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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1907
Page
9
I saw it in The Tribune. Several employment notices appear for trades and labor across Milwaukee and surrounding cities. Ads seek barber trainees, factory workers, messengers, carpenters, engineers, and general laborers with immediate openings and weekly wages. include Moler Barber College Chicago and other firms.
Multiple rental notices from The Tribune list units in La Crosse area. Rentals include a height room modern house at 137 South Eleventh with new phone 693-C, a nicely furnished front room at 801 Cass, front room city heat near the post office, furnished room at 32 North Ninth with new phone 229, furnished rooms at 122 South Seventh with city heat, and a five room house at 320 North Eighth. Also a former La Crosse Motor Car Co. building on Third Street for $20 per month, inquiry via J. E. Zimmer at Tanberg Auto Co.
Mrs Clyde Foster and children visit Viola parents D T Buchanan. J E Stoll returns from Viola. E W Hazen hosts bridge. G W Gerlach visits from Viola. Dell Morrison at La Crosse wife receiving hospital care. Edith Nixon assists in cloak dept at W F Lindermann Co. T Tollefson ill with pneumonia. Bessie Hoffland returns to Soldiers Grove after visit with Everson. H Trowbridge heads to Hayward for extended visit with son Dr Berthea Trowbridge. Ladies Congregational church Dutch market October 12 in Rice building with doughnuts sandwiches and coffee. Amelia Galstad and Hazel Shannon visit from Westby. Bessie Henthorn and Emma Hawkins of Viola visit. Elias Blihorde and daughter Neva from Westby shop. Ole Burnas and La Farge visit officials. Theodore Spelum visit La Crosse earlier week. S Jackson sells Decker street residence to L Glenn. A K Bort hosts M E Aid society. Henry Helgeson resigns grocery post at W F Lindemann Co and joins father in grain elevator.
An American audience greeted Charles Dickens with feverish enthusiasm as he prepared to read in Boston. Behind the platform, onlookers noted his ornate attire a highly decorated boutonniere on each lapel and two conspicuously displayed watches strung across his chest provoking comments that he was a petit maitre despite his celebrated genius and beloved characters Tiny Tim and Sam Weller.
Local market shows no price changes with tubers rot noted. Potatoes bring 50 cents per bushel while pickle pears fetch 70 cents per peck.creamery butter 33 cents per pound eggs twenty two cents per dozen. Grain and live stock quotes list various prices from Hawkey Exchange and Langdon Boyd packing alongside produce like peppers cucumbers and oranges.
A peasant plants potatoes to yield tenfold and tells his son to expect ten. The boy, thinking broadly, plants clocks umbrellas teapots boots and a tablecloth hoping for returns. The father punishes him for impractical planting, while the boy muses on soil differences and outcomes.
A brief dialogue from Life notes Clara and Maud at a dance. Clara recounts meeting Charlie Spooner in a crowded car and not offering a seat. Maud suggests he knew Clara had been sitting most of the evening.
A gentleman at a reception meets a charming lady his friend calls a countess. The next day in city offices they find her with a pile of bills, and the remark she is “one of the quickest countesses in the department” turns the moment into a dry humor tale.
Dialogues hint at danger in a coastal town. An elderly woman asks if people die often, and an old salt replies that fatalities occur only about once. The exchange implies a quiet, tense environment with subtle menace.
Chicago markets show wheat and corn mixed, with July wheat around 104 and corn near 60 in open trading. Liverpool reports higher opens for wheat and corn with modest gains, while Chicago receipts include 68 wheat, 233 corn, and 135 oats cars. Live stock at Chicago totals 17,000 hogs, 19,000 cattle, and 28,000 sheep with steady to higher trade.
The Brotherhood of Andrew and Phillip at the First Baptist church arranged a three lecture series over the next three months. Lecturers are Hon. H. R. Pattengill of Lansing Dr. C. H. Beale of Milwaukee and Dr. W. B. Riley of Minneapolis. All talks will be at the church auditorium.
The London Answers cautions against overthinking choices, noting that spending time on every item leads to repeated failure. It argues seven months spent pondering between shorthand or a language would hinder progress and that Fortune often punishes excessive thought as much as thoughtlessness.
What Is Sound explains that sound requires air to carry vibrations and an ear to perceive them. The Delineator notes a vacuum jar makes no sound despite motion, underscoring the need for medium and receiver in defining noise.
A quoted exchange from Lustige Blatter contrasts a husband who loves Alps majesty with a wife who favors the ocean and a daughter who adores majesty by itself, illustrating whims of taste in scenery.
A historical overview recounts the fourteenth century Black Death sweeping Europe, killing about 25,000,000 in three years. It tracks origins in Asia and Egypt, spread via armies, and disastrous impacts in Italy, France, and England including Naples, Pisa, Siena, Venice, Paris, and London. The piece notes persecutions of Jews, the Flagellants, and later outbreaks in London and Scotland, ending with a transition to modern times.
Daily timetable note indicating standard railroad schedules with a minor typographical error. Mentions special cases or exclusions in daily operations, likely referencing weekends or holidays. Reads as a fragment from a transportation column or notices page.
The Green Bay and Western Railroad promotes its network linking Green Bay Winona La Crosse Stevens Point Arané Rapids St Paul and Minneapolis with all points in the West and Northwest under General Manager J A Jordan.
The author recounts a crocodile encounter while tracking through dense growth from a lake toward the interior. A twelve foot crocodile surged into his path, knocking him aside, brushing his leg with its horny scales, then moved toward the water as his guide camera man got tangled in brambles and fell with legs in the air.
A brief, garbled OCR snippet discusses a girl who appears attractive. The text lacks clear names, dates, or events, leaving a partial sense of beauty norms reflected in the era's media portrayal.
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