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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1914
Page
4
W A Wilcox a former La Crosse resident and brother of Emmett Wilcox died of paralysis last night at his brother's Trempealeau home. He had recently moved from South Dakota after leaving La Crosse. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 PM from the Methodist church.
Sparta Wisconsin reports plans for the basketball season with practice to begin soon. Local optimism mounts that with current material a championship team is possible. Also noted are neighborhood visits and multiple residents home for holidays and university breaks.
Roland Walier returns to La Crosse High School after three weeks out with a broken collarbone from a Twelfth and Main accident. La Crosse schools plan interscholastic debate on expanding the US standing army to one million. tryouts after Christmas. Romeo Ross leaves high school as family moves to Florida. Massachusetts forestry association to inspect member shade trees to guard against quack surgeons.
North Side notes show numerous moves and visits. Residents like Richard Finley, Erwin Fowler, and Ruth Beck return home from visits in Ferryville Burr Oak Genoa and Burr Oak. Others relocate households between streets and towns while A O Sletten heads to Tampa for the winter.
Articles of incorporation filed for Waumandee Railway company in Buffalo County Montana aim to build a standard gauge line 10 to 20 miles long from Montana to the Chicago Burlington and Quincy in Buffalo County. The $50 000 capital line would serve Montana Waumandee and Milton, aiding freight and passenger traffic in the Waumandee Valley.
Ferdinand Jeska died Saturday evening at his daughter's home, Mrs. F. W. Silloway at 1105 Caledonia Street. The funeral was conducted at 2 PM from the Hokah Methodist Church with Rev. Thiele officiating. Burial followed in Hokah Cemetery. The article notes that much of the Pacific coast's oak comes from eastern Asia.
The one cent tax on every bill of lading becomes effective nationwide affecting all railroads. Railroads entering La Crosse received circulars outlining the requirement that receipts show an internal revenue stamp and be cancelled. The ruling allows exceptions for non-agency stations and perishable shipments with stamps attached at destination. Baggage checks for bicycles, baby carriages, and animals count as receipts and must be stamped.
Champaign Dec 1 Jack Watson center on the Illinois eleven and brother of Chauncey Watson was chosen to lead the Illini next year at the annual football banquet.
Gas efficiency is the aim of the tenth annual convention of the National Commercial Gas Association opening at the National Guard Armory in Minneapolis. About 1,500 delegates were expected to register by day's end as the session began at 10 o clock.
Relatives of J J Hill say the railroad builder gave a check for 60000 dollars to Bishop John H Carroll as a donation toward St Charles college in Helena Montana.
Mrs. W. R. Finch and Mrs. Frank E. Davis depart for Madison to attend a Wisconsin Federation of Women’s clubs convention. Officers expected include President D. O. Kinsman and district VPs from Whitewater Kaukauna Janesville Port Washington Richland Center Milwaukee and Stevens Point. Mrs. J. A. Aylward to host a luncheon at her Madison home tomorrow at 1:00 PM.
Appetite follows digestion as the remedy relieves indigestion and constipation. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin combines laxative with pepsin for quick relief of sick headache belching and other stomach woes. Sold at fifty cents to one dollar in drug stores with a free trial bottle by mail from Monticello Illinois.
Two British aviators dropped bombs on Ghent military grounds yesterday. Seven German soldiers were wounded.
The Sihlwald city forest near Zurich increases annual revenue by seven dollars and twenty cents per acre, reducing the town's tax requirement by over thirty two thousand dollars.
Mrs. W. C. Brieske of Elkhart Lake Wisconsin reports rapid relief after a first dose of Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy She describes passing hundreds of accretions from pea to hickory nut size and plans to have her mother try the remedy The ad touts quick results and claims the medicine cleanses the digestive tract and can spare dangerous operations
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