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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1909
Page
8
The Tribune announces a $3,500 voting contest with 18 prizes including two automobiles and four pianos. Nominate yourself or a friend by mailing the ballot, earning 1,000 votes, plus daily free votes with each issue. Standings update daily and the contest office is open every evening.
A long list of names and addresses appears, detailing residents at numerous street corners and avenues. The scrawled entries include Marion Harrison, May A Hegenbart, Ethel Olberg, Mrs Jas Furber, Selma Goldberg, Nora Nelson, Pauline Meien, Lona Bedessem, Elsie Warninger, Mrs L L Brown, Alfrieda Iisert, Stella D Hyde, Chas W Aiken, Myrtle Atkinson, Maybel Johnson, Florence Branson, Nannie Bartel, Effie A Cummings, TAlah A Derr, Celeste Rupp, Mrs H C Evenson, etc. The page shows a broad roster of households in district one with scattered notes and stray markings.
A lengthy district roster lists numerous women from towns across Wisconsin including Melrose Stockholm Wauzeka Gays Mill Prairie du Chien Whitehall Onalaska Sparta Arcadia Independence Tomah Blair Cashton Viroqua Wilton Elroy La Farge Soldiers Grove and others. The document concludes with a column of monetary figures associated with each entry ranging from 1,000 to 1,930 dollars.
District Four names Ruth H Cooper Julia Carin Mrs Ed O'Brien Trene Horne Mrs C A Ross Lola Kirkpatrick Mattie Weber Mrs Louie Peterson Mayme Schubert Minnie Glasrud Edith Kramer Neva Bakewell Irene Dorival Anna Langlie Tina Anderson Clara Tone Winnie Baldeman Meta Kernat Esther Rix Mary Lichter Marion Bergman Matilda Helle Grace Hart Maggie Galagher Mrs Oscar Tolefson Louise Halvorson Nora Hard Ellen Burke Maude Bathrick Inga Anderson Sarah Weida Winifred Langum Margaret Walter Vernie Beusch Hazel Schild Myrtie Burr Anna Hulihan Lyla May Augusta Yohe Mrs John Durr and various others with counts 1 000 1 945 3 010 1 914 1 909 1 295
The first grand jury, in session since July 1, returns indictments for malfeasance in office against Pelican Town officials B N Moran Jerry Driscoll Joseph Habinger H E Knapp Fred Rusch and Phillip Dawson and Minorqual officials Thomas M Bulger Osda Jenkinson David Jossart F L Schilling and Amy Nice. Three other indictments are for felony bribery and keeping disorderly houses with warrants pending.
A committee of regents and Secretary William Kittle will meet in Eau Claire on Tuesday to pick a site for a new state normal school. Eau Claire would pay the site cost, with hopes the next legislature will fund construction and operation.
Kenosha Wis July 26 The renewed labor demonstrations failed to develop after a socialist meeting Sunday afternoon. About 100 men women and children attended with no anarchic activity or fiery rhetoric and no renewed strike efforts.
The body of 45 year old William Lenz was found wedged between fence pickets at 722 Humboldt Avenue in Milwaukee. Coroner and police deem death accidental after examining a scene where Lenz appeared to be half asleep on Saturday night with George Sachowski, a Chicago and North Western patrolman, nearby.
Fred P. Nelson, riding a Milwaukee Northwestern car from Brown Deer, leaned from a rear platform to look ahead. His head struck an iron pole, causing a fractured skull. He remained unconscious Sunday night and was feared dead. He leaves a family.
Milwaukee on July 26 reports a gang of six men beat and robbed two laborers, John Kowalski and Stanislaus Kurutzki, on Fifth Avenue and Russell Street. The suspects were arrested yesterday morning.
The Standard Oil Company nears completion of a storage plant at Portage Tomah with two iron tanks on heavy piers near the railroad for direct car unloading. The 30 000 gallon kerosene tank and 18 000 gallon gasoline tank sit behind an iron building housing pumps and wagon loading. State fire marshal approved plans and safety improvements include fencing and grading. Tomah council approves brick paving on Monroe street and a half block south of Tomah o Cash Store for 3 ½ percent more brick pavement.
Glen R. Kimball a former banker from Deadwood South Dakota reappears at his wife’s doorway in Dosses sion of Minnesota and the Northwest. He says he was confined somewhere and denied contact, claiming letters were torn up and he was told he was crazy. His tale includes alleged abuse and teeth knocked out, with the assailant unnamed by family.
Mrs Grace Fairchild sues for divorce from Harry W Fairchild in Iowa City alleging drunkenness and cruelty. She seeks $800 alimony and custody of their minor children. He files a cross bill claiming she is addicted to intoxication and has struck him with a chair leaving him unable to work.
About fifty Indians from the Red Lake reservation arrived in Thief River Falls Minnesota and camped east of the city on the river. Tuesday evening four held up Has Skog, a farmer, for 4.25. Two Indians are in the city jail charged with the robbery, the other two escaped.
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