North Side Advances in Building Quality and Growth
North La Crosse shows a surge in church and parsonage construction and home building in 1907. Major projects include German Lutheran church at St. Paul and Avon, Our Lady of Lourdes, Green Catholic church on Mill Street, and North Side Norwegian Lutheran parsonage. The area also gains the $256,000 Wisconsin Light and Power plant and the Vote-Berger plant, signaling substantial commercial progress and residential upgrades.
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Sawyer & Austin Mill
Wisconsin Light & Power Cow
St. James
Charch
St. Paul and
Avon Streets
Our Lady of
North la Crosse
Wisconsin Light & Power Company
Summit Stove Works
Vote-Berger
Five Cent Reward for Noted Good Samaritan Boy
In Worcester Massachusetts Beatrice Silverman the three year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry P Silverman of Webster wandered off and was found ten hours later by a boy named Manakowski who carried her to the Silverman home. The grateful father gave the boy five cents and praised his actions. The rest of the text reflects unrelated musings on dogs and suburban life.
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Worcester
Mass
Beatrice
Henry P._ Silverman
Webster
Manakowski
Silverman
Deaf school planned in Manila proves futile
Washington Aug 10. After census figures suggested many deaf and dumb residents in Manila and the province a special school was to be set up by the Philippine Commission with Miss Delia Delight Rice leading the effort. Now she questions the venture as no scholars could be found and Manila’s board of health found no deaf and dumb persons in the city after a two week canvass.
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Washington, D. C
Manila
Philippine Commission
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Delia Delight Rice
United States
Board of Health
Became thief to buy wedding outfit in Lancaster story
Lancaster Pa August 10 Abraham McLaughlin, short of funds for his wedding outfit, stole a team belonging to H G Rush of West Willow and was arrested while offering to sell it for 100 dollars.
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Lancaster
Abraham McLaughlin
H. G. Rush
West Willow
Specter Cat Shocks Men In Indianapolis Ruin
In Indianapolis on August 10 a lank hungry cat known as the cellar cat appeared on a second floor door sill amid wreckage from the Stewart drug house collapse. A shipping clerk Johnson had locked the cat and her kitten in the basement the night before the disaster, leaving observers to think she was crushed when the structure fell.
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Indianapolis
Stewart Drug House
Stewart
Thugh Johnson
Woman Survives Five Days in Wreckage After Collapse
A woman emerged from the debris of two ruined business buildings after being trapped for five days. Her escape was described as miraculous given the severity of the catastrophe and the damage to the structures.
Pope cancels receptions over fears of crowd jeers
Rome, Italy, Aug. 10. The pope countermanded all receptions planned for the anniversary of his coronation to avoid possible insults to cardinals in the streets on their way to and from the Vatican.
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Rome
Italy
Vatican
Drexel Party in a Quarrel Aboard Alcedo
Philadelphia report on the Alcedo cruise of fourteen months owned by George W. Childs Drexel. His wife and a noted local physician aboard engaged in a heated dispute leading to a shipboard quarrel near Yokohama Japan. The party reportedly broke up and returned home via Pacific Mail Steamship lines.
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Philadelphia
Alcedo
George W. Childs Drexel
Yokohama
Japan
Pacific Mail
Railway must stop cruelty to horses
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ordered its New Rochelle agent to halt horse-car service on the Bartow Station to City Island line unless the Metropolitan Street Railway provides new horses. After inspecting 24 horses, half were worn out by age and others suffered sore shoulders, prompting the action.
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New York
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
New Rochelle
Bartow
City Island
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Letter Triggers Death by Own Action Near Belle Fourche
Robert J. Baird a wool buyer for a Philadelphia house killed himself on a lonely road after receiving a letter from home. He had money and a bank draft in his pockets and bought a revolver to end his life shortly after reading the letter.
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Belle Fourche
Robert J. Baird
Philadelphia
Baird
Public to Pay Fine Says Oil Man
In Washington on August 10 S J McConcille of Terre Haute Ind said Judge Landis’ $29 249 000 Standard Oil fine imposes an extra burden on the country. He argued consumers will ultimately bear the cost of the penalty in higher prices.
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Washington
Landis
United States Court
Chicago
Standard Oil Company
S. J. McConcille
Terre Haute
Ind
Duveen Brothers Buy Huge Napoleonic Art Collection
London August 10. Duveen Brothers art dealers of London and New York have just completed another Napoleonic purchase. Last year they paid 1,250,000 for Hainauer of Berlin’s collection. This time the price reaches five million dollars, setting a new record for their acquisitions.
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London
Duveen Brothers
New York
Hainauer
Berlin
The burdens of earth demand that our hearts be nourished
The line proclaims that earthly burdens urge a hunger for heavenly sustenance. It frames faith as nourishment for the soul amid worldly strain, urging spiritual refreshment and resilience through divine grace.
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Earth
Chauffeur Cited Immunity in 36 MPH Drive
London Awmg 19 A chauffeur for Capt Sydney A Cleman American military attache was fined 60 dollars and costs after being arrested for driving 36 miles per hour. His defense claimed diplo matic corps immunity, and Cleman sent a letter noting embarrassment over the offense but asked withdrawal.
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London
Awmg
Sydney A. Cleman
Huntington
Cleman
Trunk murder and casino deaths cast shadow over Monte Carlo
Paris reports two Monte Carlo tragedies. A trunk contains the dismembered body of Theresa Williams, 37, Swedish by residence, murdered during a quarrel with a man who came to the house. A New York couple died by their own hand after heavy roulette losses.
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Paris
Monte Carlo
New York
Roulette
All Nations
Marseilles
Fist Fight in Court Tangles Halsey Bribery Case
In San Francisco a courtroom melee disrupted the Halsey telephone bribery case. Prosecutor William Hoff Cook and attorney Bert Schlesinger traded blows, Johnson struck Schlesinger, then Schlesinger hit Cook. Judge Dunne fined Johnson twenty dollars and admonished the lawyers.
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San Francisco
Cal
Halsey
Hiram Johnson
Bert Schlesinger
William Hoff Cook
Johnson
Schlesinger
Cook
Dunne
Girl Jilted Lover Takes Own Life in Plainfield Farm
Ada Smith, daughter of Amos Smith, was found dead in a watering trough at her father's Plainfield farm. A note attributed the tragedy to Ralph Mather, son of a wealthy neighbor, ending their engagement.
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Jolliet, Fl
Ada Smith
Amos Smith
Plainfield
Ralph Mather
What He Thought and Sympathetic Friend Cartoon Snippet
A fragment from Leslie's Weekly and Sketch humor pieces. Dialogue mocks social pretensions and playful miscommunications as a visitor recounts a wife sending a drag to meet him and a friend jokes about a rich uncle. The brief quip about teeth adds a comic aside.
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Drag
Jones
Leslie’s Weekly
Brown
Royal Academy
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A. N. Combellick
Loomis Street
Bucholz
J. O.brien
Burlington Road
Kane Street
Thomas Morris
Peter Nelson
Berlin Street
Ole Simonson
Gillette Street
August C. Bucholz
Ted
Specter Cat
Drexel
G. Heileman Brewing Company
la Crosse, Wis
Auto Scorcher
Chaffeur
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