Ice Trusts in Toledo and La Crosse Compared in Editorial
The Tribune notes Toledo ice trust fines of 1000 dollars per member and a year in prison for five men, and draws a parallel with La Crosse where dealers admit agreeing to raise and hold ice prices. It urges La Crosse to pursue its own investigation to curb the ice trust.
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Tribune
Toledo, Ohio
Ice Trust
Scripps- McRae
J. A. Miler
R. C. Lammer
R. A. Beard
P. M. Watters
P. 8
la Crosse
Toledo
Kansas City
Union Churches Plan Joint Summer Services
The Union of the Churches announces union services this summer expanding from six to seven congregations with the Universalist church invited to join. The piece stresses unity across creeds and a shared purpose to elevate humanity, urging cooperation beyond doctrinal differences.
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Universalist
True Religionists Reach Earth With Rescuing Hand
A vision portrays true religionists in a single church whose power and reach span the globe, delivering a rescuing hand to every human habitation worldwide.
Tribune Announces Daily Cartoons For La Crosse Readers
The Tribune pledges a first class cartoon service to La Crosse readers, delivering daily cartoons on local business, civic affairs, politics, conventions, baseball and more. The paper notes reader anticipation and claims cartoons provide direct, forceful critique of local conditions.
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Tribune
la Crosse
Callahan
Oshkosh Nomination Papers Questioned By Officials
In Oshkosh a mystery surrounds how candidates for multiple city offices gathered legal voter signatures amid a 32 000 population. Officials note all signers were Republicans, prompting questions about the process and validity of the nominations.
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Oshkosh
Winneconne
Political dispute over slate of state officers in Green Bay
The Green Bay Gazette argues that Gov. Davidson and Chairman Connor form a political alliance or machine with a slate of state officers meant to thwart voters. Each runs independently, and voters should decide the remaining offices themselves.
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Davidson
Connor
Green Bay
Capital overreach harms business and public need reform
The Oshkosh Northwestern argues that excessive capitalization burdens the public and inflates profits for promoters by overfunding watered stock. It urges Congress to act soon to curb this practice and protect people from a system seen as a holdup.
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Congress
Oshkosh Northwestern
Republicans face choice on Teddy Roosevelt trust stance
The Janesville Recorder mocks Republicans for 1902 pressure to hide or rewrite chapters on Roosevelt and trusts. It notes they printed Teddy Roosevelt quotes praising captains of industry and denying trust antagonism as unwarranted, then questions how they will reconcile past praise with his reform rhetoric and oil and packinghouse critiques.
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Teddy
Trusts
Oil Trust
Janesville
Man Who Disappeared Is Dead
Mrs. Herman Schreiber of Kaukauna learns her husband, who left home two years ago for unknown reasons, is dead in Port Arthur Canada. She has also mourned the deaths of both parents a sister in law and a brother in law, and she is mother to eight children with only three grown.
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Kaukauna
Wis
Herman Schreiber
Port Arthur
Canada
Suits Club Organizer Faces Long Jail Time in Upper Peninsula
June 26 report details John Mack, organizer of a “suit club” in Marquette, accused of swindling victims in Marquette Hancock Calumet Escanaba Menominee Ishpeming with a $4 join fee. He was arrested in Hancock and sent to Ishpeming jail. Local efforts aim to extend his prison stay by filing multiple complaints. Mack could face up to sixty days per case. A Milwaukee man connected to the scheme allegedly passed counterfeit change.
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Marquette
John Mack
Upper Peninsula
Hancock
Calumet
Escanaba
Menominee
Ishpeming
Mrack
Copper Country
Mack
Milwaukee
Green Bay
Michigan
Cole Younger to Perform in The Great Train Robbery
Cole Younger, pardoned bandit, will act in a play titled The Great Train Robbery in Kansas City Missouri. The engagement violates Minnesota parole which barred him from appearing on stage or as a museum exhibit.
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Kansas City
Cole Younger
Minnesota
The Photographer and the Binder of La Crosse County
A despairing man known as Gene Hickey visited a newspaper editor seeking a printed picture and a life remembered in stories of his days as the county’s fastest binder. He hoped to leave a record for his children but died by his own hand, his life marked by failed youthful ambitions.
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la Crosse County
Salem
Gene
Gene Hickey
Calumet Baking Powder Defends Quality Against Trust Attacks
The Calumet Baking Powder Company disputes claims that premiums are given with Calumet and labels such accusations as lies by the Baking Powder Trust. It asserts its product is pure, properly analyzed, and free from Rochelle salts, alum, lime, and ammonia, offering a thousand dollar reward if any adulteration is found. It notes Calumet complies with pure food laws and contrasts with rivals whose powders allegedly contain harmful ingredients.
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Calumet Baking Powder Company
Missouri
Baking Powder Trust
United States
Trust
Royal
Dr. Price
Cleveland
The Baking Powder Trust and Deceptive Ads
The article condemns the baking powder trust for using false news articles as paid advertisements to mislead the public. It claims the trust drives up prices to forty five to fifty cents a pound and harms competition.
Official Financial Report of Bata Vian National Bank
Report of the financial condition of Bata Vian National Bank La Crosse Wisconsin as of June 18 1906. Resources include loans and discounts 2529179.18 bonds 404000.00 other bonds 109511.89 cash and due from banks 588631.05 and 75000.00, total assets 3726999.15. Liabilities include capital stock 400000.00 surplus 100000.00 United States notes outstanding 390000.00 deposits 3 726 999.15.
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U.S
National Bank of La Crosse Balance Sheet 1906
The National Bank of La Crosse reports June 18 1906 resources including loans and discounts 2 773 023 19 and U S bonds securing deposits 50 000 00 with capital 250 000 00 surplus unknown profits 200 000 00 and total deposits 4 137 685 01 United States Depositary.
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U.S
United States
Report of the Condition of the State Bank of La Crosse
The June 18 1906 report shows the bank in La Crosse Wisconsin with loans and discounts totaling 67388377, overdrafts 171537, U S and other bonds and securities 7743795, banking house and fixtures 12000, due from banks and in vaults at 4. Capital stock is listed.
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U. S
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