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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1908
Page
3
The Tribune urges readers to back a coordinated effort by local grocers merchants manufacturers and jobbers to promote La Crosse made goods. It argues keeping purchases local will curb outside profits and keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in La Crosse while calling for leadership and broader civic support.
La Crosse county farmers favor a public inspection plan for dressed meats sold in La Crosse markets under city supervision. The move supports disease control efforts, aiding tuberculosis reduction and livestock health, with a Langdon-Boyd Packing plant inspector already in place as a model.
At the same time, diseases afflicting cattle and hogs might soon be eliminated, signaling potential advance in livestock health and farming efficiency.
A Milwaukee political feud unfolds as Francis E. McGovern announces a U S senate bid amid a pull string tug between factions led by Uncle Ike Stephenson. The Daily News broke the news, the Free Press denied it, then partly backed the bid, with McGovern suggesting withdrawal if party welfare requires it. The episode highlights intraparty maneuvering and press crossfire in a tense local political scene. The piece also previews The Red Mill at La Crosse theatre and profiles key theatrical figures like Victor Herbert and George Ade, noting Ade’s Purdue roots and Chicago journalism career.
A reflective piece mixes fashion hints with social irony. A man declares the wind idle while others critique time and fame. A swift youth wanders home at night sees a light then seeks entry to the Sunrise club. A refrain notes a man wears many roles but rarely unites them.
A fragmented column muses that sowing kindness often leads to unexpected outcomes and irony in daily life. The narrator wittily notes fate pressing our trousers, hinting at humble consequences and the quirks of fortune.
Alban Kennedy receives a cryptic letter from Richard Gessner guiding him to Hampstead Heath and Five Gables. The letter designates Alban as humanity’s agent to aid outcasts while Lois reacts to her father’s death and a voyage abroad begins.
The writer opposes charging Chancellor Day with aspersions on President Roosevelt in A Raid on Prosperity. They condemn Day’s bigoted rhetoric yet support his right to express his views, urging the church to let him talk his fool head off.
After prior denials from rival agencies the Tribune reports the official statement that the portion of the fleet not in the Pacific will return to the Atlantic via the Suez canal.
Miss Cresswell returns from a country visit to find her wardrobe empty and a burned lawn patch. Her brother George admits he burned her clothes to recover a key hidden in a bolero. The pair argue as the awkward prank simmers on the stove.
A Chelsea schoolteacher teaches English toforeign children and asks for a sentence using fright. A quick reply from a pupil: We had fright eggs for breakfast this morning. This humorous moment is cited by the Boston Herald.
A Philadelphia Inquirer item notes a tired man being aided by Mrs Brown who offers a shilling to help him find work. The man thanks her and pockets the coin, pledging to use it to seek employment.
In a brief exchange from the Philadelphia Press the couple debate Mr Gotrox's harsh judgments of his lazy sons. He finds excuses hard to accept while his wife defends them, sparking a sharp domestic stalemate.
The piece argues that true “our best people” form an aristocracy of intellect, breeding, purpose, charity, and patriotism. Wealth alone does not qualify, while shallow imitators with money miscast the idea of merit.
The Boston Transcript notes many New England bird species, including the wild pigeon and great auk, are extinct locally. It argues spring and summer hunting harms species at mating season and urges a close season to protect curlews, swans, wood ducks, and teals, citing laws in Canada and some U S states. It also includes a quip about contractors from New York in a comic aside.
A bishop known for recalling clergy faces forgets a name at a station. He asks the clergyman how to spell his name and learns it is Jones. The anecdote appears in Illustrated Bits.
In a garden a maid and a lover exchange playful lettered cues and puns about letters. The scene ends with the maid warning him to leave or risk trouble, set in a Bohemian mood.
In the Philadelphia Ledger scene a woman visits a store seeking new tablecloths. After rejecting several in stock, the clerk presents a discarded piece as a fresh design, highlighting its centered motif and border that runs around the edge, and the customer agrees to buy it.
A brief exchange about a suitor for the daughter. The father worries aloud about public popularity influencing the match while noting the suitor is already well liked by the mother and other daughters.
A man can present a lame excuse so convincingly that everyone else accepts it, but his wife sees through the falsehood and does not believe it.
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