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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1908
Page
3
The Lacrosse Tribune publishes detailed sworn circulation figures for June 1908. Daily totals are listed by date, showing fluctuations across Tuesdays Wednesdays and Mondays with numbers ranging around six thousand.
The Saenger festival is set for La Crosse Wisconsin July 23 24 25 and 26 featuring local events and performances across multiple venues highlighting regional arts and culture.
A columnist argues that taking children to the circus yields education beyond books. It links zoology geography and history to live spectacle, noting the transformation from toy animals and pictures to real creatures. The day turns myth into tangible learning.
The message urges taking children to the circus to learn from live animals and performances. It argues a naturalist approach through elephant feeding, tiger portrayal, and trapeze daring teaches courage and physical development while avoiding mere nursery imagery. The piece also notes Saenger fest momentum, rain or shine pledges, and local political chatter centering on Hatton over Isaac Stephenson.
The Boston Herald recounts a humorous 1878 Yale dorm story about William Howard Taft and George B. Edwards. A coal bin passage connected Taft’s room to another, where late lights and quiet study contrasted with proctor searches, a secret discovered after Taft’s graduation.
Lists fat producing foods to favor in a diet from Harper's Bazaar noting milk cream eggs butter olive oil sweets fruits and starches as the main sources while limiting condiments acids and stimulants. Emphasizes tissue forming foods are necessary for proper function alongside fat producers and mandates a balanced approach.
A collage of scenes shows windmills, a dairy farm chalk sign, vats and bottles, a chemist, a lab and a bread tank. The poem moves to a captioned dairy farm and a chalk-top wagon reflecting a quirky vignette in a vintage newspaper style.
Holmes notes the boy sketching and carving his name, then spills milk on a Louis Seize furniture. He advises restraint as the villa is rented furnished for the season.
A brief humorous note from Delineator about a three year old named Joe who wakes with his eyes crusted shut. He jokes that if they must stick this way he will sleep with them wide open to avoid the trouble.
A summer resident amused by an organ grinder on a back porch comments on turning the crank. The grinder replies in pidgin speech about keeping time and watching the monk who ta kes da arteest, as printed in Youths Companion.
A cryptic Harvard Lampoon line riffs on a youth named Hippopopolis who falls from the Acropolis. The speaker quips about a future self rising metropolis as he flies through the air, blending mythic imagery with urban ambition.
A court dialogue unfolds with a judge questioning a prisoner about prior arrests and court appearances. The prisoner, the bartender in a saloon, denies arrests and recalls being known to the judge, highlighting a local, humorous courtroom moment from Harper's Weekly.
An article notes how Europe adopts dance trends from the United States. It highlights the cakewalk and serpentine dances as native and imported innovations that shaped European tastes while European ballet gains fade. The piece portrays the U S as the source of novelty in dance for Europe.
A Baltimore American quotation ponders Jones’s sculpture plan. The writer suggests a bust may suit his talent, debating whether to complete the entire figure or stop at a characteristic outline.
A fragment from Los Angeles Paris letters features a cabby taunting a horse to hurry, claiming membership in the Society for the Protection of Animals, then requests another tip as the temperance society trade winds through a bustling scene.
Harper's Weekly reflects on a man named Brown arriving ten years ago with no money and notes he has managed to persist. The brief sketch implies steady progress and resilience without detailing specific ventures or outcomes.
Little Loren asks if rain clouds can be used again as the sky clears after a day of heavy rain. The Delineator records the child's playful weather wonder and a mother’s amused moment.
The piece recalls the 10th anniversary of the American flag over Santiago de Cuba with a ceremony and a note on Cuba's progress. It highlights education expansion compulsory schooling, railways, telegraphy, agriculture, and sanitation improvements, along with trade growth with the United States. It also shifts to a fictional arc where Phil Calmont meets Vic Morris, leading to his new role in Incubus & Co. and his first work day in the new office.
A pair of dialogue snippets from the Cleveland Leader depict a daughter apologizing for not asking father about her, and a daughter recounting his dangerous temper and a remark he made this morning wishing he had seen her yesterday.
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