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Newspaper

La Crosse Tribune

Location

La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Dec 31, 1920

Page

3

Carey's Leap Year Engagement Celebration

Natalie Wells and Jimmie Bates near a marriage moment in Carey's Wells home as Leap Year night sparks a party. After playful teasing about a proposal, Natalie accepts a lighthearted plan for engagement amid a lively Main Street gathering and a late New Year toast.

Natalie Wells Timmie Jimmie Cares Natalie Aiimy Carey Nat Vormie Immile Fic Trang Jimmin Bates Natalie Timmig Main Street Wells House Mr. Wells Erin Boamy Tlinmie Steves Lily Salem Wells Aouse Wwe Lae McCluse

Fear Shakespeare Not So Students Rewrite Shakespeare Study

High school students ditch fear of Shakespeare by comparing words from his era with modern usage. They compile Shakespearean idioms still deemed good English and mark a common error day highlighting persistent language mistakes.

Shakespeare

Indoor Magic Trick Reveals Hidden Quarter For Show

Macleran explains a coin vanish and reveal routine using a dim glass and tumbler. The dime is secretly palmed and a hollow reveal makes a larger quarter appear, with spectators invited to inspect the bottom for verification. Practice helps overcome the palm.

Movies put new life into study of Latin

Atlanta Girls High drama club enacts a modern motion picture story of Aeneas in the underworld with over two hundred students. The educational film will tour other high schools after initial Atlanta showing, aiming to revive interest in Latin studies through a period flavored presentation.

Atlanta Aeneas

Blessed Is the Man SluisSad 9

Fragmentary religious verse fragment referencing enduring temptation and a promised crown. Dialogue names unclear, obscured by OCR errors. No clear event or attribution beyond a biblical tone and a single quoted line.

Leubatl

New Year Calls and the Old Hospitality Custom

Old customs describe New Year calls when women opened homes and men visited, exchanging cards and tasting dainty refreshments. The practice faded in modern life, though some places keep it. Origins trace to wassail bowls and gifts, with alternate Roman theory cited by Polydore Vergil.

Polydore Vergil Thenr Sifls

Sumner Warned Against Expensive Navy Toy

In the fifties Charles Sumner denounced rising naval costs, urging abandonment of an expensive institution. He contrasted the Ohio’s original build cost with a modern battleship and warned upkeep could reach 1.6 million yearly. He lamented the nation’s appetite for a larger navy.

Charles Sumner Massachusetts Simmer United States Sumner Ile Ohio Dar Sui

Penny hike on school tickets draws rail concern

The passage argues that a penny increase in streetcar fares can deter schooling for needy children. Principal Hayden notes the extra penny four times daily impacts families, potentially forcing some students to abandon education, harming future earnings and community well‑being. The article cites unknown figures but emphasizes likely high usage of school transit by pupils.

Railroad Commission New Vale Hayden Moi

City urged to negotiate school child fare with street car firm

The paper argues the street car company could ease its impact on school children by voluntarily reducing rates at little cost to the company. It notes city and utility grievances are part of ongoing litigation and suggests direct talks with the firm as the simplest path. Evidence shows the burden on students is inflated by inadvertence, likely solvable with agreement.

Railroad Commission

Juvenile Courts Study Shows Gaps in Probation and Home Checks

The report counts over 175000 children brought before U S courts in the past year, with 50000 before unsuitable juvenile courts. It notes limited probation services, inadequate investigations of home and health, and ongoing shifts toward family or domestic relations courts while highlighting gains in mental exams and social worker cooperation. Harding elected life member of the typographical union to help fill dull White House days.

United States Aml Harding The Typographical Union White House

La Crosse Notables and Civic Notices Through Time

The notice recalls Dr. J H McDonald of 405 South Tenth Street who died this morning after long service in La Crosse since 1883. It mentions a reform push to cut terms in the Sixth Judicial circuit and a call to ice suppliers to avoid contaminated water ahead of a planned city lab. Also notes decades past events including Mrs Moulton’s century view, church services, railroad talks, a new law office, a pastor's death, and civic board reorganizations.

J. H. McDonald la Crosse South Tenth Street McDonald Uniform Bank of the Knights of Pythias Sixth Judicial Circuit Trempeajeau Monroe Varnon Anion. Murphy Madison Baeeil David Moulton Maine Philip Kremer Douglas of van Claire Mountain City la Grosse Eau Claire John &. McConnell Charles H. Schweizer McMillan The State University Rev. J. ©. Caldwell North Church Thirteenth Street Governors’ Guard la Crosse Board of Public Work Marvin Matthews W. Parker

A Crackerjack Vaudeville Show This Sunday

The Sunderland Six with Saxophones and other instruments hire a headline act for La Crosse theater. One member performs a blackface skit to end the comedy. The Sins Jameson Trio deliver entertaining songs and banter. A female mind reader offers a future-specting act. Curt Galloway, a limpc onian, performs wood lines. De Armont juggle opens with On the Stolft Links.

Sunderland la Crosse de Armont Juggler

Controversy Over Housing Sparks City Debate

Mrs Em Moots voices preference for open saloon over modern id in a rural discussion while a federal district court in Des Moines weighs a two seat railroad tariff case, presided by Judge Wade.

Des Molnas Yowa Kvm Niger Jatze Z. Wade United States

Sugar in Urine Appearance and Causes in Diabetes

The text explains that sugar in urine cannot be seen by appearance since sugar is dissolved. detection requires chemical tests or fermentation. It notes that patients with sugar in urine pass large volumes leading to pale urine, though color can be due to high water intake. It identifies diabetes mellitus as the disease causing sugar in urine.

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