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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1908
Page
3
The La Crosse Tribune lists subscription prices with annual and other rates. The ad shows a yearly rate of eight dollars and a higher annual figure, reflecting a basic pricing snippet.
A notary public confirms the paper’s June 1908 circulation figures with sworn numbers listed as exact totals. Frank H. Burgess signs the affidavit and A. E. Bleekman administers the oath on June 30, 1908.
Walter Wellman’s letter to the Record Herald critiques La Follette’s support for Taft and condemns the Iowa delegation’s Cummins VP bid as a maneuver. The piece frames Taft’s ticket as divisive for progressives and notes Cannon-led faction influence on the GOP.
The piece describes Republican leaders planning to bolster Taft by using La Follette Beveridge Dolliver and possibly Johnson to counter Bryan and Johnson. It argues the 1908 style fight hinges on holding the west with strong progressive voices and avoiding a split in November. It notes Denvers platform and internal party dynamics around Dolliver Cummins and La Follette.
The New York Public Utilities Commission plans to require direct public sale of bonds and stocks issued by corporations under their control. The reform aims to end syndicates profit from watering securities, ensure uniform pricing, and curb favoritism to old shareholders. It anticipates benefits for the public and municipalities through lower interest rates and greater investor confidence.
The Parker pig on display in Langdon and Boyds window will be awarded tonight at the La Crosse theatre after the last act of Carmen. Audience members who received numbers earlier in the week may win by going on stage to catch the pig and claim it, with a wheelbarrow ready to transport the animal to its new home.
The Interstate Commerce Commission may extend supervision to inter state railroad issues. Overcapitalization is cited as the major evil in American corporations today. The New York commission is giving valuable experience in handling the problem, noted by the Milwaukee Journal.
A lighthearted piece urges readers to keep cool in hot weather. It advises mopping brows, smiling, and bearing the heat with stoicism, suggesting one can feel cooler by not fretting and adopting a relaxed approach to the day.
Quotation from the Philadelphia Press about a woman described as a single minded about remaining single. The remark contrasts social aims with popular notions of romance in a witty exchange.
Quote from a Houston Post item humorously notes a man who said he understood women yet never married one. The exchange highlights skepticism about male insight into women.
An anxious citizen asks about summer plans and jokes that the poor house may be the destination to spare the family’s expenses, implying financial strain and constrained choices.
Cartoonish snippet reports a country editor cash register with dedicated keys for potatoes, turnips, squash, prealant, pumpkins, cord wood, and hard cider. The gag highlights rural commerce quirks and humorous product design.
Kirktown, famed for gossip, threads through three ministers from the Scottish Establishment to the Episcopalian and Presbyterian clergy. The scene centers on a dry, high minister living in a four‑square manse, eyeing both worldly plots and eternal gravestones.
A seventeenth century tone describes birch bark canoes moving west across inland seas under royal emblem. Crews push toward a distant shore where a slender lance tops a square banner. The voyage ends with a formal claim laid in forests under the king of France.
A humorous exchange centers on the sun's heat lasting 37 million years. One speaker questions the value of taking a two week vacation, prompting the other to answer that the heat endures for 37 million years. The dialogue plays on irony and time scales.
A veteran humorist laments anger after reading editors clipping his jokes and declining to buy them. He condemns the loss of his punchlines and voices frustration at the editorial decision.
A conversation about aging reveals a thought on aging with humor. One speaker notes youthfulness, another a growing expertise in avoiding trouble. The exchange ends with plans for an automatic graphophone that could dole out a kind word on demand.
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