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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1911
Page
3
An editorial denounces King George V for grandiose acts including estimates of spending on the Indian Durbar and plans to move the capital from Calcutta. The piece argues such extravagance harms India and costs hundreds of millions, stirring accusation of vanity and poor leadership.
A fragment notes a royal funeral and a martyr of punk and pigweed finding a niche in Westminster. It hints at ceremonial rites and a niche in local culture without detailing names or dates.
The article weighs Joseph Mc Grath and Officer Wendling in a case involving a $16 item linked to a detective. It questions the secrecy and motives for a public explanation and notes alleged bribery attempts reported or unreported, including incidents at the Hub saloon and denials by Mc Grath Yolton and detectives.
Dr. F B Hadley of the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture directs demonstrations in infected districts to show hog cholera vaccination. Serum serves as a preventive, not a cure for hogs already infected amid a recentWisconsin outbreak.
Governors under a civic committee visited Indianapolis on a special trip led by Governor Marshall Mayor Shank and former Vice President Fairbanks. They changed plans from St Louis to St Paul after reaching Indianapolis.
Grantland Rice writes under A Ray mond Requiem about Bugs, quoting verses that muse on who helps or harms him. The verse ponders who is treating him now who is saying here’s how and who’s leading Bugs to bottles and jugs.
A judge reflects on rebuking a man for beating his wife in a tale that exposes a lack of belief. He remarks on compassion and caution, noting the man's resigned line You may do as yer like but I ve got to.
Rastus asks the doctor what the matter is. The doctor replies it is likely chicken pox. Rastus frets about catching it and swears on his honor he feels fine.
A teacher boasts bright students who solve a puzzle about a rich man's will. One fifth to the wife one sixth to the son one seventh to the daughter one eighth to the brother and the rest to foreign missions. The class member quips a lawyer wins.
A boy reluctant to state his name stammers to the teacher, explaining that he only stutters when announcing his name. He finally reveals his full name, Clarence Perkins, and notes his stuttering worsens when nagged.
A Bryn Mawr equestrian event recounts a popular young woman known for tennis and canoeing. Asked if she could judge horse flesh she replies she has never tasted horse meat, admitting uncertainty about her judging skill at the Thoroughbred exhibition.
A clipped dialogue fragment links war spoils to family life. It ponders where sons scout and notes a domestic line about Mrs. Coward and the refrigerator, ending with a punchy life observation.
Emma Wolf, after four trips to the minister in three hours, finally agrees to marry James Jennings in Colorado Springs. The sequence shows her initial reluctance giving way to a formal wedding consent.
Dec 15 report from Bryan notes a recent shipwreck involving William J. Bryan and his family spurred Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska to propose a new law. The bill would require each steamer to carry two wireless operators instead of one.
Madison Wis Dec 15 William Essman state superintendent of public property will urge the next legislature to create sleeping apartments in Wisconsin's new 10000000 capitol for use by committee and commission members and game wardens who travel at state expense. He says the arrangement would save thousands of dollars annually.
A district visitor questions Mr. Leahy about his wages and saving habits. He earns five dollars weekly after rent and bills for Celia and their five children. He stores his savings in sugar barrels, or failing that plain flour barrels, to keep the money.
Brigadier General John J. Pershing warns Moro outlaws to surrender their arms by Saturday or face another punitive expedition. The order reflects U S action as tensions rise in the Philippine conflict.
A playful riddle questions if scolding a reluctant boy would make the sun rise and if slipping horses on ice would be called slippers. It uses humor to challenge literal interpretations of common phrases.
John M. Holley Sr retires after forty years as superintendent of Sunday school classes at the First Congregational church. At the annual Congregational society meeting, officers were elected including President George W. Burton, Trustees C. J. Felber G. R. Montague Judge John Brindley, Clerk John P. Bird, Treasurer F. G. Tiffany, and Deacon J. M. Holley Sr. Additional posts included Deaconesses E D Loomis and Forbes, Clerk Prof A H Sanford, Treasurer J M Holley Jr, pastoral committee F M Egbert and J H Martin, assistant superintendent Mrs C H Schweizer, Bethany mission E D Loomis, and assistant Bethany John James.
The aviator captured animated motion pictures from his plane while filming for Lyman H. Howe in Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania. The footage includes views of the city streets parks bridges and river with crowds and a new La Crosse theater run announced for tonight and tomorrow.
Advice column excerpt urges wives to maintain youthfulness to win a husband. It endorses dry shampoo, light hair, and skin care with witch hazel mixtures. It promotes a Mother’s Salve claim for chaps, eczema, coughs, colds, sores, cuts, burns, and burns.
A collage of short items from New York Chicago London reports. Notable pieces include a court request to raise five year old Arthur Hinkley’s income from his late father’s estate, a doctor warns defectives rise, a ship builder’s daughter elopes, geese chase a man in Prospect Park, burglars warned away in Chicago, a newsie heir to $25,000, Christmas turkey outlook, a fire rescues a life, a dog fed by a French chef, Mrs. Belmont revealed as waiter, Eleanor Colley earns a surgical fellowship, Erasmus students resist corset rules, Archduke Ferdinand renounces titles to marry below royal rank.
Bids will be opened January 5 by the county board for three state highways under the Elwell law. The projects total about twenty miles, running from Winona through Homer to La Moille, from Winona to Stockton via Stockton hill, and from East Burns valley up to the ridge.
The last tax levy records aggregate gross income of the inhabitants of the British Isles at 5 045 000 000 dollars for the year.
SR. PAUL Minn The mediocre career of Mike Gibbons of this city in the pugilistic field has been astonishing to those who had not known his quality before the sensational fight with Walter Coffey Coffey a California heavyweight Gibbons now lays claim to the welterweight championship and has been acclaimed the greatest fighter of his weight for the past fifteen years
In Windom Minnesota on December 15 the Cottonwood County Citizen reports a straw vote showing La Follette with 26 votes to Taft 1. Country voters favor mail ballots. villages are less engaged.
In Waukon Iowa Ed Helming son of Mrs Conrad Helming Ludlow township lost his left arm about two inches below the elbow when his hand was caught in the corn shredder. He kept from being pulled into the machine by bracing against it as doctors Huecker and Lewis tended the injury.
James Root, renowned as the engineer who saved over 300 lives during the Hinckley Minnesota fire of September 1 1894, died Tuesday in a New York rooming house. His room was filled with clippings and tributes recalling his heroism.
Wiley Doty aged 55 was killed instantly in Duluth yesterday when he wrestled with his daughter for a rifle. The weapon discharged accidentally as the daughter attempted to take the rifle from her enraged father while he was using it to drive the gun from the farm.
A 134-car empty gondola train recently passed the New York Central tracks at Batavia. The train stretched 5,360 feet, marking a notable freight movement through the area.
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