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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
6
An advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward for any case not cured. Includes invitation to send testimonials and lists Toledo as the address, with price 75 cents and a note to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A note from Wisconsin Pearl Button Co. dated 6 10 11 seeks a direct current motor rated 7 to 8 horsepower at 110 volts. The short classified item indicates a purchase need for industrial machinery from an early 1911 source.
The senate advances referendum measures including misdemeanor handling under municipal ordinances and provisions allowing villages with 200 inhabitants to incorporate. It also authorizes governor approval for state employees attending conventions with actual expenses paid by the state.
Chicago report says the women who led the Chicago feminine cohort to storm Congress over cheap gloves and hosiery met to plan another Washington descent. They fear tariff increases by Aldrich on trades goods may be restored in committee and pushed through.
Secretary Wesley Green of the state horticultural society announced after a survey of Iowa fruit belts that the peach crop was utterly destroyed by late frosts. He said the yield will be less than one percent of a full crop while apples will be plentiful.
The Spanish liner Antonio Lopez with 444 aboard was grounded on a sand reef near Point o' Woods after a night of high surf. Crews from Seneca and Mohawk aided and a line was established by Merritt and Chapman to tow the 3951 ton vessel clear at high tide with no danger reported.
Italian suspects linked to blackhand and mafia cases spread across Ohio. Named individuals include Antonio Nusso and Joseph Nusso of Cleveland, Antonio Vicario of Denison, August Marfisi of Denison, Collogero Vicario of Bellefontaine, Salvatore Lima of Marion, Salvatore Rizzo of Marion, Joseph Bataglia of Marion, Tony Richerio of Columbus, and Salvatore Ventola of Columbus. Authorities launch coordinated dragnet statewide.
Federal officers and Pinkerton agents arrest ten Italians and Sicilians in Ohio as part of a nationwide crusade against blackhand extortion and mafia schemes. Authorities seize correspondence suggesting Ohio as a hub for operators linked to Petrosino's murder, with broader plans to extend the crackdown nationwide.
The 1846 case notes his service as a Worcester Unity Church minister in Massachusetts. Hale married Emily Baldwin Perkins in 1852 and authored many works for children and youths, including The Man Without a Country.
President Taft sent a message of sympathy to the widow of the late Dr. Edward Errett Hale at Roxbury Massachusetts upon learning of the distinguished preacher's death.
The obituary notes Hale as a prominent Chautauqua figure and Lend-a-hand clubs leader, editor of the Lend-a-hand Record, and connected editorially with multiple publications. His works include In His Name and The Ingraham Papers.
A search is underway for a valuable diamond brooch lost by Baroness Ir iu wife of Admiral Uriu while traveling from the Plaza Hotel to Sherry's last Monday night. The lotus flower brooch is of rare craftsmanship and highly valued.
Mrs. Ives hosted a supper party at 223 South Fifth Street when thieves entered through the front door while guests were upstairs. Three purses with a diamond set, a gold watch, chain, and about $190 vanished. two purses were later found in Cameron Park with the watch and money missing. Police suspect professional thieves and no arrests have been made.
Dysentery is a dangerous disease but can be cured. Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has been successfully used in nine epidemics of dysentery. It has never been known to fail and is valuable for children and adults. When diluted with water and sweetened it is pleasant to take.
The Interstate Fair association's privilege committee will meet with Representative Talbott of the Parker Amusement Company of Albany Kansas to discuss bringing the company to the fair week. The Parker Show Company operates a 28 car train for 350 people and holds exclusive rights to performances at Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa state fairs. The race track undergoes repairs and will gain black dirt for a faster surface. Blown down buildings have been replaced and expansion plans for the exposition building are under way.
Sixteen people mainly children were brought to New Orleans for pasteur institute treatment after a mad dog at Mar tin Broussard home interrupted a pre wedding reception. The dog bit seventeen, including the bride and most attendees, before it was killed. Hydrophobia fears spread through the parish as Broussard ferried the bitten to town for care.
Letter from Packey McFarland dated April 14 1998 in San Francisco extols Make-Man Tablets as the best tonic for fatigue and strength building. Claims blood enrichment and rapid muscle and flesh growth with a money back guarantee. Offers 50 cent box price, six for 2.50 and a free full size box for first-time buyers.
A customer asks a druggist to mail a full size 50¢ box of Make-Man Tablets and the company booklet to their address. The sender encloses 4¢ to cover part of the mailing expense and notes one box per family.
Testimony in a Chicago trial shows the dining car ice box on Pullman express trains from El Paso to Chicago served as a major hiding place for smuggled Chinese. A negro cook, Albert Hampton, testified the scheme collapsed after a Chinaman suffocated and was buried. at one point five Chinese were concealed under a tablecloth atop the ice box.
A blast furnace blast at Wheeling Steel and Iron Company in Martins Ferry near Wheeling caused a surge of molten metal that killed seven workers and burned several more. Rescue efforts were frantic as workers, many believed to be foreigners, risked injury to pull others from the molten stream.
Mindoro WisconsinJune 5 1909. We extend heartfelt thanks to friends and neighbors for kind assistance sympathy and beautiful floral offerings in our hour of sorrow. Mrs A P Fuller Edgar Fuller and Family Vivian Fuller Far Fuller Ryan heads Amalgamated.
New York report states John D. Ryan was elected president of the Amalgamated Copper Co to succeed the late Henry H Rogers. Benjamin B Thayer was chosen president of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co in place of Ryan who resigns to lead Amalgamated Copper Co.
Washington June 10 Senator Aldrich and fellow Republican leaders say they have the votes to defeat the income tax proposal and replace it with an amendment taxing corporate dividends. The income tax was to be considered before today’s adjournment.
The wool yarn tariff amendment offered by Senator Dolliver of Iowa failed 31 to 48 in the senate. The measure sought to apply only to wool content in yarns rather than all yarns, with nine progressive Republicans joining Democrats in support.
President Henry Rooney of the La Crosse Baseball Association announces rain checks sold on Memorial Day may be exchanged at Fay Lewis or Forschler's cigar stores to be valid for the Sunday game.
Disastrous fires sweep the parched area between Sault Ste. Marie and St. Ignace as wires go down. Railroads dispatch relief trains with firefighters to try to maintain rail communication and curb the flames amid a pall of smoke over the region.
The American League game between Boston and St Louis was postponed due to rain. No makeup date announced.
The Ben Greet Players join the Russian Symphony Orchestra of New York for A Midsummer Night's Dream at the La Crosse Theater on June 14 with fifty musicians under Modest Altschuler. Ruth Vivian and Grace Kahler assist, with stage design by Troy and Margaret Kinney. Nielsen's company offers Ibsen's A Doll's House on June 12 and Magda on June 13 with Miss Nielsen, all seats on sale.
On Saturday June 12 the Knights of Columbus in La Crosse invite members to meet lead actor John Maurice Sullivan of the Hortense Nielsen Company on the stage after the performance of A Doll's House.
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