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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1909
Page
4
Mrs Louise Weise proprietor of the Union Chop House 424 Mill street was robbed of 3 50 after hiring a wandering man who posed as cook Earl Hastings. Miss Elizabeth Gundolf worked with Hastings and later found the cash register looted while Hastings disappeared with his coat and hat. Police were notified.
The Good Samaritans meet at Mrs. M Desmonds Mill Street home Wednesday afternoon. Jerry Callahan returns from Lexington Kentucky where he attended horse races. Miss Mary Downs starts as stenographer for Pamperin Wiggenshorn Cigar Co. Mr and Mrs A Miller of St Paul visiting North Side. Joseph Smiths son ill with tonsillitis. Mrs E Laughlin and Pearl to Chicago for a few days. Edward Roetzel back from Preston Minnesota. A train of fifty potato cars passes Grand Crossing on the Q line. Mrs Charles Wells formerly Maude MacLendin sails to New York. Mrs J Potter returns to Caledonia Minn from visit.
Fireman Frank Finnie slipped while pulling a water spout at the North Side Mil waukee yards late Saturday midnight. He fell from the switch engine tank, landing on his head and shoulder, suffering severe bruises but no serious injuries and soon resumed work.
A compact aphorism notes that a man who prays one way and acts in another will see little advancement. It emphasizes integrity between beliefs and deeds as essential to progress.
John C. Evans aged 22, son of J. T. Evans of French Island, was found exhausted along a Chipmunk Coulee farm road after 36 and a half hours of wandering. Detective Joseph McGrath returned him to La Crosse as family blamed a Friday climate shift for a temporary mental lapse. He spoke little of his travels, appeared incoherent, and had endured cold weather on the road.
The English Local Government Board report for Oct 1906 to Sept 1907 shows England and Wales population about 34.95 million. Estimated old age pension beneficiaries about 500,000 and paupers around 1,709,436. Combined government aid recipients near one in 2,209,436 with pauper share about one in 20. London pauper rate about one in 14.
London reports that England's 1.20 weekly old age pension, effective January 1, fails to win broad support and highlights widespread poverty. The Blue Book cites 683,775 paupers, with many families dependent on relief while Conservatives and Socialists clash over the program's reach and symbolism.
The North side Milwaukee ice house filling is finished and Dagendish and his crew have started filling the South side. Ice is cut near the mouth of the La Crosse river.
A lecturer recalls a dinner guest who tests knife edges on his thumb, ignoring etiquette. A waiter notes the knives are sharp, while the guest jokes he seeks a blunt one after cutting his mouth at a prior banquet.
A tiger escaped from the zoological gardens in Lahore and, after all appeals failed, its keeper called on it in the name of the British government. The creature immediately heeded and came back to its cage.
A humorous remark about accepting a party invitation only if the weather stays dry. Wallace agrees to attend if it does not rain, else he contemplates staying home. The anecdote reflects playful language and social expectations of earlier times.
A quip about a gossiping old fashioned wife who handed her husband a letter to post and scolded him for forgetting to mail it. The punch line invites readers to ask the corner mail box about the missing dispatch.
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