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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1910
Page
6
Learn to prepare a home cough syrup using sugar, warm water and Pinex with pine elements. The mix aims to ease coughs within a day and also aids appetite while providing a pleasant taste and laxative action. The formula claims universal use in the United States and Canada with a money back guarantee.
A London Globe item surveys witty and polite roadside boards in Brabant Dinant and an English town. One sign warns motorists to stay near a hundred kilometers per hour with a playful extra zero. In Dinant a level road promotes a horse at a gentle trot. A British town offers sequential polite messages Please drive slowly and Thank you showing refined civility.
The piece extols Horace Greeley as a steadfast reformer who endures hardship for moral betterment. It contrasts him with corrupt rulers and sensual, selfish figures, asserting his legacy will endure in the hope of virtuous youth and uncorrupted childhood.
A Chicago inquiry asks whether workers are compensated fairly for the amount of labor they perform. The topic centers on wage adequacy and labor expectations in the city.
The north side sewer that drains into Black River is frozen and clogged. Sewage backs up as two pipes lie on ice due to a low water level, prompting North Side residents to urge the board of public works to thaw the lines.
Dr W H Allen of New York told the Illinois State Teachers Association that schools should act as press agents by supplying local papers with brief stories and lobbying Congress for stronger educational protection. He urged teachers to promote personal and social hygiene and to make schools community centers for settlement work and uplift.
Dr. Mary Smith Canfield, once held in Kalamazoo asylum on her ex husband’s complaint, wed Wm. Baugarten, a dye maker and her former butler, after divorcing David M. Smith of Malina Ohio. The couple’s history spans Cleveland Pittsburgh Detroit and other cities.
London leader columnist Harold Spender warns Liberal leaders fear Ulster rising if home rule passes. He notes prior harsh penalties against Irish opponents and cautions government to monitor gun weapon inquiries by defeated faction.
Washington December 29. A lame duck boom engineered by politicians seeking jobs from the president began when visitors at the White House told reporters they supported Taft for president in 1912. Senators Burkett Nebraska, Piles Washington, Warner Missouri and Fascett New York, Rep Dalzell Pennsylvania also spoke. President Taft has not publicly weighed in and some friends say he is not seeking renomination.
Portsmouth Ohio December reports two bachelor brothers Minor and Oliver Pratt found dead in their smoldering home near Mud Lick Rocky Fork eighteen miles from Portsmouth. Officers dispatched to investigate after they were alerted by the brothers of the deceased. The brothers were said to have had considerable money.
Philip Hurley, one of four Cincinnati fire marshals, died at home from injuries suffered in last week’s $2,000,000 Shoe factory fire, raising the death toll to four.
Henry Davis was arrested after assaulting a young woman on Thirteenth and Vine streets last evening. Patrolmen Groeschner and Last detained him downtown two hours after the report. Davis 24, recently arrived from Unity Wisconsin, admitted seeking a girl earlier and faces assault charges.
Pittsburg December 29 Harry K Thaw the Stanford White slayer and inmate of Matteawan insane asylum was to be discharged from bankruptcy by Judge Charles Orr in United States district court here The only obstacle Graham of New York withdrew his objection and the creditors are expected to receive about 20 per cent of their claims Thaw filed for bankruptcy August 7 1908 listing debts of 453140 43 and assets of 172073 83
Mrs. Cora Westgate a nurse is detained as authorities question her over a mutilated body found believed to be Obed Westgate timber contractor of Big Prairie Newaygo county Michigan. She says the name similarity is coincidental and she nursed him in Hudson and Traverse City Michigan.
The census office announced the 1910 enumeration for several cities. Corning ton and Piggotown in Arkansas, Carbondale City in Illinois, Fargo and Grand Forks in North Dakota, Etoowah in Tennessee, Cisco and Longview in Texas, and Hillyard City in Washington, with listed population figures.
Baroness Hengelmuller von Henger, wife of the Austrian ambassador, is critically ill at the embassy in Washington. She suffers from appendicitis and doctors say an operation would be dangerous given her condition.
In Cedar Rapids, Joseph Ventura shot his wife, six months after their marriage, then killed himself with a second bullet. He survived and faces a charge of attempted murder.
A fable is described as an open-faced lie that carries a moral attachment, suggesting storytelling used to impart a lesson while masking truth. The line implies critique of fables as vessels for ethics.
