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La Crosse Tribune

Location

La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Dec 06, 1910

Page

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Fourteen Teams Retied in Race Duel

Fourteen teams compete in the race with all runners in fine condition and expected to post record breaking scores.

Track cyclists race six days record chase at Madison Square Garden

At Madison Square Garden the six day race continues with riders tightly bunched near the hour mark. Bobby Walthour suffered a fall when his rear tire exploded, dropping the field and allowing Butt and Stol to gain ground on the leaders. Through hour nine, McFarland and Hebb topped the mileage with 665 miles while the field remains crowded and fatigued amid repeated sprints and the threat of laps.

Mison Square Garden We York Hanor Fintine Butt Stol Bobby Walthoun Walthour Mii McFarland CIA Hebb and Fogler Hill Halstead Pye Wiley Lawson Ins Drobach Gala Anderson Georget Pouchois West Demare Thomas Julian Pouchois

Casting Net for Canada Smugglers

New York December 6 Collectors report smugglers evading duties at the port of New York now target the Canadian border. Information reached Treasury officials indicating a wide net is being spread and many arrests are pending at the border.

New Yor New York Loeb Treasury Dewith

Doherty Reports 210.50 Campaign Expense

In Eridison Wisconsin on December 6 John F. Doherty of La Crosse filed a campaign expense report showing 210.50. The filing lists other Democratic figures J C Carney Milwaukee and 8 Holland Chippewa Falls with 568.37 and 3500 respectively for congressional and state treasurer primary contests.

Doherty Eridison Wis John F. Doherty la Crosse Ovis Today J. c Carney Milwaukee Democratic Congress Holland Chippewa Falls Treasot

Naked Ladies in New City Hall Debate Sparks Art Display

Yonkers city fathers vote after debate on art display plans for the new city hall. The decision results in alternate decorations replacing a bath scene with mounted paintings of landscapes and distant Westchester vistas.

New City Hall le York Yonkers Psyche Jana Westchester

Able Document Is Regulars Verdict

Regulars verdict affirms the able document reading as valid in the context presented. The ruling emphasizes adherence to standards and confirms the document’s regularity for official use.

Taft Message Read Amid House Inattention In Congress

Washington December 6 Members of both chambers largely ignored President Taft's message as clerks read for nearly three hours in the House and about an hour in the Senate. A small group of insurgent senators gathered to discuss the coming fight on the program while regular Republicans hailed the message as an able state document.

Washington, D. C Taft Congress House Senate Senate Chamber Cummins la Follette Clapp Brison Clark Mann Washington John Dwight

Wisconsin Supreme Court denies Bancroft re hearing

The Wisconsin supreme court refused a state motion for a rehearing in the Bancroft case deciding Levi Bancroft’s name may appear on the official ballot as the Republican candidate for attorney general. The court also ruled Sunday contracts for Milwaukee Sentinel advertising are void under the Blue Law as Sunday papers remain subject to the Sabbath prohibition.

Madison Wis Wisconsin Supreme Court Levi Bancroft Milwaukee Sentinel

President's message triggers slight stock decline on wall street

The message from the president caused a small dip in the stock market. Most standard shares moved little at first but fell after the publication citing testing legislative laws before new corporation bills. J S Bache & Co called the message not radical but not comforting.

New York J. S. Bache & Co

Liberals Lead in British Election Amidst Deadlock Fears

London reports today's unopposed and yesterday's delayed counts place Conservatives 126, Liberals 90, Irish Nationalists 25, Labour 18, with one Speaker Lowther seat. Liberals and Labour gain a small edge while Irish ballast may tilt the upper house, fueling talk of home rule and a possible early election.

London England Lowther George House of Lords Ireland

Whitaker denounces former lover in Chicago letter

William Whitaker, once a Detroit merchant, wrote a fifteen page denunciation of a woman who fled with him five years ago and later shot herself in a Chicago boarding house. He lay dying in a local hospital, haunted by a broken dream of love.

Chicago Wm. Whittaker Detroit Whitakeh

Eddy burial set for Mount Auburn after Thursday funeral

The body of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy founder of the Christian Science church will be buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge after her funeral Thursday morning an official announcement by her household stated today The ceremony marks the end of a long leadership era for the church that grew from Mrs Eddy's teachings in Boston and beyond

Boston Mary Baker G. Eddy The Christian Science Church Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge

Girl to cross continent trained at Dorchester High

Boston December 6 Mildred Belknap a Dorchester high school sophomore is training to walk across the American continent. The effort is described as a cross country endurance project with plans underway.

