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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1914
Page
3
A critique argues La Crosse county should focus on permanent citizen redemption of dependents rather than mere day to day care. It warns against mistaking by products for the main aim, using a parable of a fisherman catching bass and catfish. Miss Webster cleans a dirty house after being told there is no food.
A visiting nurse helps a mother and her oldest girl learn to prepare simple meals from flour potatoes and tea. Within days the family keeps a clean home and eats decently while one girl proudly recalls never washing a dish before. The nurse argues that disease stems from poor feeding and cleanliness and urges a method to strengthen dependent people into good citizens.
The excerpt reflects on how war is treated in poetry, noting poets sing of glory and futility, cruelty and patriotism. Byron is cited describing marching squads, clattering wheels, and the alarmed citizenry as the foe approaches.
The piece forecasts a sensational police inquiry into whether the accused aligned with the Webber faction or its rival. It argues the probe may span broad territory and test factional loyalties, with Chief Webber’s past record unlikely to shield him from presumption.
The excerpt recalls a line about parting and soldiers, and a Venice palace scene in Howe’s picture prompts a cheeky remark from a youngster about a dog. The fragment blends poetry with a fleeting cinema-era aside.
The office pessimist, burdened by visiting in laws, calls himself a visiting house keeper. Kipling’s lines on female power are cited as prophetic of militant suffragism. A question of symbols arises between the iron cross and the red cross as honors.
A poem by Barry Pain in New York American envisions a ghostly army of the dead marching in twilight. It depicts serene, unscarred figures rising beyond war and hatred, united under one king in God, as the Archangel’s trumpet calls them heavenward.
A Philadelphia Telegraph item recalls a hotel lobby joke about suspended animation and a young man who says his cold feet and hunger reassure him he is not dead. The exchange features Senator George E. Chamberlain reference and a later quip about charging batteries in an auto shop.
A sympathetic visitor at the jail asks if my craving for drink brought me there. I retort that Washington tar would mistake the place for a saloon, a sharp exchange that hints at hardship and mockery.
A preacher in a southern state delivers a fervent sermon as he seeks guidance and help for his ministry. He appeals to congregants, urging aid and support during a trying period for his church. The piece focuses on faith, need, and communal response.
An old advertisement touts Pinex and Pine Syrup as a cheap, quick relief for coughs, croup, bronchitis, and winter colds. It advises mixing 60 cent Pine extract with sugar syrup in a pint bottle and taking a teaspoon hourly, claiming rapid relief and easy storage for families. It stresses guaranteed satisfaction and refunds.
An alarm jolts a Sunday night service as a preacher urges calm and faith. Two children rush back in yelling a fire at the parsonage, and the preacher bolts from the pulpit to his burning home, prompting a lean congregant to quip about the Lord needing his own. A separate Exchange note recalls a Royal Holland guest at Kaiser’s review and a tall-tale about dike water depths.
An older voice recalls Adam’s missteps in the fruit trade and notes that without attempting it they would never have known the juicy sweetness of Georgia watermelons. The quotation echoes a southern dialect and features the Atlanta Constitution as source.
A sharp social notice contrasts past frugality with present excess as an old-fashioned mother who saved cream for her baby now sees her daughter ordering a whole bottle of cream to splash on Fido’s dog biscuit.
A Boston Transcript note defines odd terms from Freshman to Hermit and a joke about marriage as alimony prep. It also reports a small railroad in California’s Tahoe National Forest broke down last summer, burning wood instead of oil for one day causing fifteen fires along the right of way.
In a tense rush of longing and danger, a wounded man plans a nighttime escape from a Moslem city to reach a hidden mount and flee with his beloved. He recalls a college stunt for inspiration and clings to Pegasus as the plan unfolds against patrols and dawn’s approaching light.
A fragmentary scene describes a rider on a saddle swaying as if intoxicated, moving forward with unsteady balance. The line portrays a rough, unstable journey or a moment of chaotic movement.
The tale of a vanished bride and a mysterious rider grows in a Damascus street corner as storytellers weave a genie or afrit into the plot. Amad and his wife clash over the affair while officials shrug at policing the crowd as six hundred years of street lore frame a cautionary supernatural saga.
In Washington on December 31 the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that proposed increases in the minimum weight of shipments in peddler cars between western territory points are not justified. The decision affects meat and packinghouse products shipments in the west and middle west.
Four prisoners fled the Warren jail Tuesday night through a roof vent, after prying bars with a gas pipe. Robinson, a colored man, is held on burglary charges amid rumors of involvement in the murder of Miss Jean Miller at Aurora several weeks earlier. three others were captured or recaptured following the escape.
Victoria Murdock, 73, widow of M. Murdock founder of the Wichita Eagle, died yesterday after a stroke ten days earlier. She was mother of Congressman Victor Murdock.
Frank Havk of Oxford Junction Iowa says he has ridden about 30000 miles on a motorcycle with few troubles. He describes the endurance journey and the reliability of his machine amid long trips and varying road conditions.
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