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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1908
Page
2
Due to waning interest La Crosse will not be represented at the state bowling tournament in Milwaukee on January 11. Invitations were sent to local bowlers, a meeting formed plans for two teams, but interest declined and the Gund team cancelled its bookings.
Basketball event at the Armory this evening features Co. L Sparta versus Co. B city team with Eddie Onetickey and Jule Burke among the stars. A Y M C A and La Crosse High School alumni game precedes the main contest, with dancing to follow.
Madison attorneys discuss possible candidates to fill Chief Justice Cassoday's vacancy. Names floated include Robert M. Bashford A J Vinje Clementson John M Whitehead and John M Olin with Gov Davidson aiming for a winner who can be elected in April to serve until 1910.
From October to May colds are the most frequent headache cause. Laxative Bromo Quinine removes cause. E. W. Grove on box 25c.
The Central Society of the 1908 Saengerfest meets Thursday at Germania hall to close the bazaar and settle bills. The mixed chorus gathers this evening and within three weeks all interested in Saengerfest participation must join.
A Boston Globe piece notes world population rose from 640 million in 1800 to 1.6 billion by 1906, a 150 percent increase, while world commerce expanded from 1.5 billion to over 20 billion. It argues wealth and industrial growth outpaced population, and that earlier thinkers debated crowding dangers.
A humorous exchange on Broadway has Pearman remarking on Columbus. The quip notes he overestimated and that he discovered America the first time he went to look for it.
The La Crosse county Fourth Annual School Board convention will meet at West Salem High School on January 2 starting 10 20 am Attendance for school clerks is mandatory Each member present earns two dollars plus three cents per mile Two member substitutes encouraged for absentees A county wide vote on uniform text books scheduled with topics on professional training and recent legislation and an informal discussion period.
A humorist awakens to a pale luminous visitor who claims to be the leap year joke from 1904. He questions the specter and, urged to resurrect it, lights up and starts writing by lamplight, reading The Tribune want ads as inspiration.
The piece recalls the Feb 7 1849 fight at Still Pond heights Kent county England between Tom Hyer and Yankee Sullivan for 9000 pounds. Hyer at 6 ft 1 in 180 ibs and Sullivan at 5 ft 9 1/2 in 156 ibs, Hyer won in 17 minutes 18 seconds. The image shows unclothed open ground fighting with an ox cart outside the ring and a note about the antidote to the knif.
A narrator claims job loss stems from mental worries and bodily illness, then shares personal rise after adopting Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. The piece casts a broad social issue of workers failing due to indigestion and stress, urging readers to try the remedy with a postal offer and free sample.
At Isaac Stephenson's farm in Kenosha County Wisconsin Dan H L Russell and Conrad Hoffman report tuberculosis can transfer between cattle and hogs. Eighteen calves including some registered animals were shipped to Milwaukee for slaughter ending the herd's infection.
Alec Spoke is in the county jail on a charge of cutting Joseph Cek in the left shoulder with a knife on Chestnut street an area noted for recent cutting matches and shooting affrays. Cek is at St Marys hospital feared to lose use of the arm.
ASKERTON Mrs Andrew Sienny aged 2 years is dead. PRAIRIE DU CHIEN James Crawford a farmer was instantly killed at a grade crossing by a Burlington limited train His head was crushed and limbs broken. RACINE Mayor Horlick buys a six cylinder touring car for police patrols to catch violators next summer. MADISON The University of Wisconsin to lead the Association of Cosmopolitan clubs with the executive chapter duties for the year. JEFFERSON Petitions circulate for the pardon of Edward Eckert life-term inmate at Waupun for 1879 Fort Atkinson murder. conduct described as exemplary.
An autumn incident at George Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate near Asheville involved a florist who reported a prank at the entrance. A sign lured visitors to the estate with promises of a grand bouquet, causing guests to depart with ample flowers.
A Montreal clairvoyant reports a severe eczema case cured by Cuticura. After doctors advised amputation, two soap uses and Cuticura Ointment plus Resolvent restored skin and allowed life to continue. The patient praises the treatment after years of remission and recommends it to others.
A fragment from a 1910 issue recalls a dramatic moment with the Lion’s roar and a pen moment. The terse note reflects a period tone and hints at a sports or school scene without full context.
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