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.
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1910
Page
1
Fourteen teams compete in the race with all runners in fine condition and expected to post record breaking scores.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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