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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1908
Page
11
Cluster of recruitment and job notices from Tribune listing male arene barber college trainees sailors and general laborers. Includes driving hand stable tasks, nurses and cooks, teamsters, a woodworker, and shop helpers with pay details and contact at Tribune Office and local addresses.
City flats with heating water included at 612 King Street 5 to 7 rooms priced 25 to 28 dollars. Room houses brick houses and a 7 room modern residence on Cameron ILS near Park Store. A 5.0 chatle hotel and other flats in best city locations. For sale a fine West Avenue residence and various city properties. A small confectionery store in prime location for 300 dollars. 208 McMillan Building La Crosse Wis.
Nickerson loudly praises a man who can say no and challenges an offer with a retort. Tightwad invites a drink, prompting a sharp exchange captured in a Boston Tran script excerpt.
A social note describes a grass widow who uses charm to reel in a wealthy older bachelor. The scene hints at romance and financial stakes within a club setting, reflecting era manners and courtship dynamics.
For sale a house with eight rooms and all modern conveniences plus a good barn and 70 feet street front at 224 North Seventh Street. Cheap if sold by October 15. Apply on the premises to Alfred James or J. H. Lightbody, 325 Main Street.
Choice relinquishments offered in Butte County South Dakota for general farming and stock raising in a healthful valley with good water and coal. Prices from 350 dollars. Opportunity to own a farm and home. Information via Frank G. Roth La Crosse Wisconsin or Peter A. Sattler Daviston South Dakota via Hettinger Stage Line.
A. B. Moll at 533 Main St in La Crosse becomes distributing agent for Eugene Christian Life Foods. Christian, based in New York, promotes diet over drugs and says proper natural foods cure many illnesses with fresh air exercise and sunshine. A branch is opened to meet growing demand and customers may contact Mr Christian at 7 East 41st Street NY for dietary advice.
The town welcomes the farce Brown's in Town presented Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 24 and 25, at the La Crosse theater. The plot centers on a secret marriage and a father whose past matrimonial history adds tension. The cast promises strong farcical timing and lively performances from capable actors.
Dr F Blakeslee Beltrams county health officer wired and pad locked all wells in Nymore one mile southeast of Bemidji as an diphtheria outbreak grows. Twenty four men and seven women from Nymore are in St Anthony's hospital with the disease and some cases remain in the village. Water samples were sent to the state bacteriologist to determine wells to condemn.
Clyde Fitch's comedy Girls, in its second year at Daly's New York, moves to La Crose theatre soon. The play uses clean humor to explore women and men relations through three independent-minded misses who eventually surrender to natural fate, with sharp lines and strong production by the Shuberts. Seats go on sale soon.
A married man is accused of neglect if he allows any family member to use any remedy other than Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung trouble. The genuine product contains no opiates and comes in a yellow package. O. T. Erhart.
A friend active in many societies often left her child with his grandmother. The boy, lonely without his mother, pleaded as she prepared to depart, asking her not to go and to stop being a clubber, urging her to become a mamma.
Daily markets show activity muted with few changes. Eggs rise to 27 cents, while overall prices remain steady as fall farm work continues and weather favors operations.
A dense list of prices for fruits vegetables and meats from several vendors. Items include bananas oranges lemons apples peaches pears grapes tomatoes cabbage cucumbers lettuce peppers mushrooms cantaloupes and more with per dozen per basket per peck and per pound rates. Also notes quotations from Listman Milling Co A B Moll and H M Sieger.
Chicago markets show steady beeves and mixed hogs with hogs at 5.20 to 6.07 for heavy and 5.60 to 6.07 for general. Cattle steady with steers 4.75 to 7.50, stockers 2.70 to 4.65. Kansas City reports cattle steady, steers 4.75 to 7.50, hogs 5.20 to 5.80, pigs 3.75 to 5.00, muttons 3.80 to 4.25, lambs 4.50 to 5.75.
Chicago markets show wheat quotes with day open high low and close data across months. October trades at 100 100 98 99 percent, November 63 percent, December 48 percent, reflecting varied demand and hedging activity in the grains pit.
New York trading opened on October 17 with fresh Balkan political disturbances weighing on prices. London selling dominated early trading as most issues slipped about one point while government bonds held steady and other bonds moved irregularly.
Hon Clarence A. Buskirk of St. Louis Mo lectures on Christian Science in the city October 23. He hails from Friendship New York and is a University of Michigan graduate who practiced law in Princeton Indiana and served as Indiana attorney general for four years. He began studying Christian Science in 1893 after family healings and joined the Indiana publication committee in 1901 before joining the Christian Science board of lectureship in 1904.
Miss Rena Larson filed a complaint leading to Fred M. Hendrickson being arrested in Fargo after traveling from Ypsilanti, Stutsman county. Hendrickson had secured a marriage license hoping reconciliation but the girl declined to marry. The daughter of a neighboring farmer, she had planned a fall wedding with Hendrickson, then vanished and he learned her address only after service of papers.
Next Tuesday evening the YMCA will organize an English class for foreigners under Miss F. E. Prescott who has taught for six years. The class will meet on Tuesday and Thursday nights.
Yarmouth October 17 report confirms the deaths of Lieuts Toertsch and Hummel, crew of the German balloon Heregesell, after the craft was found half deflated about 100 miles west of Heligoland. The Norwegian steamer Naddoo brought the Heregesell ashore. no trace of the aeronauts. A rescue seems unlikely.
Cottage City collided with a lumber schooner, injuring several passengers. Purser Wm Jones was knocked unconscious and fell overboard but was rescued. A panic ensued as the Cottage City suffered severe damage with upper works torn away.
Dallas S D October 17 Personal registration at the Rosebud reservation was 2108 by mail 2504 and at Gregory 356 by mail 962 total 103664 United States Commissioner McLain succeeds Wager McLain was stationed at Presho for three years but expects to return after the drawing
In Little Rock on October 17, officials announce the suspension of the two-cent railroad rate starting Monday and the restoration of the three-cent rate. Five trunk lines recently obtained an injunction against the railroad commission preventing enforcement of the two-cent rate.
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