Water Power Co to Condemn Land for Pole Line
Six farms along the Mississippi between Marshland and Bluff Siding face condemnation as La Crosse Water Power Co moves to secure a right of way for pole lines to Winona. One farmer demands 2000 dollars. The company plans direct pole routes Hatfield to Galesville to La Crosse and Winona, with two main wires later. Dam at Hatfield now full and flowing over top after two and a half months since December 20. Water supply below river slightly curtailed during filling.
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Mississippi River
Marshland
Bluff Siding
la Crosse
Winona
Hatfield
Galesville
Bluff
Kokomo Woman Offers Free Home Remedy for Women
Mrs. Cora B. Miller of Kokomo Indiana has funded free medical treatment and a 50 cent remedy to help women suffer from uterine and ovarian conditions. The offer, long advertised, targets thousands worldwide with a home cure and an explanatory book.
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Cora B
Miller
Cora B. Miller
Kokamo
Indiana
Romantic ties forged on Bryans globe tour end in Boston wedding
A Fort Wayne widow, Marguerite Beck, and Fall River cotton magnate Frank Heap Slack wed in Boston after a long romance sparked during William Jennings Bryan's globe circling tour. They met in San Francisco and continued amid stops in Hawaii Japan Sweden and Stockholm before a Windsor era Boston dinner led to marriage. He adds a vast Fall River estate and English holdings. she remains independently wealthy.
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William Jennings Bryan
Boston
Marguerite Beck
Fort Wayne
Ind
Frank Heap Slack
Fall River
Massachusetts
San Francisco
Hawaiian Islands
Japan
Russia
Stockholm
Sweden
Beck
Uncle Sam
Ameri
New England
Old England
Do American scholars need social praise to thrive
A Saturday Evening Post piece asks college professors to weigh whether American scholarship suffers when scholars in cities like New York do not receive as much social invitation as European colleagues. It argues that the academic mind may rely on social status for recognition and questions if U.S. education funds are yielding full value without Fifth Avenue hospitality.
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Saturday Evening Post
Europe
New York
Chicago
London
Paris
Fifth Avenue
Lake Shore Drive
George Washington Smith
Miss Jefferson Returns From East Trip To New York
Miss Hattie Jefferson in charge of the millinery department at the Doerflinger store returned Monday from a two month trip to New York and the East. She took a cruise to the West Indies and enjoyed a pleasant vacation, though most time was spent on Doerflinger store interests and purchasing the latest stocks.
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Hattie Jefferson
Doerfliinger
New York
West Indies
Doerflinger
Alphabetic pride at civil service exam request
A young Black man visits the Washington civil service commission seeking exam papers. He proclaims he is from the first state in the union, Alabama, in a witty exchange about alphabetical ordering. The official notes Alabama is not first alphabetically, provoking a lighthearted moment.
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Civil Service Commission
Washington
Darkey
Union
New York
Alabama
Harner's Weekly
Special Courses At High School Offer Penmanship Lessons
The Davenport High School boards hired J. N. Johnson of New York to teach penmanship in fifteen after school lessons at a low tuition. Johnson has 18 years in the field and previously ran classes in Davenport and Rock Island. A fountain pen is promised to the top improver. Professor Schubert plans public speaking talks by a university of Wisconsin professor to aid interested students during the day.
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Board of Education
J. N. Johnson
New York City
Johnson
Davenport
Rock Island
Schubert
University of Wisconsin
Lyceum League
St Margaret’s Society Plans St Patrick's Day Entertainment
The St Margaret’s Ladies’ society of St James church progresses with a North side event to mark St Patrick’s Day. The program includes vocal and instrumental music recitations and dialogues with top North side talent. Miss Mary E Devine leads the arrangements.
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St. Margaret's
Specter edges Fay in St Charles mayoral race
Winona Minn March 5. St Charles held a tight mayoral election Tuesday. J J Specter, the citizens nominee, defeated incumbent mayor Thomas Fay by nine votes after a heated contest at the polls.
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Winona
Minn
St. Charles
Thomas Fay
J. J. Specter
Citizens
High finance frames gift as blessing over receiving
In high finance it is doubtful if you could convince a man that it is more blessed to give than to be a receiver.
Slocum’s Captain Begins Prison Term For Disaster
A photograph shows Captain W. H. Van Schaick of the ill fated Slocum excursion steamer. He has begun serving his sentence in the penitentiary for his responsibility in the disaster that killed more than a thousand people when the ship burned to the water’s edge.
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W. H. van Schaick
Slocum
van Schaick
Endorsement for Electric Bitters by San Francisco Architect
Mr Norman R Coulter prominent architect in the Delbert Building San Francisco endorses Electric Bitters as a tonic medicine. He says it corrects stomach liver and kidney disorders promptly and builds up the system. It is praised as a superior spring medicine and blood purifier sold for 50 cents at O T Erhart s drug store.
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Norman R. Coulter
Delbert
San Francisco
O. T. Erhart
Singing Negro in Alabama Church: A Cough and Conviction
A stalwart Black singer in a Alabama town, a local church choir highlight, suffers protracted illness. A deacon asks how he is, his wife laments a strong cough. The deacon quips that the loud voice may have strained his lungs, hence the coughing. Humorous anecdote from Harper’s Weekly.
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Alabama
Harper’s Weekly
De Lawd and the Rich Man Po' Man Cryin' Question
A poem excerpt from the Atlanta Constitution contrasts the rich and poor as the Lawd hears the po' man cry and asks why. The rich man defends his fines, while a future world awaits with an angel to take the rich away, yet both delay departure. the world remains a trial of self-denial.
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Atlanta Constitution
Men Full of Bluster Nuisance to Vain Men
A compact observed saying that men filled with loud empty posturing resemble other men preoccupied with vanity, a social jab at self important behavior and the disruption it causes.
Way to the Station Misleading Directions in Virginia
A party of automobilists stranded by an accident seek directions home in Virginia and meet an old darkey who offers a route description. He instructs them to proceed along the road to a fork where two roads branch, take the left, and continue to a point where the post office should appear.
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Virginia
Darkey
Success Magazine
Foley's Honey and Tar Ad Claim
An advertisement states there is no recorded case of cough or cold leading to pneumonia after using Foley's Honey and Tar. It claims the product stops coughs and breaks up colds quickly, warns to refuse non genuine versions in a yellow package, and notes the product contains no opiates.
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Foley
O. T. Erhart
Woman Checks Reflection After Visitor Leaves
A brief domestic moment notes a woman glancing at her reflection in a mirror after a male caller departs. The observation foregrounds everyday social gestures and the quiet self-scrutiny that follows social visits.
Thought Lawyers Were Cheating Her In Land Case
Mrs J J Altmascher of French Island believed La Crosse lawyers conspired to seize her farm. An Austrian consul sent an attorney to review, finding unpaid mortgage interest and taxes totaling 2,000 dollars. foreclosure noted. After court review before Judge Brindley, she sought her husband’s sanity to counter gossip about their finances. Read The Tribune Sporting News.
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J. J. Altmascher
Sland
la Crosse
Chicago
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