This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 18 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1922
Page
1
A mob of about forty residents attacked officers and stormed the jail in Stoddard to free four prisoners. Acting sheriffs and deputies were beaten as villagers, angered by enforcement, seized the inmates and fled. Police actions continued with arrests anticipated.
Madison Wis June 1 Candidates selected As the Citizens Republican state conference at Milwaukee June 1 intend to meet here Wednesday to map plans for their campaign which will be carried actively to the people of Wisconsin during the three months proceeding the September general election primaries Attorney General William J Morgan who will oppose Governor Blaine for re election and Dr W A Anfield who is to oppose Senator La Follette lead the fight These two men will head this group to gather there for its first conference since the Milwaukee convention Others present include J F Baker Martin R Paulson Riley Young and Henry Johnson The conference plans to put about 200 speakers into the field in the next three months Active campaigning to start as soon as preliminary arrangements are completed before is organized to prevent duplication of effort.
Pittsburgh obituary notes Lillian Russell Moores wife of Alexander P. Moore dies at home after a shipboard accident on return from Europe. She had a long civic career and stage fame in comic opera and public life. The report details her illness, relapse, and the impending funeral at Trinity Church with burial in Pittsburgh.
A campaign to enlist 15,000 farmers in the Chicago milk district urges signing a contract with the Milk Producers Cooperative Marketing Company to sell all milk and cream through it. The plan, led by an American Farm Bureau federation committee, reorganizes as a nonprofit membership agency and pools receipts into funds for basic pool pricing.
John Gund dies at his residence 192 North Broadway Lexington after pneumonia contracted Saturday. Survived by wife formerly Caroline Heil Bonn of Winona Minnesota and brother Henry Gund of La Crosse. Born April 13 1862 in La Crosse he moved to Lexington nineteen years ago and owned Swiss Oil Corp president. interment in La Crosse.
The French foreign office learned Tuesday that the United States is ready to discuss the war debts question. The minister of finance indicated the French mission would depart for the United States as soon as Premier Poincare gave the word.
Detroit Michigan report notes a permanent organization to form the Fee for President club and a committee to ask Henry Ford to run as an independent. Manufacturers and townspeople plan to meet Tuesday night to press Ford, who has not publicly stated his stance.
Washington reports Senate conferees and the house delegation continue talks to reconcile differences in the army appropriation measure. President Harding urged retention of larger Senate provisions for officers, enlisted personnel and the national guard in a Tuesday letter.
RIGO reports Premier Lenine is ill with acute gastritis and high fever after an attack on May 28. An official bulletin notes some improvement in his condition following Tuesday's announcement by M. Yureneff, the Soviet ambassador to Latin America.
The Luther college concert band of 62 pieces will give an outdoor concert in Riverside Park tomorrow night as a surprise opening for the second triennial Luther League convention. Rev H G Magelssen arranged the event after learning the band would arrive Wednesday morning. Conductor Prof Carl Sperati plans a program including Entry of the Gladiators, Barber of Seville Overture, The Huguenots, The Mocking Bird, Finale from Mazeppa, and other pieces performed by the band and Xylophone Soloist C Villono Speralti.
German socialist leader Philipp Scheidemann was attacked by a youth with prussic acid during a holiday near Wilhelms Höhe. He lost consciousness but recovered fully. the assailant fired at him after Scheidemann shot twice, then fled toward a railway station, with the acid discharge judged largely ineffective due to long-range in open air.
The twenty first annual convention of the Knights of Columbus of Wisconsin opened in Superior with 175 delegates in attendance. A banquet was held Tuesday night and officers will be elected tomorrow as the convention closes.
mayor Bentley contrasts figures on a new assessment plan for east out street improvements noting fourteen cents per lineal foot higher costs for abutting property. He argues the change is fair given prewar paving standards and cites city records showing higher costs for brick and other pavements. The piece also covers Gov Blaine's failed bid for a rehearing in Hans Rodd’s removal case, with the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling the governor cannot pardon civil contempt and that a peace officer cannot be removed for obeying the law.
Senate plans a formal presentation of the soldiers' bonus bill to the Finance committee chairman and await calendar placement. Leaders indicate little pressure for early action as reform moves stall until administration stance shifts.
President Harding asked Congress for a deficiency appropriation of 28,122,500 dollars to refund taxes illegally collected during the fiscal year ending June 1922. The request aims to reimburse taxpayers and settle overdue revenue claims as part of postwar fiscal adjustments.
Discovery of additional survivors from the steamship Villa Franca wreck on the Parana River lowers the estimated deaths from eighty to thirty four. Among those saved is Prof. FE Kemmerer of Princeton University and his family. Kemmerer is researching South American financial conditions for the U.S. government.
Interim A M Woelfer of Jefferson County is ineligible for re election this year but his wife will be a candidate for the office it was announced Tuesday in Thers2tpum Wisconsin.
Approximately 1.2 million railway workers face wage cuts ordered by the United States labor board affecting multiple unions. The plan targets shop mechanics freight car crews and other shop staff with seven to nine cent hourly cuts. The minority labor representatives call the move unfair citing human needs and unequal treatment among car work.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.