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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
3
A Stoughton meeting features Harvey Dee Brown calling out high tuberculosis death rates and unsafe drinking water. Citizens pledge action, the city council shuts old fountains, and orders sanitary alternatives as dangers are warned.
A plea urges every La Crosse citizen to write to their alderman demanding sanitary drinking fountains to replace dangerous cups and to attach an Anti-Tuberculosis Stamp on the envelope and mail immediately.
James J. Hill argues that a nation’s decline accelerates with rising living costs. The statement frames price levels as a predictor of economic and social deterioration in the United States.
Retail meat dealers vocally dissent the agriculture department’s assertion that high meat prices stem from their profits. They accuse officials of misplacing blame and call for price support measures.
A reader cites a Armour & Co report showing a gross profit of 10.58 million on 20 million capital with a 7.13 million surplus, arguing retailers and meat producers fleece wage earners by elevating prices.
The text laments porterhouse prices far beyond the wage earner and notes other necessities have risen sharply. It also suggests American boys are no longer welcomed to the apple basket, signaling broader economic strain.
The possible clash between Jeffries and Johnson may not dominate public attention in England, suggesting other bouts or figures could share the spotlight this season.
The note suggests suffragette activists may use their strongest tactics to oppose exclusion from wartime decisions, but questions whether they sympathize with or oppose lords. The line hints at tension between gender-focused protest and aristocratic power.
A local paper reports a photo published last evening showing Speaker Cannon arriving in Washington next Monday and notes unusual activity surrounding the event.
A. G. Delamater and William Norris present George Barr McCutcheon’s Beverly at the La Crosse theater this Saturday December 4 with matinee and evening shows. Critics in Chicago Buffalo Pittsburg Cincinnati and Kansas City praised the production and expect the same high quality as the Broadway engagement.
A kind Irish policeman in a western city helps a beggar who asks for charity claiming to be crippled. The officer questions the man and learns the supposed illness is financial. The beggar exits with the coins.
A quick home remedy for colds and coughs using Pinex and sugar syrup. Mix granulated sugar with warm water, add Pinex to create a pint of syrup, and take a teaspoon every 1 to 3 hours. Pleasant tasting and said to relieve deep seated coughs, bronchitis, chest pains, and whooping cough.
An advertising note extols Newbrow's Herpicide as the cure for dandruff and scalp itch. It claims the product kills the dandruff germ to prevent hair loss and baldness, touts its pleasant hair dressing qualities, and offers samples and one dollar bottles through Hoeschler Bros as special agents.
Poem notes a neighborhood in stress with residents performing odd feats. Mister Jones rolls a peanut uphill while Mr. Smith balances on his head for half an hour daily. Robinson eats a bale of hay and Perkins grows his whiskers. Thompson climbs a lamp and sings. The piece lampoons local mischief until debts are settled.
A biography about Sir Wilfrid Lawson recounts Sir Andrew Clark, Gladstone's physician, advised wine for a patient. Clark joked that a pint of champagne aids him in facing twenty letters, not by improving output but by erasing concern about answering them.
A Canadian author wrote an anthem for a recent Toronto celebration. As the event ended and people departed, the author asked the conductor if the occasion was over. The conductor replied that as long as exits were peaceful, singing the anthem was unnecessary.
Quote from Cleveland Plain Dealer praising Col Broadside for a sharp memory. The exchange compares two speakers, the Hostess and The Lady of Dubious Age, noting Broadside as straight and slender and recalling his habit of remembering everyone born.
In a courtroom recording, a man offers a dollar if no one enters a room for thirty minutes. A boy says the family will split the money three ways, with one share going to each of sister and mother. The exchange unfolds as a curious bidding moment during testimony.
A couple pausing at Grand Central inspires locals to recall Uncle Josh jokes. The man clutches a carpet bag and umbrella while the woman hints at unseen sights, hinting at an ongoing, humorous misunderstanding of the city.
A woman thanks a wet rescuer who saved her dog from danger. She offers quinine pills as a token of gratitude and hints at a reward. The odd exchange reflects wartime or morale era sentiment in a brief, public-spirited moment.
A traveler receives a telegram reading Twins this morning. More later. The quip notes a man with a good pob needs a fire insurance policy.
The United States Senate counts Kentucky's W OConnell Bradley among its members as a renowned criminal lawyer who defended 107 men indicted for murder in the first degree, with 103 acquittals.
County Clerk Charles H. Rawlinson issued a warrant for 126.90 as directed by the county board to cover litigation costs from the road improvement dispute. The injunctions in circuit court will be withdrawn following the board action taken three months after the Supervisors Huilberg and Ho'bek initiated the case.
The exchange shows Mrs. Younglove-John and Mr. Younglove in a lighthearted domestic moment. The line pits a playful accusation about not kissing for a week against a coy, affectionate response, reflecting newspaper humor of the era.
The director of a matrimonial agency notes that young girls ask only who he is while widows seek his location and status. The Pick-Me-Up column comments on matchmaking dynamics among different widow ages and questions of suitability.
Bold advertisement touts Elec tro-la as a permanent hair destroyer for the face neck arms and bust claiming it harms no skin leaves no scar and kills hair at the roots. A two cent stamp buys a trial bottle with a money back guarantee on the full size bottle priced at one dollar.
A noted physician touts a home remedy to break a cold fast and relieve cough. The formula mixes whiskey glycerine and pine concentrate. doses are every four hours using a half ounce pine bottle labeled Concentrated.
A funeral wagon proceeds toward Turner's with a grieving Jerry and Ardmore party while unknown riders shadow the scene. Suspicions arise as the returning dancers from Turner's keep watchful distance, hinting at hidden activities and a cautious escape plan.
Government experts report bleached flour contains nitrogen peroxide and violates the Pure Food Law of 1906. Interstate sale must stop though state sales may continue where produced. Marvel Flour remains unbleached and urged as pure and nutritious. Contact your grocer or call for suppliers.
Miss Mabel Sturtevant of Columbia Missouri is not a suffragist. She plans to complete language studies before a world tour as Braun international scholar the grant funded by Hamburg financier William F Braun who died five years ago and endowed the scholarship for triennial competition by students globally.
In a tense early dawn sequence, Collins, Ardmore, and Cooke discuss a corpse sighting on a lonely road. Suspicions fall on a Parisian savvy associate professor Grisly as possible plotting, while Appleweight’s widow plans a train back to the fatherland amid a jolting, uncertain vigil.
A fragment states outlaw Bill Appleweight is securely jailed in Turner Court House, Mingo County South Carolina, with the jailer sharing in the confinement. The note ends with a cue that the story continues.
A witty note urging restraint and focus on meaningful action rather than repeated complaints or excuses. It emphasizes delivering decisive effort when an opportunity truly arises.
A famous health builder claims that a tonic laxative herb tea will cleanse the bowels and restore natural function. The Lane's Family Medicine tea is offered in a 25 cent package at druggists and dealers, urged to try regardless of prior remedies.
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