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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1955
Page
16
The Hub Loan Co at 105 So. 3rd St offers loan services on watches, diamonds, binoculars, cameras, guns and similar items with phone access at 4-4684.
Tri State brief highlights Willard Halsey 57 of Hesper Iowa died in Seattle after pneumonia. Lydia Macke 74 of Black River Falls died after brief illness. Burnell Addison 68 of Prairie du Chien died after long illness with services planned in Prairie du Chien and Lancaster. Surviving family details listed.
Birth notices record newborns at Lutheran Hospital Grandview La Crosse Community and Vernon Memorial Hospitals. Names include Sanders Schulze Schoonover Forer Koeppen Stuhr Bruha Pucel Favre Conway Guenther Klumby Lyga Koepke Ewald Parnow Calum Perry Winchell Ames Hilton and others with birth dates in early December.
Gatton Mattresses offered inner spring units at 15 dollars with 1 day service and pickup. La Crosse Bedding Co advertised rebuilt mattresses and innerspring or recovered options. La Crosse Woolen Mills Co listed fabric and George street address. Ray L. Revor provided piano tuning and repair at 1707 Jackson. D R Van Derlan Co offered siding and roofing at 717 George. Electric shavers repaired with same day service. Convenient Jewelers advertised watch repair at 306 Main. Bedbugs and roaches extermination by EB Kloss with free estimates at 1433 Jackson. Dial numbers include 44633 and 2-2263.
The list records births and vows from Dec. 8 to Dec. 12 for families in Westby La Farge Gays Mills and Chaseburg, noting parents Herbert Garlick Margaret Stalsberg Florence Bown Lorraine Berg and Mil dred Bloedau. Specific addresses include R. 3 Westby R. 1 La Farge R. 1 Chaseburg Gays Mills.
In Fernandina Beach Florida William J Kopplin 28 said while he batted at a mosquito his car ran off the road and struck a tree. Kopplin and his wife were treated for cuts and shock.
Dr. D H Erkiletian placed an ad in The Kentucky New Era seeking a lost cap and ball pistol. Mrs Livy Leavell called to report her son had found the relic two years earlier.
NEW DELHI India exports its solar cookers developed by a government laboratory to Africa. South Rhodesia orders four cookers from India as part of a research program to find a substitute for wood fuel amid timber shortages.
In Norfolk Commander John A. Goodman told the Optimist Club that aerial reconnaissance determines water depth. He cited success to 40 fathoms with depth measured from wave frequency and negative density.
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