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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
10
A sale note urges prompt action as opportunities close with a long list of furniture pieces and rugs. Items include tables, library tables, buffets, china closets, writings desks, and various rug types from Early English to Wilton, with prices ranging from a few dollars to over thirty dollars.
National league magnates resume talks at the Hotel Breslin as they prefer a 154 game schedule that minimizes conflicts with the American league. They plan to confer with Ban Johnson to avoid Sunday clashes in the west and discuss prize limits amid the La Joie Cobb dispute, while considering minor league classifications for Western and Three Eye leagues. The American league meets to wrap up ownership questions for the St Louis club with a sale anticipated and a committee named to study potential buyers.
Rowena Circle No 2 Brotherhood of American Yeomen held a regular meeting in Link erhall on Tuesday afternoon. Members voted to aid worthy families with money and groceries for Christmas. After a business session, lunch was served and progressive cinch was played. Prizes went to Mesdames Mosher Bedessem Robert and Claus. Forty five ladies attended.
Slogan style old time consumer ad claiming TIZ relieves sore feet fast. Promises instant relief, lasting cure, and odor and swelling reduction. Cites Walter Luther Dodge Co. Chicago as direct seller and 25 cents per box.
The officers elected for the ensuing year include President Anna Lee Vice president Elizabeth Drake Secretary Nellie Grove Treasurer Ida Knothe Chaplain Anna Gibbons Sentinel Mary Vondrashek Past President Della Denison The Brotherhood of American Yeomen invites Rowena Circle BA Y to a joint installation of officers.
J Jolly Jones Jr resigns as manager of the Magic theater in Fort Dodge to take over Crystal theater in Waterloo Iowa recently bought by Frank L Koppelberger Jones praised for honesty courtesy and for improving Fort Dodges Magic theater since December 1909 by the Fort Dodge Reporter His tenure with Richard Mansfield and dedication to theater are noted as shaping a new era and strengthening the venue and business
Denver firms filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission a complaint against freight rates by twelve western and southwestern railroads on machinery shipments from St Louis Chicago and intermediate points to Denver. They contend the rate is five to fifty cents per hundred pounds higher than warranted and seek several thousand dollars in reparations.
Pittsburg Pa December 15 Frank Klaus and Jack Abbott square off in a six round middleweight bout at the Majestic club of McKeesport. Both fighters declare themselves in good condition for the bout.
Close friends of Captain Isaac E. Emerson the bromo seltzer king expect he will file for divorce soon and settle the matter discreetly. If granted the decree, Mrs Smith Hollins McKim Emerson may wed Alfred Gwynn Van derbilt promptly thereafter.
Senate bills introduced include Perkins California proposal to spend 199000 for a nine foot channel from Collinsville to Sacramento 12900 for a four foot channel Sacramento to Colusa Landing and 6000 for a three foot channel Colusa Landing to Reed Bluff and Jones Washington plan to sell Spokane military reservation 640 acres with proceeds to support Colville and Spokane Indian schools.
Jack Johnson, the champion, will appear in Pittsburg next Tuesday in a Ting with Walter Monaghan from the Pacific coast mentoring him and George Cotton, Jack’s former sparring partner, in the corner.
Dr. H. L. Williams, originator of the tackle shift, will return as Minnesota football coach after the board renewed his contract for one year at 3500 dollars. He led strong western teams and his shift featured in Yale Princeton play this year.
Pat Moore of Allenhurst New Jersey and Tommy Murphy of Fishkill Landing New York arrived in New York for a ten round bout at the Empire Athletic Club. Both boxers say they are slightly under the weight limit and have trained to the minute, with the winner potentially challenging Ad Wolgast for the title.
Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson and Henry C Litton will meet in a three round exhibition at a Chicago club this afternoon. Litton, a respected clubman and merchant, seeks a tryout against the Scrapper as Johnson agrees to box. The event may be billed as a fight or a frolic.
Friends fear former heavyweight champion Tommy Burns has fought his last match after injuries from a Seattle Tacoma interurban wreck. He suffered a badly wrenched right arm and knee, possible fracture, and head bruises. He was already recovering from a previous knee injury.
Jim the Rat describes yesterday’s informal five round fight between Tommy Murphy and Harry Lortz at Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. Murphy trains at Fishkill Landing for a later match with Pat Moore as Thaw consults his attorney and stays away. The in-house crowd of inmates mocked the spectacle while the two fighters tested footwork and power amid instructions from the audience.
New York reports Dr. George L. Mylan at Columbia University finds in a 233 student test that smokers show higher athletic performance while non smokers surpass in classroom work. Smokers gain more weight and height but non smokers improve lung capacity more. 47 percent of smokers win varsity spots versus 37 percent of non smokers.
Chicago Dec 15 Today may bring results in the dispute over the McFarland Attell bout. Packey McFarland arrives in New York to meet Billy Gibson and Tom O Rourke, rival promoters, to straighten out the tangle and save the scheduled match.
In New York on December 15 George W. Moore fell to John W. Daly by one point in a handicapped three cushion billiards encounter. Daly scored 159 to Moore's 129 with a 20 point handicap. Daly needed 116 innings for 53 points. Moore’s worst night of the series. On the same date in Paris Harry Lewis defeated Jeff Thorne by knockout at the Wegram Boxing Club, drawing mixed reactions from the crowd.
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