Boston Mildred Belknap Dorchester High School

Bitter attack on Judge Wickham in Wisconsin murder case

Attorney Rubin filed a prejudiced affidavit against Judge Wickham in the John Dietz defense trial at Hayward Wisconsin. The document alleges no Wisconsin circuit judge outside Milwaukee would satisfy the defense and declares Wickham unfit to appoint a replacement. Wickham threatened contempt proceedings but excused the affidavit and denied a continuance while ordering the Dietzs to plead to the deputy murder charge.

Hayward Wis Wickham Wisconsin W. R. Rubin John Dietz Dam Milwaukee County

Chauffeurs Return to Work After Six Week Strike

New York union taxi drivers end a six week strike by accepting a 12 hour work day. They drop demands on uniforms handling, damaged car charges, and arbitration of runs while keeping an open shop provision opposed by the drivers.

New York

Peculiar Will Delays Inheritance For Fort Wayne Judge

In Fort Wayne Indiana on December 6 a will by the late Judge F Roda baugh leaves an estate valued at 125000 to be held until five years after the death of the last of his siblings. If all heirs reach 30 by then the property is divided otherwise kept intact until the youngest heir is 30.

Fort Wayne Ind F. Rodabaugh

Arkansas Grows as Census Totals Rise in 1910

The census shows Arkansas at 1,574,449 inhabitants, up 262,885 or 20 percent, adding one new congressman. South Carolina reaches 1,515,400, up 175,084 or 13.1 percent, but not enough for an extra representative.

Washington, D. C Arkansas South Carolina

Women Display Union Hosiery in Suffrage Colors

The Women's Political Union adopts an official hosiery style in green purple and white to show support for suffrage. New hosiery is on display at the union shop on Twenty-ninth Street with the slogan branded cigarettes marketed for men yet claimed safe for women.

New York Women's Political Union Twenty-ninth Street

Fire at Evansville Cigar Factory Destroys Plant

A fire at the P. Fendrich Cigar Factory on Main Street Evansville Ind started early this morning and swept through half a block causing about $600,000 in damage. The factory was reduced to ashes within four hours leaving about a hundred workers unemployed.

Evansville Ind P. Fendrich Main Street Prae Fendrich

Mrs. E. J. Hughes Dies on La Crosse Street

Mrs. Mary Hughes aged 51 widow of Judge E. J. Hughes of Onalaska collapsed with apoplexy while walking with Mrs. John Pierce near West Avenue and Main Street in La Crosse. She died before medical aid arrived. Survived by three children and siblings. Funeral planned at Presbyterian church in La Crosse with burial likely in Bangor.

John Pierce Mary Hughes E. J. Hughes Onalaska Pierce John Haugen Scott Hughes H. B. Lafflin Wis Frank Aiken Jno

Cummins Starts Tariff Struggle in Senate

Iowa Senator Cummins moves to change Senate rules with two resolutions on tariff bills. One blocks broad tariff debate by limiting bills to the schedule under consideration. The other lets unreported finance bills be taken up as if reported, aiming to prevent burying tariff measures.

Washington, D. C Cummins Iowa Senate Finance Committee

Death by Exposure At Doorstep Shocks Omaha

The body of Watson Wolf, rural mail carrier from South Omaha, was found outside his gate after lying in the snow overnight. He appears to have fallen from a culvert end and died from exposure, while his invalid wife waited indoors.

Omaha Neb Watson Wolf South Omaha Wolf

Freezing Death Toll Rises in Provinces Bordering Aral Sea

Reports from RLIN on December 6 indicate more than a dozen people froze to death amid an ongoing cold snap. The severe freeze has also devastated livestock with five thousand cattle reportedly perishing.

Rlin Bord Aral

White Plague War Starts in Schools

The board of education discusses tuberculosis outreach in city schools led by Miss Nettie Sabelwitz with a plan to visit every grade and distribute envelopes for parental contributions. Proposals raise teachers pay by about ten percent and adjust monthly stipends and end-of-term payments. A change to school attendance districts for State Road Coulee families and support for a deaf child’s daily streetcar fare are also considered.

Louis Atherton State Normal School Board of Education Nettie Sabelwitz Washington Atherton Green Bay Tracks State Road Hougen Redfield Hogan School Benezet Madison Senator Hazelwood Mann University of Chicago Slaughter University of Wisconsin Felney Illinois Normal School

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Canada Des Moines Deau Claire la Crosse Board of Trade H. H. Long Board of Trade Utermoehl Masonic Temple Liberals Lords Merchant J Mrs. Eddy Mount Auburn Dietz Pires Dres Freeze TO Miss Sabelwitz Sinop Minnesota
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