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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
3
A column surveys the New Haven railroad monopoly and Taft era prosecutions, then shifts to Sir Isaac Pitman and phonography milestoning 1837 to 1897. It notes Pitman’s legacy, Edison’s disputed inventions, and light local quips from Indiana to New Jersey.
Theaters and cafes in Paris faced candle light nights after a power plant failed for three hours. Berlin reports Kaiser gift totals of 25000 dollars for relatives and servants across fifty four residences. A Raleigh boy receives two baby terrapins from William Jennings Bryan. Philadelphia offers first aid to cops with electric quieters. New York's Rockefeller urges saving pennies to the teacher asking how to get rich. Chicago reports a policeman buys a seven passenger car for his twelve children. A Palmer House waiter shoots himself after tips loss. A man fixes a leg with hammer and nails in court. A diver recovers a lost watch after saving a life in Chicago river. Taft reports all well aboard the Arkansas en route to Key West. A Detroit man attempts to pawn his artificial leg for wife’s Christmas gift. A Connellsville councilman resigns over profanity. A Brooklyn boxer faces French heavyweight Louis De Ponthieu in nine rounds. De Ponthieu wins.
A poet describes an anxious swain shopping for weeks for a gift he sends with care. He waits for news on the present and wonders if it was well received or met with joy or fault.
An Irish guide drives an English visitor through Connemara on a cold December day. They stop at a shebeen where Pat offers potheen to warm himself. The English guest accepts, and Pat jokes that one swallow never made a summer as the drink disappears.
President-elect Wilson weighs involving the vice president in cabinet meetings to prepare him for the chief executive role. Proponents argue the vice president is the understudy who may serve much of a term, so closer participation would train him for responsibility.
The article argues that electing a more active Senate president, with decisive votes in a tight chamber, may revive respect for the role. It notes the current presiding officer is a polite figurehead and that engagement with the president’s cabinet and official family could bring tangible influence and attention to Senate duties.
Dennis O Grady, living at the hilltop, told a Sunday fish hawker he did not buy fish on Sundays. The hawker left, but Dennis stopped him at the bottom, then called him back. The hawker climbed again, only to be tapped and told he did not want any fish next Sunday either.
A wry social quip contrasts a woman’s concern about aging lines with a man’s fear of temptation, suggesting gendered fears steer behavior and appearance. The remark frames vanity and virtue as competing pressures in everyday life.
A social hygiene chair has been established at the University of Munich in Germany. The new post aims to advance public health studies and research under university auspices.
A cited testimonial via Amenia New York praises Eckmans Alterative for curing LaGrippe turning into tuberculosis with night sweats and weight loss. A Reverend Cowles endorsement claims life saved and full recovery to 155 pounds. The ad notes uses for bronchitis asthma hay fever and general upbuilding with no poisons or habit forming drugs and directs readers to Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia for more evidence.
A farmer complains to a village storekeeper deacon that his sugar is short in weight. The response uses a clever twist stating the deacon measures sugar by the farmer’s butter, implying moral corruption in honest appearances. The tale illustrates a belief that dishonest dealers bend morals when judging others.
A tale describes a Moorish sultan in Atlas Morocco plotting to send his eldest son to learn Yahudi ways through captives in Mogador. Jewish hosts coordinate a global education for the boy with London bankers funding a English gentlemanly upbringing and Charterhouse path.
A French woman and an American exchange mock bilingual banter at an evening gathering. They insist on bad English and bad French, each clinging to mistakes until departure, ending with a playful watery salute: Reservoir and Tanks.
An Irish man injuries himself after a ladder rung breaks. He hires a lawyer to claim compensation and wins in court, only to discover legal fees amount to two thirds of the award. Pat asks the lawyer whether it was the client or the lawyer who fell off the ladder.
Dr C H Parkhurst of New York urged that charity is misinterpreted by many. He cited a rival preacher who wrote in his journal that Scripture says to give more than a coat and cloak, then joked about firing a hostler for stealing potatoes.
Mr. James Welch recalls a Sabbath joke told during a lunch in London. A Scotsman worries about his wife seeing how he spends the Sabbath, prompting another guest to remark that Scots fail to spend the day properly, only to keep it.
A sailor politely asks a theatergoer to remove her large hat. She refuses, prompting him to propose an even bolder request and suggesting she fold her ears instead.
Denmark's National Museum at Lynby displays farm houses from across the country to educate the public in national history. Galleries showcase old furniture antique coaches and hearses from various guilds with their funeral trappings and other relics of the past.
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