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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1908
Page
9
The Tribune lists opportunities from Maler Barber College in Chicago to Army recruiting in La Crosse Wisconsin. It also advertises positions welcoming girls and women, housework, sewing machine operators, cooks, maids, and demonstrations at fairs with details on locations and contact notes.
Numerous real estate and item listings including nine room houses with barns on large lots, cottages, corner lots near car lines, and homes for move in. Also farms from 160 to 350 acres with timber and cultivation, stock, and buildings with terms. Includes furniture, tables, encyclopedias, horses, surreys, rail side facilities, and season fair tickets. Addresses in tribune area listed.
Classified ad sheet listing multiple rent notices for flats rooms and houses on South 3rd 5th Cass Seventh Madison North South Side and Market Streets. Lost items include a black coat a brown jacket and a $5 bill last seen near Pettibone park and fair grounds.
FOR RENT eleven room modern brick house at 705 So 5th St priced at $35. Office suite in Beck block. Store building at 810 Farnam St. FOR SALE varied city and farm properties. Confectionary for $300. Tornado season prompts storm insurance with top companies. Notary Public. Money to Loan. c F Kleen 208 McMillan Bldg La Crosse Wis.
Will and wife William Filber recount being fired upon by a stranger at their resort home in the western Sioux Falls district. Police suspect the wife struck him during a quarrel, finding a bloodstained club at the scene. The couple, residents for about two years, have alternately faced threats and prior complaints about domestic danger.
Miscellaneous classified notices offer WANTED solicitors and room rentals in Tribune area. Listings include two to three unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping, two furnished rooms, and three modern unfurnished rooms. Also farm lease inquiry in Minnesota and stenography positions in hotels and office buildings.
Fires in northern Minnesota and nearby Wisconsin have burned with heavy damage. Chisholm suffered near total destruction with a $125,000 school building among survivors. About 4,000 homeless in Chisholm and thousands elsewhere seek relief as winds ease and aid trains arrive. Estimated losses reach 3.75 million dollars with most in standing timber.
A 1900s style health notice explains that most appendicitis cases come from chronic constipation. It promotes Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a mild tonic that stimulates the liver and bowels to restore natural action without causing nausea or griping. Substitutes are discouraged. QO. T. Erhart.
A short kitchen slogan urges using Gold Medal Flour for angel food cake. The note includes playful phrases and a brand mention, highlighting the product as essential for that recipe.
In Russia under strict censorship, postal cards face government crackdowns as radicals publish anti government images. The featured card shows the czar raising a weak axe of reaction over Russia's youth, illustrating defiance cited by authorities.
In Meservey Iowa a peanut price dispute escalates into a riot leaving the town without its mayor marshal or constable. Justice Stauffer orders arrests but several fighters resist. the sheriff intervenes as officers resign. The town remains divided and a board of arbitration is urged to settle the price dispute.
The brief reports include a 23 car Great Northern grain train wreck at Duquett with no injuries, a Hibbing refugee case of a mother and three children in a shattered Pillsbury shack, Yankton facing a Nebraska anthrax quarantine, Hibbing refugees threatened by diphtheria, a disastrous blackout fire at the R L Houk flour mill and grain elevator in Good Thunder with $69,000 losses and $20,000 insurance, and finally a South Dakota Medical Association adjournment after a tuberculosis study group forms with Redfield doctors in leadership roles.
No changes were noted in market prices this morning. Yesterday’s legal holiday left markets active but quiet. Weather remains ideal and farmers hustle to finish late crops before frost.
A long list of market rates for fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, meats, and fuel. Items include lemons at various box prices, peaches, grapes, pears, oranges, apples, and bananas, with crates and per-bushel or per-ton pricing. Also listed are flour and feed from named suppliers, cheese, butter, eggs, and livestock prices, plus hay and wood costs.
A crowded price list shows quoted items from several sellers including Listman Milling Co for flour and vegetables. Prices cover sacks of flour, various vegetables by bunch or per unit, dairy items, and multiple fruit categories with per pound, per dozen, or per basket rates. Prices are presented with many OCR errors and misspellings, reflecting a historical grocery listing style.
New York stocks opened with gains then fell on sudden selling of American Locomotive to 52 1/2. Directors may cut or suspend dividends. After an hour, markets firmed with Union Pacific up to 166, Steel Common up 1, and B O, Amalgamated stronger. Government bonds unchanged.
Chicago market summary shows cattle 5,000 head steady with beeves 5.40 to 7.60 dollars and stockers 2.35 to 4.40. Hogs 11,000 head five cents higher with light 6.30 to 7.00, heavy 6.65 to 7.12, pigs 4 to 6. Sheep 24,000 head steady natives 2.10 to 4.25 and lambs 3.50 to 6.00.
Kansas City stockyard figures show cattle steady at 4.50 to 7.50 for steers and 2.80 to 5 for stockers. Hogs hold at 6.65 to 6.95, pigs 4.50 to 6, while sheep ease 10c with muttons 3.75 to 4.15 and lambs 4 to 5.60.
New York on September 8 reports dressed poultry with moderate demand and live poultry in moderate demand. Prices include turkeys 16 to 25 cents, chickens 12 to 13 cents, ducks 8 to 12 cents, geese 8 to 10 cents, fowls 12 cents, turkeys 12 cents, chickens 15 cents. Butter 23 to 24 cents. Eggs 29 to 30 cents. Cheese 12 to 14 cents.
Ewell Smith, in disguise as a negro to confront his wife after suspecting an affair, was nearly lynched by a white mob who mistook him for a black attacker. The wife denies any appointment, claiming she was only informing a man she was being followed. Racial tension runs high after several alleged assaults by black men.
Charles City Iowa Sept 3 Pitcher Lindley of the Charles City ball team was assaulted at Nashua and seriously hurt. In a twelve inning game score was 0 to 0 and money was bet on the outcome. Lindley refused to throw the game and was beaten at the depot that evening. he will be out of action for several weeks.
A Fall visit by Uncle Joe Cannon to a hotel guest from a corn state ends with a humorous exchange. The guest watches Cannon devour ear after ear of boiled sweet corn while pondering the cost of board. Cannon quips about a five dollar daily rate and jokes about a cheaper livery stable option.
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