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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1909
Page
4
Heavy passenger flow on the Milwaukee line sparks rumors of an additional westbound train. The morning Milwaukee crowd fills all seats and smokers cars while an extra coach appears at South La Crosse. Portage may receive the new coach to ease congestion during peak Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition traffic.
Mrs W G Smith is reported dead at Lytles residence. The notice gives limited details but confirms the death and location.
Mrs S L Bowen of Wayne West Virginia says the remedy cured her kidney disease after she could not get out of bed. She reports a dollar bottle and part of a second cured her entirely and she recommends Foley's Kidney Remedy. O T Erhart endorses the product in the same notice.
Mineral City Ohio August 31 A plot to wreck a C P passenger train was thwarted by Watchman John Mace after a fight with four train wreckers at the tunnel on the Bayard and New Philadelphia division. One wrecker was killed and Mace was seriously wounded as the three others fled. Sheriff Marlow took the body to New Philadelphia and Mace was moved to Union hospital Canal Dover in a dying condition.
The London health office questioned official reports on cholera in Holland and other continental countries. Private investigators say about 200 cases in Holland, with the disease spreading to eastern Austria and threatening eastern Germany. Doctors struggle to halt the spread.
The Hague August 31 Holland marks the 29th birthday of Queen Wilhelmina with a holiday for schoolchildren, flags at half staff, and crowds cheering at the palace for the queen and infant Princess Juliana. Congratulatory telegrams pour in from around the world as celebrations grow larger for the royal birth anniversary.
An advertisement promotes instant relief from itchy skin eruptions in hot weather using Oil of Wintergreen. It claims a few drops soothe the eruption within five seconds and invites readers to obtain a free sample bottle from D D D Laboratories at 412 Michigan Street, Chicago.
Mrs. William G Smith a well known social figure on the North side and former resident of 2600 George Street died suddenly Sunday night at Lytles. Funeral plans not yet public. She leaves her husband five children.
Funeral services for Margaret E Ryan aged 82 were held at her daughter's home before the body shipped to Minneapolis for burial. Rev A V Ingham and Rev Henderson led the ceremonies. Also mourned were 15 year old Lillian Knutson with services at home and the Scandinavian Baptist church. Burial followed at Campbell cemetery. Martin Lawrence Ryan aged 13 months died last Saturday at 2009 Loomis Street.
An old ad offers one hundred dollars for catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It features testimonials from Walding Kinnan Marvin and others, asserts F J Cheney and Co of Toledo stand behind the firm, and promotes the cure as acting on blood and mucous surfaces with price 75 cents per bottle. Also pitches Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A packed Bijou audience enjoyed Herbert and Vance in a top novelty musical act from cornets to concertina. Am brose Coughlin wowed as the boy soprano amid ovations while Republe Sims delighted with makeup and wit. Dale and Carrey closed as a strong comedy singing team drawing big laughs.
A Batesville India na man reports lasting three months of summer cold symptoms and hay fever were quickly cured by Fo Leys Honey and Tar, with his wife achieving the same success. The claim notes prior prescriptions and other medicines worsened his condition.
Residents and visitors are listed with their hometowns and movements. Mrs Gunder Johnson returns to 516 Mill St after a Houston Minn visit. Will Summers resumes duties after vacation in Indiana. a new switch engine 1132 passes en route west. Guests include Mrs Morley and Inez from Madison and Miss Bertha Gehlen from St Paul.
County clerk Charles H. Rawlinson issued a marriage license today to H. W. Griswold and Miss Mary Bailey, both of West Salem, detailing their union in the village records.
The performance features Mr Dale praised as a top black cork performer with excellent voice. Miss Carrey encores delighted the audience while the McDonald trio, including ten year old Little Miss McDonald, wowed with daring riding and tricks. Kreutz's orchestra provided music for the excellent bill.
A Scottish village visitor to London encounters a merchant who knows Glen McLuskie from his homeland. A mistaken greeting triggers a double claim of Glen McLuske heritage, leading to surprise before the second assertion convinces the merchant of the visitor’s identity.
A London Chronicle quip contrasts pride and prudence with a humorous exchange about boasting. An Englishman and a merchant debate admitting a truth after delaying, then a noted line on preferring a motor boat over paddling one own canoe.
The South Dakota Capitol Commission awarded the decoration contract for the new state capitol to the William G. Andrews Decorative Company of Clinton Iowa after two days of bids. Six bidders competed for the project.
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