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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
7
A Montreal mother lauds Cuticura products after treating eczema on her three daughters with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She reports rapid clearing by morning and continues to use the remedies for family sores, calling them indispensable in every home.
Mrs. E F Ryder of West Brewster reports a year long painful foot ulcer improved after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. She used two sets and it is now healed. Advertises infant and adult Cuticura preparations and related products.
An irate tenant confronts a landlord after signing a one year lease and claiming the house is full of sewer gas. The landlord confirms prior warnings that gas exists in every room, prompting a tense exchange.
Erskine Minnesota August Olson fights eviction from a half section near Erskine for the twelfth time. A mortgage sale led to the loan company's bids and repeated court orders only delay the removal. Deputy Sheriff Orin Daniels serves a writ to oust the family as Olson, fourteen years owner, maintains he still owns the land while tending crops and fearing storm loss.
The Minnesota State Fair offers Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan a trained mule mascot to travel with him on the campaign trail. Bryan accepts the gift, calling it a kind gesture, while President Taft declined a similar offer of an elephant.
Albert D Cavalier a Pembina North Dakota confectioner and refreshment dealer who moved to Graceton Beltrami County Minnesota to hold a land claim pleads with the U S government to secure the homestead he believes he has lived on in good faith for five years He has spent nearly all his fortune trying to keep the property from reverting to the government.
A testimonial warning emphasizes Foley's Kidney Cure as a positive treatment for all kidney and bladder diseases. The ad-like note cites O. T. Erhart and urges readers to use the product to avoid blame for untreated conditions.
Joseph King an eighteen year old lineman for the Dwalle Telephone company in Wabasha Minnesota drowned while taking an evening bath. His body was recovered an hour later.
Waterloo August 1 A machinist at the Chamberlain machinery plant Borches slipped while using a screwdriver in a lathe and the point entered his eye causing loss of sight.
Northwest briefs report a committee led by Brigadier General Englesby and Major Wales to supervise the Fourth regiment officers' clubhouse project at Lake Kampeska. The structure is billed as South Dakota's most elaborate.
Spanking does not cure bed-wetting due to constitutional causes. Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers a free treatment with full instructions by mail to mothers. No payment required. write today. The method claims to help children and also adults with urinary troubles.
Paddy and Prince of Sioux City won the free for all in the state firemen tournament and set a world record with a 1 minute 15 second half mile run with bank hitch and coupling. Des Moines team placed second and third, ten teams started and eight finished, with ten thousand spectators watching.
Gustave Borchet a farmer six miles west of Faribault died from injuries after a runaway spooked by a passing automobile. The horse and buggy team bolted throwing him to the ground and causing fatal injuries. Borchet was described as well to do and a longtime resident of the area.
Swiss voters approved a prohibition on absinthe, mirroring European moves and signaling potential American action. The report notes Switzerland’s role as a major absinthe producer and export, especially to the United States, while France and other nations debate curbs amid concerns over health effects.
A listing of Sunday worship times, union services, Sunday schools, and youth meetings at First Methodist, Westminster Presbyterian, First Baptist, Norwegian Lutheran, West Avenue M E, Christchurch Episcopal, First Church of Christ Scientist, Emanuel Evangelical, St Paul Universalist, City Mission, English Lutheran, First Presbyterian, and First Congregational churches with pastors, locations, and service times.
The notices list morning worship at 10 30 and 7 30 p m with union service at First Baptist in the evening, Sunday school at noon and a union Young People's meeting at 7 30 p m. German Methodist at Seventh and Ferry, pastor a L Panzlau with Sunday school at 9 15 and sermon at 10 30 followed by Epworth league at 7 and preaching at 7 45 p m. Public invited and People’s Sunday School meets at Travelers' hall Fourth and Main at 11 each Sunday with health exercise as part of the program.
A Phil lipsburg Daily Post editor lauds Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and colds. The piece notes a Minnesota mining case verdict of 10,000 for a boy and 1,850 for his mother after a fatal train accident. A separate testimonial from Oakville Indiana praises Foley's Kidney Cure as a God send after a decade of kidney illness.
A brief court note from Grand Rapids Minnesota on August 1 describes the case Glines versus Oliver. Details on parties and proceedings are limited in the excerpt.
In Grand Forks North Dakota August 1 a man fined thirty one fifty after failing to obey hotel inspector A M Anderson. The report notes the penalty was assessed for noncompliance with inspector instructions and emphasizes enforcement of hotel safety standards.
North Dakota hotel owner J B Spoonheim of Northwood was fined $10 and costs totaling $31.50 for failing to provide ropes in each room for emergency escape. This marks the first Grand Forks county case of a hotel man fined for violating hotel regulations.
A. C. Carter secured a warrant for a gang of gypsies encamped near his property at the upper north side to prevent further damage. The band was stopped at Tomah today and Undersheriff John Mohr went to Tomah last night to bring them back for trial.
Governor Little of Arkansas has been placed in a sanitarium in St. Joseph Missouri following a mental breakdown reported July 31. The move comes amid rising concerns about his health and ability to govern the state from the capital, Little Rock.
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