Civic Hotel Site Purchase Marks Major La Crosse Fund Drive
The Hotel Stod dard site purchase completes a landmark civic effort in La Crosse with a $20,000 subscription. Five donors gave four-figure gifts led by John A. Salter Seed Company with $2,000 and C. L. Colman Lumber, F. P. Hixon, National Bank of La Crosse, and Batavian Bank with $1,000 each. Dozens more contributions followed, none under $50, from banks, manufacturers, retailers, and professionals incl. State Bank of La Crosse, La Crosse City Railway, Heileman Brewing, and Withee interests, among many others.
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la Crosse
la Crosse Leader Press
Reading
John A. Salter Seed Company
C. L. Colman Lumber Company
F. P. Hixon
National Bank of la Crosse
Batavian Bank
State Bank of
Newell and Butty Confirmed as Regional Directors
Washington Thursday confirmed R. I. Newell and Walter Butty as regional directors of the Resettlement administration. Last year new mined gold exceeded all records for value, if not for ounces.
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Washington
PR Mae Senate
R. I. Newell
Walter Butty
Qeisepasin
The
Resettlement Administration
Commander Booth to Tour West Coast in September
London Evangeline Booth, commander in chief of the Salvation Army, announced a planned visit to the west coast of America in September. The tour will include engagements and speeches promoting Salvation Army work and relief efforts.
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London
Evangeline Booth
The
Salvation Army
America
Stoddard Hotel Is A City By Itself
The Stoddard Hotel in La Crosse operates as a self contained city with its own water and electricity supplied by in house systems. An artesian well and a sub basement power plant provide essential utilities while on site services include dining, a barber shop, and a newsstand enabling guests to stay without leaving the building.
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Stoddard
la Crosse
Ager
John Elliott
Names listed in business directory line up for expert help
A long roster of individuals and company names appears, suggesting a directory or advertisement page. The items include Poghling and company J E Will ing, Dry Familiar Names, Grams and Sons, Whitebreast Coal, La Crosse Steam Laundry, Lamb Lumber, Reliable Steam Laundry, Trane Plumbing, La Crosse Gas and Electric, Miller Brothers, McConnell and Schweizer, and others, with a brief note about expert advertising advice.
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John Redfuss
4. Grams and Sons
B. Ott and Sons
A. M. Watson
Whitebreast Coal Company
Thillang Lapitz
Clark and Clark
Exchange State Bank
Wendell A. Anderson
N.D. Allen
C. E. Bennett
Ernest Horner
John M. Holley
E. HE. Bentley
G. R. Montague
Jd. Toland
L. A. Servis
Odin J. Oyen
Joseph Boschert
C. N. Dunham
Wilson and Robertson
Hoppy Hopkins 89 Misses Hotel Life in La Crosse
Longtime La Crosse figure known as a baggage smasher and later hotel checkroom attendant at the Hotel Stoddard, Hopkins now resides at St Joseph's Home for the Aged. Once a familiar traveler with the Knights of the Grip, he retired after a 1933 leg injury and years of varying activity at local hotels.
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Stoddard
John Co
Hoppy) Hopkins
la Crosse
Hopkins
St. Joseph's
Long
International House
Cameron House
Germans jail Yank for red literature
Hamburg, Germany. Lawrence B. Simpson, an American seaman, held at a concentration camp awaiting trial on possessing communistic literature found during a Hamburg harbor arrest six weeks earlier. Police claimed discovery of red literature aboard a ship, either the S. S. Manhattan or S. S. George Washington. Baby weighs two pounds born at Fort Shoals, South Carolina, to Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Kellett.
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Lawrence B. Simpson
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S. S. Manhattan
S. S. George Washington
Fort Shoals, S. C—Pi
T. L. Kellett
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Duffy
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O. A. Dahle
No. 8Th St
John F. Papenfuss
JOS. Miller CO
Main St
Happy” Jong
Knights of the Grip
Wisconsin
Peoples Ice and Fuel Co
W. A. Roosevelt CO
Hotel Stoddard’s
Crystal
Willow
Mr. Elliott
Phillips & Sons, Inc
Crystal Room
Willow Room
G. Heileman Brewing Co
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