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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1914
Page
3
The audience at Myrick Park amphitheater is urged to attend the outdoor performance by the Ben Greet Woodland Players tonight. The piece stresses the value of cultured entertainment and notes that great talent connects directly with the audience’s understanding and emotions, calling for a full house.
In La Crosse, Heine Niebuhr and Jim Trane, long respected master plumbers, are indicted in federal action alleging illegal practices. The piece argues the indictments target elected officers within a national association and stresses the presumption of innocence and the need for facts in open court.
E M Wing vice president of the Batavian National Bank gave a clear explanation of the Federal Reserve banking system to the Bankers association. He summarized advantages such as rediscount currency supply and currency issuance, and noted disadvantages for non member county banks including stock subscriptions and farm loan restrictions. He warned that until the national reserve board is organized the overall impact on banking and business remains unclear.
The piece argues that vague tax law language causes misinterpretation by authorities and businesspeople face shifting interpretations. It asserts a presumption of innocence for Messrs Trane and Niebuhr, noting their clean records and the need for their defense in court.
In Tuolumne county a 500-pound apalite meteorite fell on a ranch. J. W. Shores, a retired rancher, guards it after hearing a rushing noise while plowing on January 6. Thieves have attempted to steal it, and a Stockton jeweler offered $2,000 to process it into imitation opals.
The Texas Hotel Keepers association convention at Victoria adjourned after three days of meetings. The first two days covered business matters, while today featured an elaborate entertainment program. The closing emphasis warned against boasting of credit, noting no man's credit is as good as his money.
A humorous piece recounts tall tales and candor about famed figures from O Leary to Raleigh and Elizabeth to Job. It satirizes historic myths while recalling a colonel seeking a servant and an Irish applicant Murphy asking about soil to gauge brickmaking spare time.
The speaker, Thomas W. Law son, likened dissolving a trust to unscrambling an egg and contrasted it with a tale of a young clubman in a taxicab. He quoted the rider asking the fare and the driver’s answer, then the joke about backing up to a quarter with a hiccup.
A fragment notes Mrs. Sarah engaging a new matter or venture leaving readers with curiosity about her next steps. The brief text provides limited context and names a single figure without clear event or outcome details.
Health warning on kidney disease stresses early detection and care. Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy, now in 50c and 1.00 sizes, is promoted as beneficial for kidney liver and blood ailments and sold by druggists. The notice lists other Warner Safe Remedies and invites readers to request a sample and booklet from Warner's Safe Remedies Co. Rochester NY.
A servant recalls how she left a previous mistress without confrontation. She explains she locked the bathroom door during the mistress’s bath, gathered her belongings, and departed quietly, presenting a calm image to the latest applicant. The dialogue emphasizes discretion and calm endings in domestic service.
Mrs Jones, lacking trust in her servant, goes to market and asks the price of a large carp. The dealer offers sixty cents, insists the fish is fresh despite Mrs Jones calling it flabby. In a twist of kindness she buys it to spare its feelings.
President Hazard of Wellesley recounted a banquet anecdote in which a girl graduate thanks her professor for all she has learned. The professor modestly dismisses the debt as a trifling thing. The exchange highlights shared learning and mutual respect.
A playful verse asks who mirrors your mood and mood’s counter, a figure kind and wise who rarely lies, yet can surprise. The riddle hints at a persona who owns a heart both proud and meek and supposedly lives on forty cents a week, attributed to the editor.
After thirty years of grinding experience C H Norton argues the best diamond need not have a sharp corner. He says a dull diamond works best with a soft coarse wheel that wears evenly rather than staying perfectly sharp.
Jefferson City report notes June 5 as the final day for candidates to file declarations to secure a place on the August 4 state primary ballots. Nominations include United States senator, one supreme court judge, state superintendent, sixteen congressmen, seventeen state senators, circuit judges in select districts and most county officers except sheriff, treasurer and coroner.
On the voyage the crew splits into factions supporting Wingfield Kendall and Smith amid muttered plots. Accusations of mutiny arise, Wingfield denies Smith’s charges, and a pretense of legal process surfaces as suspicions grow. Ashore, the narrator encounters a mysterious man from Paul's churchyard, hinting at shared pasts and deeper intrigue.
Mrs. Frank Karslake of Oakland California won the prize for traveling the farthest to Sacrament o Cal for Motorcycle Day. She rode her two wheeler 130 miles to the meet.
CHICAGO June 5 Forty chorus girls fled into an alley when lightning struck the sprinkler tank atop a burlesque theater causing their dressing rooms to flood. Other items note a hissed suffrage resolution in Raleigh and a reward for a stolen film of a girl in Europe.
Motorcyclists from across Indiana gathered in Indianapolis for the Indiana Federation of American Motorcyclists opening session. The event runs through the weekend with talks on closer ties to automobile groups for better roads and a 600 mile endurance run planned over about 33 hours. International Correspondence Schools will supply 25 motorcycles for traveling representatives.
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