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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
3
The Tribune hails last night’s mass gathering as the most important civic event in La Crosse. Citizens endorsed the park commission plan for a city park system, signaling a unifying, forward stride for public thought and progress. The paper notes the meeting’s decisive impact on the city’s direction and promises fuller analysis later.
A Milwaukee Free Press editorial condemns Oregon Republicans for trying to repudiate a primary result that named Democrat George E. Chamberlain to the Senate. It accuses lawmakers of breaking pledges, seeks signatures to reverse the verdict, and mocks efforts as driven by political treachery and influence from saloons.
The text rails at alleged manipulation of Oregon elections and warns voters against robbing the state’s process. It links the issue to Senator Stephenson and a controversial Oregon Chamberlain affair, arguing the will of the people must prevail at the next election.
A letter to the editor urges the Union City Mission to become a permanent institution funded by ten volunteers at $100 each and citywide subscriptions. The writer cites past YMCA philanthropy, asks churches to appoint canvassing committees, and envisions a place for respectable men without homes to reform. The note, signed Catholic Non-Sectarian Christian, invokes Christian duty.
James Ten Eyck, famed oarsman and coach, trains E H Harriman's sons in rowing. He links success to form and recalls a tale of a handsome courtship ritual, ending with a quip about kissing the bride and a six bit price, per the Syracuse Herald.
A humorous exchange likens sermon content in stones to a weighty argument. Mrs Hoolihan questions the idea while O’Hoolihan suggests strong arguments can emerge from a brick, reflecting a playful Philadelphia Inquirer style.
Sigismund Goetz recounts painting a self portrait as a birthday surprise for his mother. A studio lapse left the work exposed and she immediately asked who the subject was. He confessed it was himself and she replied that he wasted his time on such uninteresting people, a rebuke he recalls with humorous restraint.
Mayor Speer of Denver comments on two political tricksters who exposed themselves. The anecdote recalls two men seeking sale of their bodies for dissection to a New York medical college owner. They claim starvation and long life left, asking price of $40 in Philadelphia and a different figure in New York.
SPOTLICHTS notes Eugene Walter's Paid in Full is a stark powerful drama about a vicious husband who sacrifices his wife to cover theft. The play speaks to harsh realities and is praised for its strong cast as it screens tonight at the La Crosse theater.
Israel Zangwill's The Melting Pot starring Walker White arrives in La Crosse straight from Chicago with the same cast. The piece presents America as a crucible where immigrants from many nations meld into a single citizen, focusing on Jewish arrival and assimilation.
The play Under Southern Skies by Lottie Blair Parker is presented in La Crosse on Sunday November 22. It portrays southern life with a 23 member cast, vivid stage settings, and a recreated Hallowe en celebration, reflecting facts from Parker's southern connections and its long road-show popularity.
A weary traveler in London at a crowded hotel is told a duke once slept there. He jokes perhaps it was the Duke of Wellington. The land lord retorts with pride that he was the Iron Duke. The exchange reflects witty digs on status and lodging.
Hugo Charteris confronts Mrs Giles after she wounds his pride and Joy with a chilling revelation. A fevered escape into the Forest ends with Hugo’s return to London vowing to marry Angela Tempest while Angela chases Parisian pleasures and the image of a signed Angelica Kauffman panel.
In Bichel v Oliver the Kansas Supreme Court enforced an oral agreement to convey land to a girl who joined the family, despite the husband transferring the property to a third party shortly before death. Court found no inequitable circumstances to prevent enforcement in equity.
Lilian Sraithwate Hill, noted writer of humorous ads, defends seriousness in ads at a haberdashers banquet in St Joseph. She ridicules a rival’s case, calling it confused and absurd, and cites a Milwaukee obituary quip about a wife named Gretchen to illustrate stubborn facts in dispute.
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