Weather forecast and conditions across the Midwest
Sunrise is at 7 40 a m and sunset at 4 35 p m. Yesterday’s high was 7 and low minus 2 with light precipitation. Wisconsin and Minnesota expect fair and colder weather tonight and Friday. Iowa also fair then colder. An area of high pressure over Montana extends southeastward, with another high over Florida and depressions northeast and off California. Temperatures lower from the lake region to Tennessee and west to the Rockies. Havre records 32 below zero. The region from the Mississippi eastward is generally cloudy with light rain and snow, while fair and colder conditions prevail tonight and Friday in the central states.
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Central States
Florida
Mississippi River
California
Lake
Tennessee
Rocky Mountains
Havre
Atlantis States
New Dish Washer Patent For Gas Stoves
A patented dish washing device for gas stoves uses a light metal chamber with a pedal wheel crank. Forty or fifty dishes sit in racks while seven quarts of hot soap water are poured over them and spun, then rinsed with boiling water. The process lasts about seven minutes and leaves dishes clean and nearly dry.
Vessel Not Identified Off Chefoo
Efforts by the United Press to identify the steamer Sankaku Maru rounded off Chefoo failed today. The name does not appear in Lloyds register or in any available list of vessels on the Pacific coast.
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San Francisco
United Press
Cheefoo
Lloyd's Register
Pacific Coast
Wisconsin’s road plan risks building public liabilities
The state highway commission warns that over the next decade Wisconsin will spend 87 million dollars on highways without improving conditions, warning that current construction leads to rising maintenance costs and continued disrepair. It urges permanent, solid construction to base the good road movement.
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State Highway Commission
The
Highway Commission
Potatoes Pride and Politics Shake Markets
A satirical piece mocks potato price surges amid political defeats and failed boycotts. It imagines a coming price slump as public hunger and policy collide, noting a public impact on food costs and party strategies. The column riffs on Belgians and Americans sharing scarce food and hints at a GOP relevance.
On the line of least resistance in La Crosse depot talks
The article discusses railroad interviews for a potential La Crosse union depot. It notes not all lines may join due to competing interests and operating cost sharing. It argues a railway commission should act as mediator, not mandatory authority, to foster cooperation.
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la Crosse
Union
Railway Commission
America
La Crosse Deserves Better Advertising and Depot Plan
A reader laments La Crosse’s poor advertising and bleak railroad right of way. The piece quotes Rev. Sam McKee urging a union depot to improve the city’s image and present a truer view of its prosperity and beauty.
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Sam McKee
la Crosse
Out of the Mouths of Kids in Courtroom Slang
A magistrate hears an assault case where a wife accuses her husband of violence. The exchange blends slang and formal questions as the judge corrects language and seeks precise details of the alleged blows and the tobacco box incident. The humor centers on mismatched speech and the court’s insistence on proper phrasing.
Paw Knows Everything Willie Delivers Curio on Debt
The speaker humorously defines dollar diplomacy as money paid when a bill collector calls. He notes some people stay stuck at complaints and never make payments, framing debt as a practical issue rather than a moral failing.
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Paw
Willie
Son
Elsinore Hamlet Legends Tour and Tobacco Fame
Elsinore Denmark famed for Hamlet lore and a rumored shift of the grave site. Tourists see Ophelia’s brook and the ghost platform, though these sites are debatable replicas. Hamlet cigars sell on the tale’s popularity amid shipyards and a summer colony.
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Elsinore
Denmark
Sweden
Kipling
Shakespeare
Hamlet
Ophelia
Prince
Musterole Remedy Promises Bedtime Chest Relief
A vintage ad promotes Musterole as a soothing chest rub to ease congestion and cold symptoms. It claims fast relief for sore throats, coughs, stiff neck, asthma, rheumatic pains, and muscle aches with a mustard oil ointment that doesn't blister.
Persis Dale Reclaims Confidence In New Gray Gown
Persis Dale endures a sleepless vigil and a grueling struggle with nerves as she finishes a gray gown. Justin Ware reenters her life with memories of old flames and a cutting joke about a cherished photo. Persis defends the image, revealing a sharpened resolve and surprising, angrily dignified strength.
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Hope
Persis
Clematis
Thomas Hardin
Joel
Persis Dale
Annatel Sinclair
Annabel
Miss Dale
Justin
Justin Ware
Life of Ben Turpin and The Pet of Patagonia
A vintage profile traces Ben Turpin from medicine shows to vaudeville and silent film glory with Sam T. Jack and G. M. Anderson guiding his rise. It recounts Fairbanks demanding fitness for acrobatic stunts in The Pet of Patagonia and a dress request from a devoted admirer turning comic chaos.
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Ben Turpin
Arabian Knights
Sam T. Jack
Jack
Turpin
Ben
G. M. Anderson
Doug
Patagonia
Douglas Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Sennett Signs Shuahua Mack for New Keystone Comedy
Triangle Keystone general director Sennett engages Shuahua Boulden the world’s youngest actress to appear in an upcoming release. Shuahua, twelve days old at press time, is daughter of Keystone cowboys Joseph Boulden and a cowgirl mother. Boulden denies links to a Hawaiian dance craze in naming.
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Sennett
Shuahua
Mack Sennett
Triangle Keystone
Shuahua Boulden
Joseph Boulden
Keystone
Made Her Mad Gladys Hulette Receives Admiring Letter
Movie beauty Gladys Hulette received a letter from a girl admirer asking for a frock after she finished using it in the films. Hulette said she would gladly respond to the request.
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Gladys Hulette
Miss Hulette
Florence La Badie Stars in The Girl Who Wanted to Live
Thanhouser actress Florence La Badie completes The Girl Who Wanted to Live directed by Frederic Sullivan. Lonergan's play features Miss La Badie as a woman who leaves prison to battle for the rights she believes are hers.
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Florence la Badie
Philip Lonergan
Vlay
Frederic Sullivan
Miss la Badie
Mabel Normand Drives Fast Trotter on Pacific Coast
Film star Mabel Normand heads her own company and is known for owning a swift pacific coast trotter. She spends much of her leisure time training at a famous breeding ranch near Los Angeles.
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Mabel Normand
Keystone
Pacific Coast
Miss Normand
Los Angeles
Nevada towns dark after power line break in mountains
NEVADA TOWNS DARK TONOPAH Nev December 28. Every town in southern Nevada relying on electric lighting has been dark since Sunday due to a break in power lines crossing the White mountains. Mines here and in Goldfield are closed.
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Tonopah
Nev
Nevada
White Mountains
Goldfield
Austro Hungarian War Minister Replaced by Field Marshal
Vienna report in the Vossische Zeitung says General Ritter von Krobhatin will be replaced as Austro Hungarian war minister by Field Marshal von Schleyer. Overseas News agency relayed the Vienna item.
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Berlin
Ritter von Krobhatin
Field Marshal
von Schleyer
Vienna
Vossische Zeitung
La Crosse Astonished by Simple Mixture
La Crosse residents are astonished by Adler-i-ka a mix of buckthorn bark and glycerine. One spoonful relieves constipation sour stomach or gas and acts on both bowels. A short course may relieve chronic stomach trouble. Hoeschler Bros druggists.
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la Crosse
Hoeschler Bros
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