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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1913
Page
8
Northern Michigan towns including Michigan City and Calumet lie isolated after a blizzard from Sunday night. Rail and wire service are disrupted. 26 inches of snow fell in nine hours leaving streets impassable and mailboxes buried.
Madison March 25. Several important Assembly bills passed in the senate last night. The McComb bill requires individual towels in washrooms of public buildings upon order of the state board of health. The Allison bill to beautify villages and allow park commissions, and the Spoor bill banning snag lines by fishermen in Wisconsin waters, also received concurrence.
The text extols garden spiders, noting morning webs on the lawn forecast no rain and that spiders capture many flies and mosquitoes. It praises the harmless spiders and urges never to destroy their webs or the spiders themselves.
W A Darling aged 68 civil war veteran was shot and killed near the Darling home by Gus Gusafson who also fired at Officer Fred Schroeder but missed. Gusafson, recently ordered deported to Norway after an insanity case, was captured hours later after a prior attempt to blow up a settlement home.
La Crosse Associated Charities brands the M'Kinley League an alleged philanthropic group and urges public caution about its activities.
The Associated Charities of La Crosse report finds the McKinley Memorial Hospital league raises money mainly for salaries and name endorsement, not for tuberculosis work. The group shows $19,420.16 received by Sept 20, 1912 with a $2,620.38 deficit, and lacks cooperation with tuberculosis studies while listing prominent backers.
Macaulay, staying at Windsor Castle on January 14, 1851, stood between the duchess of Norfolk and a foreign woman at table while a band played and he identified no tune beyond The Campbells Are Coming. Trevelyan notes this as the lone authenticated instance of his knowing another tune.
A young Tioga woman says her trip to her millionaire uncle was not pleasant as she feared for her belongings. She kept her trunk under watch to stop the maid from unpacking it.
The men who have achieved success are those who have worked, read, and thought beyond present needs. They seek additional knowledge and store it for an emergency reserve. Superfluous effort equips a person for everything that truly counts in life.
Emil Grossman states unmagnetizable steel should have 9.8 to 10.3 percent manganese and up to 1.4 percent titanium. Silicon under .8, carbon below .03, and phosphorus under .015. Such steel is valuable for electric shield applications in ignition and related work.
French military painter Detaille wished France to own his works after death, similar to Turner, so his paintings pass to public property. His house and museum contain his uniforms, weapons, and related memorabilia.
In Madison on March 25 the Wisconsin Assembly final passage included a railroad crossing requirement and a dock line on Lake Waubesa and the Yahara River. The Kneen bill to abolish divorce counsel was indefinitely postponed on a 36 to 28 vote. A Milwaukee health department removal bill and a county jail prisoner work program bill were also indefinitely postponed.
Madison March 25 Richard Lloyd Jones telegraphed Col Theodore Roosevelt urging support for the woman suffrage referendum. He feared the measure might be defeated in the assembly due to bull moose opposition despite Senate passage.
A Baltimore American note recalls a woman learning of the bull moose platform and the last presidential election as supporters urge aid for the Wisconsin referendum project. The quip hints at how the silence was broken with a dropped remark.
A vintage ad touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy to darken faded or gray hair. It claims natural color, gloss, reduced dandruff, and thick, healthy hair after nightly applications, with drugstores offering ready-made bottles for about 50 cents.
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