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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1912
Page
3
A civic pledge urges city departments and especially schools to cooperate with health authorities to stamp out smallpox. The La Crosse normal school is praised for its mission driven teachers, classical music, and the Christmas spirit shaping a child culture that nourishes both soul and brain.
A Chicago advertising pioneer since 1897, Tom Murray plans retirement to repair failing health. He started in a Clark Street storefront and reinvented his business after sketching a man’s head on wrapping paper, creating the slogan Meet Me Face to Face that drew customers.
A Chicago tale follows Tom Murray who turned a simple invitation to meet him face to face into a thriving business. He recounts starting with $55 cash, growing to an annual business of $500,000, and crediting newspaper ads for his wealth before choosing to retire for health reasons.
A Minneapolis case held that a shipping receipt stating a shipment is worth 50 dollars becomes a binding contract. E L Carpenter sued after valuable furs sent from a New York fur house were lost while the United States Express company had valued them at 50 dollars to obtain a lower rate. Judge Andrew Hold ruled for the express company.
Thomas W. Lawson argues in Everybody's Magazine that denying the mails to firms that juggle bonds in open market could blot out stock exchange gambling. He urges swift action and cites impact on market integrity and speculation.
A brief verse reflection on Christmas featuring a humble child in a stable as the Light of creation. It praises the child’s simple birth and blessing through giving, noting earthly poverty yet divine gift of meaning for life.
Jerome S. McWade cited by the Minneapolis Journal in Duluth YMCA remarks. He compared critics of scientific management to a farmer who dismisses an incubator salesman. The humorous fable shows skepticism toward efficiency claims and clocked routines.
A renowned London Stock Exchange man and his wife, after a dusty motor holiday, arrive in a town for lunch. The man, unshaven and shabby, is told by a hotel waiter that his wife will dine in the dining room while he must eat with the kitchen staff, a rebuke marked by a brisk hotelier.
The Bureau of Chemistry reports the federal court in Chicago is aiding a pure food ban on sweated oranges from California. Eight carloads of artificially ripened fruit were confiscated as unhealthy, with the process claimed to induce harmful chemical changes.
New York Mrs. John F. McDonald had her husband arrested after he repeatedly called her Dearie and Sweetheart in public. Boston Harvard doctor Dr. James A. Howell claims a parasite may nearly destroy leprosy germs. Philadelphia monkeys fight battleship Minnesota sparking feline sacrifice as two cats are thrown overboard. Savannah General Wood cites higher tire costs than navy funding. Carlisle rooster pawned by Robert Challas wakes owner with dawn crow.
A Cambridge setting unfolds as Captain Kettle shares backstory with Sir George and Violet. The conversation touches on education at Charterhouse and Clare, boxing with class rivalries, and plans to import Hungarian partridges while noting lawlessness over game laws. The visitor displays wit and a sharp tongue as Kettle weighs his own policy against the owner’s.
Four suffragists from New York to Albany are reduced to four survivors after a march with two miniature trousers as mascots. They head toward Rhinebeck, 19 miles away, as Colonel Jesse H. Stubbs spoke to 200 workers. The group repared gear and stocked salve, liniment, foot soap, cough drops and creams. Friends along the route promise refreshments at stops tomorrow.
United States consul Stuart Fuller returned from Peru after an extensive inquiry ordered by the secretary of state. He warned that the Monroe Doctrine might be invoked to halt atrocities against Peruvian Indians by British contractors.
La Crosse citizen C. J. Miller of 414 N Ninth St la Crosse Wis testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured his kidney trouble in 1907 after other remedies failed He reports back pain and distressing symptoms vanished and has had no recurrence The ad notes availability at Erhart's Drug Store price fifty cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for US Remember the name Deans and take no other.
Regular county court term in La Crosse on January 7 1913 at 10 o clock for the final account of John M Holley administrator of the estate of Sophia S Sones deceased and assignment of residue to rightful heirs Dated December 16 1912 Judge John Brindley county judge
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