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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1908
Page
10
An authority urges drinking plenty of water to prevent kidney bladder disease and rheumatism. He recommends a home remedy with Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, taken after meals and at night, plus ample water.
Anthony Prohosky wins a district court injunction restraining Dr. F N Whittaker and others from shooting over his land at Ten Mile Lake. Prohosky alleges shots from Whittaker’s duck pass fall on his home, creating danger. Judge Baxter grants a temporary injunction and will rule on permanence.
Winnipeg reports Detroit author James Oliver Curwood, who ventured into the Hudson Bay wilds for a Detroit publishing house, has been killed by Lac La Ronge Indians. The tribes claim the white man opened fire wounding one of their men. Mounted Police are investigating and will report soon.
Mela Castro, brother of Venezuela's president, reaches New York reportedly to enlist artillerymen for Venezuela's coast defenses. He says he will tour the world and then proceed to Paris.
A Tatler quip contrasts a worker’s cautious refrain about smoking in a lift with a wry joke about a bloomin lung developer. It ends with a moral line: the great life will fall yet avoid failure while the meek inherit the earth but the mortgage is held by another.
Minnesota and Northwest migrants face harsh conditions at Dallas shelters. About 1,000 home seekers struggle for beds as ground remains unusable, forcing many to sleep on the ground or in other improvised spaces. Washing faces costs ten cents, highlighting scarce amenities.
In Dallas 8S D Oct 14 a giant tent town houses about 1000 homeseekers with many sleeping on ground or sidewalks. Cot rental 50 cents and water 10 cents. Vendors profit from sandwiches and coffee. There are 128 notaries in the boom town, with barkers courting buyers and low cost abstracts. The hotel tent is split by gender into three sections, with partitions barely blocking sight and sound. Official registration hits 71 000.
In Jamestown North Dakota on October 14 section men found three men hiding in weeds near Lucca. A hidden safes cracking outfit nitro glycerine dynamite flashlights jimmies and rifles were seized. Suspects tied to last October Lucca bank robbery. Investigators link the suspects to the recent hold up in Carey.
Relief work for North shore fire victims moves slowly amid building delays and dwindling winter supplies. Fifteen houses rise at Chisholm while remote districts await lake navigation shipments. Savvy locals report ongoing needs for houses and furniture as communities brace for cold months.
In Grand Forks on October 14 a conference between colored Bemidji attorney O W Schrutchin and John Henry, who killed Mrs Ellen Fulton, led to Henry likely entering a not guilty plea with insanity as his defense in December district court. Schrutchin returns to Bemidji and resumes talks Friday. Henry hopes to win life imprisonment or acquittal.
Otto Willert was loading shale when a shale pit near Auburn collapsed, dumping about fifty loads of earth. He was dug out before suffocation but suffered both legs broken in multiple places and serious injuries.
Characters Tubbs and Tootle discuss someone named Rara checking the enemy as Tubbs notes she is in bed after a late night, inviting an old man inside for a final chat.
Arthur G. Rankin star football player at Shattuck School died of pneumonia in Faribault Minnesota after breast injury in a game a week earlier. Rankin from North Yakima Washington was a popular athlete on football basketball and track squads. He was regarded as one of the school’s best football players.
Gov Burke names Miss Mary Benton of Fargo to christen the battleship North Dakota at Quincy Massachusetts on November 16. Mrs Alice Nelson Page society editor of the Grand Forks Herald named as chaperon for Miss Benton.
Fort Dodge Iowa October 14 Will Powers aged thirty of Boone a Fort Dodge Des Moines Southern brakeman fell from a train The cars passed over him mangling his left arm and inflicting a large scalp wound and other injuries Chances for recovery are small
John Shea, a once prosperous farmer, has been arrested sixty one times since June 1 1902 for intoxication. The cause is said to be white lime he drinks by the pint. He is described as harmless though plagued by family troubles. For all arrests he has received a total sentence of 530 days in the county jail.
Sixty thousand unemployed demonstrators surged through central London near Parliament shouting threats against police and demanding redress of grievances. The crowd pressed forward toward lawmakers, while authorities fought to restrain the mob amid tense clashes.
A New York man recounts indigestion relief after trying Grape-Nuts with cream for two weeks. He reports acid stomach vanished, digestion improved, and appetite returning for lunch, crediting the Postum Co. endorsement and the slogan There’s a Reason.
Walter Emmet, a comic opera singer, was arrested in Minneapolis after trying to trap his wife with an obscene letter mailed in her name. Detectives say he learned what constituted obscene mail in St. Paul and sent a letter to himself, then confessed when pressed during the arrest. The case rests with St. Paul postal authorities.
Game wardens stopped a power launch on Chetek lake and arrested George Slawson J E Walker Frank Holmes W D Fossett and William Campbell for shooting ducks from a launch. Their weapons and game were confiscated.
Cumberland Wis. Gustave Helbig, a prominent farmer southwest of town, was seriously injured when his wagon horses bolted toward an approaching car. He attempted to hold the bit and was trampled, the wagon passing over him breaking his leg in two places and causing serious internal injuries. Faribault Minn. A Rock Island train struck a threshing outfit three miles north of town. The engine stalled. the crew could not stop the train. The threshing unit was demolished but no one was hurt. the engineer jumped clear. Arlington S D Rev C G Flanagan resigns Baptist pastorate to join Y M C A work. Rev Pierre Danis named successor.
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