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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1913
Page
7
Lightweight champion Willie Ritchie says golf sharpens a fighter and plans daily practice in San Francisco as he prepares for a bout with Harlem Tommy Murphy. He admits he was bored at first but quickly got hooked on the Scotch game and now spends spare time on the links.
Minnesota may be asked to ship grain to Canada to keep flour mills running. Todd W. Lewis, grain broker in Winnipeg, reports that by Saturday night more wheat will have moved through terminals in three months than in all of 1912. He cites tight money forcing Canadians to sell wheat and the oats crop facing a similar shortage, risking interior mills missing a grind before next harvest.
The article quotes a line from the Chicago News noting society as a wall that confines some people while excluding others.
An advertisement touts S. S. S. as the purest blood medicine with no drugs or minerals. It claims rapid, reliable treatment for poisoned blood, rheumatism, catarrhal infection, malaria, skin diseases, old sores and other blood related afflictions. Readers are urged to obtain the product and to insist on iodide free versions, with mailing address for more information.
An advertisement promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy for indigestion and sour stomach. It claims the tablets supply digestive elements, digest large meals, and relieve belching heartburn and other stomach complaints. A 50 cent box is urged to be purchased at the drugstore.
Warm weather disrupts winter conditions in Wisconsin. Richland Center reports ice exhausted and meat and provisions spoiling, prompting import of supplies. Deerfield notes dandelions blooming as Evan Deversson collects blooms. Nearby towns report fruit trees beginning to bud. sun remains absent for over a week.
The piece recounts how Mohammed kept a sacred beard and refused to shave, with the conqueror of Constantinople famed for a beard described as gold thread. It notes Selim the Grim’s severed beard and his remark that cutting it served as a warning to his viziers.
A young man proposes to Miss Wombat who rejects him with a firm no. He recovers quickly and asks to be her suitor instead, altering the terms of his plea. The Pittsburgh Post records the exchange as a light social vignette.
A witty remark reflects changing gender roles as a husband adopts his wife into the kitchen. The saying notes many men resist marrying cooks yet will entrust wives with cooking duties after marriage.
Governor James M. Cox and two Ohio agricultural officials failed to board the section leaving Toledo due to a misunderstanding. The train rushed through Orrville, Ohio, at sixty miles per hour with an empty car while the governor and commissioners waited, later catching a different train to join the group of khaki clad corn growers en route to Washington in Pittsburg.
Salt Lake, Dec. 3. Des pite the fact that it seemed impossible Rafael Lopez could survive deadly gases in the Apex mine, some miners offered bets that he is alive. The sheriff and mine officials doubt these statements as the mine fills with carbonic acid gas. Six miners were overcome testing the bulkhead, proving Lopez could not have survived.
Bangor residents host guests from Madison La Crosse Spokane and Ontario. Funeral services for Mrs Hugo Hussa are held at the Presbyterian church with interment in Fairview cemetery.
A brief exchange notes Jackson saying he has been married fifteen years and his wife greets him at the door. Johnson replies wonderful. Jackson adds she fears he might enter without wiping his boots.
A witty remark notes that many a man's conscience is tougher than his hands, implying moral resolve outweighs physical effort in men. The line plays on grooming imagery to critique ethical sensitivity.
An advertisement touts Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy as a cure for stomach, liver, and intestinal catarrhal conditions. It warns against medicines for temporary relief and surgery, claiming one dose can prove restoration. It lists endorsements by professionals and invites readers to request a free booklet and purchase info in La Crosse and nationwide.
Mrs Martha Lindaman aged 48 a cousin of Andrew Carnegie died in Darien Wisconsin yesterday by suicide after a quarrel that separated her from her husband. The husband found the body about thirty minutes later with a deputy sheriff acting as a body guard when he returned for his clothes she had threatened to kill him if he came back alone.
The Danish government suspends a line of incandescent lamps across a strait to prevent eels from migrating from the Baltic Sea to the ocean, citing the need to regulate their passage and protect traffic in the area.
A collection of quirky lines and observations. Notes on a Russian wolfhound named Mickzewickz and a joke about sneezes. A local-voice glimpse at crowd movement and blue Monday musings.
Miss Margaret Wilson led a confab with 57 local citizens associations at the White House civic center. The plan aims to use city schoolhouses for town meetings and discuss locating swimming pools with supervised recreation centers for residents.
Ten black suspects tied to a Voodoo cult are indicted with forty others sought in the death of a five year old white girl. Police say the child was killed to obtain blood for ritual sacrifices.
Strickland Gillilan moves to Indianapolis from Baltimore to seek the democratic middle west he loves. He says the east wore him down with formal dress and he longs for the practical life and familiar language of the Hoosier region where he was born.
Wisconsin Daily News and the Daily Cardinal merge under an agreement between their boards, forming a consolidated student publication at the University of Wisconsin. The move unites UW student media operations and staff.
Advises meat eaters to flush kidneys to prevent ailments by using four ounces of Jad Salts from Charles A. Beyschlag, Druggist, 503 Main Street. Claims salts cleanse kidney pores, ease back pain, and neutralize urine acids to prevent bladder irritation and other disorders.
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