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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1907
Page
7
Daily market report from Black River Falls notes a very light cranberry crop and scarce pickers. Prices for butter, eggs, flour, and various produce are listed from local processors and merchants, with widespread market steadiness and notable entries for cranberries at the quoted stalls.
Judges modify an injunction on voting shares held by Union Pacific Railroad Railroad Securities Co New Jersey and Mutual Life Insurance NY. Mr Fish gains a vote handicap of 286732, requiring Harriman supporters to outvote him by that margin to influence any motion. Compromise reached after long arguments between Cromwell and Judge Farrar ending the dispute.
Help Wanted notices from La Crosse and Chicago list barber training factory laborers messenger boys stenographers house help and more. Entries urge applications at local offices and firms including Moler Barber College Chicago Michel’s Bottling Groff & Derr Construction North American Telegraph Co La Crosse Cracker & Candy Co Pamperin Cigar Co Funke Candy Co and Cameron House with several room and domestic help posts.
High class boarding with household goods. Box 1 Tri bune. Two modern houses with barns. Enquire 1312 Caledonia. Household furniture cheap. Twenty fourth and Cass. Nine room house plus lot and sewing machine. 315 North Tenth Street. Cheap house and lot. 1419 South Eighth Street. House, lot, shop and five launches. leaving city. Call 215 Fifth Street. Brick machinery for brickyard. engines and equipment. former Sherwood Johnson. Johnson and Baker Dresbach Minnesota.
An ad reads BCHICK & ROTH A Batavian Bank Building. Telephone 290 and a remark to say ay saw it in The Tribune.
A clipped fragment notes a man driving a horse with no water and a quip that he rarely forgets beer for himself. The text is incomplete and provides no clear event, date, or identifiable organization.
The Nebraska state railway commission limited passenger trains on the Missouri Pacific to 25 mph, fast freights to 20 mph, and heavy freights to 15 mph after a safety inspection. Commissioner Joseph A. Williams urged ballast, new ties, heavy rails, and drainage be completed before speed limits are lifted.
Indications arise that President Roosevelt seeks the removal of another Mississippi River pilot and questions the pilot’s license. Charges have been filed against Capt. Mark Cole of the steamer Jack Fowler, echoing the Nicholls case. Commander Von Duzer, in charge of the Lily, is named in the charges.
Rostand, the French playwright, remained in critical condition in Bayonne on October 16 after an appendicitis operation. He has been restless and his overall state continues to be worrisome despite the procedure.
A concise line notes the absence of wedding presents in heaven, framing a whimsical or poetic observation about heavenly customs and expectations without asserting a formal event or assurance.
Open high low and close figures for Wheat Corn and Oats at Chicago and Liverpool markets. Wheat and Corn show varied gains and losses with July December and May contracts. North Western receipts and Chicago live stock figures list hogs cattle and sheep counts for the day.
Lexington figures report the state racing commission grants Latonia Jockey Club 16 racing days from Oct 16 to Nov 2 amid a shift away from gambling. Louisville Jockey Club meeting canceled after Sheriff Litt’s ban on betting. commission insists licensed associations must not recognize gambling during granted meetings.
At the Master Horseshoers Protective association annual session in Peoria Illinois on October 16 officials report a looming shortage of skilled horseshoers. Apprentices total thirty in Wisconsin and twenty five in Michigan while prosperity fuels demand. A resolution targets catalogue houses selling supplies to all applicants and a committee will press rubber pad makers to refuse sales to such houses.
Next Sunday October 20 the German Evangelist Lutheran church at West and Cameron avenues will hold its annual mission festival with three services at 10 a m 2 30 p m and 7 30 p m The morning sermon will be by Rev O Koch Columbus Wis the afternoon by Rev R Siegler Barre Mills and the evening by Rev W Nommiensen Mauston Wis English language service in the evening Choirs will provide music Prof O Frey will play the organ and Rev J Gamm will conduct the services A cordial invitation is extended to all.
A Brooklyn preparatory school instructor notes that teaching stimulates discovery. He recounts asking a student to explain the difference between animal instinct and human intelligence. The student answered that instinct would remove the need to learn, but humans rely on reason and must study themselves to avoid folly.
A compact reflection on how theories lose value when not aligned with facts and how amateurs often intensify the critique professionals face. The text argues that practical fit over theory strengthens credibility and limits verbal excess.
Mrs D Sarensen and her children were hosted at their Wood street home, with a luncheon and gifts of silverware to honor her departure to Pain Bluffs Arkansas to visit her husband and father. Numerous Trinity church members and friends attended. other Trinity events followed at Mrs E Stindahl’s and a Young Peoples’ society gathering hosted by Misses Elizabeth and Inger Sovde.
Brig. Gen. Edgeley Maj. Willcox and Capts Michie and Shelton U S A arrived in London after attending German maneuvers and were entertained by Capt Cleoman American military attache at the United Service club. Distinguished British officers met the American group. Capt John H Gibbons naval attache also attended.
The ladies of Lutheran Trinity church Avon street will serve a supper in the new church basement Tuesday evening the 29th. The festival committee was appointed: Mrs Christ Hammersberg Mrs Ed Knudsen Mrs E Stendahl Mrs Gina Johnson Miss Emma Ruud Mrs Ed Drake and Mrs A Olson.
The state department designated Algernon Sartoris of the District of Columbia to be secretary of the legation at Montevideo. Sartoris is the grandson of President Grant.
Autograph letters from Edmund Kean show actor salaries in the early nineteenth century. A offer by Ellison paid Kean £3 a week as acting manager of a new theater in Wrygh Street, rising to £25 a month. In 1826 he was offered $12,000 yearly to go to America, and at Edinburgh he earned £200 weekly. The peak was £50 a night in Dublin and Cork as Bunn wrote from Theater Royal on February 8, 1829.
Naturalists describe extinct saber toothed cats as a dominant fossil group dating to early North American times. The hairy mammoth lived with humans and other megafauna, sharing ranges from the late Eocene to late Pleistocene with elongated canines and distinctive jaw adaptations.
The Grand Trunk road across India runs 1200 miles from Lahore to Calcutta. It is level with minimal need to dismount, built on hard smooth kunker, dust free and uniformly flat. Majectic trees line nearly the entire route as travelers report riding at fifteen miles per hour in April and May with little heat discomfort.
The poet Samuel Coleridge, famed for The Ancient Mariner, rode a turnpike in Durham when a wag teased him about a tailor and a goose. Coleridge replied dryly that he perhaps met a tailor, then pondered the remark as his horse moved on.
A lighthearted quip frames a social contrast as a pessimist notes that a woman learning to swim is more awkward than a man learning to dance. The remark reflects playful gendered expectations without reporting any event or person.
New York October 15 Pasquale Rosalia an Italian faced Magistrate Steers in Brooklyn Fifth Avenue court after chopping a small Dyker park cherry tree for firewood He admitted the act and was fined ten dollars Rosalia protested saying the tree was treated unfairly while another unnamed man claimed he did not tell a lie and was rewarded.
A Scottish tourist in London spots a bald chemist and asks about a hair restorer. The chemist touts instant results with testimonials, claiming hair will grow in twenty four hours. The Scot retorts he will rub the top and return to verify in the morning.
A San Francisco paper recalls Richard Harding Davis noting reporters face snubs from a crusty bank president who refused an interview after a defalcation. Jimmy Patterson challenged the man about the cashier's haul, prompting the quip about minding his own business.
In Grand Rapids Minnesota region black bears are reportedly seen more often about ten miles southwest, with numbers higher than usual. Hunters have failed to bring them in, signaling an unusual uptick in bear activity this season.
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