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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1925
Page
9
Fred Leithold Piano Co. offers a wide range of phonographs with price points from 14 to 225 dollars. Highlights include Victor sets at 25 35 50 75 and Edison machines at 135. The ad lists Columbia Mandel Sonora and Tillman models with deep discounts.
A varied small ads page lists for sale items including stanchions stalls water bowls gas engines cream separators and general household goods. Other entries mention air compressor air tank and vulcanizer items along with soft wood for sale kitchen wood and miscellaneous hardware and musical instruments like piano mandolin ukulele cornet and a dome electrical fixture with contact numbers and street addresses.
Radio bargains run ten days with prices for S-tube Miraco and Radiola models. Night Hawk and Crosley sets offered with tubes. used headphones and assorted furniture also listed. Addresses include 613 Market and 2116 Kane St. partial items and misc notes accompany the sale.
Multiple rental ads list furnished rooms with heat electric light and baths near downtown areas. Includes 1026 Winnebago 1128-A contact details, private family options, and multiple addresses 414 Liberty St 942 Vine 612 Cass 1608 Cass 2207-A listings plus board options and roommate requests between 1 and 3 occupants, with prices and phone numbers.
Local newspaper ads list Ford touring models from 35 dollars and up, Overland touring and Nash and Hupmobile cars at low prices, Velie sedan with new paint, batteries charged 50 cents, rental batteries, auto painting by Balzer's Paint Shop, storage rates 2.50 to 4 dollars per month, and two for sale Ford coupe and roadster with prices. Also a request for a competent stenographer with references.
Miscellaneous ads list Hansen Dray Line offering moving services and piano relocations. Includes furniture refinishing by Baizer's Paint Shop and packing storage by La Crosse Terminal Warehouse Co. Advertises piano lessons, dressmaking, magazine subscriptions, and house goods packing with multiple contact numbers.
SEWING MACHINES ALL MAKES repaired All parts on hand New and used machines sold Kathary and Mero Sewing Machine Shop 318 Pearl St Phone 670 RAGS PAPER iron metals sacks barrels etc Highest prices paid Phone us before selling 2293-M
A long reader notice lists multiple lost items and rewards including a beaded purse with checks at First National Bank La Crosse, an iron gate from a back fence, spare tire north of Onalaska, leather key case with State Bank ID, stolen blow torch and electrical material, a brown underarm bag, orange Parker fountain pen, eyeglasses near La Crosse theater, a spaniel named Buster, a Stamping and Tool Co. tag key, an arms blanket, a bicycle, a buck tan and white hound, eight dollars missing, and a young hound named Fronds with contact numbers and rewards for returns.
The Boyd Transfer & Storage Co. promotes reduced freight prices on household shipments to the Pacific Coast and other destinations. Details and particulars available from the company.
Court actions warn of foreclosure sale of the NE 33 acres in section 9 township 16 range 7 west and a December 1925 sale date. Also probate for Katherine Crew and Ottilie Finn estates, and bankruptcy proceedings for Wayne F. Potter with a November creditors meeting in Wausau.
Tom Peterson of Teller ventured across the icy Bering Sea in a small launch to fetch a doctor for Nome. With Nome’s physician unavailable, Peterson returned with medicines and care instructions, reaching Teller in time to save the sick woman’s life.
The latest silk-manufacturing machines surpass the human hand in sensing slight thread irregularities. They offer higher sensitivity to defects, enabling better quality control in textile production.
Ocean Johnnie Chapman of Los Angeles earns his nickname by guzzling forty three bottles in nineteen minutes breaking a soda pop drinking record. He reportedly quenched his thirst with a remarkable display of endurance and speed.
Superior Wisconsin F W Feidler chairman of the Wisconsin Grain and Warehouse commission announced a greatly reduced inspection fee schedule effective November 1. The plan matches Northwest service goals at lower prices and follows Minnesota’s new schedule which includes a protein test charge. Wisconsin fees for inspection and protein test total 75 cents versus Minnesota’s 1.50 dollars.
Wingold Flour per barrel listed at various prices with paper and cotton sacks. Butter and eggs quoted by Miller Rose Company, plus Jonathan apples, cranberries and citrus in boxes and barrels. Livestock values shown for cows, bulls, hogs and sheep with ranges. Prices reflect multiple vendors and items in a bundled market report.
Abbe Moreux, astronomer priest at Bourges, warns that winters will be extremely cold and summers unusually hot for the next few years. He states seasons will return to regularity almost forgotten today.
The piece traces how fly swatters and fans served luxury cooling across civilizations. It notes early Egyptian depictions of ornate fans and their church use in the Middle Ages to drive away flies, with cultural transmission from Japan to China in the seventh century. It mentions Watteau as a painter whose work conveys dialogue through gesture.
American railroads hold an estimated 6,000 locomotives in storage most of which are considered fit for service. Experts doubt that many are available for regular work due to modern trains demands and high speeds.
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