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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
3
The column argues Taft favors Gov. Hughes for renominating in New York, citing Hughes as a strong, principled figure. It notes Taft’s manager’s remark that Hughes is as strong in Ohio as elsewhere and lauds Taft’s strategic choice of supporters in New York.
The New York Evening Post notes Bristow likely defeats Senator Long in the Kansas Republican primary. Bristow campaigned against railroads, presenting a vigorous honest image. The paper suggests Bristow’s win would position him as a new ally for La Follette radicals and spur party reorganization. It also references Allison’s death as a foreshadowing event.
The passage cites a radical rebirth in Iowa and a cleaner Republican party as Democrats face a tougher opponent. It notes Bristow joining Bourne Borah Beveridge Brown La Follette and other insurgents and wonders if Wisconsin will back Stephenson to oppose La Follette while aligning with Hatton.
A crowded Oshkosh political scene pits John Strange against Cook with Hatton and three Bohemians amid claims of German vote disrespect. The rowy, noisy contest draws attention as Strange’s entry, initially overlooked, becomes a focal point in a heated state debate.
The passage relays a quip about President Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan. Bryan defends reforms while his party hinders their effect, followed by a racial joke about a wasteful wife illustrating the point.
The article praises Speaker Ekern for resisting insurance companies efforts to influence Wisconsin politics. It argues the attempt to elect a commissioner favorable to corporate interests marks a new, radical shift in corporate control of government and calls for public rebuke of the big firms.
The Tribune interview shows Mr. Hatton supporting tariff reform aligned with the Wisconsin Idea and La Follette progressiveness. He calls for revision downward to reward alert business methods and curb subsidized monopoly, rejecting profits guarantees.
The New York World argues the direct primary is only an opportunity and not a reform. It may help achieve better government only if voters use it as they see fit.
Financier Thomas F. Ryan discusses music in the Deutschland smok ing room. He dismisses certain native sounds and muses on why bagpipers move while playing. A street performer anecdote adds a wry note about keeping people from getting hurt.
A Washington Star poem recalls a suffragette speech where the speaker’s zeal met with crowd attention shifting to her attire rather than her message. The verse notes the irony as the audience’s focus drifted from the ideas to appearance.
A Kansas City Journal quote notes that despite faults the man had considerable public spirit and was not boastful. He avoided flashy routines such as Saturday haircuts, indicating a humble, steady character.
A playful verse recounts Little Bo Peep losing her sheep who wander to a butcher’s shop. The line about an ancient ram adds a humorous twist to the nursery rhyme.
John Muir, noted author and ranch man, entertained a friend with a story while repeatedly breaking off pieces of bread from a French loaf. The waiter’s attempts to order were ignored as Muir spoke, ate, and reflected, ending with the remark that the last crumb, the bread, was “bully.”
The piece outlines knee length coats for young girls, made of flannel or light serge, washable and practical. Styled with box shaped lines, edge hems, conventional sleeves, notched collars, multiple breast pockets, and double or single breasted closures with anchor buttons. Colors include navy, Copenhagen blue, light browns, grays, and white.
Otto E. Schaar of a New York waiters club recalls a Bucks County farm inheritance story. A son tends his ailing father and, with death near, extorts a final lamp blowout cue before returning to his room. The vignette, cited from the Washington Star, contrasts frugality withfamily duty.
Miss Gaddie-Yes and Miss Ascum relate a quarrel with a father over buying a pedigreed puppy. It compares the desired dog to a French count or a German baron, reflecting idle family humor in the Catholic Standard and Times.
Consul W. L. Lowrie explains the German doll trade. Dolls pass through about twenty hands from raw material to finished product. Bodies are paper or kid, made at homes or in molds, with Angora wool hair and elastic strips from England. Styles change yearly and firms stay updated.
A Nashville American quotation notes a sharp exchange about money and ownership asking where funds come from and emphasizing personal financial source rather than others.
An exchange notes a new primate mammal named homo sapiens. The Washington Herald quotes the professor and his wife debating a fitting name for an infant species.
A daughter defends her fiance William against her father's disapproval citing the issue of bills as a matter of principle in a Boston Transcript dialogue snippet.
The letter lists moments when a gentleman should lift or remove his hat. Times include mopping the brow, taking a bath, eating, going to bed, taking up a collection, having hair trimmed, shampooing, and standing on the head. The Wichita Beacon quote frames etiquette with humor.
John Pocmoe one and a half year old son of Charles Pocmoe of Nashwauk dies at St Luke s hospital from injuries after being run over by a train on Nashwauk tracks. His right arm was torn away and the body mutilated as he played near the railroad with other children.
Nearly all Wayland residents recall the Woods hermit called Old Tilden who sold lamp black and scared local children with wild looks. An Erie train arrival introduced a supposed nephew claiming Old Tilden, and the pair departed after a few days. The nephew was Samuel J. Tilden, later governor and presidential candidate.
In Deadwood South Dakota Aug Twelve a hundred men scour the countryside for Bill Dunn a fifty year old farmhand suspected of shooting Fred Samuelson a 15 year younger coworker over a love triangle involving Lena Schaar the farmer's daughter Dunn who warned he would get some more is well armed and at large after the killing of Samuelson over a dance with Lena Samuelson.
The text notes that England France and Germany together consume about eighty percent of domestically produced manufactured goods while the United States exports only about five percent of its manufactured goods abroad.
In Kirktown a pit fire jolts the town as James Kahn and Dick Finnan face a crisis below ground. Vida Bryan descends the shaft with the crew before a blaze engulfs the cage area, wiring disaster to the surface and prompting swift evacuations and fears for missing workers.
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