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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
21
A wartime era advertisement touts Newbro's Herpicide as a remedy that destroys the dandruff germ to halt hair loss. It claims quick relief from itching and baldness prevention with doses and two price sizes offered through drug stores and special agents Hoeschler Bros.
In La Crosse a large pool of unemployed men contrasts with high demand for female domestic labor. The local employment bureau reports 163 men and 65 women found work last month while male applications outnumbered positions by 50 percent. An order from Sparta for fifty girls to pick berries at a cent and a half per quart arrived but could not be filled yet.
The article notes a policy where the period allotted for visiting girls ends prior to their scheduled "visit out," effectively shortening the time they may spend with visitors. It frames this as a procedural rule affecting inmate visits and release steps.
Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers free instructions for a treatment she claims cures bed-wetting in children and urinary problems in adults. No money is required and mothers are urged to write today.
The La Crosse church listings show English Lutheran at 1334 Ferry with a Sunday school at 9:30 and a 10:45 communion service, a park service at 4 pm in memory of 1898 origins, and choir solos by the pastor and Miss Lena Weimar. Other churches include St Paul Universalist with services 10:30 and 7:30, and First Church of Christ Scientist with 10:30 service and 7:45 Wednesday reading room, plus Episcopal Christchurch with Whit Sunday timetable and special anthems.
The article lists Sunday services for Norwegian Lutheran, German Methodist, First Congregational, West Avenue M E, St Pauls Norwegian Lutheran, City Mission, First Baptist, Westminster Presbyterian, and First Methodist Episcopal churches. It notes service times, Sunday schools, epworth leagues, and sermon topics or leaders where provided.
Julius Johnson who died at La Crosse hospital from appendicitis will have a Sunday afternoon service at 2 from Fessler and Dahl undertakers. The Maccabees and local barbers will attend in a body. Interment will be in Oak Grove cemetery.
Torrential rains sweep southern Nebraska with the Rock Island main line to Denver blocked by washouts and damaged bridges. Traffic is halted as floods and washouts disrupt rail service across the region.
A flood halted traffic on the St Joseph Grand Island road. A three year old child of farmer Joseph Fleming drowned at Jansen Nebraska while the family was driven out by the flood.
A. M. Ake of Wood Indiana recounts severe lung troubles with repeated hemorrhages and ineffective treatments until Foley's Honey and Tar restored his health. The advertisement urges others with advanced lung disease to use the remedy and avoid substitutes.
Washington report outlines George Von Lengerke Meyer as potential Republican National Committee chairman and George Von Lengerke Meyer as future Treasury secretary. Frank Hitchcock is named campaign manager with Hitchcock likely to head the Post Office. Senator Crane discussed as a possible chairman candidate.
In Winona Minnesota the State Normal School honors thirteen graduates at an 8 o’clock commencement held in the opera house. The ceremony features music by the Nowak Chorus and soloists Edward Elsgar and Martha Flotow, with Prof. L Willett delivering the address on Educational Ideals and H E Hoard presenting diplomas.
Will consumption writes from Finch Arkansas praising Tar for coughs and colds. He claims it cures in the first stages and says he has heard of many using Tar and not failing.
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