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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
2
Two well dressed men armed with walking sticks stopped a Walden Shaw taxi with chauffeur L B Strobow near the New Southern hotel and Jackson Park. They robbed him of $55 and a gold watch, then sped off while he phoned police.
The Birmingham Age Herald notes a former top pro performer who dropped from his exalted standing after leading a human pyramid with a team of acrobats. The piece also hints at suspicions regarding the sale of Ben Davis apples by a defender.
Fire swept the two top floors of the Adams building at 410-414 North Sixth street in St. Louis causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. The blaze broke out early today and required firefighting crews to combat the flames. Local authorities investigated the blaze for its cause.
A light exchange from newspapers notes a man recounting a hold up by two women and another by a single woman aided by a nurse. The quip contrasts differing experiences and ends with a playful line about a nurse.
A stone house is not as durable as brick and a brick house will outlast a granite one. The old view favors brick for longevity in building amid stone and rock comparisons.
Madge Carr advertises an extra opera seat after her brother’s absence. Elise Wadsworth arrives to share the season, and Madge befriends the visiting Elise’s brother Barney Wadsworth. They bond during performances with a scent of white rose and growing attraction.
Attorney R B Graves with wife and child of Sparta spent Christmas with the C W Graves family. Miss Mabel Fortun, a La Crosse Normal student, holidaying with her parents. Mrs Ella McIntosh and daughter Louise visited friends in Medelia Minnesota. Congregational Methodist Christian and Lutheran churches held Christmas Eve programs.
A five year old girl in Maurice Iowa suffered a lip and cheek eruption misread as ringworm. After trying various treatments a doctor recommended Cuticura Soap and Ointment, which eased symptoms and led to a full cure over three to four months. The ad promotes Cuticura products with sample offers.
Yellowstone park the oldest largest and most wonderful national park may become a valuable medium in preserving for future generations the old wild animal life of the plains and mountains properly managed it may supply and propagate these animals which otherwise would pass away and be known only by pictures in fifty years hence to posterity and history
A practical note promotes cleaning and scouring brass, copper, and other metals and applying a coat of negative varnish from a store to keep them bright indoors or outdoors in any weather. It claims many dull ornaments improve after one application.
Naples sits on a soft volcanic rock called tufa noted for easy shaping yet strong compression resistance. The rock accepts nails readily but supports high walls and heavy construction without failing.
The quote urges advancing confidently toward personal dreams and living the life imagined. It claims that simplifying life reveals universal laws, making solitude, poverty, and weakness less burdensome.
Local items report a Zion City ban on marriages between Christians and unbelievers as parson Oversee Voliva calls such unions in carnate devils. Pasadena duel leads to a girl eloping with a third man. Navy engineers say propeller shafts fail when steel fatigues from rotation. A two year old eats Christmas tree ornaments in Middletown. A shopgirl finds a hypodermic needle in her coat sleeve in New York. A stabbing victim dies after doctors sew his heart in New York. Moonshiners study reading and writing with a former teacher in Cattletsburg. London notes the world's smallest man dies at 21 inches tall. Czarevitch films shown in St Petersburg reveal his full recovery. Pankhurst church split over prayer for Mrs. Pankhurst in London. Berne taxes all musical instruments in a Swiss province. Los Angeles reports a mocking bird scene with Mrs. Thos. McGinnis.
A stray note recounts a man setting molasses candy on a back porch to cool while a contractor offers work to 800 guests at a municipal lodging house in St. Louis. Thirty accept the job, highlighting local labor dynamics and odd domestic details.
Elizabeth Baker, 25, stylishly dressed, arrested in Chicago as a supposed fence for a burglary gang. Police say goods valued between 15000 and 25000 were stolen in December and 1000 dollars of loot were recovered. Seven men were also arrested in connection with the gang.
Mary Stanhope urges readers to resist crowds and live by a higher Christian ideal even at personal cost, noting that inward conviction is the true path.
A stark warning that tolerating the worst erodes values and elevates merely adequate conduct to an acceptable norm. The speaker laments how soft standards lead to celebration of mediocrity and moral decay.
An advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm as instantly opening clogged nostrils and relieving head colds and catarrh. It claims rapid relief, soothing inflammation in nose throat and offering a small bottle to try, with morning recovery promised.
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