GOOD FELLOWS NEEDED FOR LA CROSSE CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS
The Tribune lauds the GOOD CHEER campaign urging readers to donate to bring Christmas stockings to deserving children in La Crosse. It praises gifts from local stores and urges families to send names of needy kids, stating the public should not learn recipients’ identities and asking for letters or calls to Tre Tri 85 to contribute.
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Hammes Brothers
Park Store
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Kurtenacker
Boyer-Furber
Kratchwil
la Crosse
Almost About Mr Elroy and a Gossiper’s Mail Plot
A fragmentary reminiscence riffs on a newspaper feud over misreported items about McElroy and Lorimer in Illinois. The piece mocks rival editors and cites Kipling and Homer to illustrate folly in journalistic mischief and column gossip.
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Wwell
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Mail
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Homer
The Only Appeal in Washington Court Learned Tone
A haughty citizen visits the supreme court in Washington and tries to seat himself among the lawyers. He presents his card, is denied a seat, and is told to retire. In the corridor an aged door guard counsels him to think it over and warns that contempt leaves no appeal but to God.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Saturday Evening Post
Tillman
Afghanistan
Shahzada
Washington Star
Santa Claus Finds Modern Flat After Chimney Mishap
A poetic tale follows Santa and his deer as they fly from Arctic snows to a steam heated urban flat. Santa discovers the chimney is actually too narrow and ends up using the building elevator to enter the residence. The verse blends old fashioned charm with modern city life.
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Arctic Mountains
Santa Claus
The Hopping Prince and the Washington Ambassadorship
A Washington Star style tale recounts a diplomat’s duty to know a host country, a comic Afghan misunderstanding, and a dramatic late night summons to the Baroness von Ritz. A carriage chase through Georgetown leads to a shadowed embassy moment and a mysterious doorway.
Spotlight on Black Crook Jr Co at La Crosse theater Christmas night
The Black Crook Jr Co brings vaudeville to La Crosse with the Handcuff King Everett escaping from shackles and milk cans. Other features include two Burlettas My Cousins Arrival at the Seminary and One Night in Hotel Shantytown. Also showing December 26 27 is Perils of Polar Exploration by Lymand H Howe with authentic moving pictures of polar exploration and peril.
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Black Crook JR
Black Crook, Jr
la Crosse Theater
Everett
U. S
Cousin
North Pole
Lymand H. Howe
Messrs
Curtiss
Bleriot
Rheims
France
Graustark author McCutcheon to present at La Crosse theater
George Barr McCutcheon, author of Graustark and A Love Behind a Throne, will have his play presented at the La Crosse theater on New Year’s Eve and Day. He reportedly earned over eighty thousand dollars in royalties from the book in one year, and the growing audience suggests higher earnings from the stage production this season.
What do they put under these cornerstones
A Kansas City Journal remark notes a proposal to place coins literature and other items in cornerstones to reflect local customs including a current hat as posterity relic.
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Kansas City Journal
If all men were compelled to practice what they preach
A concise aphorism suggesting that universal obligation to live by one’s words would end many preaching habits. It highlights a critique of inconsistency between beliefs and actions.
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