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Railroads speed to Chicago record and electric lights in 1900 La Crosse
In La Crosse 1900 rail headlines highlight Milwaukee Rail Road’s speed record Minneapolis to La Crosse in 2 hours 59 minutes aboard a Grace Opera Co. train. Burlington Railroad lights headline a new era with electric head lamps amid city din. Local notes cover politics William Lenning $50 campaign gift school holiday nine days and janitor fir ing lessons 250 cords wood and community life from Jop bers union to church bells and sheriff elect rumour of undersheriff choice.
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Burlington Railroad
Minneapolis
la Crosse
Milwaukee Railroad
Frank Winter
Hamilton Club
Grace Opera Co
Chicago
William Lenning
A. M. Roberts
Vine Street
George Growth
North 2Nd Street
Joseph Clark
la Crosse Jopbers and Manufacturers Union
John C. Kroner
Robert Calvert
William F. Funk
C. W. Whiting
Eleanor
A. B. Dunham
William V. Tscharner
St. Louis
Lable
Powell
Knights of Labor
Vanderbilt
Gould
Kimball Stone Co
Put- la Crosse
Viking
Burlington
Milwaukee
Gateway City
Paul Stock Yards
C. C. Smith
the Morning Chronicle
Clinton Street
Northwest
Era
Winona Junction Laws’ Hall
To la Crosse
C. A. Lin Sophia Gaebler
McMillan Opera House
de Weimar
Mary Giest
Paul Stoev