Tribune Want Ads dominate competitors in locating items
A Tribune Want Ad showcases rapid results while three other local papers fail to match it. A red leather index book lost between La Crosse Rubber Mills and Main Street was found by Mrs. E Woodard and returned to Wisconsin Light & Power. The ad asserts Tribune leads daily in responses with high success on lost found and purchase notices.
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Tribune
la Crosse Rubber Mills
Main Street
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co
Wisconsin Light & Power Co
Wisconsin Light & Power Company
E. Woodard
Woodstreet
Wisconsin Pearl Button Works
J. C. Huffman
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co
Wreck List Shows Need for Bulkhead Plan
Special dispatch from New York reports four million dollars in losses by marine underwriters this winter. The North Atlantic toll includes at least eighty five lives and fifty four ships sunk along the New England coast and Canadian Maritime provinces. The piece highlights the British King wreck near Sable Island with at least twenty dead and argues for power bulkhead doors to close watertight compartments quickly to prevent future losses.
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New Yorrk
North Atlantic
New England
Maritime Provinces
Canada
Sable Island
New York
Antwerp
Turbin
Clark’s Harbor
N. S
Lunenburg
Magdalen Islands
English Channel
Navy Department
United States
Healthy Plants and Hair Loss Cure Advertisement
An advertisement argues that neither good soil nor manure cures problems caused by a germ at the roots. It says to destroy the cause, not the effect, and promotes Newhero's Herpicide to prevent hair loss, claiming healthy hair results. It invites 10 cents in stamps for a sample from The Herpicide Co. Detroit Michigan.
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Newhero
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
Empty title not allowed
A fragmentary line hints at valuing many small efforts to accumulate yearly gains and surprise at total income. The reading suggests a proverb-like idea about cumulative small actions leading to larger annual outcomes.
La Follette’s rate bill oration praised by New York Journal
Illustrative of the impact of La Follette’s speech on the rate bill, Julian Hawthorne lauds his intellect and honesty while noting the minority size of his support. The piece recounts his firm challenge to Republican senators, the gallery reaction, and the Hepburn bill’s failure to empower railroad property appraisal.
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la Follette
New York Journal
Julian Hawthorne
Senate
Bess
Kean
Long
Mr. la Follette
Wireless towers on Mount Tamalpais promise world links
J Mayne Balti more writes in Technical World Magazine that two 300 foot wireless towers atop Mount Tamalpais will bind Pacific islands by electric signals. The towers built by Pacific Wireless Telegraph company rise 2900 feet above sea level, 2600 feet above sea level bases, with 5 600 000 volt currents able to throw a fifteen foot spark.
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Pacific
J. Mayne Baltimore
Technical World Magazine
California
Hawaii
Samoa
Japan
Philippines
Mount Tamalpais
Marin County
San Francisco
Pacific Wireless Telegraph Company
Tec Ocean
Minister Lost Lecture Outfit in San Francisco Earthquake
Berlin Wisconsin May 3 Word reaches that Rev C A Payne former pastor of the Congregational church here and long time assistant to Rev Judson Titsworth of Plymouth Congregational Milwaukee was in San Francisco when the earthquake struck He was uninjured but lost all apparatus and slides from lectures across the United States and on a Pacific coast tour His home is in Wauwatosa Preparations begin for a Sunday collection at the Congregational church where he preached eight years Berlin businessmen have started a fund for him.
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Berlin
Wis
C. A. Payne
Congregational Church
Judson Titsworth
Plymouth Congregational Church
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Payne
United States
Pacific Coast
Sandwich Islands
America
Mr. Payne
Wauwatosa
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Gordon Hat
Peter Newburg
George Powell
Sadie
the “Deutsche Verein
Milwaukee German Theater Co
Germania Hall
Die Herren Soehne
la Crosse
Wernicke
Wisconsin
Sehertz-Wiltz Printing Company
THE
Elliott-Loeffler Company
Pearl Street
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