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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1909
Page
11
The La Crosse Tribune urges candidates for mayor to declare their principles and policies. It argues campaigns cost newspapers and that support should be earned by clear positions on public concerns rather than personal ties or vague claims. It cautions candidates to disclose what they stand for before seeking endorsement.
The Tribune addresses candidates who seek editorial support and advertising space. It rejects paid editorial influence, asserting it stands for candidates' stated values rather than money. The article urges a principled approach to forthcoming municipal campaigns.
In a call to supporters, La Crosse baseball leaders urge fans to attend a dance tomorrow night and donate one dollar to shore up the association’s finances. The plea notes a $500 debt and the need for working capital to continue league ambitions amid a national game crisis.
The piece envisions A. A. Bentley entering a mayoral race to trigger a surge of new political complications. It portrays a clash between bold oratory and investigative tactics, with strong public interest and motion toward upheaval in the electorate.
Spotlight on three shows this week at the La Crosse theater features North Brothers vaudeville acts Varin and Burr as a blackface team Barnes and Edwins in comic songs and sketches with all acts praised The Chicago Ladies orchestra attracts crowds with late and popular tunes The company performs Girl of the Hills tonight with matinees Saturday and Sunday
A brief poem notes youth at twenty with Babette as the memory of spring. The speaker recalls a dainty face, witching smile, and blue eyes like April skies, then muses that a year is long and others follow.
A London Globe report defends Napoleon's taste for music, noting he enjoyed singing for hours after concerts and once asked cellist Duport to render the instrument motionless before him. The episode at the Tuileries ended with the cello handed back amid Josephine's whispered instruction and a laugh from the emperor.
A man calls out names Meg Maggie Madge Margaret and Marguerite in a tense moment. A flute-like distant voice responds with Yes darling signaling a connection or recognition. The exchange hints at a concealed relationship or secret communication.
A business owner recounts taking his son into the shop to learn the trade. The venture proved a great success with the son now instructing the father in the craft, as reported in Tit-Bits.
Mrs Gillet asks if the famed Arctic explorer will attend the reception. Mrs Perry confirms he will come unless the night is too cold, per Harper's Bazaar.
The adjutant lectured a squad of recruits on company drill battalion drill and every other form of movement he could think of.
Mrs. E. E. Jackson of Cliftondale reports her son Leon suffered nightly whooping cough and nausea until Father John’s Medicine was given. After half a small bottle the nausea ceased and with a second bottle the coughing nearly stopped. The ad promotes Father John’s Medicine as a nourishing, non patent remedy that prevents pneumonia and consumption.
In a wartime anecdote a sergeant questions Private Jones about courage on the field. Jones replies he would be in the ammunition wagon when bullets are thickest, a response recounted by Tit-Bits to illustrate personal behavior under fire.
A humorous but abrupt exchange shows a boy Willie's misinterpretation of an subway accident as a seat incident. The father, absorbed in reading, asks about the event while Willie, edging to the door, recalls a woman vying for a seat and a man sitting on it.
A country clergyman visits a boy and asks about Bible parables. The boy, shy and guided by his mother, finally mouths a humorous preference describing the tale where somebody loafs and fishes. The anecdote appears in a rustic, moralizing tone.
Weary customer jokes about watching slugs while disputing a country visit with a wary speaker. The London Opinion notes the humorous exchange about country life and fence watching.
Sheriff Tom Dunn of New York recalls his rise from a poor Irish lad to meeting Lord Clonmel at a banquet hosted by Phil Dwyer after several race horses were brought to the country. Dunn praises the United States and the clash with Irish memory in a humorous reminiscence.
Miss Lorena Tanser of York Pennsylvania testified she acted as housekeeper for Harry Keener and revealed he murdered a stranger, dismembered and burned the body.
In Washington on January 21, progressives and Democrats tilt the scale on Speaker Cannon’s pay with a 36 to 32 vote for a general raise to 20 000 while an alternative would cap him at 15 000. Indictments mount in Kickapoo fraud cases as a Texas grand jury returns 96 counts against Oklahoma officials and a Justice Department attorney.
In New York a statute bars pumping or accelerating the flow of carbonic gas from mineral waters if it harms other springs. Hathorne vs Natural Carbonic Gas Co. involved a Saratoga area gas extraction operation. The New York Supreme Court upheld an injunction, ruling police power allows preventing disintegration of mineral waters when the taken value is small compared with the loss.
O T Erhart of La Crosse offers Dr. Howards specific at half price to prove its claim by curing dyspepsia constipation and related ailments. He guarantees a refund if results are not achieved and promises rapid, lasting relief and improved vitality.
Rupert Haverford lingers north then returns to London seeking relief from shattered plans and a hidden rift with the people he hoped to aid. He visits Mrs. Lancing, where his arrival stirs the household and prompts care for the ailing matron.
Consumers offered a pneumatic washer for thirty days almost free to demonstrate to neighbors. Priced at three dollars, it promises to save hands and time with a half time operation. A one dollar payment, returnable if unsatisfied, and optional express shipping for twenty-five cents, with a pamphlet on request.
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