Indefensible Schedule Drives Higher Costs for La Crosse Utilities
A La Crosse Board of Education protest targets a state railroad commission light and power price schedule that urges using 25 per cent more current to avoid higher fixed charges. The piece argues the policy is unjust and economically unsound, noting high schools could save by overconsuming to hit lower rate thresholds.
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la Crosse Gas & Electric Company
State Railroad Commission
State Commission For Light and Power
la Crosse
Harrosse
Indefensible Waste in U S Power Rates Sparks Call for Reform
A detailed estimate claims 500 KW monthly waste in La Crosse and over 13 million KW nationwide, costing about $200,000 monthly at production price and $650,000 monthly at sale price. The figures, though loose, argue the current rate schedule is absurd and must be adjusted on scientific grounds.
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la Crosse
United States
State Commission
British author argues India justifies breaking Japan alliance
Dr. Carl Peters contends in Sunday publicity that Britain should form a pact with the United States to counter Japan. He warns Bengal’s agitation and Okuma’s claims of Hindu support for Japan, noting Japan’s influence in Manchuria and the spread of Pan Asianist ideas among students and officers.
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Carl Peters
India
Bengal
Asia
Okuma
Japan
Manchuria
America
England
Europe
Arabia
Little bald man haunts Paris assault case memory
The Paris police court witness repeatedly calls Count Boni de Castellane by the nickname the little bald man. Public gratitude for chastising the beastly prince prompts charitable forgetfulness of the adventurer’s lowly plight and pursuit of American millions.
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Boni de Castellane
Paris
Prig
French Army in Morocco Suffers Light Loss in Major Conflict
A French force in Morocco sustains about 165 deaths after a hard fought battle in which they killed roughly 10,000 Moroccans. The old belief that a southerner is worth two northerners is expected to fade into insignificance.
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Moroc
Countess of Yarmouth Named in Noted Wealth Scandal
The item notes Alice Thaw now known as the Countess of Yarmouth amid a prominent scandal involving American heirs accused of using vast fortunes to influence or purchase social notoriety linked to old world aristocracy.
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Yarmouth
Alice Thaw
Spotlight on Arthur C. Alston Play At Local Stage
A critic praises Arthur C. Alston's At the Old Cross Roads calling it a sweet southern story and one of the most interesting in months. The company will appear Wednesday February five presenting the same production and high quality scenery and artists as in larger cities.
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Arthur C. Alston
Old Cross Roads
Alston
The Rivals Comes to La Crosse Theater by Jefferson Brothers
The fifth generation of the Jefferson family, Joseph and William Winter Jefferson, will perform Sheridan's The Rivals at the La Crosse theater on Saturday night February 8. Their praised fidelity and meticulous preparation reflect a rich family legacy and aim for artistic, highly enjoyable staging.
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Jefferson
Messrs
Joseph
William Winter Jefferson
la Crosse Theater
Sheridan
Jeffersons
Quips and Cranks and Wanton Wiles
A brief Detroit Free Press item notes a longing for June and a breeze while lying in a hammock under the trees, capturing a light reflective mood.
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Detroit Free Press
Just Life and the Witch: a collage of verse and prose
A fragmented column mixes poems and prose bits about life, love, religion, drinking, divorce, and social mores. It threads a business scene with a sly locksmith joke, a busman’s polite wartime ethic, and reflective verses about marriage, temperance, and aging.
Indifference and Intrigue After Five Gables
Alban, a young Englishman, navigates debt and charity while a mercenary beauty Anna Gessner lures him with wealth. In Hampstead and Henley, she engineers romance to bind him, yet his integrity keeps him distant as the pair drift through social pretensions and moral tension.
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Anna Gessner
Alban
Five Gables
Anna
Hampstead
Cold storage chicken pox diagnosis reflected in medical quip
An attending physician tells a parent that a child's persistent chills with chicken pox may be a new manifestation of changing conditions. The editor notes the remark as a humorous diagnostic impression from Success Magazine.
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Success Magazine
English Orator's Light Touch Sparks Mixed Review
An English orator addresses a country town meeting, aiming for lively banter over serious debate. After a sparkly speech with anecdotes, he jokes his audience might be uneducated and later learns a listener compared his talk to a Quarterly Review critique in mock praise.
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Havig
Ap Arture
Quarterly Review
Bellman
Winders and Whisky Tale from Senator Cox House
A Tennessee senate speaker John S. Cox employs his trusted old servant Caesar who uses whisky to clean winders. Caesar admits he drinks the whisky and blows his breath on the winders, prompting the humorous exchange recounted from Judge's Library.
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John S. Cox
Tennessee
Senate
Kentucky
Blue Grass
Cox
Marie John
Caesar
Senator Cox
Senator
What Mrs Newnan and Aunt Keturah Debate About Marriage
The maiden aunt questions a pending marriage to Mr Newnan. She argues a woman should know a man’s family and background before marrying, while the younger woman defends learning nothing of his past yet.
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Mr. Newnan
Imogene
Not the Kind He Wanted
A fragment from Harper's Weekly notes Little Willie ran away to hunt red skins but found none until his father ended the pursuit. The terse item reflects a snapshot-style humorous or moral vignette typical of period humor sheets.
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Willie
Harper's Weekly
Mistah Groun Hog Predicts Weather In Snowy Moment
A whimsical note from the Washington Star describes Mistah Groun Hog lying low in the snow and about to prophecy on a special day. The hog eyes the sky, looks wise, and makes a guess about the climate as if delivering a forecast.
Bitter feud between Browns and Perkinses ends with a note
After years of neighborly strife over a cat's depredations Brown sends a peace note saying his cat died this morning. Perkins responds bitterly noting he had not heard that Mrs Brown was ill.
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Browns
Perkinses
Brown
Mr. Perkins
Petticoat Pattern 5899 For Waist Sizes 22 to 32
The petticoat is cut in five gores and fitted by side darts. Frills may be straight or bias with either underfacing or belt at the upper edge. Materials for medium size: 9 21 or 24 or 5% 836 inches wide bands use 21 or 3% yard 36 inches wide. Pattern 5899 covers waists 22 to 32 inches and will be mailed for ten cents. add two cents for letter postage.
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Fashion Department
The Winter Wheat Exchange Comparison
A playful remark contrasts beauty of wheat swaying in wind with its even more dramatic movement in the stock exchange. The exchange metaphor suggests volatility and market swings echoing agricultural growth.
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Stock Exchange
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