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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
5
State tax reports place the La Crosse & Southeastern road value at 330000. Officials on tour to inspect the Chicago to Pierre, S D route pass through the city.
North Side Progressive League passes resolutions urging support for La Crosse Vote-Berger and La Crosse Telephone. The plan favors using Vote-Berger telephones in any residence or business, with emphasis on promoting home industries and sending copies of the resolutions to Vote-Berger.
A North Side Yeomen regular meeting is at Rose Street Woodmen hall with Judd of Aurora as vice president of Yeomen of America expected to deliver an address. He tours the district visiting La Crosse lodges while inspecting them. South Side lodge invites members and plans to recruit several new members tonight.
Theodore Como an engineer on the Milwaukee spent a day fishing and returned with two large pike and a four pound bass The largest fish got away as he stood to land it and his line tangled in the oarlock causing the bass to escape The fish in the water was enormous but its weight could not be judged
M J LaCourt formerly foreman in the car department of the C M and St Paul road has been appointed general inspector of the car and repair departments for the Milwaukee road. Headquarters likely at La Crosse with duties explained by A E Manchester. He will relocate to Chicago Thursday night to inspect the city departments. Continuous service in the car department since starting as a car cleaner. A X Taylor will replace him in Portage yards.
Mr A J Sam returns to Minneapolis after a La Crosse visit. Sig Bergsetch moves to Chicago with a top architectural firm. Timothy Dwyer of Cashton visits his son William in the north side. Mrs Peter Antony of Redlands settles her mother’s estate and is a former resident. Local residents travel to and from La Crosse and nearby towns. church groups host a picnic for German Lutheran schoolchildren. new north side baths near completion.
Members share health news travel notes and brief trips. Dr Will Powell discusses women diseases. Miss Bertha Moeser returns to Chicago. Ed Meinzer and Attorney W B Pummer depart. families travel to Milwaukee West Salem and beyond. Local visitors include Schmohl families in Norfolk Philadelphia and New York. many guests call on La Crosse residents and attend gatherings at Pettibone park and the Country Golf club.
A dated saying asserts women favor husbands who swear honesty over those who remain silent. It suggests outspoken frankness is valued more than quiet noncommunication in marriage.
Doctors warn that habitual caffeine in coffee can disrupt digestion and the nervous system. The text suggests trying to stop coffee and switch to well-made alternatives to avoid ailments.
A prompt urges readers to investigate the source of trouble and to discover where relief lies, inviting personal inquiry and self-directed discovery.
A twenty person search party from the north side organized at dawn to recapture the sea lion that escaped from the Minnehaha Falls zoo. They roped nets and searched sloughs near Black River after a Saturday sighting by Mike Rathborne but found no trace of the animal.
Eddie Deneen son of Officer Deneen arrived from Chicago. A company with Mr. Deneen featured the smallest man in the world Col Wilson. Deneen manages the Dog and Monkey circus in White City Chicago and Wilson is connected with one show there. They return to Chicago Saturday night.
A North Side party including Mr and Mrs Wachter Mr and Mrs Adam Webber and Herman Singer fished and picnicked at Yellow Banks yesterday. They left early and returned with one of the finest catches of the season.
State board of barber examiners visited several north side shops and found them in first class sanitary condition. Inspectors complimented some barbers on the cleanliness of their shops.
Irvine's La Crosse jewelry store promotes a new bracelet line with a showroom display. They claim wholesale pricing allows about one third off competitors, citing examples such as a $7.50 bracelet for $5.00 and a $6.00 bracelet for $4.50 to attract shoppers. They invite comparisons and emphasize wholesale and retail offerings.
A Bohemian quip features Phoney and Butt joking about dying like a lawyer who pleaded at the bar and was carried out on a beer. The exchange parodies courtroom collapse into tavern humor with a pun on the bar.
An ad claims a motor car that never needs crawling underneath for repairs. The agent says the mechanism instantly turns the car upside down if anything goes wrong, presenting a sensational feature in the Tit-Bits publication.
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