La Crosse Chamber Launches La Crosse Business Magazine
The La Crosse Chamber of Commerce and secretary A W Fagerstrom announce a new monthly magazine titled La Crosse Business. The first edition, published today, highlights local business and civic topics and features national contributors on topics of municipal interest. Copies will be distributed to members and placed in strategic public locations to broaden La Crosse’s business outreach. The publication aims to tell the city’s story and aid local commerce for years to come.
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E la Crosse Chamber of Commerce
Gen‘eral
A. W. Fagerstrom
la Crosse Business
la Crosse
Chamber of Commerce
Roosevelt Backtracks On Public Works Plan
President Roosevelt echoed support for four billion dollars in small public works under the PWA, aiming to employ about 3.5 million people at roughly $1,200 yearly. Critics say this departs from the original PWA program and mirrors a camouflaged CWA, breaking campaign pledges and newspaper support for a substantial, permanent works program.
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Roosevelt
PWA
Congress
The
Tribune
End Filibusters Seeks Senate Reform After Huey Long Rally
The Senate voted 41 to 13 on an NRA extension, but Huey Long’s 15 hour tirade drew criticism for wasting time. Calls arose to amend rules to cut off debate during filibusters. Long touched on cooking oysters a la Long and distributed recipe ideas to the Senate amid attacks on Farley and Ickes and noting his Baptist faith.
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United States
Senate
Huey Long
Louisiana
Long
Senator Long
James A. Farley
Harold F. Ickes
Sen
Senate urged to adopt rules after Long incident
The piece condemns a senator for partisan remarks branding another as a white Baptist and argues the senate should remain attentive to decorum. It calls for strict rules to ensure debates stay pertinent to the topic and condemns insults that insult the nation’s intelligence.
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Senate
Gage
House
Holmen to Get Soil Conservation Camp as Farmers Agree
Farmers in Holmen within reach of a new soil conservation camp are ready to back it. After Coon Valley’s success, nearly all Holmen residents signed to bring the project here and officials seek five year contracts. Farmers are urged to visit the Holmen office to enroll now and ensure continued federal support.
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Holmen
Coon Valley
la Crosse County
West Sajem
la Crosse
Coor Valley
Soil Conservation Service
Real estate boom linked to marriages by Roy Wenzlick
Real estate analyst Roy S. Wenzlick of St. Louis reports a close parallel between marriage trends and housing activity across 276 U S cities. He predicts a 1940 to 1941 boom if conditions hold, noting rising marriages drive demand for apartments and broader real estate growth as households move apart.
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Ajor Angus
Roy S. Wenzlick
St. Louis
Wenzlick
United States
Roosevelt’s Four Billion Dollars and Political Uses
The Chicago Tribune analyzes how President Roosevelt directs relief directors to avoid political discrimination while spending four billion dollars ahead of the 1932 campaign. It argues the money’s timing invites political advantage, notes Farley’s central role in coordinating administration messaging and patronage, and questions the democratic party’s pledges versus past performance.
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Chicago Tribune
Roosevelt
United States
White House
Democratic Party
Democratic
Farley
Washington
Democratic National Committee
Lawrence Conment by David Lawrence condemns farm bill
The piece argues the congress bill to regulate agricultural production violates the U.S. Constitution, citing the Schechter decision. It critiques the House Agricultural Committee for misusing legal language to extend federal control, warns of authorized penalties, and links executive pressure to political expediency shaping Washington actions.
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Congress
Supreme Court of the United States
Schechter
Agricultural Committee of
House of Representatives
Secretary of Agriculture
Mariner
Supreme Court
Brain Trust
House
Agricultural Department
House Committee
Sevechter
AAA
NRA
We Olden Times Ten Years Ago Today Headlines
Two hundred delegates attend the Christian Endeavor convention at First Presbyterian church. About 250 Kiwanis members from Chicago and Eastern Iowa visit La Crosse for a three hour stay, with a Joliet high school band concert in Riverside Park as a feature.
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Christian Endeavor Society
First Presbyterian Church
Riverside Park
Crack Joliet High School
American Art Critics and Notable Figures Across America
New York critic Thomas Craven travels the Mississippi by barge to study American art and promote native subjects. The piece highlights Craven’s influence on American painters and notes the Kansas ties of Tom Benton, while also profiling Alfred and George Vanderbilt, Sheila Barrett, Eddie Garr, and Elizabeth Mencken’s sharp literary critique.
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New York
America
Thomas Craven
Mississippi
St. Louis
New Orleans
Hel
Craven
Grant Wood
Thomas Benton
Reginald Marsh
John Stuart Curry
Tom Benton
Benton
Kansas
Iowa
Paris
Florence
England
Shiela Barrett
Eddie Garr
Miss Barrett
Zasu Pitts
Garr
Ed Wynn
Pert Kelton
Charlie Chaplin
Unclear fragmentary column of diverse notes and jests
A scrambled collection of satirical notes touching aviation books, stratosphere trips, actors, Uncle Sam support, mortgages, J P Morgan auctions, hoover, ethics in sports, a hreин wash, sewing, Civilian Conservation Corps, Montana center, Lewistown doctor, dust storms and French cabinets, with no cohesive event or narrative.
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Montana
Lewistown
Don Farrell Chooses Carrie Lou After Gatesville Tease
In Gatesville Don Farrell, an engineering man, visits Mrs. Nelson’s boarding house and becomes entangled with the Nelson twins Carrie Lou and Emmy Lou. After rumors flare about marriage, Don reveals he has wed Carrie Lou last Friday, shocking townsfolk and ending the guessing game.
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Don Farrell
Don
Gatesville
Bob Haines
Mason and Dixon Line
Dor
Nelson Twins
Bob
Hollywood
Alabama
Gadsden
Nelson
Carrie Lou
Emmy Lou
Bels
Fellows
Georgia
Mississippi Basin
Public Service Commission Hearing Delayed Trucker Attends
A Madison trucker named Wishheld learned that the Public Service Commission waits for no man. On June 8 1934 a notice announced a PWA trucking hearing would be held ten days later. He appeared a year late at the commission’s office to attend.
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Madison
Wis
Public Service Commission
PWA
Commission
Massachusetts Girl Electrocuted In Car
Jeanette Gow, daughter of Colonel Charles E. Gow a former Boston postmaster and noted engineer, was electrocuted Tuesday as she stepped into her car. A broken electric light wire dropped near the vehicle and the current reached the car through a puddle of water police said.
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Brookline
Mass
Jeanette Gow
Charles E. Gow
Boston
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