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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
9
The Tribune lists barber school enrollment and shop setup in Moler Barber College Chicago and job offers for men across Wisconsin. It mentions wages, diplomas, and short courses, plus recruiting notices for Army service and a freight-handling position. Also seeks cooks, salesmen, and a collector, with various rental and lost item notices.
For sale a room house with barn on a large lot as the owner leaves the city at 1227 Denton. Also for sale three stores 20 by 90 feet at 207 209 211 Main Street, and Burlington hotel at 108 No. 2nd Street, inquires to Joseph Boschert, Trustee Fay Estate. Another sale offers a 9 room home in an excellent location with convenient access to cars. Address X Y Z Tribune.
Rail Way Gazette reports a St. Paul organized Western Transportation company plans to take over the Sparta Melrose Electric Railway and build a 70 mile line from Portage to Grand Rapids via Briggsville Oxford and Friendship. J N Braun of StPaul named president with Clayton Oehler as chief engineer.
The diplomatic corps in Constantinople believes the sultan will soon be deposed. They hold he never supported the new constitution he was forced to grant and seeks to drag Turkey into war to undo reforms. The Young Turks have decided he must abdicate and will pressure him to do so.
Reader seeks a six or seven room house in good condition for rent and wishes to view it this Saturday or Sunday. Respond with details to S Tribune.
Paris reports General Alfred Picart was appointed minister of the marine to replace Gaston Thomson who resigned after charges of incompetence and negligence in office.
Denver police arrest Look Wing a Chinaman for an advanced case of leprosy. He claims 34 years of illness and 26 years in Denver. The case highlights public health concerns and local response to infectious disease.
Chicago reports the former Seipp Brewing secretary Theodore Tiedbolt, arrested in Denver for alleged shortages, has agreed to return. The extradition proceedings have been stopped.
Vienna reports that England has pledged to lend Turkey twenty five million dollars as Austrian officials fear the funds will bolster Turkey security and war preparations.
Miss Hazel Vickerman of Madison visits Sparta at the Card home. Numerous residents make short trips to La Crosse Winona Fargo Milwaukee and La Crosse for shopping business or relatives. Charles Tilquist returns from Fargo. Mrs. Lindahl Westby returns from Milwaukee. G A Leak Tomah and many others are noted in social and business calls across the region.
Roy Barnard of Owatonna Minnesota visits J R Hudson family in Bangor. Dozens of residents visit relatives in La Crosse Milwaukee Watertown Winona Onalaska and nearby towns. A Baraboo orchestra will play at Concordia hall October 24 and a chicken pie supper is planned at the Presbyterian church October 23. A petition by local business men seeks to lease Milwaukee Railway right of way east of stock yards for a flour and feed mill.
Mrs Mathias Biihorde and daughter Clara of Newry shopped in Viroqua on Tuesday. Mrs A F Schauer of Viola called on friends in town. Mrs Knut Moeseng has returned from a week visit with her husband.
Town Topics reports a freight car robbery with terse dialogue on travel and a passerby inquiry about station walking times. Police inquiry details are sparse and the note carries a casual, humorous tone.
The notice states County Judge John Brindley with the date October 6 1908. No additional context or actions are provided in the readable text.
Bang recounts three days and nights on a raft without food. Wang questions endurance and Bang says he kept sane by imagining home with no maid and his wife cooking.
Little doll mothers are cordially invited to come and see the beauties on exhibition in one of the Big Store's Fourth street windows at Doerflinger's.
A woman stops sharing her age after it becomes a topic in Town Topics. The item notes social norms and personal boundaries in a brief community reflection.
Inactive trading morning with minor shifts. Wax and green beans rise five to ten cents per pound, now between one and a half and two cents higher. Oyster plant shows a new arrival at six cents per pound.
A scanned price list shows quotes on flour and meal, dried fruits, fresh produce, dairy and eggs, meats, and firewood. Items include apples, lemons, grapes, oranges, cranberries, cabbage, potatoes, and peaches with per sack, per box, or per pound prices, plus dairy and poultry rates and wood costs.
A catalog of produce and maritime goods with varied prices quoted by merchants including J. C. Burns Listman Milling Co A. B. Moll H M Sieger and regional sellers. Items range from bananas and oranges to cabbage lemons and peppers with per unit per dozen per pound and per basket pricing.
New York stocks show active buying in early trading with several leading issues trading at year highs. Western wire connections report robust business while bankers rush to buy bonds and stocks. government bonds steady. Dressed poultry weak and live poultry unsettled. dairy prices firm with butter at 26 to 26 1/2 cents and eggs higher for nearby white fancy.
Cattle totals around 12 000 with steers 5 to 7 80, stockers 2 75 to 4 75. Hogs 17000, higher 15 cents, bulk 5 to 5 55, pigs 3 50 to 4 75. Sheep 8000, 10 cents lower, muttons 3 75 to 4 20, lambs 4 25 to 5 40.
Chicago October 21 cattle totals reached 22 000 with steady prices. Beeves sold from 4.07 to 7.60 per hundredweight and stockers 2.50 to 4.50. Hog numbers 31 000 were 10 cents higher with light hogs 5.00 to 5.55 and heavy hogs 5.45 to 5.95. Pigs moved 3 to 4.80. Sheep 20 000 steady natives 2.40 to 4.50 and lambs 5.70 to 5.75.
Open high low close figures for Chicago wheat corn and oats with October values and daily percentages. Data shows Oct Wheat around 98 99, Corn 62 63, Oats 47 aligning with late 20th century price reporting.
The Chicago police are urged to curb gambling after bomb No 20 exploded near Jim O Leary s saloon and a Sunday Record Herald report exposed a lax pool room in Kensington. The piece questions officials claims of a gambling crackdown and suggests more suppression is needed.
Charred bodies of three people were found on the upper floor of a six story tenement after a fire drove eight families to the street. The cause of the blaze is unknown.
Gov. Deneen declared he would not reconsider his action as governor in the Billik case. The only chance for Billik is a consideration of the case by the state board of pardons.
Detroit business figure Charles Mulkey of a large salt company warns that ongoing forest fires in the devastated region may force salt prices higher by reducing output.
Five men were blown to atoms at Culebra Cut when a hidden dynamite charge detonated under a steam shovel. The blast, possibly left from earlier work, destroyed the shovel and killed all five workers.
A fire of suspected incendiary origin destroyed the Hungarian Flour Mills elevator in Denver causing about a half million dollars in loss. About four hundred thousand bushels of wheat were burned.
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