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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1905
Page
3
Mrs. M. A. Bates widow 55 of Viroqua Wisconsin broke her leg in two places this morning at Milwaukee baggage room while handling trunks. She stepped back into a gap between a baggage truck and platform injuring ankle and knee and remains hospitalized to resume her journey to Sheha Assa Canada.
The Clinton Record reports Lamb Boat and Engine works in Clinton debuted a 37 by 44 sassafras wood summer racing launch named the Arte mus Lamb. Powered by a four cylinder twenty horsepower engine, it features dual cockpits and auto steering controlled from the wheel with fuel and electrical levers. The craft serves as a demonstrator for the Lamb Beat and Engine works as the Winona Republican notes a local traveler’s cross country walk to St Paul.
Edward Selle of Freeport NL, an employee of a German bank in Freeport, spent Sunday in Winona as the guest of Charles Lunedcking.
A partial moon eclipse occurred last night from 8 47 to 10 51. An upcoming partial sun eclipse will occur Wednesday morning August 30 before sunrise and end at 6 38. The sun eclipse will be total elsewhere but only partial in North America with observers urged to view from east of Colorado and north of Tennessee. Some observatories will photograph the global total eclipse from Labrador to Spain and Egypt as observers seek rarer events.
A weak airbrake hose burst caused two minor train wrecks on the Milwaukee division near New Lisbon and Kilbourn within two days. No injuries or major traffic delays. one derailed car and slight damage to a few cars.
Indications suggest Wisconsin state baseball leaders face tepid support for placing Winona in an Upper Mississippi Valley league next year. The Winona Republican notes strong interest in baseball but limited patronage outside Sunday games and past league attempts here were not financially successful.
Local briefs show Mrs. Sadie Mann returns to Minneapolis after funeral of uncle Hugh Donohue while J. S. Aug. 16 outings draw crowds. Alfred Erickson buys West Salem Brown building. steamers J. S. and Columbia run excursions. Welsh district meet at Fish Creek. Moonlight cruise on Aug. 16 with music and dancing. various visits, travels, and notices from Colby to La Crosse and nearby towns.
A reader extols the circus as entertaining with daring acrobats and wild beasts. A Dickens excerpt defends actors against widespread moral attack, noting public scrutiny. Gollmar Bros. are praised for running the cleanest circus menagerie and hippodrome in America.
A reader notes that ongoing staff shortages make workers tired and imperfect. The remark urges seeking assistance in want columns to replace missing helpers and regain efficiency.
E C Raymond reports from River Falls state convention of Redmen that prospects are strong for moving state headquarters from Racine to La Crosse. La Crosse elected two key officers with G H Daubner Great Sachem and Max Ash Senior Sagamore, E C Raymond Jr Junior Sagamore, Sol Burdick as judiciary chairman.
Tax assessors list 74 deaf, dumb and blind residents in La Crosse, a tiny 0.25 percent. North side shows two more cases than the south. The table records counts under categories such as deaf and dumb, blind, idiotic, insane and feeble minded.
An advertisement asserts Nature Cure can cure gallbladder stones liver spleen and bowel diseases using natural laws. It promotes F Wild professor of Nature Cure at 1502 Market street as the healer and cites comprehensive organ remedies and stomach disorders treated by natural methods.
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