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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1913
Page
2
A preview promotes The Homelike House department offering practical ideas to beautify and improve every room. It highlights three cozy inexpensive bungalows featured in the April issue and invites readers to explore practical plans.
In the April Woman's Home Companion readers learn to brighten bedrooms with washable bloom patterns applied to curtains scarf and bed covers. It promotes a practical kitchen plan with tone-and-step-saving tips and highlights new spring fashions for young married women businesswomen and society women including hats waists fabrics and trimmings.
M'Gregor March 24. A city caucus at Sullivans Opera house on March 17 nominated city officers led by Mayor candidate T. J. Sullivan and aldermen J. A. Barnage J. H. McLaughlin Albert Clemons W. H. Elwell A. J Boyle and F. S. Richards. Also notes social visits and local updates including smallpox releases and a basketball win 18 to 15 over Ossian.
An advertisement touts Hay's Hair Health as reversing grey or faded hair to its natural youthful color with rapid results after a few applications. It also claims dandruff relief and a money back guarantee, offering a bundled deal with Harfina Soap through listed druggists Hoeschler Bros and Hebberd & Co among others.
Capt Douglas MacArthur, son of the late Gen Arthur MacArthur, is moved from Fort Leavenworth after four years to oversee the state war and navy buildings in Washington. He relieves Capt U S Grant, grandson of Civil War general.
Seattle reports a revival of whaling with three steam whalers sailing for Alaska as vanguard of a larger fleet. The new vessel style has proven lucrative over the past two years and more ships are expected to depart from Seattle this season.
MadisonWisconsin March 24 The anti-fraternity bill will be on the calendar for passage Wednesday.
Lit emphasis marks upcoming municipal vote in Arta Sparta Wis March 24 with three candidates for alderman in First ward L H Conger incumbent W M Jones and H W Jefferson. Other wards show partial slates with incumbents seeking re election and local petitions on license and other civic matters.
A fragment notes the discomfort a woman endures from ill fitting footwear. It hints at suffering caused by tight shoes without broader context or additional facts.
Wausau reports claim a haunted house in the city with two families fleeing the lower story. Spectral figures, sometimes in a sheet or as a “little man,” disturbed residents. A man trying to sleep was twice thrown from bed when the door locked and another saw a figure approach and vanish in mist.
Madison March 24 Governor McGovern has signed fifteen bills. Scarcely a bill of statewide importance has been presented to him for signature as yet.
In Marinette Wisconsin on March 24 authorities failed to clear roads to St. Joseph's cemetery in Escanaba Michigan. Frank Stralka died at Delta county almshouse and his body was carried to the grave on a ordinary team sleigh. Mourners and attendants abandoned carriages and trudged through drifts to reach the gravesite.
Professor Robert H. Butler head of the commercial department at the high school traveled to Rochester Minnesota last night to instruct grade school children in penmanship for three days. He is an expert in this field and has numerous engagements to teach students across the state and neighboring states.
A colonial advertorial claims eczema is cured through skin washing with a wintergreen thymos wash branded as D D D Prescription. Quoted endorsements from Dr Evans ex commissioner of health and Dr Holmes claim high effectiveness. The ad offers a $1 bottle on guarantee and promotes D D D Soap at Columbian Drug Store.
A family uses a lively pet squirrel named Frank to nudge Frankie and Jack to wake early for school. The mischief maker causes sleepless nights until he vanishes and returns, teaching that early rising comes with effort and patience. Frankie learns to adjust as Prank’s adventures unfold.
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