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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1915
Page
5
An advertisement urges women to restore natural hair color with Hay's Hair Health. The copy claims the refined remedy is easy to apply with a sponge, works without dye, and reverses premature gray by counteracting air oxygen to return dark, attractive hair. A bottle can be purchased at a local drug store.
Ambassador Gerard, joking about meat scarcity, has taken up hunting at a Berlin area game preserve. He boasts deer, ducks, pheasants and rabbits bagged in recent weeks, including a 200 yard duck shot and head shots on two roebucks.
Personal notices list B A Yeomen officers to be elected at a Tuesday dance in the small hall. Many visitors travel from Austin Minnesota and Baraboo Wisconsin. Officers, visitors, and local business calls fill the La Crosse area as officials and residents relay itineraries and routine notices.
An old medicine ad promises to cure a cold in one day with LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails. E. W. Grove’s signature appears on each box and the price is 25 cents.
Two small fires prompted responses from Hose Companies No 1 and No 3. A basement blaze at John Keller grocery store on Fourth and Division caused minor stock damage. A heating plant fire in St Rose convent basement followed. In court, Judge E C Higbee heard the Modern Steam Laundry suit via Clinger Curtain Co. testimony. ruling taken under advisement with adjournment for two minor cases and a divorce action. Normal Science Club meets at 8 pm in Room 315 with talks on rubber industry research and disease carriage by the cat.
Madison Wisconsin reports the state fair will run September 9 to 17 as announced by the American Association of Fairs and Expositions at its twenty fifth annual convention in Chicago. Wisconsin will follow Minnesota as usual.
In New York on December 6 authorities barred a painting showing a woman in a chiffon veil from Washington Irving High School’s art exhibit, deeming the image inappropriate for public display and saying that it does not present a proper appearance for a lady.
Boston December 6 Vernon Castle announces he quits the Watch Your Step musical company to join the British aviation corps at the front.
A fragment notes that much of amateur china painting does not qualify as art. The brief critique suggests limited artistic merit and situates craft within broader aesthetic standards.
Dr Roller presents a remarkable discussion of mental control in the New York Herald Sunday. The piece appears in the paper's features section, noting perspectives on mind power and influence during wartime reporting and public discourse.
Mrs Minnie Jacobs was chosen to head the Myron P Lindsley lodge of the Rebekkahs No 104 as noble grand in last week’s officer election. Other officers named include Vice grand Helma Thompson secretary Laura Boardman treasurer Anna Wold deputy Bertha Owen trustee May Nielsen chaplain Hilda Mathewson pianist Delia Hefti
The Young Women's Christian Association board of directors will hold their regular monthly business meeting at the association building at four o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The Young People's society of Our Savior's church will host a birthday social at the church parlors tomorrow evening with a planned program and refreshments. Officers for the coming year will be elected at the Daughters of Norway meeting at Redmen hall tomorrow evening. John Flynn Relief Corps No 25 will hold their annual election of officers tomorrow evening.
Mrs Earl H Eklund hosted the Thursday Afternoon Embroidery club at her residence 913 South Seventh street last week.
Mrs C E Noble entertained three tables of bridge Saturday evening at her home. Prizes were won by Mrs W D Iden and Mrs A R Baldwin.
Employees of the La Crosse Steam Laundry held a private dance at Frohsinn hall on Saturday night with forty couples attending. The evening began with the Cake Waltz and concluded with the Tango. Supper was served at ten thirty, and all enjoyed a delightful time.
Miss Ruth Leissring, a West Salem school teacher, entertained the 8 S. O. B. club of West Salem at her mother’s home last Saturday. Miss Lorna Stathem, also a West Salem teacher, assisted in serving.
About sixty five couples attended the Maccabees private dancing party Friday evening at Central hall at the corner of Caledonia and Clinton streets. The evening featured a three piece orchestra and a quintet of boys performing vocally to the delight of attendees.
Saturday evening marked a grand social event as the normal school hosted the fifth annual dance by the Ladies' Glee club. About fifty five couples attended, with careful planning evident in decorations, gym seating, and even hand made programs. Eightteen numbers filled a program that ran until midnight.
Mrs Minnie Thurber left for Chicago last week and will join her son Lieutenant Philip Thurber and his wife at Fort Meyer in Washington D C. Miss Ada Ganshhow YWCA physical director spent the weekend with friends at Onalaska. Miss Anna Beckmann visits relatives in Mound Prairie Minnesota.
The Berg family expresses heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness during their bereavement after the death of their husband and father. Special gratitude goes to Trinity church Ladies Aid and all who sent floral offerings.
A clipped kitchen exchange reveals a comic dispute as a mess cook complains to a superior about crates of chickens escaping rough handling. The derly responds with a terse correction claiming only six were sent, underscoring a brief, humorous miscommunication on a bustling ship or station.
A vintage notice touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast cure for head cold symptoms. It claims two hour dosing until three doses total clears nasal passages eases feverishness sore throat and sneezing and costs 25 cents at any drug store.
London December 6 The Japanese Prince a British passenger liner owned by the Prince Line and registered at Newcastle eluded a German submarine after a five hour chase in which she was heavily shelled The press bureau announced the attack occurred recently and that the liner was ultimately brought safely to port The ship displaces 4876 tons.
Mrs. B Evenson of 410 Cameron Ave La Crosse testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills cured her back pain and insomnia caused by irregular kidney action. The advertisement claims lasting improvement and urges readers to buy the 50 cent bottle from dealers, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
William Broese brewmaster of Bartl Brewing was chosen president of the Upper Mississippi Valley Brewmasters association at the La Crosse session. Ernst Chitel declines reelection. Officers include Ferdinand Effinger as vice president and Fred Bloesing as secretary and treasurer. A banquet ball and theater party followed, with Senator Otto Bosshard as toastmaster.
The board of trade public health committee postponed the seal sale meeting at the La Crosse club to next week due to several of the eighteen members being absent. F. H. Scofield organized the Christmas seals campaign as in prior years with 275 packages sent to business and professional men. Seals are available at Hebberd’s drug store Doerflinger Park City Book store Fifth and Main C. L. Lien’s H. L. Partridge’s North Side stores and by phone from Scofield. Sales begin Monday at the high school normal and ward schools.
A teacher asks for a word ending in ous meaning full of, and a boy replies with a punny twist, proposing pious as full of vie. The room lingers in silence before the clever reply lands.
Report states German forces advanced thirty miles in Russian Poland and claim occupation of Lodz. Simultaneously forty French and British warships are prepared to storm the Dardanelles, indicating renewed Allied naval actions.
Cambridge Mass December 6 Francis Grover Cleveland Aloysius St Jean De Baptist De La Salle Robert ONeill of St Louis Missouri a Harvard student has been nominated for the office of treasurer of the class of 1916 If elected he will be compelled either to curtain his signature or resort to an enlarged form of check when he pays out money for class reunions.
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