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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1908
Page
7
A playful note from THREE TWINS invites readers to solve a paradox about how three twins could exist and how many guests would dine if six twins came. Jerome offers a stake on the correct answer as seats go on sale Friday for the Saturday matinee and evening shows.
Yeggmen dynamited the Hubbell post office seven miles from Calumet on November 4. About five hundred dollars in stamps and papers were stolen. registered mail was rifled but valuables remained.
Florence Roberts headlines the La Crosse theater Friday November 6 in The House of Bondage. She plays the wife of an English peer amid a web of charity and medicine as a surgeon operates on her husband. Other principals include Arthur Forrest Thurlow Bergen and Harry Gibbs with Ann Warrington and Mary Bertrand. Seats go on sale tomorrow.
The Follies of 1907 premieres Thursday featuring Harry B. Smith’s book and lyrics by leading era composers. Satire targets contemporary fads and foibles with a chorus of notable figures contributing tunes and verses.
The Chicago stage debuts A Stubborn Cinderella by Hough Adams and Howard as the season’s opener. With a $75 000 investment, the show features fifty show girls and a strong male chorus. Leading cast includes Homer B. Mason as Mac and Grace Edmond as Lady Leslie, with a campus Columbus University setting and a westward railway wreck plot leading to a Coronado beach finale. The production runs for a year at the Princess, following an opening night tonight.
Hayward Wisconsin officials report the vicinity has been chosen for a state agricultural experiment station. A University of Wisconsin soils department official will visit soon to select a site, a process studied since August.
Superior, Wis. The Lake Nebagamon Ice company was found guilty and sentenced to pay a $25 fine or imprisonment in the workhouse until paid, not to exceed six months. It marks the first corporation sentenced to the Douglas county workhouse, though jail time is unlikely because the fine can be collected by writ of execution against property.
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