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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1908
Page
3
The Saenger festival returns to La Crosse Wisconsin from July 23 to 26. Organizers invite communities to join concerts parades and street events across the four day celebration featuring music performances and local vendors.
The Saengerfest opened with broad support and strong attendance in La Crosse. Citizens and visiting singers celebrate a triumphant start after earlier obstacles, as organizers and music lovers share in the festival’s promising first results.
A commentary warns that repeated reports of Japanese progress and patriotism have fostered a nationwide belief that all citizens are fully devoted to government aims and ready to act at the ruler's touch, implying potential internal strain and rigidity. It questions the sustainability of such a monolithic mindset.
A analysis argues Japan has prospered through education for fifty years while military zeal dominates policy. Growing dissent targets imperial authority, with possible shift to a new party focused on developing resources. Tax burden and socialism rise among non voters, signaling potential internal struggle with global implications.
The text debates whether party leaders should dictate a party platform for candidates or allow individual candidates to choose their own platform. It notes the dilemma is exasperating and seeks an answer on unity versus autonomy within the party.
The piece presents Mr Schmitz as a Democratic gubernatorial hopeful and notes that the party has little public action besides filing compensated campaign expenses. It questions public recognition with the line Who's Schmitz and signals interest in his potential statewide impact.
Citizens focus on the grand omega festival while yesterday's ball games fail to capture attention. Spectators and locals remark on the event's scale eclipsing political concerns and daily sports results.
Essays argue bachelors should bear all taxes as they already take wars poetry ships industry and thought duties. The author portrays bachelors as generous yet frugal figures benefitting from others marriages while funding orphanages schools and homes for matrimonial wrecks.
Newark Mail reports a widespread view among naval officers that captains and commanders can no longer hold prominent posts unless willing to incur debt for lavish entertainment of visitors both American and foreign. Atlantic fleet officers headed to the Pacific must scrimp and save to pay debts incurred entertaining guests they may never meet again.
The Washington Star notes a policy decision to reveal campaign contributors will surprise many who favor discreet charitable giving. The move aims for transparency but may upset those who prefer to donate without public credit.
A light verse from the New York Globe notes Johnson facing domestic tension and seaside temptations as he contemplates business, leisure, and a sum of coin. The poem hints at stage doors, lobster, and a chorus girl in a seashore racket, with couplets about moral compromise.
In a dialogue Mr. Goodley notes Miss Gidday’s age surprised him, asking if she looks 30. Miss Knox agrees she may have appeared that age earlier but not now, as reported in the Pittsburg Press.
A reception hosted by Mme Kasebier for Buffalo Bill's Wild West performers drew about a hundred Indians in vivid native dress. A curious white girl asked her mother if Indians lay eggs, sparking amused reactions among attendees. The scene appeared in Everybody's Magazine after the event.
Isaac L. Rice, noted chess lover, recounts how he was urged to buy a motorcycle for his daughter after Europe trip. A rider’s fall in New York killed a man, leading Rice to cancel the gift. A later letter, with a newspaper clipping about a theater death, swayed him to reconsider.
The Louisville Courier Journal once kept 400 Mexican silver dollars in a safe as circulation for a time. Editor Marie Henry Watterson asked for money one night and, after a small till amount, demanded 200 Mexican dollars. He later claimed he was losing the rest at a game for a dollar apiece.
A Washington Star excerpt shows Plodding Pete replying to a taunt about job hunting. He praises the West where men find work readily, noting the territory’s willingness to employ. The banter reflects frontier opportunities and persistent wage-earning effort.
Vic Morris encounters a cunning stranger named Billy Bryan at Gate Cottage as Vida Bryan arrives with a market basket. Bryan claims to be Ireland's Billy Bryan and hints at danger while Vic asserts his aim to secure Vida’s hand, amid a tense family dinner and rumors of past murders.
A four year old boy wonders if he will go to heaven and if the biblical hero David will let him hold his sling shot there. The mother gently answers with hopeful statements about heaven and the afterlife.
A brief note from the Birmingham Age-Herald reflecting on a man known for his dreams and a wry aside about whether his wife keeps boarders. The line about "Peace hath her victories" hints at attitudes toward marriage.
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