Mail Order Retreat Promotes Local Retail Battle
The St. Paul Trade Journal reports encouraging signs that retail merchants are regaining footing against mail order houses. It notes price matching, cash sales, and better advertising as effective tools. Sears Roebuck plans to drop groceries. 75 percent of hardware firms shun catalog sales, boosting local retailers.
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Comodity Trust
St. Paul Trade Journal
Northwest
Trade Journal
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Minnesota vs Impudence in Jim Hill Stock Increase Battle
A Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission action seeks to enjoin Jim Hill from increasing its stock by 60 million dollars. The complaint argues higher capital leads to 4.2 million in annual fixed charges, passed to Minnesota patrons as higher freight and passenger rates, with poorer service and more wrecks. The piece portrays a clash between state authority and Jim Hill, framing it as a fight against greed.
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Minnesota
Jim Hill
Jim
Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Enee
Menee
Minee
Fiddler
Impudence
Esch Opens Push for Mississippi Improvement
The article notes Congressman Esch openly endorsing river improvements despite railroad opposition. It cites Davidson as aligned with Esch against the ship subsidy and Roosevelt, reflecting Northwest sentiment. Esch also weighs a local military camp site while the city considers a municipal skating rink and possible ice trust franchise.
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Ice Trust
Mrs Stevenson's Archaic Relic Work for U S Government
Mrs Mathilde Stevenson notable U S government employee at the national capital collects archaic relics for the national museum. She traveled with her husband for thirteen years studying Zuni and Pueblo tribes and joined the bureau of ethnology after his death. She is regarded as a valued member with extensive knowledge of western tribes and the Rocky Mountains. The piece also includes a column on proper living habits emphasizing regularity, early to bed and rise, regular meals, daily exercise, hygiene, fresh air, sunshine, and a cheerful heart.
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Mathilde
Tion
Bureau of Ethnology
Washington
Corps
Rocky Mountains
Philadelphia Record
Modern London Schools Abandon Slates for Washable Paper
Dr Clarence J Blake of Boston plans to donate a fireproof library and science hall to Howe Military School in Lima Indiana. Budapest sets up a bureau selling ready written essays at 8 cents a page while authorities seek government action to curb it. Mrs C T Mills leads Mills College as a revered president beloved by women across California Oregon and Washington.
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London
Clarence J. Blake
Boston
Howe Military School
Lima
Ind
Blake
Budapest
C. T. Mills
Mills College
California Institute
West
California
Oregon
Washington
Fragmentary Gazette Snippets Reflect Public Discourse
A jumble of phrases touches on manners and misprints, Dutch sayings, coast maps, municipal schemes, a trolley death, Christmas budgeting, Mexican plantation investments, price displays, and upcoming rail fare shifts. The author signs as W V K.
Quay and Bryant Highlight Civic Banquet Reflections
The La Crosse event features J. F. Quay and J. W. Bryant in speeches praising civic duties and local business progress. Attendees, told of old city ties and future opportunities, share remarks on modest leadership and community cooperation.
New La Crosse City Mission Opens New Year
A city mission in La Crosse is set to open New Year’s Day in the Mitchel building on Main Street. A committee of pastors and laymen has worked over two months to organize the project, aiming to become a strong social and moral force for the town. The mission welcomes the drunkard and outcast to a clean hopeful space and invites donations of furniture and help, with cards sent to J. M. Holley or A. M. Ivey, 515 North Ninth Street.
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Mitchel
Main Street
la Crosse
J. M. Holley
A. M. Ivey
North Ninth Street
The
Mission
La Crosse County School Board Convention Notice
The annual La Crosse county school board convention will be held at West Salem High School Saturday Jan 5 at 10 15 am Attendance of Southern Pacific area strike district clerks is required as far as possible all school officers should attend Members receive 2 and mileage at 3 cents a mile Topics include Rural School Inspector L W Wood music in rural schools and the financial side of the rural school problem with informal discussions to follow
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la Crosse County
Law
West Salem
Julia A. Krause
Sparta
Wis
L. W. Wood
The Inheritance of Health and Beauty in Women
A column urges women to preserve health and beauty through proper living. It argues that natural gifts fade when neglected, but can be kept with disciplined habits, contrasting youth’s promise with aging charm and warning against lifestyle abuses.
Industrial Items and Global Rubber Shifts
The text notes Brazil once supplied 75 percent of world rubber, now about half. It recalls New York plumbers earning 3.50 daily for 53 hours weekly twenty years ago, vs 4.75 for 44 hours now. It describes Mississippi tug capacity moving 10,000 ton barges from St. Louis to New Orleans in six days, and outlines a 7.5 million dollar Ludwigshafen project to use atmospheric nitrogen for a Chile saltpeter like compound driven by water power from the Aiz river.
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Brazil
New York City
Mississippi
St. Louis
New Orleans
Badische Ralin Und Sodafabrik
Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein
Germany
Chile
Aiz
Palatinate
Roman Swords Shift After Cannae Change Battle Arms
The text notes that before Cannae in 216 BC Roman swords were one sided and blunt on one side. After the defeat, the shorter Spanish sword for cutting and thrusting was adopted to improve effectiveness.
The First Iron Found on Mount Ida
Greek legends place the discovery of iron on Mount Ida by the Dactyles. A forest fire from lightning melted beds of iron, causing streams of molten iron to flow into the valley below.
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Mount Ida
Betrothal of Alexandra Victoria to Imperial Heir Reported
Berlin dispatch notes the engagement of Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glucksburg to Augustus William second son of the emperor. The notice appears in Tribune ads. pay.
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Scripps-McRae Gram
Berlin
Ncess
Alexandria
Victoria
Schlig Holstein
Sonderburg
Augustus William
Former Wisconsin Assemblyman Seeks Chief Clerk Post
Roy C. Smelker of Dodgeville Wis former assemblyman in his district and a candidate for chief clerk of the next Wisconsin legislature called on local politicians and assemblymen yesterday in his campaign. Five candidates compete for the office and all are experienced.
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Roy C. Smelker
Dodgeville
Wis
Wisconsin
Roosevelt Proclaims Aid to Chinese Sufferers
President Roosevelt issues a proclamation urging Americans to aid the suffering Chinese and offering government transports to carry provisions.
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Roosevelt
The
United States
Archbishop Ireland Blames French Clergy in France Crisis
Archbishop Ireland in a St. Paul sermon declared the French clergy are as much to blame as any for the crisis in France. The remark targets church leadership amid upheaval in the country.
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Ireland
St. Paul
France
Chiropractors push for Wisconsin licensing law
Senators and assemblymen from the La Crosse district and across the state received circulars urging a chiropractor licensing law be enacted at the next session. Yesterday personal calls were made on legislators.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin
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