In West Union Ohio and West Union Colorado area reports show 194 new indictments for vote selling raising totals to 1,082 in Ohio and 988 overall. A widow accused of selling her son's vote for five dollars faces possible leniency. a Jacksonville township farmer confessed to three votes for varying candidates. Judge Blair keeps the grand jury in session, with fines paid and disfranchisement penalties imposed.
Ottawa reports official estimates that 350000 immigrants entered Canada in 1910, including 150000 from the United States. The figure shows cross border movement during that year.
The Wisconsin Butter Makers Association plans a large convention in La Crosse from January 31 to February 3. Secretar y C. H. Benkendorf cites $1,024.84 from the association the city and others for expenses and premiums. Prizes awarded for scores of 90 points or higher include many firm specials and a machinery exhibit drawing farmers from Minnesota Iowa and beyond.
Mrs. George Longbrake hosted her Sunday school class The Pathfinders at 509 Cass Street last evening. Holly and Christmas decorations filled the rooms and a winter forest scene with Santa riding a reindeer graced the dining room. Children played games, were entertained, and refreshments followed. guests included Miss Helen Bailey of Minneapolis and Carl Reichelt from Ann Arbor visiting relatives.
Fire at Frank Shadbolt residence in Caledonia Minnesota at six this morning destroyed the house. The village fire department could not supply water from the city system and the fire rapidly consumed the outer town dwelling.
The Yeomen of America elected new officers at the Wednesday meeting. Officers include President John W. Noble past president Herman Duelow vice president Margaret Dennison chaplain Jessie Ender chancellor George Ishan vice chancellor Margaret Niggert secretary Laura Hussy treasurer Fred Ender guide Edgar Edberg associate guide Bertie Hass sentinel Sarah Tilley guard Charles Schulz.
Rowena Circle of the Brotherhood of African Yeomen held a Tuesday meeting with 35 members present. Prizes of Haviland china were won by Mesdames Vondrashek Reichelt Gibbons and Walters, followed by a lunch. The group plans a public card party and dance January 3 in Nicholson Scott hall.
The light committee of the common council will meet La Crosse Gas & Electric officials tomorrow to draft a five year lighting contract. The company agrees to $55 per lamp on a moonlight schedule and $60 for all night lighting, after originally seeking ten years.
May Harris an 18 year old wife and mother was recovered from a Japanese boarding house where she and her baby were held for forty six days. She claims she was drugged and forced to drink Japanese liquor to keep her quiet during captivity. Police traced the girl after a call and found her in a windowless room. She disappeared last November after visiting her parents.
Chicago December 29 packers led by J Ogden Armour and nine others fought government plans to dismiss a civil suit under the Sherman anti trust law by testifying and seeking delay. Attorneys argued to prevent dismissal and set Friday for objections while the government contended it may dismiss with precedents.
In compliance with a common council action the board of public works repairs pumps at the pumping station. Small pumps are fixed and Allis Chalmers of Milwaukee will send a technician to overhaul the large Holly pump. The board plans winterwork to have pumps ready for spring demand.
This evening a joint meeting of the sewer and street improvement committees will decide on projects for the coming year. The committees coordinate underground work before permanent street work and will make cooperative recommendations for the city's program.
The notice states William W. Calvert son of a former La Crosse board of trade secretary, is legally dead and Robert Calvert who disappeared in 1894 is also declared dead. An insurance company will pay a $1,000 policy on the missing boy and Arthur S Farnam was appointed administrator.
Lancaster Pa December 29 the appointment of a woman physician as a pathologist at St Josephs hospital prompted the resignation of the entire medical staff of the institution.
J N Fike of Colby Thomas county Kansas planted and harvested nearly 14000 acres of hard red winter wheat in 1910. He produced a larger wheat area than the combined sowings of Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island and Mississippi.
A humorous exchange examines love and sight in a playful quip. The fragment suggests love at first sight leads to blindness after initial infatuation, reflecting social wit of the era.
A wry remark notes that justice is often personified as a woman while a man is consistently chasing it. The quip reflects humor about gendered imagery in legal concepts and the enduring effort to attain fairness.
A home made cough syrup recipe promises to cure grippe colds sore throat and chronic bronchitis claiming it acts within hours. The preparation uses essence mentholaxene and sugar syrup yielding a pint for under 80 cents with daily doses said to laxate and purge coughs pneumonia fears.
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