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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1913
Page
7
New York report details a rooftop fall as youths push a crude figure from a five story height causing a citywide alarm. In Connecticut a child dies from nicotine piping play. A milk wagon birth is recorded in Norwalk. A dog saves a boy from a giant owl in Pennsylvania. Berlin thief seeks dowries. London engraves Hiawatha on a tomb. Chicago licenses a wedding delaying others. Denver minister interrupts a ball game with a prayer request.
Mrs. Louise B. Hibbs of Morton’s Gap Kentucky recounts a ten month illness with ulcers and a tumor. After two bottles of Cardus she recovered enough for light work and says the tumor disappeared. The ad promotes Cardui and Cardus as female tonics with a request for the Ladies' Advisory Dept. at Chattanooga Medicine Co. for a treatment guide.
A concise note reflects how some men win success almost by accident, with talent and chance intertwining in quiet, unforced rounds of effort and luck shaping outcomes beyond control.
In Bivabik Minnesota John Mattilinen a miner was shot and killed by Rade Tatovich after a card game quarrel. Both men were drinking Tatovich fled the scene and has not been found by police.
The passage emphasizes that widening one’s life beyond a narrow path demands courage perseverance and unconquerable hope. It argues that escaping limitations requires facing numerous hindrances and uphill effort to reach broader influence.
A four year old observes her grandmother swallowing medicine from an unusually large capsule and reports the event with astonishment in a quaint family moment cited by a narrator. The scene highlights a domestic oddity and childlike interpretation of adult medicine.
Washington June 17 Henry T Oxnard a prominent sugar industry figure testified to the senate lobby investigation committee that sugar interests have spent over three quarters of a million dollars in fighting free sugar bills during the last twenty years He cited the Hawaiian annexation fight costing about 10000 in 1898 and the 1903 Cuban reciprocity bill costing 69000 to oppose followed by the Philippine bill admitting 200000 tons of sugar free
Margaret Delmont, 18, of Chicago, walked about 74 miles from Menomonie to St. Paul in search of work after losing her money at Menomonie. She was picked up by police and is held awaiting instructions from her mother in Fargo, North Dakota.
Red Wing Minn June 17 Henry Manke 23 and Arthur Anderson 23 were seen in a launch by Edwin Anderson superintendent of the linseed oil mills. The boat was found adrift unoccupied early Sunday morning. They are believed drowned.
Oregon enforces a new eugenics law requiring male applicants for marriage licenses to present medical certificates. Physicians who supported the act report strong early success as the law has been in effect for about a week in Portland and statewide.
J Harvey Laden a New York leather merchant and companions ran afoul of Japanese authorities when his yacht the Columbia entered Wakayama port. Relatives and friends feared the incident reflected current Japan US relations.
In Mariette Wisconsin on June 17 the body of Conrad Brandt a 24 year old Crivitz farmer was recovered six days after he and August Mitchell a log driver were thrown into the Peshtigo river when their raft hit a cable Mitchell clung to the cable and survived.
Eighteen men narrowly escaped death when a 160 ton crane at the Pennsylvania Coal and Supply yards near the Sixteenth street viaduct collapsed in a gale and fell onto the coal steamer L. W. Nicholas.
Albert L Severance longtime Hotel Pfister manager and prominent midwest hotel man died at 3 o clock Monday in Oconomowoc where he had led the Hotel La Lumiere for two years. He was 58.
Ashland Wisconsin June 17 While walking along the Bad river bank George Bye of this city who was to be married on June 25 slipped and fell into the river His body was carried over Copper falls and recovered Monday morning.
The F R A Dramatic club presents a musical comedy The Corner Drug Store at Linker's Hall on Thursday night June 19. Cast includes Tessie Trundlecart cashier Bessie Buttercup and others with a plot of a Klondike sale and romance. New Chicago scenery will enhance the production.
Portland June 17 The fifth charge against Edmond E C von Klein a diamond broker and alleged marrying swindler was brought by James Anderson a Minneapolis commercial traveler Anderson says von Klein while living in Minneapolis became involved with a married woman and obtained her diamonds After an alleged exposure the woman died suddenly and the husband pursued her companion and forced restitution of part of her jewels
Madison Wisconsin June 17 the legislature votes a minimum wage of 40 a month for teachers in rural schools and orders immediate effect formal notice has been sent to all county superintendents
Duluth Minnesota June 17. The city sawmill strike that threatened to spread to Cloquet and Virginia is broken. All Duluth mills resumed work yesterday with crews 50 to 75 percent of normal. by tomorrow it is believed that union men will be a small portion of the mill employment.
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