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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1914
Page
3
A charitable corporation shows its profit sharing by awarding gold medals to twenty-year loyal Standard Oil employees. The piece commends prudent use of wealth and humorously references a famed \"snark\" while noting changing times among magnates who celebrate the poor.
The interstate commerce commission raises rates by five percent for eastern railroads, shifting the burden to the lines to implement the increase and justify the higher charges.
The railroads, after a year of retrenchment, now demand higher rates to raise income by an estimated twenty five to one hundred million dollars annually. Consumers would pay the extra tax if railways restore laid off workers and resume postponed improvements.
Prof. B E McCormick principal La Crosse high school asks for a summer session and the Tribune supports the proposal. His letter to Superintendent Benezet, approved by the board of education, argues the project is worthy and deserves publication in full.
A poem contrasts flattering social circles with isolation after success. The speaker notes friends applauding and lifting him up, then vanishing when fame wanes, leaving him anxious, lonely, and lacking an audience as the cheers fade. The piece ends on the refrain that few stay by you when you are down and out.
The journal mocks public school expansion as taxpayer value and derides a mayoral candidate’s billiards miscue while noting oddities like a weather delay on spring and a dubious old headline. It also references Mr Philipp and a remark about the English admiralty and German contraband, ending with a pun on Mr John Blank Goes to Reward.
Kansas City December 22 reports the local branch of the Women’s Trade Union League will send a Christmas consignment to Colorado mine strikers per F P Walsh appeal. Warm bedding and clothing will form the bulk of gifts to the sufferers.
Detectives hunted for assailants after James Christensen a 66 year old Loop night watchman was battered in during a Sunday burglary. Christensen remained near death as authorities sought clues and motive in the case.
A crowd gathered around a bulky mule as coaxing curses and blows failed. Uncle Rastus urged to strike the animal on the head, and the mule eventually began running. A bystander noted the old negro’s claim that mules have surprising intellect.
A riot call triggered arrests at a judge meeting hearing. Witnesses admit trouble but refuse to name aggressors or weapons. The presiding judge asks a single conscientious man to identify who hit whom and with what, at the annual event.
A tense scene unfolds as a man demands order and speed from a storyteller then grants a brief, wary reprieve while a native driver, overhearing sailor slang from Port Said, contemplates punishment and the odd ritual of tales at night. The driver’s impatience mirrors the narrator’s restraint amid a charged household visit.
William J. Troy, owner of the Troy hotel and Hawley house, was discovered dead in his Cleveland hostel room with two large knives nearby and valuables missing. Police had no clues to the killer. The report also recounts unrelated items about Otto Knuth in Milwaukee and a fictional dialogue.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plain Dealer recalls a meeting of the Brotherly Love lodge of the Heart and heart fraternity. Questions arise about the assailant and weapon in a noted disruption during the entertainment committee chair’s remarks.
After the Civil War a New York lady asks her colored cook how the scars on his head were earned. Dinah explains the history with a sly line, noting a prior conflict and how she persuaded him to be compliant.
An old farmer fills a claim sheet against a railroad for killing a cow. At the final item disposition of car cash is interpreted as kind and gentle. The anecdote, cited by Harper’s Magazine, lampoons bureaucratic literalism.
Buy 244 ounces Pinex for 50 cents, mix with plain granulated sugar syrup in a nut bottle, and use as a powerful remedy for coughs throat and chest colds within 24 hours. It soothes inflamed membranes loosens dry coughing stops phlegm formation and relieves bronchitis asthma and croup. Guaranteed satisfaction or refund from The Pinex Co. Wayne Ind.
British squadron off the Belgian coast shelled Zee Brugge and Heyst again, according to reports received here.
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