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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1907
Page
7
Help wanted notices list a barber college course shipboard tool training positions and wages. Various La Crosse firms seek clerks, teamsters, cooks, houseworkers, waitresses and other staff with dates and contact points.
A collection of sale notices includes boarding house goods at Box 1 Tri bune, two modern houses with barns at 1312 Caledonia, household furniture at Twenty fourth and Cass, Bonny Oak Heater at 516 West Ave North, cheap house and lot at 1419 South Heath Street, and a house with shop and five launches at 215 Fifth Street. E Hyland offers magnetic healing services at 535 Main Street with free consultation. A paternal quip about a father teaching division appears.
Real estate ads list multiple properties including 14 room brick house at 7900, 11 room modern brick houses at 4500 and 6500, double brick store with fine features, factory building, and 40 acres of farm land near a location described. Also notes 8 room modern house at 22 per month and several dwellings, with insurance and mill buildings handled by C. F. Klein.
WANTED driving horse between 1100 and 1200 pounds. Inquire 116 North Third Street. KRUEGER baggage and Draying at 420 Jackson. New phone 422 Green.
Cut rates on household goods to the Pacific Coast and other points advertise Superior service at reduced rates. The Boyd Transfer Co Minneapolis Minnesota also promotes fire insurance urging readers to secure tornado policies with C. Van Auken at 328 Pearl Street.
Advertisers offer ice cream at the Royal for two cents a quart. The note highlights a bargain price and product name within a local sales listing.
Stevens at 209 McMillan advertises money to loan on diamonds and valuables and offers buying services for such items.
Local notes list residents visiting relatives and guests from La Crosse La Crescent Lake City and Austin Minnesota. Mentions Peter Van Derzie building a large barn in Cramers Valley Ella Curtis staying with Mr and Mrs Nagie and several town callers including R C Stokes and Miss Belle Boyd. Also farm prices and provisions section with prices for eggs butter flour and various produce.
Miss Freda Newburg of La Crosse arrived in Cashton for several weeks. Miss Cora Mitby and Hazel Shannon of Westby visited Cashton. Grandle Hall conducts business in La Crosse. A Uselman hall dance featured Swasti a orchestra. music praised with plans for future Cashton dances. Rev Hedden accepted Congregational pastorate and song services draw crowds. Cashton High seniors buy a piano. public debate planned with Alumni. No local telephone service this week due to central move. service resumes soon.
A dour, angular woman mutters that no daughter of hers shall ever tread the stage, expressing pride in keeping her family away from public performance.
A reflective note asserts that the strongest remedy against a consuming love of worldly things lies in embracing the divine love of creation. The statement frames love of the transcendent as counterforce to attachment to the world.
Markets report continued price surges with mill feed up 100 and flour firms adding 20 cents. Untent and straight goods rise to 6.20 and 0.00 respectively. Feed gains 2 per ton with Kran 26 shorts 28 white middlings 30 and red dog 31. Cheese climbs again amid expectations of further increases while the vegetable market remains steady.
George F. Birch 24, a locomotive engineer, died in the Mesaba road wreck at the Mesaba ore dock approach. His fireman Frank Gospeter, 23, was fatally hurt in the same incident.
Out of sight and out of mind describes Bucklen's Arnica Salve which heals sores burns and wounds fast and even piles and chilblains. Guaranteed by O. T. Erhart Druggist at 25 cents.
The remark notes a consistent tilt toward higher moments in life, stressing the sense that progress often exceeds setbacks. It suggests a mindset focused on growth and resilience amid daily fluctuations.
Chicago delivery figures show wheat opening slightly higher with July and December contracts edging higher at close. Corn and oats exhibit mixed movements while receipts at Chicago rise for wheat and corn. hogs, cattle, and sheep counts listed for Northwestern markets with sizable totals.
In Caledonia Minnesota on October 15 a quarrel during a threshing near Freeburg left Thomas Welch gravely wounded by a pitchfork wielded by his father in law Albert Miller who died Friday. An inquest found Miller died of natural causes, not from the blows. Also noted is a Knights of Columbus Columbus anniversary banquet at Hundt's Opera House on October 12.
Minnesota and the Northwest experience barley booms as a brewery surge drives up grain prices, triggering a major industry downturn and widespread business failures. Farmers face higher costs while breweries struggle to balance supply and demand amid volatile markets.
In Mankato Minnesota on October 15 petitions were filed seeking involuntary bankruptcy declarations against the Mankato Malting Company and its president Oscar Bierbauer. Receivers were named, assets and liabilities cited, and liens noted as the plant’s crossfire between growing costs and sales contracts unfolds.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer extols Oklahoma’s expansive territory rivaling Ohio and Indiana, noting $800 million in taxable property and $38 million in bank deposits as signs of solid agricultural and industrial development. Rail networks, coal production, and 1.4 million acres set aside for schools underscore its rising prosperity and high moral tone.
The Boston Globe notes a radical flaw in nutrition schemes that claim health rests on minimal food. It argues health requires a surplus of energy to resist disease and cope with shocks, cautioning that under favorable conditions mere maintenance is insufficient. The piece also remarks that most amateur photographers show truth is stranger than fiction.
A speaker condemns men who justify wealth or influence by paying a preacher who pleases them. The remark mocks small men who overestimate their importance in modest, middle tier roles.
Graceville reports a hunting accident where Aloussius Frosina died after a gun discharged while he and Thomas Gallogly were in a boat attempting to retrieve a bird they had shot. The charge struck Frosina just to the right of the heart and he died almost instantly.
Waterloo bakeries abandon six loaves for 25 cents and will sell at 5 cents a loaf due to higher flour costs. Pies may rise 2 cents wholesale and retail. In other notes a 5 cent petrified salt sack was found in the Mississippi near Guttenberg. A Waterloo worker saved a trunk from a burning house and was badly burned. Barney Conway, convicted of manslaughter, is released after paying a $1,000 fine. William Stout pleads guilty to manslaughter. Remains of John Gerber arrive in Peham. Iron drilling may start in Dora township near Fergus Falls as Longyear firm holds lands. farmers hold options at $100 per acre.
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