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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
5
Louis Mitchell a Milwaukee Road switchman died in North Side yards last night after falling from a car when a brake wheel broke. He attempted to pull clear with his sleeve caught in the mechanism as the car moved. Foreman Webber’s crew had finished a long shift, making this his last job.
Struck by a brake beam during a derailment on the La Crosse division. He died on the spot after a failed grasp and a dark day recalled earlier wrecks that killed Engineer Fidlin and Fireman Corlett. Mitchell, 390 years old, had worked in La Crosse for years and left a wife, a son, and local lodge memberships. Funeral planned by Masons with Rev Turnery officiating.
A Franklin club debate last night ruled in favor of allowing women into the professions of law medicine and ministry. The vote supported the resolution disapproving of barring women from these careers.
The article notes that no two opportunities or want ads are identical, emphasizing the uniqueness of each listing and the impossibility of two entries ever reaching the exact same mark. It highlights individuality in every classified notice.
Send your Christmas packages by mail or express early. Express companies do not deliver Christmas parcels until Christmas day, regardless of receipt. Pack securely and avoid sending glassware in cardboard boxes. Foreign mail parcels require full prepaid postage of 12 cents per pound or fraction thereof.
Express and post office officials prepare for an early Christmas season with extra storage, more staff, and heightened traffic. Fifty additional clerks and carriers will handle the surge as foreign parcels face declaration and postage rules, with several envelopes held for insufficient postage bound for Sweden Norway England and Chile.
La Crosse teachers gather at West Salem High School by order of County Superintendent B. F. Oltman for a morning and afternoon program led by Prof. F. M. Jack. Attendees include county teachers, city principals, and district staff with sessions at 10:30 and 1:30.
Public notices and ads mention holiday photos at Kleist's studio before the 18th, Christmas gifts at Erhart's, and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea sold by druggists. Local events include Dolly Varden play, Louis Mitchell funeral, Henry Gund Chicago trip, and an Interstate Commerce Commission ruling affecting express package rates.
The death defying Tenkham and company headline a Bijou bill this week with Meeker and Baker comedy acrobats Mason and Filburn comedy sketch and Taylor and Fairman singing and piano acts. The illustrated song Won't You Come Over to My House by Lawrence Wall and the moving pictures including Bryan’s world trip arrival and the comedy short Pals draw crowds.
Mrs. Caroline Neukirschen of 1716 Farewell street had been missing two weeks. She is alive and visiting friends in Norwalk, according to her son and Coroner Edward Cronon. Reports she was at La Crosse hospital are denied. Neighbor Mrs. S. Trenson was treated at Lutheran hospital. Neukirschen plans to return to La Crosse soon.
Odd Fellows members are urged to attend the funeral of Brother David Wallace Sr at 1:30 Sunday at the Odd Fellow temple with a 2:15 departure. Efforts continue to locate William Clark, a former Kensoshamar missing from Goldfield Nevada since mid October with $8000 in his possession.
Weather Forecaster G R Oberholzer seeks bids for a two story brick observatory building to be erected at the southwest corner of Fifth and Cass streets in La Crosse. Construction to begin early spring after authorization from Secretary James Wilson received from Washington. Plans and specifications will be available for review and bid entry by contractors through the secretary of agriculture.
The funeral of Asa Critchfield who died in Wheeling West Virginia was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from West Avenue Methodist Church with Rev. W. W. Hurd officiating. Interment followed at Oak Grove Cemetery.
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