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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1906
Page
6
Mr. and Mrs. Jos G Heller were pleasantly surprised Saturday evening at 1615 Woods Street to honor their fifth wedding anniversary. Attendees included Theodore Locke Ni Huss John Rusche Jos Schneider Mrs Gilliam Mrs Beyer P Rusche Carl Locke Mrs Nic Gehlen of St Paul and Misses Rusche and Beyers. Mrs O M Lewis is very ill.
Officials gathered in the north side Milwaukee yards for a fuel saving lecture in an official car. Attendees offered various suggestions on train handling and efficiency.
Oscar Myhre was surprised at the home of Nels Rund on Berlin street for a farewell greeting. He leaves today for Birthold North Dakota to join his brother Olaf who already moved there last week.
Mrs Henry Gohres once Miss Glass remains very ill. Carl Wittenberg leaves tonight for Milwaukee to work at Cudahy rubber mills. Richard Stoquist of Minneapolis visits his brother Axel on Rose Street. J M Osterhout now located on Berlin Street. Cotton visits A L Mosher at 1637 Avon Street. Jack Knockles returns home to Bismarck after a North Side stay. Picha of 1633 Loomis Street improves from pneumonia after illness.
An advertisement claims Gray's Yerba Santa offers a universal cough cure with extensive success. The note promotes the medicine as a definitive household remedy and invites readers to try its reputed effectiveness.
Paris reports a new disaster as seventeen rescuers die while attempting to recover bodies from the Courrières mine disaster. A salvage party of twenty five Westphalian miners arrived with gear but work halted until gas levels are cleared, an estimated forty eight hours.
The passage contrasts two sales approaches, urging a preference for newspaper advertising that earns trust by entering homes when buyers are receptive, over billboard tactics that harass on street corners or vacant lots. It emphasizes the warmer reception and timing advantages of home-based ads.
A dozen or more Elks from La Crosse will travel to Denver for the national Elks meeting in June. The group will be entertained by a Wild West show featuring Cheyenne lodge members and famed broncho busters. The event showcases a unity of Elks from Wyoming Colorado New Mexico and Arizona with participants ranging from cowboys to financiers united under Elkdom principles.
Following a follow up by Henry Heine of Reedsburg on the state barber board, several La Crosse shops may close if owners fail to implement extensive sanitary improvements. Heine, who inspected shops after the board’s exams, will decide actions based on compliance, with closures possible until required standards are met.
Fragmentary note mentions a contact number for the Tribune and a reference to Dr. George Porl a consulting physician and surgeon. The text is incomplete with unclear context or definite event.
LA CROSSE BUSINESS DIRECTORY asks local manufacturers to mail concise statements about their plants and products. The publishers urge firms to provide information that will inform readers and encourage local patronage, and invite ongoing updates about operations.
A La Crosse plant tour highlights Valyu Garment Company incorporated in March 1904. Officers include A Platz president and M Platz secretary treasurer. The firm operates a spacious daylight factory with a recreation park, employs about 125 workers, and produces ladies skirts coats jackets mainly for western states from Lake Michigan to Texas.
Marinette sporting men complain after Neenah men sold them fake diamonds as quarter price, pretending they were stolen property. Real stones were shown briefly before being exchanged for worthless ones. several hundred dollars changed hands.
Gov Johnson and officials released a report in Rolla Missouri detailing charges against the school director. He is accused of neglecting duties and frequent absence and of playing billiards in public halls with students, seen as prejudicial to the school’s interests.
Pauline Skillman a 38 year old child abducted by her father Paul Skillman in September was recovered with help from Mrs Roosevelt and arrived in Indianapolis from San Francisco to be met by her relieved mother. The father was brought back on a kidnapping charge.
Pitcher Ivor Wagner of Columbus wins a $500 plank prize in a March 13 event in Columbus Ohio. The report notes Wagner's feat and the location and date of the competition.
A compiled directory lists numerous La Crosse companies with street addresses across Front, South Front, Second, Third, Fourth, Pearl, Main, and other streets. Entries include manufacturers, breweries, cigar makers, clothiers, harness and wagon works, lumber, hardware, and services such as ink, leather, and metal works.
A ball club paid five hundred dollars to its Business Manager Quinn to secure a player's release. The move aimed to prevent the player from being farmed out to the Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania team, a decision that caused a stir locally.
Berlin March 13 reports Emperor William has ordered the German force in China to return home. A detachment of 26 officers and 700 men will stay to guard the Peking embassy, with part of the force posted at Tientsin as reserves.
Emperor William in a March 13 speech to naval recruits urged memory of German feats and past defeats. He cited the 1806 Jena loss and warned to trust in God rather than fate for future battles.
Eight tons of dynamite stored at the compressor plant in Duluth exploded causing a fatal blast on March 13. Emergency crews rushed to the scene as rescuers worked amid smoke and debris to reach survivors and assess structural damage.
An explosion at the Great Northern Power Company plant under construction destroyed a large portion of the facility and injured several workers. Reports indicate three men were killed, but this cannot be verified at the time of writing.
The burning gas well at Caney Kansas has been capped and the fire confined to the upright outlet of the hood. The ground can be cooled with water before shutting off the valves.
In Muskegon Michigan on March 13 Ralph Post was accidentally given poisonous mercury salts as medicinal pills and narrowly survived after the error.
Five people were killed and fifteen wounded in a riot at Strykoff in Fiotric off government between Roman Catholics and sectarians who stormed a Roman Catholic church using knives sticks and pitchforks.
Washington March 13 in executive session the senate confirmed the nomination of William Williien of Wisconsin for the consulship at St John New Brunswick noting the confirmation in the official record.
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