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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1910
Page
3
A La Crosse Free Press note urges shoppers to begin gift buying and mailing early to reduce Friday and Saturday crowds, ease post and delivery strain, and allow merchants to close nights next season. It emphasizes sending out of town gifts promptly as a humane Christmas gesture.
The Chicago Record-Herald reports the senate subcommittee finding that Lorimer would have won by three votes and that the evidence did not prove his involvement in distributing jackpot funds. It notes guilty legislators confess bribes on both sides and questions who funded them and the honor of a senatorship.
The piece hints at voters defending vested interests with a standing army, mentions the coupon ballot receiving public heckling, and notes an upcoming “Guess Who's Here” column in the Saturday Tribune as a diversion with a playful million dollars in a million weeks. It also comments on women shopping early and late.
The article promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, with internal use to reach blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any unruly case and invite testimonials from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio, with pills for constipation also advertised.
A House committee on industrial arts favors a 250000 appropriation for a 1912 centennial on Perry the Lake Erie victory. The plan calls for a monument at Put in Bay Ohio to honor Commodore Perry.
A light verse of childlike wishes and theatrical aversion to crowds. The speaker prefers operas over circuses and muses on wealth, fame, and a future Christmas sled with a playful Uncle Ed cameo. Ida F. Stewart signs the piece.
Maude, described as a happy go lucky girl, clashes with her strict mother over a gum stuck on a piano keyboard. The mother confronts Maude in the music room and the girl replies with a playful, carefree remark about finding the gum.
A crowd of girls compares their families and packages. The minister’s daughter notes every box for her father bears D. D. The doctor’s girl counters with M. D. and the youngest sneers that their house gets C. O. D. This humorous exchange appears in Ladies' Home Journal.
A mother recalls a boy who, moved by reports of water shortages, asks to sacrifice by not washing. He proposes giving up washing to help water-starved children, seeking to ease hardship through a small personal restraint.
A boy objects to giving a class Christmas speech at school. He refuses authority, hoping to avoid the assignment. He resents the teacher and contemplates how to avoid speaking, noting the upcoming Christmas Eve and school tradition.
A Gainesville resident recalls ex Governor Allen D Candler famed for dry humor. He reportedly quit cigars at year start and kept to a pipe ending the year claiming saving 208 dollars, then asking where the money is.
A fragment shows a speaker recounting a layered housing riddle about time spent across floors. The quirky exchange, attributed to Meggendorfer Blatter, highlights humorous misdirection on tenancy.
A lighthearted item notes a waiter chiding a customer for spilling soup and offering a blotting paper as a joke within Tit Bits. The quip showcases early 20th century dining room humor with a sly reminder of propriety in service culture.
A letter urges the city to appoint a sealer of weights and measures. The author cites faulty potato weights in La Crosse, arguing purchases by weight would curb cheating and ensure fair measure across grocers.
Lyman H. Howe credits truthful advertising for his travel festival success and cites a near two million attendance per season. He highlights a moving picture of the late king’s funeral as the showpiece and will bring a grand program to the La Crosse Theatre on December 24 and 25 with scenes from Japan, Eiffel Tower, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, a training ship and more.
Admiral learns two warships may face disaster over a girl’s loyalty as Daunt volunteers to fly his Glider from Aoyama to Yokohama amid a flood of transport failures. The Ambassador, Daunt, Haru, and Phil contend with a looming dawn and potential international conflict in this perilous intrigue.
How hard has consumption hit you. Few people escape direct contact with the disease. Do your share in wiping it out by boxing Red Cross Christmas seals.
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