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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1913
Page
5
Market activity near the city center slows as washed out creeks and rivers block routes, delaying heavy hauls. Farmers like Otto Wolff and Herman Keppel reported hay sales, while teams brought in wood and hay amid improved prospects for future city arrivals.
Greedylot, a miser, recovers from a long illness and asks the doctor how he survived. He learns he was fed by the fever and then wonders aloud if he could give that to his servants.
A parade of visitors includes H L Quanrud from Spring Grove and L H Johnson from Rochester as well as T H Bakewell from Lansing. E E Jackson and G Peterson call on business, with several locals returning home after visits. A new show opens at MW Majestic and Ernest Bledsone joins the Post Annex restaurant staff. Furniture sale noted at 919 South Ninth Street.
Heavy rains and snowmelt caused Kickapoo valley floods stopping trains between Waureka and La Farge since Thursday. Dam failure at Viola cuts power to electric plant and Viola mill, while Gays Mill loses power though their dam is intact. Mail halted, stage service blocked, and rail lines including a narrow gauge branch near Woodman were disrupted but partially back in service by Saturday. District tournament at Platteville concluded with Platteville winning basketball.
A vintage advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a quick and safe cure for dyspepsia. It claims relief within five minutes, eliminating sour stomach, gas, belching, and undigested food, and promises a healthy stomach able to enjoy favorite foods. The seller urges readers to buy a fifty cent bottle from any drug store.
Evaristo Madero, brother of murdered Mexico president Francisco I. Madero, and Gustavo Madero, murdered by the government, is a Cornell student. He plans vengeance with surviving family members Alonso Emilio Gabriel Julio Raoul and Carlos, all educated in the United States. Julio may have been shot at Torreon, unconfirmed.
Prairie du Chien faced delays at Woodman due to high water while remaining on a limited schedule, playing games with Brodhead and Dodgeville. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs W S Hoffman on South Church Street Friday March 14. Mrs F A Bull and daughter Marion left for Beloit to visit relatives. Mrs Harry Henderson nee Jessie Atchison visits with her brother Jay Atchison in La Crosse. The Hendersons reside in Hackley Forest County Wis S R Bowen of Mason City visited here over Sunday.
Faneuil Hall, called the Cradle of Liberty for revolutionary meeting use, was erected in 1742 by Peter Faneuil and gifted to the town. The main hall houses portraits of prominent men while the lower floor serves as a market known as New Faneuil Hall Market. a large stone structure runs through the block beyond.
Advert says Poslam and Poslam Soap cure eczema acne tetter and other itch related conditions. Claims immediate itching relief and restored skin health with affordable price. Promotes free samples from Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
The Winning Widow opened at the Majestic with Hilda Burton star in a sparkling musical comedy. Dutch and Irish comic pair Mus Clark and Ben Turbet create lively humor while Joe Freed and Nanny Schultz earn rounds of applause. D S Greig presents a strong French film The Hunch Back, amid new scenic features. Majestic closes for three days, reopening Easter Sunday.
William F. McCombs, national Democratic chairman, will accept President Wilson's offer of the ambassadorship to France. McCombs had previously said he would decline a foreign post to stay in law practice, but has decided to take the Paris posting.
Sunday visits and travels populate this brief. Mrs. Phillips hosted at Pleasant Ridge as her husband’s illness drew relatives. Miss Sweaney heads to Waukon, ex West Union worker. Mrs. Haman’s Kansas City burial ends a local connection.
Mrs J B Clark of Columbus Nebraska thanks neighbors and friends for assistance sympathy and floral offerings during the illness and death of her aunt Mrs Bridget Dugan.
All stock foods tonics and veterinary preparations are patent medicines in Norway. Only druggists may sell them and they undergo examination by a board called the medicinal Styreisen. If deemed harmful or misleading or overpriced compared to ingredients their sale is forbidden.
An old French adage states a man’s character is like his shadow. It sometimes follows him and sometimes precedes him and can be longer or shorter than he is.
A pithy saying notes that men heat up twice as quickly as they settle down. It implies rapid anger contrasted with slower cooling, suggesting temperament differences in emotional responses.
The W R C No 2 met in the G A R room at the courthouse on Friday evening. Five new members were received under the flag and instructed by president Mrs Isabelle Short. Refreshments were served in honor of the newcomers and visiting member Mrs Jefferson of Minneapolis.
Rev Catharine McFarlin and Mrs H S Pager left La Crosse for Milwaukee as delegates from the La Crosse Spiritual church to the Wisconsin State Spiritualist association convention to be held March 18 19 and 20. Mrs McFarlin will speak at the convention and the pair expect to return to La Crosse on Saturday.
Miss Luella Zaiser hosted at 1641 Wood Street on Friday March 14 in honor of cousin Miss Minnie Kelsey of Denver Colo. Guests included Vera Anderson Louise Brown Dorothy Cordell Geneva Jensen Edna Harrier Minnie Kelsey Ruth King Gretchen Krueger Margaret Krueger Villa Layland Clare Lucas Louise MacArthur Stella Nelson Myrtle Nelson Esther Peterson Lenore Pegar Gladys Schaller Amy Wheaton Mabel Wheaton Edna White Kathryn Zaiser and Luella Zaiser. The evening featured games and a guessing contest with head prize to Villa Layland and consolation to Gladys Schaller. Carnations decorated the twenty two seat table.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Kleeber returned from Reedsburg where they attended the twenty fifth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs A L Kleeber. Floods delayed the celebration by a day. In Reedsburg Miss Ruth Stole won first and Miss Amy Gottrey second in a high school declamation contest. Gottrey is a niece of Mrs E R Burke. Both girls advance to the district contest in April in Reedsburg.
The board will examine applicants for city fire department membership at La Crosse City Hall at 7 30 p m on Wednesday March 19 1912. L C Colman secretary announces the session in La Crosse Wisconsin.
Thomas Thompson attempted a saloon stickup in Chicago but was beaten by patrons, his revolver taken, and he was arrested afterward.
New York reports the Ward liner Camaguey arrived with 12 000 crates of Mexican onions and a dozen grand opera singers out of work due to the revolution. In Atlantic City a life guard’s drunkenness lands him 60 days jail by his wife. Plainfield notes watchman Obediah Stone retires after 53 years walking 90 000 miles in rounds. In Boyertown farmers sold 35 cent coffins, and in London the Duke of Marlborough becomes a daily letters author on land reform. Melbourne learns Canberra means Laughing Jackass. Vienna hosts a battle over netting rights for butterflies. Savannah reports Melissa Cooper gaining 100 pounds a month for five months, then death.
C F Baker cashier of Crocker National Bank lies near death at Piedmont after admitting defalcations totaling 200000 dollars. Two deputy sheriffs guard his bedside as Baker, a longtime Oakland church pillar, faced speculative stock schemes that tempted him into crime. The shortage surfaced when a temporary worker replaced him during illness.
A cautious approach at the outset aims to reduce later setbacks. Authorities advise thorough prep and early risk assessment to avert bigger issues as work proceeds.
Three hundred babies attended St Mark's church by special invitation in Chicago to hear Father T P Thomas preach on race death by own action.
If you are satisfied to take things as they come you won't get much. The passage outlines three medical treatment degrees positive ill comparative pill superlative bill in a concise poetic note.
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