McGregor Social News: Visits Trips and Local Events
Mrs. George Knapp visits daughter and sister in law, families plan move to Dubuque. Local folks travel to Prairie du Chien and Dubuque for a circus and a game. Francis family heads to Winnipeg to join a farm. McGregor teams play North McGregor 14 to 1 as Eclipse boat ferries residents to Dubuque.
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George Knapp
Jake Phillips
Ida Kirchner
Ambrose Brotherton
Dubuque
Mr. Brotherton
Pirie du Chien
la Crosse
Prairie du Chien
Katherine Becker
Frey
Anton Huebsch
George
Fritz Whaler
Laird
H. M. Gray
Laurie Kinneard
Louis
Quincy
Francis
Martha
Margie
Winnipeg
Can
Mr. Francis
George Kroaher
North McGregor
Ladies’ Aid Society
McGregor
Ruth Clandy
Dan Clandy
Elkader
J. Krandal
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Tennis Tournament at Prairie Grounds Opens This Week
Prairie du Chien Wisconsin hosts a Riverside club tennis tournament from Tuesday to Friday with play starting at 10 am each day. Visitors from Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin will compete. events include a picnic supper, a dancing party, prize presentations, and a river excursion.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Riverside Club Grounds
the Congregational Church
Grand Opera House
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Four Charged in 1908 Dauphin Fraud Case Trial Conviction
In 1906 state treasurer William H. Berry led fraud charges. After a 1907 legislative election a commission led to fourteen indictments. On January 27 1908 Sanderson Snyder Mathues and Shumaker faced trial in Harrisburg for conspiracy and fraud and were convicted by March 13. They were sentenced to two years in the Eastern penitentiary. An appeal followed at Sacred Heart College. Local social notes mention visits and travels of residents Hannah Graves Herman Thompson and A C Baker.
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William H. Berry
Dauphin County
Grand Jury
Sanderson
Snyder
Mathues
Shumaker
Harrisburg
Kunkel
Eastern Penitentiary
Contested Prize Caps Exhibit At O Neill Window
Six silver prize caps displayed in O Neill’s window await awarding to winners amid a closely contested event. La Crosse Athletes lost 7 to 4 to Prairie boys at the ballpark Sunday afternoon with Campbell and Hahn as the battery for La Crosse. A spiritual retreat for priests of the La Crosse diocese is in the planning stages.
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O'Neill
la Crosse
Prairie Boys
Ballpark
Campbell
Hahn
Diocese of la Crosse
The Old Reliable Claim by Local Advertisers
A reader notes how many men tout their own products as the old reliable or the only genuine. The observation points to a common promotional tactic in local commerce.
La Crosse Protest Questions 6-5 Loss to La Crescent
Theodore Solie of the La Crosse Clothing baseball club protested a game with La Crescent played yesterday in which La Crescent claimed a 6 to 5 victory. The decisive play involved a runner at third being put out at third by La Vold in the eighth inning. The nine end showed 5 to 5 and the final dispute centers on whether the game should have continued after the ninth.
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Theodore Solie
la Crosse Clothing Company
la Crescent
Cook
la Vold
Sun Garden
la Crosse
Minnesota
Service as Sign of Rank in Heaven's Kingdom
A reflective sentence argues that true nobility is measured by service. The idea frames service as the defining criterion for status in the heavenly realm, elevating humble acts over inherited titles.
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Kingdom of Heaven
Disappearance of $50,000 at Tipton bank shocks town
Noah R. Marker assistant cashier at the First National Bank of Tipton has vanished and an investigation shows more than $50,000 beyond the cash on hand Saturday night is missing. The bank, one of Indiana’s largest with a $1 million capital, remains closed but depositors are secured.
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Tipton
Ind
Noah R. Marker
First National Bank of
Indiana
Gold Medal Hero Drowns on Jamaica Bay Trestle
Lawrence Halloran, who earned a gold medal for saving lives when the General Slocum burned, fell from a train on the Jamaica bay trestle near Moose Creek yesterday and drowned in two feet of water.
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New York
Lawrence Halloran
Jamaica Bay
Moose Creek
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Tribune
Becin
la Crosse Tribune
The
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Price
the Tribune
Mcgregor, Iowa
Prairie
Aon
Yellowstone Park
Union Pacific
Yellowstone Station
Fountain Hotel
Lower Geyser Basin
W. G. Neimyer
G. A
Jackson Boulevard
Chicago
Sacred Heart College
Hannah Graves
Boscobel
W. R. Graves
Herman Thompson
Thoralph
A. C. Baker
Decorah
Riverside Courts
Foley
O. T. Erhart
Jm, Shumaker
Pennsylvania
Poehling
Gund
Old Bohemia
Peerless
John Gund Brewing CO
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