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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1914
Page
3
A contemporary criticizes James A. Frear for opposing river and harbor funds arguing his district sits along the Mississippi. The paper notes four of Frear’s nine counties touch the river and questions the sincerity of his stance on a $50 000 post office versus a $5 000 business.
The La Crosse vice report cites fifty one immoral places yet the paper suggests the number overstates deliberate vice while noting the mayor claims to have closed many dens. It concludes the city is improving though still facing immorality as a by product of business and license.
The piece weighs Frear's motive against the project’s soundness. If the river harbor park proves beneficial, Frear errs. if the project is waste, he is right. It notes editorials from The Outlook and other publications decrying pork and federal profligacy, while The Leader-Press is cited for influential arguments.
Evelyn Underhill reflects in the London Chronicle on a gunner's wife awaiting news from the front. She recalls mothers and wives visiting for support and continuing to read the papers for any mention of battles, while fearing the worst as she imagines the dangers soldiers face.
The narrator meets Eli Brown, a tall ebony clergyman from St. James, who cannot repaint the back fence that day due to a noon service. He leaves a business card and a note about future work, showing polite refusal and readiness to return.
The discharged milkman denounces a rival supplier's milk while asserting his own product comes fresh from his cows. He argues against milk that has traveled by rail for hours, stressing the superiority of his own milk.
A vintage musterole advertisement touts a clean white ointment made from lard oil that substitutes for mustard plasters. It claims fast relief for sore throat bronchitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia congestion pleurisy rheumatism lumbago and more with 25 50 cent jars and a $2 50 hospital size from The Musterole Company Cleveland Ohio.
In a neighborhood exchange a resident questions a farmer about claims while noting a familiar routine at the station. The man is seen daily loading milk cans onto his cart, prompting local chatter about his honesty.
Captain Smith, owner and pilot of the packet New Orleans, piloted for 36 hours as Mississippi floods broke banks. Rastus, a colored pilot aboard, was told to hold the boat on the north star, but after waking the captain found the vessel winding through trees, and the crew admitted the star had long since passed.
A humorous exchange at a church meeting reveals how readers assign postnominal letters to names. The character Miss May asks what the letters mean while others explain they denote honors or roles such as Episcopal organ blower, with examples like D D and M D for doctors and U S N for a visiting officer.
Pat tells the parish priest about America and tall buildings in New York. He jokes that the last building they worked on required laying on their stomachs to let the moon pass, highlighting a humorous Irish perspective.
Green Bay police arrested George Baldwin 21 from Milwaukee on a charge of stealing tips from waitresses at the Beaumont hotel. He claims Milwaukee origin.
In St Paul Minnesota on December 8 John Coleman was found dead by his bedside kneeling as if in prayer. He was described as tuberculosis and a preacher.
A terrified girl on a guarded prenuptial procession clings to a vial of perfume while a close escort member presses near. She seethes with anger when the vial slips away, suspecting betrayal as Star of the Desert’s rider is revealed in dim light.
Report notes American efforts to produce cheese and carbolic acid as part of wartime self sufficiency. Two more horrors of war are cited as the home front adapts to shortages and civilian materials.
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