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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1923
Page
3
A health column argues the best path to old age is maintaining overall vitality. It warns that neglecting health invites complications from mild ailments, notes neurasthenia as a catchall for undiagnosed woes, and stresses sturdy resistance via diet, fresh air, exercise, and rest to fend off winter illnesses.
Christine Frederick argues ads drive dissatisfaction in marriage by presenting idealized Adonis visuals. She notes women influence buying, home design, cars, and clothing decisions while men earn money. Advertising is framed as applied psychology targeting women, shaping shopping and leisure choices.
Charles G. Dubois of Western Electric asserts that the saturation point for telephone penetration has passed as the average rises from ten to fourteen phones per hundred, with some areas at twenty-five. He warns against overexpansion fears, noting today’s luxuries become tomorrow’s necessities and predicting faster living standards growth in the next decade.
A hotel manager reports guests are increasingly wasteful discarding summer under wear in room waste baskets rather than storing it. He notes carelessness with safety razors jewelry spectacles and similar items, describing the era as spendthrift and faulting growing consumer laxity.
Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of a expedition, argues that a base e onction of man could never have taken place in the tropics and frames the discussion around prehistoric human activity in tropical regions.
The piece champions hard work and adversity as drivers of progress, citing a Mongolian idea that life in tropics breeds softness. It notes Russia's gradual return as a grain exporter with three million bushels of wheat, two million barley, and half a million corn shipped in the three months to November 1.
Tokyo officials report 1924 income trimmed by 100 million yen due to the great quake. The government plans to cut spending to match the reduced revenue, reflecting a cautious shift after prosperity led to prior overspending.
Tom Sims offers a string of holiday tips and quirky shopping prompts. He urges early squabbles to avoid gift pressure, suggests buying bank clerks gifts, growing whiskers with hair tonic, and patching indigestion before the holidays. The piece also ponders sending ecards and stocking children's toys in pairs for family members.
In a decade old note, La Crosse residents react to Milwaukee Road's plan to raise the bridge toll from fifteen to twenty seven cents on the Mississippi crossing just south of the city, with the higher toll set to take effect December 27.
A quirky tale unfolds with Anonymous John and Biograpiy linked to a college football curiosity. Grandma Bark Nice and Old Man Mills stir a debate about honor and a fog of romance centered on Cynthia Dane. A John plans a school for Parkland open air sessions while Tess weighs work over loves and contracts.
In a vivid, humorous tale a crowded setting near a wedding erupts with memory of Granny Barker and her village, as villagers cheer and legends mix with a jumbled chorus. John and Annoy weave through the scene, while Lemuel notes courtship in a lively, if chaotic, communal moment.
Local council orders village police to stop use of Ene.-Street lamps as smoking and pipe lighting. Parish aims to curb aracti and nuisance, enforcing a halt to such activity.
Milwaukee salesman Robert Kay and his companion Mrs Adier Roos were at a Thanksgiving cabaret party when two robbers held up the trio. A handbag with £1 and S190 vanished from Kay, and authorities search for a fourth suspect. The party hostess is said to have arranged the gathering at a Cleoro cabaret attended by two robbers and another man.
In Stevens Point Wisconsin two of the Krueger siege guns have been recovered and placed in custody of clerk Webster. They were taken from a county courthouse where they served as exhibits in civil actions linked to the Kenoger brothers. One gun was found abandoned in a downtown area and another was returned days later.
John Dietz, once described as the father of a meron dam and a deputy-killer, has been pardoned in 1921 and now faces charges for threatening landlady Mrs Polly Teller. He denies the tale, claiming she is an agent of the lumber firm he battled for the Lie dani site, amid questions about credit miles.
A home made cough syrup widely advertised as a quick remedy. The formula blends 224 ounces of Pines with sugar syrup or substitutes to produce a pint, claimed to relieve bronchitis hoarseness croup winter coughs and provide a full night’s sleep. The ad promises satisfaction or money back and urges asking for Pines with full directions.
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