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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1909
Page
7
Elsie Griggs fourteen, missing from Clyde Ohio, left with Cecil Mears fifteen. A letter to her parents explained the elopement to Windsor Ontario where the couple now resides with Mears employed in Detroit. Parental forgiveness has been granted.
A moral note asserts that marriage tests kindness. if the wife cannot show more patience five years after the wedding, the husband must. The remark frames patience as the pivotal virtue sustaining the union.
Louis Berg aged 65, a laborer, lay down with a burning dynamite fuse under his neck in a Glencoe quarry. The blast mangled his body. an employee heard the explosion and found the corpse. A coroner’s inquest was planned for the following day.
A lively exchange discusses taxing luxuries and raises the idea of a tax on bachelors. The dialogue contrasts a broad luxury tax with a targeted levy on single men as a provocative policy thought.
Frank Delire a Platte business man searched through debris behind his store after a dream led him to a diamond swept into a barrel. He admitted skepticism but followed the vision and recovered the valuable gem from the sweepings.
In Madison Wisconsin on May 22 it is reported no oil inspection bill will pass this session to raise Ed Tracy’s salary. The joint committee is expected to vote against the measure despite chief inspector Tracy’s efforts for a favorable report.
A patient describes long struggle with eczema misdiagnosed as ringworm, failing treatments until Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent cured the disease. Recommends Cuticura for skin injuries and as a family staple, with address and price list for the remedies.
On Friday an application was filed to admit the estate of Martin Olson Vig to probate and appoint an administrator. The estate is valued at just over $1,500, including a life insurance policy. The petition was filed by Ole Fredrickson of Pigeon Trempealeau County, a nephew of the deceased.
A Minnesota track meet invites only bonafide physical wrecks with a special committee screening entrants. Seniors only may compete, previous training bars participation, and smokers receive tobacco to smoke a pipe between events. Leather medals go to first-place finishers, and the poorest senior is deemed the best physical wreck.
An advertisement in Everybody's Magazine promotes the Bradstreet System offering six weeks of home based sales training and a path to traveling salesman positions with annual incomes from two to ten thousand dollars. It claims shirts in prosperity will increase demand for trained salespeople and offers a free book by the president.
A military reshuffle places General Wood in line to replace General Bell. The scene includes distractions and appeals to morale as officials announce the transition and urge focus on duties ahead.
Washington dispatch notes major changes in the army over the next year. Major General Leonard Wood, commanding the east department at Governors Island, is slated to become chief of staff, succeeding J Franklin Bell who will stay a few months before transfer to Manila to command Philippine troops.
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