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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1909
Page
2
An essay on American pride and freedom contrasts national strengths with a lack of deep personal friendship. It explores what makes a friend and cites Emerson and the biblical pairing of Jonathan and David to illustrate genuine soul-to-soul connection. It laments the rarity of lasting, selfless, truthful friendship.
The speaker notes a hurry in business politics pleasures and religion, warm to a man briefly and move on, admiring talents and generosity but lacking time for lasting friendships. He suggests this could be a future national attainment.
Milwaukee papers report Senator Morris of La Crosse refuting party leaders and announcing his Republican bid for governor. The talk of a split in the Progressive camp sparks a free-for-all outlook as Morris asserts independence and readiness to run.
The text notes Leon Czolgosz, brother of the McKinley assassin, asking to be jailed in Los Angeles during President Taft's visit, amid a citywide shadowing. It also comments on a baseball umpire’s evolution into an autocratic figure, likening him to Speaker Cannon with fines of 25 to 50 dollars.
University students oppose changes to hazing rules and methods as campus hay sack rushing evokes memories of summer spent in western hay fields.
A playful note suggests Commander Peary should look to the South Pole for more room, while Dr Cook promotes a busy North Pole venue. The remark frames exploration as a crowd friendly event with polar humor.
The eastern hurricane has hit the United States. Col. Roosevelt has just finished reading President Taft's tariff speech at Winona, according to those who know.
Congress revised tariff laws in the last session and now assigns the task of further revision to the people. The statement emphasizes citizen participation in shaping trade policy and governance.
A humorous exchange in which a newlywed asks to cook pheasants for Saturday and clarifies her joke about bird parts. The mistress questions the phrasing while the servant explains some folks prefer the birds stale.
A reflective note warns against harming another’s reputation and asserts that pressure or coercion in romance betrays self-respect. It suggests a girl resists unwelcome advances because she believes the man will override her consent anyway.
A home remedy claims to breakup the severest cold within a day and cure coughs with a mixture of concentrated pine, glycerine, and whiskey. Doses are a teaspoon to a tablespoon every four hours, recommended by a noted medical authority. Local druggists endorse its potential for throat and lung diseases. ingredients sold at any drug store.
A Chicago D D D Laboratories eczema remedy is offered in a special trial bottle at one quarter price. The oil of wintergreen formula promises instant itch relief and inner skin penetration unlike salves, with a 25 cent trial bottle available at Hoeschler Bros.
Spotlight reviews praise the Grace Hayward company for a clever St Elmo production at La Crosse theater. The four act play preserves the novel’s threads with careful staging and impressive scenery and electrical effects. Audiences filled the house yesterday. tonight marks the final showing of the engagement.
Glen MacDonough's lyrics and dialogue for Babes in Toyland set to Victor Herbert music have been praised as a supreme musical success. The show with fifty artists and extensive equipment will appear at La Crosse theater on Tuesday October 19 attracting families with a light hearted spectacle.
K Acino a Japanese astronomy professor arrived in San Francisco aboard the Chi yo Maru to study U S observatories. He will assess equipment including large telescopes for Japan and may buy instruments after evaluating American lenses. Mars proximity motivates Japan to expand its astronomical research.
A poem from the New York World extols tinkering and risk as it sketches a makeshift air scheme. It humorously stacks odds with lumber, canvas, luck, and nerve, urging fame through a first flight and urging persistence to fly again if the initial attempt fails.
He Bit Ex-Police Commissioner Bingham of New York cited graft at a dinner, recounting a story of an old fel low tampering with church collections and a deacon buying a horse with ill gotten gains, questioning the sin of taking enough to buy a horse.
A Kansas City Journal snippet shows a wary suburbanite asking about a garden. The other speaker replies out of politeness that perhaps a promised batch of vegetables is due, highlighting social games around neighbors and cultivation.
Old friends recall Archbishop Ryan's kindness to children during his twenty-fifth anniversary as Philadelphia archbishop. A playful episode shows him lifting a boy to reach a door bell, then the boy darting away with the quip Run like the devil, mister. I was playing tricks.
A mother tells her three year old son Lewis he is made of sugar. He then tells a little colored companion, It am made of white sugar and you are made of brown sugar, provoking a gentle moment noted in The Delineator.
Public knowledge of many stage figures grew from patent medicine advertisements. The ads linked performers to cures and sensational claims, boosting fame and audience appeal.
Mrs. Calvin Jones of Dexter Texas reports severe dizziness and fainting eased after using Cardui. She says relief came after several bottles and now assists with housework. Cardui is described as a gentle tonic for female health and does not interfere with other medicines. Instructions from Chattanooga Medicine Co. offered.
Ardmore visits Miss Dangerfield in Raleigh to meet her, denies pursuing her father, and reveals a warning about Appleweight. The two clash over truth, then Ida Dangerfield reads a pamphlet about a danger, jokes about the jug mystery, and Ardmore hastily departs.
Louis Boon of Norway Michigan testifies that Foley's Honey and Tar cured his boy's severe cough and a neighbor's boy, once given up by doctors, was cured as well. O T Erhart endorses the product as safe and certain.
An Atlantic City hotel scene shows Andrew Carnegie praised for piety and charity. A Pittsburgh clergyman recalls Carnegie trying to pray extempore during a weekday service, then slipping away quietly as everyone bowed their heads.
A teacher in a Sunday class quoted the Deluge saying it rained for forty days and nights. A boy asked if the farmers were satisfied then, reflecting on the flood's impact in a brief Tit-Bits moment.
Kill the dandruff germ to stop dandruff and promote hair growth. Newbro's Herpicide claims to destroy dandruff while serving as a hair dressing. Sold by leading drug gists with samples available from The Herpicide Co Detroit Michigan and Hoeschler Bros as agents.
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