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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1913
Page
4
Tomah Wisconsin notes the Junior Prom will be held Friday night at the Armory with decorations in school colors white and gold and class colors blue and white in the dining room. Committees strive to make the event a success as students prepare for the annual dance and social gathering in town.
An ad asserts Caloride compound soaks feet in warm water for fifteen minutes to relieve soreness and remove corns callouses instantly. Claims include curing bunions sweaty smelly feet and other foot ailments with Calocide compound sold in 25 cent boxes available via druggists or wholesalers.
Madison May 2 Special All railroad trains in Wisconsin would be required to carry medical supplies in case of accident under a bill by Assemblyman Peter J Murphy. The measure calls for a box in each car with bandages gauze and medicated cotton. The committee also backed bills to empower the railroad commission to regulate dangerous crossings and stock and bond reporting plus two Teasdale measures on enforcement of commission orders.
Milwaukee on May 1 sees about twenty thousand families changing abodes, signaling a spring population shift per the movers handling household goods. The jumble of snippets reflects various city life quirks and quips from conversations, prayers, and light essays.
A Washington Star item notes the postman rarely stops when a check is expected and often stops for a bill. It urges skepticism toward received information, advising to believe only half of what is heard and to forget most of it. The piece ends with musings on fame and the crowded arena of memory.
An advertisement extols Gold Dust as a vegetable oil powdered soap that cleans clothes quickly with less elbow grease. It claims heavy water softening, compatibility with any water, and back-saving convenience versus Good soap.
Madison Wis May 2 Hearing on the heavy bill creating a state department of health was postponed till Tuesday as neither side was ready to argue. State board of health oppose bill with W F Whyte C A Harper L E H Spencer present F O Phelps Milwaukee opposes. Assemblyman Peavy says many physicians will urge the reorganization next Tuesday. The bill enlarges board personnel and renames it the state department of health.
Joseph E. Davies of Wisconsin was formally named commissioner of corporations by President Wilson on May 2. The appointment was semi-officially announced several days earlier.
The Very Rev Lawrence Vorwoerk, a Capuchin founder and two term guardian at Mount Calvary Monastery, was buried at Mount Calvary cemetery in Fond du Lac after dying in Detroit last Friday at age 71.
In Waukesha Wisconsin the case of Zachariah Williams versus Rev R J Willims and ten others will be heard by Court Commissioner A J Dep next Saturday. The dispute centers on whether plaintiffs must abandon the old Jerusgem church near Wales to worship in a new Wales church. An injunction issued two weeks ago barred interference with services in the old church. Plaintiffs are represented by Tyler and Looney. defendants by Frame Blackstone and V Heichenor.
Congress man John J. Esch has accepted an invitation to be the speaker of the day at Milwaukee memorial celebrations this year. A telegram from Im was received by W L Pieplow. The committee including Pieplow Dammann Hannan Czwerinski and Lan ter will meet again soon to finalize the program.
A reflective meditation on ambition and love, praising the heaven sent blessing of a good woman’s love as a counter to greed. The reader is urged to consider two worth while things, ambition and love, entwined in life.
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