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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1910
Page
3
The Tribune urges continued support for the Christmas Seal campaign to fund humanitarian work. It highlights a favorable shift due to business support and calls on La Mee establishments to put a seal on every January letter along with December bills, framing it as a valuable expenditure.
The Boston Transcript urges rapid arming ahead of possible invasion, citing 75 000 magazine rifles and 300 000 Krags plus field guns. It notes artillery shortages, cites historical ratios, and warns the western coast should prepare gradually to deter the mikado while avoiding panic.
The nation cheers as sixty one railroads avoid a crippling strike. The St Paul Pioneer Press notes a wage settlement with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers secures about four million dollars yearly plus working condition gains. The deal underscores arbitration and reduces hardships for workers and consumers. The Chicago Record Herald calls the settlement a victory for compromise under government auspices.
The text describes a national blessing in a labor settlement led by Charles P. Neill and Warren S. Stone. It notes the avoided strike would have harmed thousands and west coast workers, praising the compromise as a precedent for peaceful, rational mediation and a Merry Christmas.
A Detroit Free Press verse about a sister overwhelmed by Christmas shopping. She buys for family and relatives but struggles to find a suitable gift for her beau as the days grow short and the budget tight. The piece muses on common holiday troubles and sleepless nights from trying to please everyone.
In a local pharmacy a girl nicknamed Peggy hesitantly approached the counter and whispered a request to the druggist claiming she wanted "fi cents wath of-of glory divine." The druggist, puzzled, corrected her and asked for a note from her mother before proceeding.
A brief Newark Star snippet notes five cents worth of chlorate of lime as described in a local record.
A fragment from the Boston Telegraph captures a dialogue where one voice longs for funds to travel and another sighs at the idea of such delight. The brief exchange hints at travel desires and contentment.
Senator Depew recalls Tom Ochiltree’s famed Christmas punch in Washington a diplomat asked for the recipe and Ochiltree quipped that the drink contains champagne cognac lemon and aerated water but he always forgets the aerated water as he grows older while Chauncey on Christmas cheer.
A Philadelphia Ledger cartoonish exchange shows a writer recalling a rejected story later sold for $40. The dialogue frames a request for another rejection, suggesting the perceived value of editorial decisions and market dynamics.
The Cleveland educator Rufus L Griswold argued at a dinner that it is wrong to let children believe in Santa Claus and questioned lying to children. He recalled a trial about a lunatic asylum where a witness claims insanity for proclaiming Santa Claus, noting I am Santa Claus myself as proof.
A prominent doctor promotes a easy to mix remedy for rheumatism and backache. Combine one ounce syrup of sarsaparilla compound and one ounce Torris compound with a half pint whiskey. Take a tablespoonful before meals and at bedtime. shake before using. Effects claimed from first day.
Boyle Woolfolk's latest musical comedy A Winning Miss opens tonight at the La Crosse theater. The show features lavish scenery costing 40000, a high class plot, and musical numbers by Woolfolk and Peters with standout numbers Eve and The Land of Tomorrow. It promises capacity crowds and noted stage effects including a battleship finale and a double quartet with mandolins and guitars.
The article previews the arrival of Arizona to La Crosse for matinee and evening shows, praising Augustus Thomas play as the best on Broadway in a generation. It notes scenes in the southwest and highlights its scenic production, humor, romance, and strong acting.
An author recounts a Parisian tale about the composer of Salome. During a dinner with musical friends Herr Strauss silenced the room saying one should not criticize crowned heads’ music in company as authorship remains uncertain.
A reflective remark links training to perception of foods and learning. The speaker notes the peach once tasted like almond, cauliflower resembles cabbage when shaped by a college education, suggesting education alters judgment.
Daunt and Barbara attend a saijits holy day at the Monto temple complex. A nun in slate appears, a samurai and naval officer observe from the yard, and a child with a medical past waits in a rickshaw. Fuji-San looms as twilight paints the scene in pale, magical light.
Mark Twain explains his method as highly regular and long hours from after breakfast to dinner. He claims he works daily, stops at seven for dinner, and jokes that physical effort harms little while the mental aspect is merely amusement.
A Washington Star excerpt plays on a humorous scene where a man, asked if his wife will vote, replies that Henrietta will cast a vote only if polls come to their house. The exchange suggests the homeward reach of political participation.
Years ago he was called a budding genius but never blossomed. A sharper jab follows about his nose provoking muted laughter in the crowd.
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