Early Motorboat Pleasure Era Faces Growth in La Crosse
The piece notes La Crosse’s budding motorboat enjoyment with plans for clubhouses, wharves, picnics and better fishing, while criticizing federal fishing restrictions as political. It then surveys public utility woes, focusing on streetcar valuations, taxation, and the conflict between earnings, investment, and rate setting, questioning fair valuation and franchise considerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Harry
State Railway Commission
Tom” Morris
Simple Blouse Design With Center Front and Kimono Sleeves
Fashion notes describe a versatile blouse pattern featuring a center front vest like panel, invisible left front closing, and optional kimono sleeves. Illustrated with soutache braid and porcelain blue banding on white, the design suits lawn, batiste, or linen and adapts to odd waists and gowns. Pattern 5998 covers sizes 32 to 42 inch bust and costs ten cents plus optional extra stamp for mail delivery.
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Fashion Department
Motorboat Edition highlights La Crosse launch history
The Tribune presents a Motorboat Number detailing the evolution of launches, distinguishing pleasure and speed boats, and showcasing representative craft. It features the motor boat club with officers, growth under their guidance, and future development. A valued currents table by Capt. W. A. Thompson adds authority for enthusiasts.
Campaign publicity bill support and party dynamics
The public hears Mr Taft and Mr Bryan claim support for the campaign publicity bill with Bryan stating Democrats in Congress will back it. The outcome hinges on whether Republicans align as Taft seeks. Also noted is Hetty Green’s extravagant dinner after decades of penny‑pinching.
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Mr. Taft
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Congress
Mystery Sky Trail Signals Retreating Weather
A fleeting streak across the sky sparks speculation that worsening weather is subsiding. Observers note the arc as a possible sign of clearing conditions, with officials urging patience for a definitive forecast.
Ugliness as a Cult Threatening Art and Morality
The Edinburgh Review laments a rising cult of ugliness spreading through literature and fashionable portraiture from Sargent onward. It warns that beauty fidelity fuels art for good while ugliness marks the first step toward decadence, shameless taste, and eventual immorality.
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Edinburgh Review
Sargent
The Nude in Art
A short essay argues that morality tied to nudity is historically variable, noting that clothing creates vice and that a naked race would lack such vices. It contrasts societies that fear nudity with those that suppress women’s faces yet remain highly sensual. It reflects on moral standards across generations.
OUR SOUTH AMERICAN NEIGHBORS
Washington Herald discusses improving understanding of South American nations south of the United States. It notes Roosevelt's forecast of rapid regional development from the Rio Grande to Patagonia, with political stabilization, growing cities, expanding railroads, and flourishing agriculture and industry.
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Washington Herald
Roosevelt
Rio Grande
Patagonia
Jester seeks rest but stays the royal fool
A jester pleads to be released from service to seek new pastures, but the King and court laugh at the request. The jester is escorted away yet remains the monarchs jester. Moral: it can be harder to shed a reputation than to gain one. The tale ends with a secondary line on prudish behavior related to a girl who knows too much.
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Provence
Robert H. Hardy
Lippincott’s
Farewell to the old derby in a playful goodbye
A Richmond Times Dispatch quip bids farewell to a worn derby hat worn since 1899. The speaker recalls its faithful service through winds and travels, noting fond memories and promising reunion next fall as the hat is replaced by a straw.
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Derby
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Belgrade intrigues and a child’s death shock Rolfe
Charlie Rolfe probes Belgrade’s intrigue after Sir Charles hints at a plot tying a bomb blast to a doctor’s disappearance. The assassin is imprisoned in a fortress while a hidden mastermind evades exposure, and Rolfe contemplates who benefited from the tragedy and the political dangers surrounding King Peter’s Serbia.
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East
Charlie Rolfe
Sir Charles
Topschieder
Rolfe
Valjevo
Danube
Servia
Peter
Belgrade
Kalamegéadan Carden
Annabel and Arthur Debate Love Amid Yard Carpets Scene
Annabel asks if he loves her. Arthur replies yes, noting he saw her beating carpets in the yard with her hair tied in a towel and still wants to marry her.
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Annabel
Arthur
Optimists Club House on Clark Street Described
A New Yorker back from Chicago reports a sad scene beneath a lake view on Clark Street. A large old fashioned house bears the inscription Optimists Club above its front door, while placards reading To Let signal hard times.
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Chicago
Lake Front
Clark Street
Optimists Club
The
Times
Harper’s Weekly
Cat funeral tale and a musical aside
A four year old Billy Martin bursts with ecstasy at a plan for a funeral for a dead cat found by Louise and Carberry. After permission, Billy returns to report the funeral did not occur because the cat was too dead, prompting a quip about a haunting tune. The exchange appears in Success Magazine and Smart T.
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Billy Martin
Louise
Carberry
Billy
Success Magazine
Cure for a Woman’s Severest Skin Ailments with Cuticura
Laura Jane Bates describes using Cuticura to treat a young woman with scabies paresis rheumatism and severe skin sores. After six weeks of baths with Cuticura Soap and Resolvent the patient regained strength and secured employment. Bates endorses Cuticura products and offers credentials from 1907.
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Laura Jane _ Bates
Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
Potter Drug & Chem
Sole Props
Boston
Mass
Cuticura
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