La Follette Defends Tariff Speech in Senate Clash
The Senate debate centers on tariff policy with Senator La Follette delivering a three day exposé on the tariff and its impact on consumer prices. He critiques Aldrich and warns that high protective tariffs become a tax benefiting monopolies while urging precise cost based rates.
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Rhode Island
Committee On Committees
Senate
Aldrich
Finance Committee
Smith
Senator la Follette
la Follette
la Follete
Congress
Dean's Kidney Pills Promised Relief for Kidney Weakness
An advertorial piece explains how chronic kidney weakness drains albumen into urine, causes uric poisoning and various pains, and promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as the best remedy. A testimonial from John B. Fries of La Crosse Wisconsin claims long relief after using the pills. Sold by dealers, 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole U.S. agents.
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Dean
la Crosse
John B. Fries
Ninth St
Wis
Erhart
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Dean's
England Tops Americans In Three Cornered Indoor Rifle Match
England defeated the United States 14 583 to 14 179 in a fifty men a side indoor .22 rifle competition with Australians awaiting results. The American squad, assembled quickly, showed less preparation than the English, whose selection emphasized top shooters. The match, seen as a stroke for rifle instruction, will be renewed next year with broader participation and a larger preparatory pool.
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Washington, D. C
National Rifle Association
England
America
Liability of Railroad for Engineer Death by Cow Collision
Tennessee law imposes liability for stock killed when tracks lack fencing. Gill v Louisville & Nashville Co held no liability for an employee's death from a cow on unfenced track, stating neither common law nor statute imposed such liability for fatalities of railroad workers.
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Tennessee
Gill
Louisville & N. R. Co
United States Circuit
Omaha Train Wreck Near Augusta Causes Five Injuries
An Omaha freight train derailed near Augusta Wisconsin twenty miles east of here yesterday after a pair of trucks broke on an oil car. Twenty cars piled up. Five tramps were seriously injured, one expected to die.
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Augusta Eau Claire
Wis
Omaha
Augusta
Here
Schools to Have Fountains and Booths in City Schools
A school board and city officials tour La Crosse public schools. They let contracts for voting booths at Sixteenth and Vine in Redfield and installed booths at the high school and north side schools. The group approves new League fountains, promising installations across all La Crosse System schools, and reviews repairs with janitors amid broader improvement plans.
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Schnell
Board of Public Works
Geo. Bradish
Luening
L. F. Easton
Otto Loeffler
John P. Bird
Sixteenth
Vine
Redfield
North Side
John League
la Crosse
Harvey Dee Brown
Fifteen Horses Shot by Veterinarian in Wisconsin
Fifteen horses valued at $23,000 were destroyed near St. Cloud on order of State Veterinarian Clark due to glanders. Thirteen belonged to a single owner. the others were his only other stock.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
St. Cloud
Clark
Twesme Bill Fails As Stephenson Donors Plan Boost
Madison dispatch reports Assemblyman A T Twesme of Trempealeau county faced a setback as a proposed bill to color code primary ballots and track voters collapsed in the senate after Stephenson supporters had touted Twesme as its author. The bill failed 18 to 0, ending hopes of using the measure to flex political leverage against opponents.
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Madison
Wis
Asemblyman
A. T. Twesme
Trempealeau County
Ekern
Stephenson
Twesme
Assembly
Senate
No-vote advocate absent as capitol faces setback
One man who would have voted No was absent, leaving somber mood at the capitol. Long faces followed the evening as the anticipated write ups did not appear in the Stephenson papers.
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Capitol
Stephenson
Harrimans Arrive in Paris with Alex Millar
Mr. and Mrs. E Harriman arrive in Paris at noon today accompanied by Alex Millar.
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Paris
Truth and ads collide in a New York village tale
Justice Brewer of the United States Supreme Court relates a village anecdote about a house hunter seeking Smithson's new block of semi detached houses. The hunter debates the distance given as twenty minutes versus an advertisement claiming five minutes, while the boy refuses to press a sale.
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Justice Brewer
United States Supreme Court
New York
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Gallinger
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Givermand Bros
For All
Alec
Weis Tanna II
Smithson
Walt
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