La Crosse Boy Roy Peterson Injured at Necaxa Dam
Roy Peterson, a La Crosse engineer with Mexican Light & Power, was severely injured near Necaxa Mexico by a rock shot from a blast while laying water pipes in a tunnel. He was transported to an American hospital for treatment and is anticipated to recover with surgery. Peterson, 3 years with the company, was headed home for Christmas to Market Street parents.
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Market Street
Roy Peterson
Necaxa
Mexico
The
Mexican Herald of Navy
Mexican Light & Power Company, Ltd
Necax
National Railway
Beristain
Peterson
Nacaxa
La Crosse Athletes open indoor season with rivals in Jet 14–16
The La Crosse Athletes launch the indoor baseball season on Jet 14 15 and 16 facing Chatfield and St. Charles. Officers will be elected Wednesday evening. Local horseowners are urged to support Verkins and Lachenmaier to keep prices fair with set rates for horseshoeing and an anti trust message appearing in local notices.
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la Crosse
Jet
Chatfield
St. Charles
Verkins
Trust
Skaar presides at Scandinavian banquet in Frohsinn hall
Attorney Olav R. Skaar led the Normanna Saengerchor banquet at Frohsinn hall on a Saturday night. The feast expenses were covered by profits from the Saengerfest held in La Crosse last July. Post-prandial speeches praised city patrons for help and financial support.
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Gerkor
Frohsinn
la Crosse
Olav R. Skaar
Youth Refused Army Admission Tramps Home
G Medamanson a 16 year old boy from a farm near New Amsterdam Wisconsin was refused admission to the army for being underage. He left home without telling his parents and a search was started. He was found returning to his home on foot with a heavy musket on his shoulder.
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G. Medamanson
New Amsterdam
Wis
Medamanson
John B Webber Dies of Typhoid in Wisconsin
John B Webber age 57 dies after two weeks of typhoid fever in Bangor Wisconsin. He was postmaster of his village for fifteen years and brother to La Crosse police detective J B Webber and Adam Webber. Funeral held in Sparta and remains shipped to La Crosse for burial beside his sister in Oak Grove.
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John B. Webber
J. B. Webber
la Crosse
Adam Webber
Bangor
Wis
Webber
North Side
Sparta
John Baptist Webber
Oak Grove
Card of Thanks for aid during illness and death
We extend heartfelt thanks to friends neighbors and relatives who assisted us during the illness and death of our daughter and sister Hazel and for the floral tributes. Special thanks to Bishop Sagen Rev Magersson and the choir. Mr and Mrs Chris Hanson and family.
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Hazel
Bishop Sagen
Magersson
Chris F. Hanson
Charity Idea Reduces to Giving Tarving Man a Pepsin Tablet
A fragment notes a view that charity today means offering a tarving man a pepsin tablet, implying minimal aid without addressing underlying needs. The comment reflects a utilitarian critique of welfare gestures lacking substance.
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Tarving Man
Local Notices and Advertisements Roundup
Short items list local names and actions including medical notes Dr Will Powell and diseases of women A M Goldish trips to Chicago and St Louis painting services Gateway City Carriage works H J Masters R B Graves Thomas Coles Sparta Wis political aspirants for clerkship Aug ust Brand Mary Evans and S B Wheldon chicken pie supper at Masonic temple Dec 4 plus births and hospital notices and weather gauge move by La Crosse weather bureau.
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Will Paewell
A. M. Goldish
Chicago
St. Louis
A. O. Colby
Charles Boley
Russell Smith
Bangor
August Brand
Mary Evans
B. Wheldon
Gateway City Carriage Works
Peter Bedessem
Gateway City Carriage Company
H. J. Masters
R. B. Graves
Thomas Coles
Sparta
Wis
The
Presbyterian Church
Masonic Temple
George Powell
Frank Robbins
New Mexico
W. J. Lawrence
Ferry Street
Jeff Gibbons
Blume’s
Bijou
German Art Club
John Bauer
Vine Street
Will Powell
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
la Crosse Weather Bureau
la Crosse City
Revival call to personal graft and public service
A sermon urges Christians to seek revival within themselves and the church, warning against worldly drift and urging prayer, repentance, and active service. It stresses genuine conversion, accountability to debt and neighbor, and a call to work as part of God’s plan for societal betterment.
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Mer
Zion
Jesus
Paul
Wonder Hill Vastly Boosts Weight in Bowie Tex
Western tale highlights W. L. Hill who grew from 90 to over 186 pounds after using Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. He credits the cure to twelve bottles and says doctors had given up. O T Erhart druggist guarantees the remedy with 50 cent and 1 dollar sizes and a trial bottle free.
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Bowie
Tex
W. L. Hill
Dr. King
O. T. Erhart
County Board to Meet on Petition for New La Crosse County Highway
The Roads and Bridge Committee of the La Crosse County Board will meet at Onalaska City Hall at 10 a.m. on December 24 to consider a petition by over thirty freeholders to lay out a new highway from the north boundary of La Crosse to the south boundary of Onalaska. The proposed route would replace the present road and run in a straight line from George Street in La Crosse to Onalaska’s southern edge. Dated November 28, 1906.
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State of
Wisconsin
la Crosse County
County Board of Supervisors
Said County
Campbell
City of
la Crosse
Onalaska
County Board
Said
George Street
Pickle Works
United States Young Women's Christian associations plan
A meeting in New York will unite the two existing national YWCA groups into the Young Women's Christian Associations of the United States of America with a National Board as executive. Charter members from both older organizations may join the new body. The piece notes Turkey's tightening on foreign lottery tickets and includes local notices about a lost fur bonnet and a job ad for a cook.
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Tribune
New York
Young Women’s Christian Associations
United States
International Board of Women’s and Young Women’s Christian Associations
American Committee
Young Women’s Christian Association
Chicago
Young Women’s Christian Associations of the
United States of America
National Board
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John C. Burns
Fruit House
Capital City
Horseshoers
Anti-trust
Skaar
Normanna Saen
Wellville
CKY News
Turkey
North Seventh
Dunham
Black Fur Bon
Tribune Office
South Thir Tenth Street
Cate
the Royal
Irvine
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