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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1912
Page
2
The White Sister follows a young woman torn between love and nun vows after her fiancé dies in battle and a mistaken death leads him back to her convent. Set against Catholic law, the drama questions devotion versus desire in Crawford’s noted play debut at the La Crosse Theater for one night only.
S L Heeter superintendent of Pittsburg schools was taken from a Pennsylvania railroad train to Homeopathic Hospital after appendicitis on the way home from Harrisburg where he addressed the State Education Association. State Senators Huffman and Andrews convicted of legislative bribery were assigned to clerkships in the Ohio Penitentiary after entering the prison late Friday Huffman to serve three years and Andrews nine months.
Christmas tree exercises at First Presbyterian in Rushford drew a full house with hymns prayers and anthems. Santa caused a stir as he hurried to visit Lanesboro after Houston, then gifts disappeared from the decorated tree. The Rushford Military band plans a December 30 concert at the Opera House.
Persian consul-general H H Topakyan reports Andrew Carnegie plans a further $25,000,000 donation to aid small charities. Heeded during a visit to Carnegie in Constantinople, the benefaction would raise his total gifts to $205,000,000.
William Green, 101, a longtime Danville resident and likely the oldest postal employee, died Saturday in Vincennes. He served on the federal payroll for 73 years, marking a lifetime in government service.
Larz Anderson arrived in Tokyo as the newly appointed United States ambassador to Japan and immediately assumed control of the embassy duties.
Martha Dillevan aged 100, the county s oldest woman, died in Champaign on Saturday. Born in Dayton Ohio, she lived in this county for many years.
In New Jersey a mother named Mrs. Lowther died in a December snowstorm while walking with her two daughters from Paris station to their five mile home. Elder Mary shielded her younger sister with coats and died of exposure. the younger girl survived. The husband, John Lowther, a truck gardener, mourns as rescue delayed helps.
In Minneapolis Scandinavian parents announce plans to pull their children from city high schools as a last resort after the board of education approved school supervised dances. They will seek court and legislative actions to bar uses of high school buildings for dances as half the pupils are of Scandinavian parentage. A mass meeting of church pastors was held at the Swedish tabernacle.
Mrs. K B Cleveland of Atchison Kansas died after brain inflammation traced to a dream that woke her husband and left her unconscious for ten days. She had helped nurse a neighbor who died from ulcer poisoning in Atchison before falling ill herself.
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