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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
7
A London suffragette plans to smash a window during a shopping tour using a tammer hidden in her Dorothy Bag. Officials warned that stopping women on the streets could escalate, as such bags are now linked to militant suffrage tactics and may face opposition from anti militant groups.
A fragmentary note suggests Baltimore is within reach of a noteworthy opportunity tied to the White House. The wording hints at proximity to an influential center of power and decision making.
Benton Harbor, Mich., June 11. Paul Nickels, a Sodus township farmer, has become a human aquarium after coughing up brook trout from two to five inches long for days. Doctors say he swallowed minnows from a local brook that grew in his stomach, and he is rapidly recovering.
Five Burlington men were injured or died in a Rochester road joy ride when the car driven by Frederick Oberg overturned in a sharp turn near Racine Wisconsin. Frank Best was killed Edward Johns died later and four others suffered cuts and bruises in the collision.
A girl’s scream at a kiss is cited as evidence that advertising can work beyond printer’s ink. The remark suggests alternative approaches to attracting attention and promoting ideas or products.
A Wisconsin normal school class will have combined salaries totaling about 50000 dollars for around sixty graduates. The list shows many two and four year teacher course completers receiving raises of 70 to 80 percent, with salaries from as low as 45 dollars to as high as 100 dollars monthly, and includes numerous names and postings across towns and schools.
Ruth Townsend daughter of Ned Townsend is presented to Washington society by Mrs John Hays Hammond and is expected to become a leading belle in the capital. Townsend, once the newspaper man who produced Chimnie Fadden, has long been a popular House of Representatives figure in Montclair New Jersey.
Ten thousand Civil War veterans marched in the last review at the Iowa homecoming in Des Moines. The parade honored the 70 000 Iowa troops who helped quell the rebellion and marked the semi centennial of the Vicksburg operations. The march was reviewed by Major General Grenville M. Dodge, Major General Cyrus Bussey, Governor Geo. W. Clarke, and Major Hanna.
Viola Stell, 17, a brunette from St Louis Missouri, pleaded guilty to stealing jewels valued at $5,000 from Frank Oakley a circus performer who had befriended her and employed her as housekeeper. Judge Warren Foster sentenced her to Bedford Reformatory.
J A Bryden former Milwaukee chamber of commerce president and St Andrew's society patron died after a two week illness in Milwaukee. He was born July 3 1835 at Bankside near Lockerby Dumfrieshire Scotland and arrived in the United States in 1840. He settled in Milwaukee in 1857. Scotch societies were expected to handle his funeral.
In Owosso Michigan Fred Place a railroad conductor refuses to accept his pay claiming he has not earned it. His parents petition for him to be declared insane and committed.
Louis Martz aged 35 in Dayton used carbolic acid to end a severe toothache by taking his own life. Police report the act occurred at his home and the motive cited as relief from pain.
A compact wry remark notes that severe hunger drives a woman to run a boarding house while claiming men cannot arrange a room to suit her.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, recovering at a Battle Creek sanitarium from an operation, has been ordered to stay in his room indefinitely by his physician. He had been delivering about two speeches daily, including Sundays.
A Philadelphia reader recounts recovery from a severe lung illness after two years of hemorrhages and a 1902 pneumonia attack. After starting Eckmans Alterative in March 1902, the cough ceased and the patient was pronounced well, with two only minor pneumonia relapses since. The advertisement claims notable effectiveness for throat and lung affections and lists druggists and the Eckman Laboratory for information.
Milwaukee Wis June 11 A veterinary Dr H P Clute was trapped under his car which rolled over after crashing into the Cherry street bridge uprights early yesterday He sustained multiple broken ribs and internal injuries and is believed fatally hurt.
Notice to La Crosse County firms including La Crosse and Wabasha Packet Company La Crosse Hygienic Dairy Starch Brothers Co Inter-State Telephone Company Universal Automatic Electric Signalling Company Wisconsin Light and Power Company that they failed to file annual reports required by section 1774a RS 1911. Corporate rights and privileges will be forfeited on January 1 1914 unless reports filed and forfeit fee and costs paid.
Germany marks a great celebration starting June 25 for the twenty-fifth year of Kaiser Wilhelm II on the throne. Eleven technical colleges join in honoring his services to science and industry and will confer the title Doctor Wilhelm II. The empire’s universities plan to make him an honorary member. Oxford already made him a doctor of laws some years ago.
G O. Sievert, convicted nearly ten years ago of murdering his wife, will be freed within the year after the North Dakota pardon board commuted his life sentence to ten years. He shot his wife on a road after she left him for another man, then attempted suicide unsuccessfully.
Two burglars beat Dr. Mason Allen’s wife during a Tuesday morning break in the Marshall and Milton street area. They escaped with $25 cash and about $400 in jewelry after forcing her to reveal hidden pieces, leaving her locked in the bathroom with a sprained ankle.
An ad claims foot troubles stem from injured tissues and promises instant relief. It advocates dissolving Calocide in warm water and soaking feet for fifteen minutes, stating pain vanishes and corns and bunions peel away, with a 25 cent box sufficient.
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