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Newspaper

La Crosse Tribune

Location

La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Dec 16, 1915

Page

3

Mon Tue Wed Thu Notes From Shomope Notary Public

Mon through Thu entries show Shomope Notary Public handling daily duties. The garbled OCR preserves a partial timetable and agency designation without clear actions or client names.

Preparedness and Peace in a Crouched World

A editorial warns that preparedness breeds militarism and questions the logic of buying guns in the name of peace. It argues leadership must avoid repeating failed expedients and sees no kinship between force and brotherhood. The piece urges restraint to prevent fanning greater fury.

America Europe Brotherhood of Man

Opposed to Broad War Taxes and Navy Expansion

The document outlines opposition to a wide range of wartime policies including income tax expansion, federal inheritance law, and government shipbuilding. It notes leaders favoring privilege papers and urges maintaining private profits while resisting government controls on munitions and military supplies.

Makers of the City Praise Parks and Civic donors

In La Crosse, residents honor Jos M. Hixon and E L Colman for a $10 000 addition to public parks and note a shift in attitude toward civic improvements. The piece recalls Hixon Wood golf links and Riverside parks, while lamenting a past denial of an alley archway to a benefactor. The author asks if city leaders should acknowledge public service again.

Jos. M. Hixon E. L. Colman la Crosse

Preparedness and War Profits Critique

The piece argues against using Harper’s Weekly to push defense buildup as privilege for war profiteers. It calls for public taxation of war profits and government manufacture of all defense goods to remove defense from market forces and ensure fair pricing and equity. It urges a just, restrained defense policy funded by the public rather than elites.

Harper's Weekly Mark Norman Hapgood

Quips and Cranks and Wanton Wiles

A fragmentary verse meditation on youth, immortality, and mortality referencing poets and soldiers, then a comic street anecdote about a boy reacting to a wasp with dialect speech and a hat clap. The piece juxtaposes high art with a humorous rural scene.

Rope in Cigars Sparks Dialogue From Yonkers Observer

In a terse exchange a daughter tells a father there is rope in the cigars he smokes. The father shrugs and quotes his wife who says give him rope enough and he'll kill himself, a line attributed to Yonkers Statesman.

Yonkers Statesman

Rich Uncle Offers Tompkins House or Car Choice

Tompkins selects a motor car over a new house after a wealthy relative presents the option. The exchange reveals envy and a joke about priorities. A soap-box orator questions why money is scarce as a tired woman pauses in the crowd.

Tompkins

Home cough remedy touts Pinex and sugar syrup

An advertisement extols Pinex as a cure for persistent coughs advising a pint mixed with sugar syrup and priced at 50 to 54 cents. It claims rapid relief by healing inflamed membranes and loosening phlegm with a guarantee of satisfaction from The Pinex Co. Ft Wayne Ind.

Pinex Co Ft. Wayne Ind

Judge Urges Action Over Excuses in Crowd

A judge addresses a crowd urging immediate effort and accountability rather than excuses. She warns that many men waste time debating reasons instead of hustling to fix the issue. The moment underscores emphasis on taking concrete steps.

Prominent Citizen Linked to Lynching Fear in Quote

A Washington Star quotation ponders a well known local figure, noting his prominence and influence to the point where he could lead a lynching party without fear of recognition. The remark highlights concerns about public figures abusing status for mob actions.

Washington Star

Beauty in War and Whale Spouts Compared

The Washington Star notes a touristic view of war’s beauty contrasts with a whale sighting. A tourist weeps at a spout while praising beauty, a teacher questions it, and a plumber reframes beauty as a line of busted water pipes in a comic moral about perspective.

Washington Star

Presidential rift cited over cabinet and notes

The Louisville Times reports Mr. Bryan is viewed poorly by President Wilson for financial reasons and notes an unendorsement of one of the president’s notes sparked rumor he may have left the cabinet.

Bryan Wilson Louisville Times

Distinction in Parental Judgment

Historian John Fiske reproves his son after the boy insults Mrs. Jones and Mr. Jones. He weighs the insult and concludes the boy’s harsher remark is only a slight difference in foolishness, guiding a lesson on restraint.

John Fiske

Egypt voyage sparks a wary bond between buyers

On a transcontinental train, Jane Gerson a bold New York buyer and Captain Woodhouse an Egypt bound officer discuss gowns and risks. He warns a lone American may face trouble if war breaks out, while she pushes plans and pride in Hildebrand’s department store.

Gerson Egypt Nile London Schkool Jane Gerson Captain Woodhouse New York Woodhouse Cairo Pyramids Rameses Old Pop Hildebrand Hildebrand’s Pop Hildebrand Jane Paul Poiret Pagquin America

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