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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
8
The fragment states that Castor of applied to warts regularly at night will dry them up and follows with a moral line about bearing hurt for profit. It presents two unrelated items in a compact, period voice style.
The notice warns that using too much soda in laundry wash water can cause hair loss. It cautions readers to limit soda usage to avoid adverse effects on hair.
Minnesota and the Northwest bandits conducted a raid on the Gopher Bank using stacked hay to muffle noise as thieves sought valuables. The incident disrupted operations and prompted police inquiries, with no immediate reports of injuries.
Yeggmen blew the Farmers State bank safe at Newfolden stealing $2000 after piling hay against the front. In South Stillwater burglars wrecked the New Store, using a heavy nitroglycerin charge. a $60 roll was found. George Welsh, Minnesota's new immigration commissioner, will collect crop and business data to fuel state advertising to attract settlers.
A gas stove exploded at 1336 Caledonia Street at 9 10 this morning injuring two children aged three and five who were near the stove. Mrs Semington escaped unhurt while the youngsters suffered burns to the legs and minor hair singeing. Dr Lueck treated the injuries and no serious outcomes are anticipated.
Offer of a free pamphlet with synopsis of United States homestead laws and guidance to secure a quarter section of farming or grazing land along the Chicago and North Western Railway routes in South Dakota Wyoming and other states Special excursion rates to home seekers and full information from any North Western Line ticket agent
In New Haijiland sears, made care fully with shells, frorm elaborate patterns on the owmens faces. In India the women of three high castes paint their teeth black.
Northwestern briefs report a loaded rifle discharged by Willie Murphy injuring his sister Agnes in bed. doctors expect recovery. Other notes cover Runaway injuries to M N Young near Two Rivers, farmland sale by Joseph Woods in Cottonwood county, dry Sunday enforcement in Blue Earth, a $590 fine for Elmore Drug license violation, duck shooting woes in Wheaton, a child struck by a harvesting machine near Pike Creek, a severe thunderstorm at Fertile with wind and rain, chautauqua plans in Fort Dodge, consolidation of Tribune plant at Albert Lea, and harvesting progress with corn crop variability and frost risk.
Henry Baum L E Lavaque and E C Hutchinson, appointed by North Side Amusement to inspect the Sparta carnival, returned this morning. Sparta’s manager Mr Klein will visit tomorrow to review conditions with plans to bring his outfit here. if not, several other outfits are in view with no trouble anticipated.
Doctors Palmer of Davenport and Linniker of Oakland, visiting on the North Side, left for home today. Linniker praised La Crosse for neatness and apparent growth and said with the North Side traction facilities there is no reason the area should not boom within ten years.
Clifford Green of Bangor visits North Side friends. Sid Jacques, ex La Crosse boy, returns to Blair Wisconsin after visiting his mother here. Nina Levi goes home on North Side after summer in Westby. Jamie Stackland returns from Livingston Montana to North Side. Farley, once a Q conductor, recovers from five week illness. Harry Marteaun and Branson Potts depart for a day of fishing.
Railroads in the state implement a two cent per mile fare, abolishing current tariffs and setting new local and interline rates. The change boosts expected ridership. towns listed show old and new rates, including Mauston, Dubuque, Prairie du Chien, Davenport, Rock Island, and Peoria among others.
Aug. 15 in Freeport Ill a star pitcher for Wisconsin State League Jack Warhop was sold to the Detroit club of the American League for 1000 dollars. Manager Hughey Jennings secured the option and Warhop will join the Tigers after the Wisconsin league season ends Sept. 22. Warhop posted 24 wins in 27 starts with 2 losses and 1 tie and is 23 years old 5 feet 11 or 6 inches tall and 148 pounds.
Ebenezer minds his master's plow when a balloonist drops an empty whisky bottle on his head. He awakens, sees the sky and fields, and imagines Mars inhabited after the incident. He hurries to the vicarage to inform Mars is inhabited and civilized, in a humorous village scene.
Rain stopped the Freeport vs Wausau game in Freeport Ll this afternoon with Freeport leading 5 to 0 in the fourth inning. Wausau star Nagle, recently bought by Detroit American club, lasted two innings as Freeport scored five runs on six hits in the second. Scott pitched for Freeport.
A stern visaged woman at a back door asks what the tramp wants. He replies that he saw an advertisement for table board in the morning paper and wonders if samples were being given. The line echoes a humorous frontier exchange from the Catholic Standard and Times.
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