Memorial Services Honor La Crosse Dead With Parade
La Crosse citizens. veterans and militia honored the nation’s dead with an all day program. Morning graveside decorum featured schoolchildren with flowers, taps and a benediction by Rev. Hoag. Colonel Bryant delivered a 45 minute address on immortal heroism at the Y M C A followed by a river bridge ceremony with flowers.
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la Crosse
Fie
John Wellington Hoag
First Baptist Church
S. S. Hebberds
Fourth Aid Park
Capt
Dalton
Dana
Third Regiment
Women’s Relief Corps
Mississippi River Wagon Bridge
Bijou vaudeville and local events fill city night
Bright vaudeville programs at the Bijou draw crowds with a dancing comedienne and a live show at popular prices. Dr O G Winters travels to the Twin Cities, while Congressman Esch returns from Madison to aid the Sparta monument unveiling. Memorial Day social nets funds for the West Avenue Lutheran church. Local police chief Byrne attends a national chiefs meeting. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea promotes health with 35 cent sales. Electric wiring by Colby noted at 605 Main.
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Hollister
Elizabeth Bush
Duluth
Minn
A. E. Bleekman
Warren J. Brayton
Minneapolis
Rocky Mountain
Ladies’ Society
West Avenue Lutheran Church
Cherry Sisters
Bankers’ Electric Protective Co
Batavian National Bank
Arthur C. Worth
Madison
H. H. Byrne
Washington, D. C
Crescents
Grove Street
Thomas Morris
Colby
la Crosse White Sox
Seventeenth and Vine Streets
Kitty Stevens
Bijou
Vaudevills Theatre
John J. Esch
Sparta
Wisconsin legislature nears end of long session
In Madison on May 31 the Wisconsin legislature fought to finish a protracted session. The mortgage tax bill delayed progress as lawmakers debated with a potential June 14 close. To force attendance, the assembly fined absent members, while a railroad rate commission bill moved toward passage and a gubernatorial action.
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Madison
Wis
Senate
Assembly
Railroad Rate Commission
Zimmerman the famous wire cutter captured at Julien IA
A notorious wire cutter Zimmerman, long hunted near La Crosse, was arrested at Julien Iowa by Sheriff Dunn after being spotted in Dubuque and later at a poor farm. He described his method of clipping telegraph wires and has strained several railroad lines. Special Detective Deneen will pursue evidence as companies seek his detention in an asylum or similar hold.
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la Crosse
Zimmerman
Dubuque
Julien
Iowa
Dunn
Bobonne
United States
Dave Hackett
Illinois Central Railroad
Illinois Central Road
Western Union Telegraph Company
Independence
Delaware County
Asbury
Deneen
Illinois Central Railway
Gray's Yerba Santa Promises Quick Cough Cure
An advertisement proclaims Gray's Yerba Santa cures all coughs quickly with a new treatment. It urges immediate use and notes availability in 450c or 1.00 bottles at Chas. Beyschlag's Drug Store, 503 Main St.
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Gray
Chas. Beyschlag
Main St
Prisoner Zimmerman States Wire Cutting Plans
Zimmerman, 37, born near Freeport Illinois, describes wire cutting operations in a calm manner and says he will act when the Illinois Central adopts its block system, aiming to cut a large wire and confront authorities.
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Anamosa
Zimmerman
Freeport
Ill
Illinois Central
CAS-KA advertised as blood remedy in La Crosse
In La Crosse alerts, CAS-KA is promoted as a cure for rheumatism and other ailments by claiming it cleanses blood and fixes stomach and kidney issues. Advertisers urge purchases at $1 per bottle, noting references from pharmacists and druggists and promising refunds if no relief is found. Saturday June ard marks a price cut to 35 cents per bottle or three for $1. Mail orders welcomed.
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America
la Crosse
Hoeschler Bros
State Board of Pharmacy
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
CASKA
CAS-KA Helped Workers at La Crosse Plow Co
A worker reports relief from throat clogging and catarrhal pain after using CAS-KA and requests three more bottles for himself and four or five colleagues at the La Crosse Plow Co. The note cites multiple colleagues also benefiting from the product.
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la Crosse Plow Co
Have You Seen Her Kitty Stevens At Bijou
Kitty Stevens stars at the Bijou theater this week with rapid changing costumes and dances from various countries. The act is praised as graceful and easy, marking her as a vaudeville standout as audiences crowd in despite megaphone competition. Also featured are The Two Lakotas, the American Japs, offering novelty juggling and acts not seen before in La Crosse.
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Kitty Stevens
Bijou
Miss Stevens
la Crosse
Victors Beat Little Giants 10 to 6 in Baseball Game
The Victors defeated the Little Giants by 10 to 6 with Otto Noffke and Geo Bet tin key players for the victors while Arthur Mitchell and Kirchies starred for the Little Giants. The Bijou vaudeville theatre offers the best of vaudeville at popular prices.
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Little Giants
Otto Noffke
Geo. Bettin
Arthur Mitchell
Kirchies
Wanted Stenographer Position Open in Tribune Ad
Classified notice seeking a competent stenographer, preferably female, with law background. Opportunity advertised in the Tribune, with response directed to “Y.”
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Tribune
Rheumatism relief claim from Chicago official
Henry Weyhrauch a car inspector at 932 Mississippi Street in Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway promotes Caska for rheumatism. He says after one week of use he is materially better and plans to give it to his family as spring medicine based on multiple endorsements.
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Henry Weyhrauch
Mississippi Street
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. P. Ry
CAS-KA Headache Cure Praised by Local Worker
Fred Tessman of 15090 Badger Street reports CAS-KA relieved his headache by curing the cause after trying many remedies. He notes others have been helped by CAS-KA and mentions employment at Segelke and Kohlhaus.
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Fred Tessman
Badger Street
Segelke
Kohlhaus
Cas-Ka
Plow fitter at La Crosse Plow Co
A workman from La Crosse Plow Co reports living at 940 Ferry Street. He recounts taking substantial medicine for catarrh and endorses CAS-KA as superior to others.
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la Crosse Plow Co
Ferry Street
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Ethel Scott
Colnnel
Benjamin F. Bryant
Bryant
City News
Will Powell
Maranos
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F. J. Macnett
MacMillan
Washington
J. J. Poehling & Co’s
Royal Soap CO
Cincinnati
J. J. Poehling & CO
Lasses
Lide
Havana
The
Adam E. Forschler
A. D. Colby
Sisic
Buou
Frank Kachel
Fielf
L. P. Cordell
the Tribune
Adam Schaaf Pianos
A. R Pianos
7Th St
Uhoff
Sam
Segelke & Kohlhaus
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