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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1905
Page
6
Court Commissioner Prentiss had not issued warrants for arrest of Chief Byrne or District Attorney Boss hard as of 3:30 pm. He said he was considering the matter and would likely decide tomorrow. He maintains both officials were guilty of contempt for arresting Blanche Milton before habeas corpus release was signed.
The store will transfer to a modern department store with new and popular departments. All stock on hand will be sold regardless of cost as a prelude to a total stock refresh. The basement to roof will be emptied to allow an entirely new stock for the revamped shop.
A local constable levied on J. W. Snow’s race horse known as J. W. S. at the fair grounds this morning. The seizure aims to satisfy a chattel mortgage held by a Jackson county man.
The state board in Milwaukee granted registered pharmacists certificates to fifteen applicants on Saturday. Recipients include Frank X. Stetter and Albert W. Landwehr of Milwaukee, Charles F. Englehart of Racine, C. M. Leonard of Racine, Andrew Green of Milwaukee, Charles H. Jones of Beloit, Edward F. Ziegelmann of La Crosse, Frederick W. Lipf of Richland Center, Alvah H. Wettlaufer of Westfield, Henry Schmauch of La Crosse, Adam A. Beck of Milwaukee, George Klumb of Milwaukee, Winfield S. Hess of Johnson Creek, George K. Hepler of Rio, and Ernest Druschke of Milwaukee.
Mrs G W Traer and Mrs Cunningham hosted a Saturday afternoon picnic and launch ride honoring guests Miss Eloise Hintz of Chicago and the Misses Gertrude Chandler Helen Wheeler and Master Frederick Wheeler of Minneapolis. Mrs Charles Pettingill and her children, staying with J L Pettingill, departed for St Paul.
In a colloquial survey of urban needs the piece argues that the rising tide of human claims creates a palpable presence in daily life. It reflects on how ads reveal desires and shortages shaping the social fabric.
The passage notes that missing the coveted line among want ads is rare for those who routinely scan the notices. It emphasizes daily reading as a constant search for opportunity and fortune.
A reader suggests listing difficulties and testing if a small advertising venture can transform them into quick gains. The note invites practical ideas and marketable needs that ads could address.
The Chicago News recounts herbs o the vertue including rue and vervain used to break witchcraft spells and in religious rites. Rosemary stands for memory fidelity and love and appears in wedding customs and poetic allusion.
The origin of nursery ballads is traced to Henry VIII era confederate land seizures. John Horner, a royal commissioner, allegedly grabbed church lands near Bath and Frome in Somerset, inspiring the Little Jack Horner tale with the line he pulled out a plum. The story circulated in Bristol papers and New York Times commentary by H. Smith.
A manuscript note explains Founding Hospital customs where boys bind apprentices and marriageable women are paraded in procession. A man may mark a desirable bride by throwing his handkerchief, a practice possibly origin of the phrase throwing the handkerchief.
A dashing American debutante in London sparks astonishment with a sharp reply to a guardsman remark. She notes that in America men admire women, while in London society women are expected to admire men, eliciting laughter and disbelief.
A Harvard sophomore delivering a memorized public speaking piece broke after two sentences. He began with Ladies and gentlemen Washington is dead Lincoln is dead then paused and added and I am beginning to feel sick myself. The moment drew bemused reactions from the audience in the Boston Herald account.
The piece argues civilization risks imagination atrophy in a scientific age and urges education in poetry and the arts. It emphasizes training in poetry to appreciate past forms, cites Spenser Wordsworth Milton Burns Shelley, Beethoven and Macbeth as richer truth than narrow natural science, and advocates cultivating taste in youth.
In Burghead Scotland the clavie festival on January 12 features a tar barrel paraded through the town and set atop the ancient douro. The ceremony aims to ward witches by sparks rising from the barrel and ends with keeping a fire lit at home all year. Nearby Roman altar and well remain visible with early sculptures embedded in a garden wall.
London Outlook notes that French art retains vitality beyond salons through posters journals bijouterie shop ornamentation and railway advertisements. The piece praises boldness despite vulgarity and contrasts it with vitality in France versus elsewhere.
Sea birds are said to spend weeks at sea and to drink water by consuming fat and oil. They are observed flocking toward storm clouds as they form and appear to drink water as it falls from the sky, aided by their keen eyesight.
Simson warns he owes five dollars and must be repaid while Stimson dismisses the debt as a duty fulfilled in a brief exchange between two men.
A quoted quip about women and cars appears in Life magazine style humor, noting it as a joke about indecision and returning to a previous state. The line frames a gendered stereotype as light banter without broader context or events.
The Dallas News reflects on work as a virtue noting a great deal of human meanness emerges from people. The piece frames labor positively and implies social cohesion through productive effort.
A collage of humorous exchanges and dialogue from Chicago American and New York Journal. Jests range from a father and son hat remark to a quip about an umpire who runs for his life and a joke about old clothes and saving a life.
The piece argues against scaling ad spend with store size. It says publicity must be adequate and rational, noting big stores cannot be kept full without proper, aggressive promotion. It discusses merchant misbeliefs about advertising efficiency and the sheriff’s watchful count.
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