High Chair Philosophy
A brief notice requests readers to mail child stories to Mrs. A. M. Brayton at 1122 Main Street and provides a new phone number 814-C for contact.
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1906
Page
4
A brief notice requests readers to mail child stories to Mrs. A. M. Brayton at 1122 Main Street and provides a new phone number 814-C for contact.
Dr Charles W Eliot president of Howard University addresses Chicago Merchants Club on corporate duties. He cites earning power, promoting honesty, publicity, and fiduciary responsibility, contrasting with Central Electric leasing practices and urging officials to avoid secrecy and false promotions. The Chronicle, Evening Organ, and Tribune debate control among Chicago interests, eastern capitalists, and Stone & Webster.
A collection of short sketches about children and domestic life. Four year old Bessie resents being called a baby, a Brooklyn Bridge scene imagines a giant advertising chair as God's throne, a bachelor jokes about becoming grandmother, and a child-teasing moment ends with a playful retort about missing teeth. Vera’s mom glues a loose ring, Vera pretends a broken head means a long hospital stay.
The excerpt notes the Rockefeller inheritance of John D. III is about 1 billion dollars and projects growth to 2.5 billion in fifty years at 3 percent simple interest. It imagines the heir at age fifty could approach five billion, comparing it to the U S national debt of about 2.29 billion and suggesting the baby could wipe out the debt.
An advertisement touts Ortno or Ortho Laxative Fruit Syrup as a pleasant, non irritating laxative that cures chronic constipation by acting on all digestive organs. It claims to help the liver and bowels without upsetting the stomach and promises clearer complexions and suitability for women and children.
The column riffs on politics and small town life with references to a justice of the peace candidate, a suit by Mutual against the McCurdys, local church controversies over bowling, sermons, summer plans, and moved by various local figures including Hadley and W. V RK.
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