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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1908
Page
10
In Grundy county Iowa Falls June 2 a precise balance of births was recorded with 314 total babies born last year. Exactly 157 girls and 157 boys were delivered, marking a rare even split for the county.
An advertisement asserts Fo ley's Kidney Cure can cure kidney or bladder troubles if the patient is still medical aid. It promises reliable results and states the product never disappoints.
Hetty Green, the world’s richest woman, is reported to be adopting Paris Directoire fashion with gray hair transformed and a youthful look. She allegedly hosts champagne dinners at $20 a plate, lives at the Plaza, and undergoes a daily twenty one treatment beauty regimen costing $300.
Mrs Mary Olson versus Agath Knnklach heard in police court Saturday. Case dismissed because several witnesses were out of the city.
Mary Hinton, formerly of London, England and a frequent contributor to English and American magazines, died by asphyxiation in Washington on June 2. The death is reported as a self-inflicted act.
Two Americans and one Englishman were killed after an attack by bandits near Coachina a mining camp of the Green Copper company near Dolores Chihuahua on June 2.
Frank Vinus Esser died from gunshot wounds inflicted by saloonkeeper Martin Lahr after a June 2 brawl in a St Cloud saloon. Lahr fired two shots. blood poisoning followed. Coroner’s jury exonerated Lahr, but the county attorney will pursue a grand jury. Esser had a quarrelsome reputation.
Over the last two weeks a steady turnout of about 400 to 500 people has gathered at dusk for prayer and reflection, signaling a growing wish to lead a Christian life.
Edward Maureke aged 10 and William Maureke aged 24 drowned when a boat carrying three brothers capsized on a lake north of Austin Minnesota. The 19 year old survivor was rescued by passerby Herman Baucher as frantic efforts to save the others failed. William's body was recovered at 9 15 p m and a night long search for Edward continued.
Alexandria Minnesota June 2 The greatest revival held in Alexandria closed yesterday after four weeks of services led by Evangelist Milford H Lyon of Chicago with Clifton Powers as soloist and chorister at a tabernacle erected by local churches. The tabernacle cost about 1200 dollars and was funded by collections and subscriptions. Weekly attendance ran into the thousands.
In Linn Precinct No 2 the state primary law faced a clerk shortage at the soldiers home. After a wide search a Democrat, Frank Stoddard, was found and noted as the only literate Democrat at the home, while over nine tenths of the members are Republicans.
A head-on collision in the Great Northern yards at Grand Rapids Minnesota involved a fast through freight and a switch engine on the main track near the water tank. One brakeman aboard the freight was injured after being thrown from the cars to the depot platform. The switch engine was wrecked while the freight engine sustained minor damage.
John Eggers of Height of Land was found dead on a roadside near his Frazee home on Saturday after leaving for the cornfield. School children located the body about a few hours later, around 1 o'clock.
Fire sparked by an electric light wire damages a two story Alden business building by ten thousand dollars. The post office is in the damaged building but mail and fixtures are saved along with Hansen & Co. stock and office furniture of two doctors and a lawyer on the second floor.
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