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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1908
Page
9
Classified ads show numerous employment requests from a barbershop, hotel and confectionery firms to cooks chocolate dippers and press workers. Real estate and sale notices list houses, land, stores, a livery business, and a mill site for sale in La Crosse Wisconsin with contact details.
Tornado insurance quoted at 4.00 per thousand for three years and 6.00 per thousand for five years. An ad for loans on furniture, planes, horses and ragons notes no removal and no publicity. La Crosse Mortgage & Loan Co. lists 323 Miami street upstairs and contact C A Van Auken at 328 Pearl St.
An old advertisement touts a remedy rivaling H. W. Barker's cough cure and promotes Runckel's Drug Store as the source for treatment.
Smith County Kansas real estate listing boasts alfalfa corn and bumper crops with land bargains from Hobbs and Detwiler. Also notices seeking a 6 to 8 room cottage in Minneapolis Minnesota and a student seeking board. Jewelry sales pitch from Essex Jewelry Co. seeks agents for gold rings. Saloon business for sale in Tribune area. Wallpaper cleaning service advertises free demonstration in La Crosse area.
Guy Rasor appeared in Medina court charged with the murder of Orie Lee near Wadsworth on Thursday. The prosecution will rely on autopsy findings and Rasor’s unexplained alibi for the night of the killing.
Aylward denounces the Free Press as Stephenson’s tool and defends his stance on the Wisconsin primary law. He cites his voting record on railway fares, asserts no lobbying in the legislature, and claims to support a state commission over utilities while criticizing press bias.
Wisconsin Secretary of State warns Auto Rapid Transit Co Booth Manufacturing Co Egg Carton Manufacturing Co Empire Butchers Association Horne Co La Crosse Conservatory of Music North Side Land Partridge Cigar Co and others that they failed to file annual reports under Chapter 562 of 1907. Corporate rights will be forfeited January 1 1909 if reports are not filed and forfeiture fees and publication costs paid. Dated October 12 1908.
The twenty third annual convention of the Brotherhood of St Andrew will be held in Milwaukee from October 14 to 18 marking the largest Episcopal church gathering in the region. The preceding Milwaukee diocesan council meets October 13 and 14 attracting clergy and lay leaders from over half of Wisconsin.
Chicago October 13 The court conferred and delayed ruling in the twenty nine million Standard Oil suit due to press of business. A decision on the government petition to rehear may come late in the week with options to grant rehearing or remand for retrial. If adverse, Sims may seek Supreme Court review by writ of certiorari.
Henry Fisher was found not guilty by a jury in Judge Brindley's court yesterday afternoon. He was charged with assault and battery against Charles Nichols, a farmer near West Salem.
Market remains quiet with small shifts in livestock and provisions. Lambs quoted at 3.00 to 4.00 dollars, lard up to 13 and 14 cents, dried beef 20 to 22 cents, hams down to 13 cents.
A vintage listing shows prices for dairy goods such as butter eggs and cream, and a wide range of produce including Hubbard squash onions cabbage potatoes peppers tomatoes grapes pears and more. Also listed are fish like pickerel trout herring halibut and salmon with per pound or per item rates from multiple sellers.
In early New York trading on October 13 the stock market broadened with renewed strength in several issues not part of recent gains. Union Pacific and Gould stocks led the active transactions while government bonds held steady and other issues remained firm.
New York market update shows dressed and live poultry unchanged. Butter creamery extra at 32 1-2 cents per pound. Eggs nearby white fancy 36 to 37 cents, fresh firsts 24 to 26 cents. Cheese full cream specials 13 1/2 to 14 cents, skims 10 1/2 cents.
Chicago livestock had 8 000 cattle steady with beeves 4 75 to 7 40 and stockers 2 60 to 4 50. Hogs were 20 000 down 15 cents with light 5 30 to 5 90 heavy 5 80 to 6 25 and pigs 3 to 5 15. Sheep 16 000 steady natives 2 75 to 4 50 lambs 4 to 5 90.
Cattle receipts reach 20000 with strong steer prices from 4.75 to 7.35 and stockers 2.75 to 4.75. Hogs at 20000 head trade 10 cents lower with bulk from 5.50 to 6.05 and pigs 4 to 5.25. Sheep and lambs slow with 10000 head steady. muttons 3.60 to 4.20 and lambs 4.25 to 5.90.
A new reading room at the high school will house current periodicals and be accessible during school hours only to students with an average of 85 or better in all subjects for the prior five week period. From 8:40 to 9 AM and for a half hour after dismissal, all students may use it.
A conductor named Kenyon was injured while stepping off a train at Marshland on Monday morning after hunting with a friend. He received medical treatment for non life threatening wounds and is expected to be laid up for some time.
The merchants' association adopted a resolution to prosecute city officials blamed for the cholera epidemic. They allege lax enforcement of sanitary regulations and tie the action to the postponement of the fete week for the fleet.
Indianapolis daily notes 92 counties will delay local option elections past the presidential vote. The anti saloon league organizes thousands of dry clubs to push prohibition efforts in the interim.
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