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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1907
Page
15
An array of career listings and education pitches appears with notices for barber training at Moler Barber College in Chicago, wage details, and diplomas. Also seeks laborers, office work, sales agents, and many girl and boy help roles at La Crosse firms and local businesses including Steaming Laundry and clothing firms with location notes and contact streets.
Classified rental notices list eight room modern houses on various streets including South Eleventh Fourth and Eighth with inquiries at multiple addresses. Furnished rooms with steam heat at 801 Cass and 511 Main are offered along with a well improved Minnesota farm and a former La Crosse Motor Car Co. building for rent at Third Street. Prices range from eight dollars per month to twenty dollars and ninety cents monthly. contact details include new and old phone numbers and street addresses.
Wanted six or seven room house within four or five blocks of town equipped with city heating. Also seeking old feather beds for cash. Contact W C Piere or Krueger Baggage and Draying at 420 Jackson, new phone 6522 green. New phone 131R.
For sale a second hand wood furnace in first class condition offered by Mrs A M Brayton at 1122 Main Street La Crosse. New phone 814 C.
Numerous brief ads list items for sale including an ice box cupboard and stove, fur cape, Davenport, furniture, and two used cars. Lost items include a brown handbag at the fairgrounds and a pair of gold rimmed glasses. Also an agency advertises magnetic healing and loan services while a sensational crime item reports two young women stealing from households in New York.
Washington party scene to be recounted by Winfield Scott, descendant of Gen Winfield Scott, as he seeks divorce from Eda Scott. The case in Chicago involves allegations of flirtations and socialite involvement, with witnesses’ depositions filed and Mrs Scott denying all charges. George Hanniford of Chicago is named in relation to the alleged incident.
In Chicago at Moody church a Young People's Christian Temperance union rally lampooned President Roosevelt over a recent wine incident at the Jefferson hotel in St. Louis. Reverend A C Dixon led the attack, portraying the president as a large man who supposedly drank champagne in one gulp and smiled at friends.
The local hay market shows an advance of three dollars per ton with tame hay now at 15 to 16 dollars per ton and wild hay up one dollar to 9 or 10 dollars per ton. Some observers expect even higher prices this winter while the vegetable market remains stationary.
The Chicago markets section notes corn, wheat, and oats trading with mixed figures, including minor percentage changes and delivery references. Liverpool markets opened higher but closed unchanged. Northwestern receipts and Minneapolis data appear briefly, reflecting a subdued trading day.
Gladys Vanderbilt must convert to Catholicism before marrying Count Laszlo Szechenyi next month to have the union legally recognized in Austria. In Hungary the marriage will be valid and she would be titled countess, but Austrian legitimacy hinges on her faith. The Vienna aristocracy views the conversion as essential to the alliance.
Mrs Tillie Ahrens wife of Carl Ahrens of 311 North Third street died today at noon after a long illness of consumption. She was 29 and leaves four children, an aged father, a sister and brother. Funeral Monday at 2 30 from home with interment in Oak Grove cemetery. Rev Gamm officiates. Mrs Theo Mannstedt in charge.
Thomas Duggan and R. C. Oxley fight for twenty minutes using about seventy five pies in Martin's bakery Indiana Harbor after a steel mill dispute. Duggan slams a pie into Oxley ear. Oxley counters with a mince pie. Police arrest both as the bakery runs dry.
Representative John J. Esch leaves at noon for Superior Wisconsin to headline German day exercises focusing on the German race in U S history. Louis G Bomrich of Milwaukee, once a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, will be the other speaker. Esch notes the 224th anniversary of Germantown first German colony landing and says services are nationwide. He will visit Eau Claire on return to La Crosse to address several matters.
James B. Duke, head of the tobacco trust, has given Mrs. Duke a flawless necklace costing $200,000 after a global hunt in America and Europe. The set includes a dog collar necklace and looping jewel strands designed to drape over the shoulders, with pearls from pea to hazelnut sizes.
A concise observation notes that many women yield to their children’s demands while resisting their husbands when they attempt to impose sexual advances, reflecting social and marital dynamics.
A reflective line suggests that enjoyment of life declines when one becomes too respectable, and that children and fools speak truth, monopolizing conversation. it notes that fame does not guarantee wealth, as many gain a comfortable living in silence.
Captain August Richter of the Kranzprinz Wilhelm, warned by a heavenly vision to quit seafaring, retires after the ship's iceberg collision earlier this summer. His brother Merman did the same twenty years ago after also striking an iceberg, prompting similar resignation. The Kranzprinz Wilhelm returned to New York under Captain R. Nierich, while Richter was absent.
In Baker City Oregon on October 5 authorities pursue three men linked to a bomb assassination of Harvey K. Brown. A witness places two men and a supposed woman near the scene before the explosion while a man who bought a large kimono may have posed as a woman.
The La Crosse La Crosse river bridge area faces winter ice jams risking the structure. A steel span will be installed with about one hundred cars of stone and gravel dumped to form a solid foundation for a bridge support. Work begins once foundations are prepared and La Crosse Street Railway may install a steel span soon.
A reflective note on limited human knowledge and social attitudes. The speaker jests that no one truly masters all knowledge and, with humor, critiques prosperity and its pressures. The contrast between comfort and odor underscores everyday absurdities.
The Green Bay and Western Railway advertises extensive routes from Green Bay to Winona La Crosse Stevens Point Grand Rapids St Paul Minneapolis and western points. J A Jordan general manager highlights connections to New York Boston Philadelphia Washington Buffalo Detroit Toledo and car ferries on Lake Michigan with W C Modisett serving as freight and passenger agent.
Fragmentary OCR shows scattered notes on arrivals and departures at a depot. Text hints at daily and Sunday service differences but lacks full details.
Walter Wellman, leader of the Wellman Chicago Record-Herald Arctic expedition, reached Paris from Norway and will depart for Chicago via New York in a fortnight. He says the America dirigible’s Spitzbergen performance boosts confidence in reaching the pole by airship.
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