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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
3
The public learns of Admiral Robley D Evans’s health and resignation from the navy. The piece extols his heroism and personal magnetism, likening him to Theodore Roosevelt and praising his sterling honesty and courage as a national asset.
The text argues that winter treatment in northern sanatoria is effective, with cold climate providing a tonic effect for consumptives and healthy individuals. It notes northerners feel stronger in winter and stresses the practicability of staying in cold regions, contrasting with hostile attitudes and harmful health resort towns in the south and west.
Republican senators rose and left their seats as Senator La Follette spoke on the Aldrich bill Tuesday and many may recall his prophecy from a year ago that they could leave their seats for good soon.
A foreman recalls selling a lurid noise headline to a rival paper, framing it as a cautionary tale about sensationalism and unreliable reporting. The remark highlights tensions between newspapers over sensational content and truthfulness in the trade.
A fragmentary verse expresses a mind in chaos and fret as the speaker confesses sleepless nights and a failing reason. The narrator parades visions, literary obsessions, and fevered thoughts drawn from season’s books while seeking asylum from chaotic delusions.
The Wiscon committee of the International Tuberculosis Congress debunks the climate cure theory. Cures occur in varied climates and are not confined to distant locales. Wealthy patients flocked west and south seeking open life, but the bulletin notes cures can happen anywhere with proper treatment.
In New York, 4 McKee Borden, secretary of the department of charities, says every issue has a cause and cites a tale from a miserable slum. He recalls two beggars debating why the poor receive more help than the rich, the answer being that the rich keep others poor.
Thomas F. Ryan remarks on music in the Deutschland smokeroom. He shadows a quip about bagpipes and the piper’s ceaseless movement, ending with a quip about a non smoking old woman and clay pipes. The exchange blends humor with street scene detail.
Charles H. Yale presents the Devil's Auction at the La Crosse theater on March 21 and 22 with fresh scenery from his Philadelphia studio. The act features Hill Brothers acrobats, baby elephants, Toby the silent clown, an English chorus, Fraulein Prager toe dancing, and a grand sixteen-set transformation finale. Seats go on sale tomorrow morning at the theater candy store.
Liebler and Co present the stage singer Blanche Chapman in the title role of Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch at the La Crosse theater. The production is billed as a premier engagement for the season.
May Manton presents a boys blouse pattern that combines freedom of movement with style. Made from washable fabrics like flannel and light wools, it features a striped madras top with a selectable collar or neck-band, a left front patch pocket, gathered back to yoke, box plait front, elastic at hem, and shirt waist sleeves with cuffs. Pattern 5941 covers ages 6, 8, 10, 12. 2½ yards of 24 or 32 inch cloth or 1½ yards of 44 inch cloth needed for size 10. Pattern available by mail from the Fashion Department for ten cents plus postage.
A Philadelphia Press item quotes a portly man declaring a wish to become an angel while lamenting excess weight and weariness with life, reflecting a humorous or reflective aside in local reportage.
America's foremost suffrage champion Mrs Belva Lockwood, 78, has practiced law in Washington D C for 35 years and argued cases before the U S Supreme Court. She pursued Oxford studies at age 60 and was nominated for U S president by the Equal Rights party in 1884 and 1888.
Central Kentucky farmers plan to sell land and relocate to other states as lawlessness linked to tobacco warday night rider outrages erodes property values. Innocent residents suffer while security deteriorates and land values plunge amid ongoing unrest.
A Manchester Guardian note rejects claims that Canadians dislike all Englishmen. It says most Englishmen are well regarded apart from a useless broke-dandy stereotype who cannot work yet borrows through his connections. The piece asserts the respectable Englishman maintains standing anywhere.
In the London Times commentary from White Australia asserts that allowing Asian newcomers would be fatal and irreparable. It argues the only sane and safe course is to experiment with white settlement in the tropics, a view presented as the unified Australian opinion.
In a desolate Fopstone Road stroll, Charlie Rolfe and his lover Maud confess deep affection while planning a clandestine future. He reveals a Servian departure for Belgrade, sparking worry she may lose him as she fears her father's disapproval and the life he leads.
At a publishers dinner in New York Mark Twain described his early reporting in Virginia City. He recounted a horse thief incident where a bulky boot flew at the judge, then joked about composing a succinct paragraph that mocked a rival reporter.
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