnic excursion boating party or any event with a potential photograph this service invites calls to 8504 or 8751 to arrange attendance by Wright or Erling at no charge for their time customers only pay for the pictures they want postcard views available in any size and at the finest standard of work with prompt attention to all calls and arrangements.
A Los Angeles Times item notes Egyptian superstition as a newborn is not viewed until the seventh day and is carried in a sieve through the house amid lighted tapers. The ritual includes a sun exposure to test the infant, a sugar cane christening by the cadi, and the name given by the cadi. Also includes a brief exchange joke about kissing a lobster.
Cardinals edge Cubs 4 3 in 11 innings with Raymond delivering a key hit in the eleventh scoring Gilbert. Konetche added a single in five at bats and contributed fourteen putouts three assists and two double plays. New York topped Brooklyn 1 0. Reds beat Pittsburg. Philadelphia shut out Boston. In AL New York and Philadelphia split a double header. Browns blanked Cleveland. Boston dropped both ends to Washington. In the American Association Columbus beat Toledo Louisville defeated Indianapolis and St Paul beat Kansas City.
Baying scores and lineups show Batteries-Mathewson Needham Rucker Bergen in Brooklyn game. St Louis hosts Chicago with Lundgren Brown De Karger and Lud YY? Philadelphia battles Boston as Young Ferguson power Bowerman Graham McQuillen Dooin and Jacklitsch lead Phillies. Pittsburg meets Cincinnati with Campbell Schlei Willis Gibson as battery pairs. Cleveland stymies St Louis thanks to Powell Spencer Chech Clark. New York splits with Philadelphia in two games led by Vickers Schreck Manning Kleinow and Schlitzer Powers Lake Klein Blair. Washington defeats Boston then loses as Keeley Street Morgan Criger and Donahue Glaze pace the series.
In Kansas City Kansas City defeated St Paul 10 to 7 with Batteries Goodwin Egan Sullivan Teal Meyers. Louisville beat Indianapolis 10 to 4 Batteries Puttmann Hughes Eubanks Marquard Hawley. Columbus defeated Toledo 72 to 1 Batteries Rogers Fohi Bells Land.
Professor N. E. Hansen of the U S Agricultural Department talks with Tribune about alfalfa's promise to enrich the western states and conquer the American desert. He leaves today on a fourth tour of Russia to find new alfalfa varieties and grasses, hoping to boost land values and cattle feeding.
Portland May 30 A $10,000 fine the maximum under law will be imposed on George Fred Terry proprietor of the Waterville mail order publishing house who was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government of postage This case marks the first prosecuted under the post office department ruling defining second class mail matter.
In Chicago on May 30 rumors of an Italian secret society plotting dynamite at the Dante school on Ewing and Desplaines streets caused a panic among 1700 pupils. About 600 fled, many were knocked down or bruised, but no serious injuries reported.
A Bohemian excerpt notes most models do not get made but happen. Women posing for livelihood often find early recognition, then return for work. The piece rejects the notion that artists’ models are richly paid or depraved, citing first class models earning eight dollars daily for six hours and noting photographic models have shorter hours and higher rates.
Local markets show little business as heavy rains delay corn planting and slow farm activity. The note lists prices for cucumbers to pineapples, various produce, grains, livestock, and dairy from multiple regional sources, reflecting a broad wartime era grocery ledger with items like apples, oranges, cabbage, corn, hay, and butter priced per unit or per ton.
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