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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1905
Page
4
Paris reports an international conference on Morocco nearly assured after talks between Premier Rouvier and German ambassador Prince Radolin. Officials expect plans within days, aiming to define scope and potential reforms while preserving Morocco's sovereignty and status quo.
Special Representatives Payne and Young of Chicago invite fans to greet the La Crosse baseball team returning from a trip highlighted by a defeat at Freeport. Writers praise luck and umpiring faults, note a pending home stretch, and urge strong local support to regain the lead.
The St Paul News reflects on John C. Driscoll’s claims of bribery within unions and argues that a few dishonest individuals do not discredit organized labor. It warns against broad attacks by the press and defends unions’ mission to improve workers’ conditions despite flaws.
Robert Hichens notes in the Chicago Tribune on how mysterious people, both men and women, act to impress others. He mocks their whispered confidences, contrived gravity, and contrived style, urging readers to see through the posturing and question the label of being truly interesting.
The Tribune reports vivid happenings on the north side as Bijou offerings draw crowds. Local venues and residents anticipate tonight’s screenings and community events with noted enthusiasm.
A reader’s collection of quips on human nature cites sharp supposed rules about trouble seeking fire chiefs, choosing lesser evils, true goodness, and shifting expressions. It ends noting public entertainment, the Bijou vaudeville house, as a local feature.
In Tien-Tsin June 20 meetings, 600 students from 26 colleges adopted ten resolutions urging a boycott of United States goods, promotion of Chinese manufacture, and circulation of anti US literature. Commercial guilds with 200 members from 17 provinces sign a mutual pledge to forfeit 50,000 taels if any member buys US goods.
A tornado sweeping Hancock county destroyed a public school and a church at Duncan and ripped the roof off a poor farm house. It damaged many farm buildings and uprooted trees across Iowa. At Bagley five houses collapsed injuring three Scaraba family members amid widespread crop damage and hail.
Berlin June 20 Congressman Bartholdt of St. Louis president of the International Parliamentary union to promote international arbitration has been in Berlin ten days reviewing foreign office material to aid in drafting the model arbitration treaty. He will visit other European foreign offices to pursue the same objective.
Huntington reports passenger train No 4 on the Norfolk and Western line narrowly escaped destruction at Lost Creek trestle when a brake chain was wrapped around a rail at the trestle apex. The engineer discovered the obstruction, applied the emergency brakes, and brought the train to a stop.
The Mennonite Brethren Sunday school convention near Springfield Ohio adopts resolutions against children’s day events. They oppose speaking and singing as they fear the program encourages a taste for the stage among children at New Carlisle and surrounding areas.
In Pottsville on June 20, David Fiest Jacob Noll Jr and Joseph Biersten three Shenandoah school directors indicted for bribery pleaded guilty. Sentences were postponed pending trials of additional bribery defendants from the Tax Payers association slated for this week with joint sentencing expected if convicted.
The Herrshoff designed American built cutter Sonya belonging to Mrs Turner-Farley of Southampton won a brisk race around a 25 mile course from Warne buoy south of the Goodwin lightship and back to Dover. The American boat defeated the field after a sequence of features.
Watertown N Y June 20 The 100th anniversary of Jefferson county’s founding is marked this week with an old home week observance. The first western delegation from Chicago has arrived and about five hundred natives and former residents are expected from western points.
Norfolk Nebraska reports Policeman Ault has been convicted of manslaughter for killing "Kid" English at Bonesteel during last summer's rush to the town. He received a two year sentence at hard labor in the Sioux Falls penitentiary.
Orme Clarke of London wed Miss Elfrida Roosevelt cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt at Emmanuel Church Boston with Bishop William Lawrence officiating. The ceremony drew many prominent Boston residents and occurred on a Saturday in June.
Edgar County National bank officers report a $7,000 shortage after expert book review of the wrecked bank. Investigators also find that shipments of money to grain commission houses by Bookkeeper W. W. Juntgen total about $12,000, not $3,000 as earlier claimed.
Secretary Hay reached Washington from New York and, within two hours, met the House. He is to stay a few days and spend the summer at his Lake Sunapee home in New Hampshire.
A lightning strike hit a 35000 barrel naphtha tank in Lima on June 20. Only about 1000 barrels could be pumped before overheating stopped operations, causing an estimated loss near 200000 dollars.
Red Wing Minnesota June 20 report says the Hauge Norwegian Lutheran synod committee drafting addresses to the Norwegian storting and to President Roosevelt decided not to present an address to the president out of respect for Swedish brethren in the country.
The Fre donia National Bank in Fredonia New York was closed by order of the comptroller of the currency after examiners reported insolvency J W Scofield was named receiver as part of the action by federal banking authorities.
The text explains nominal horsepower as an assumed quantity for ease of description. Indicated horsepower equals the figure from the indicator diagram calculations. Effective horsepower is the work the engine can perform or the gap between indicated horsepower and the power needed to drive the engine unloaded.
A Philadelphia Press tale depicts two hobos debating aid from a big house. One says he almost asked, but a ministerly man warned them off with a dire warning about dogs. The scene captures streetwise hunger and cautious faith.
Dr. Will Powell presents on diseases of women at the Bijou tonight, offering medical insights and practical guidance for readers interested in women’s health.
A specially fitted electric lounge car reserved for royalty blocked movement along the foyer to the royal box during a recent king's visit to the Coliseum. The king, using tact, offered to walk rather than wait as the lounge refused to move.
A New York World opinion praises the average American man for superior politeness toward women. It cites acts like opening doors, hailing carriages, offering seats, helping with parcels and babies, and helping women onto trains as everyday courtesy marking his conduct above others.
Anton Rubinstein argues women should not study music as an art, saying teachers would be wasted on many more accomplished female pupils. He notes women learn quickly and show poetry but fears the outcome when a handsome mustache attracts them away from art.
De Chappie complains about a nuisance who introduces people. He cites Goodheart, the Boattown figure, as an example. He recounts meeting a creditor through such introductions and fears being sued if he does not settle the debt.
A New York Weekly excerpt notes a physician claiming half of humanity's diseases stem from overeating. A friend muses that months have passed without illness at his boarding house.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt shows a waiter remarking the tablecloth is not clean and the response that it has been turned twice already, illustrating a small dining room dispute.
The Great Northern Railway offers an atlas of 56 pages with up to date maps of multiple states and regions plus world maps. It includes statistical information, shows railway lines, and is sold at cost for $1.00 plus mailing to any address upon request to F. I. Whitney in St. Paul Minnesota.
Tee tickets to be sold July 7 8 and 9 with favorable return limits on account of Grand Lodge BPOE Choice of routes from Chicago Apply to agents Chicago Northwestern Ry.
Excur sion tickets to the popular resort Clear Lake Iowa will be sold Saturdays with return until the following Monday. Apply to agents Chicago Northwestern railway.
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