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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1909
Page
4
In a small Kansas town a girl has seven engagements and neighbors adopt the motto Present company always accepted as a playful local refrain per the Kansas City Journal.
Detroit and Pittsburg battled to a great tie with three injuries in the closing inning. Tom Jones suffered a spinal injury but later attended a hotel meeting. Abstein and Schmidt bled while Wagner, Delehanty and Cobb led hitters and steals as Detroit braces for the deciding game tomorrow.
City plans major sewer expansion with estimated costs of 100000 this year 90000 next year and 120000 the following year. Projects include connecting the high school and normal school via smaller laterals and extending the Mississippi street sewer to Seventeenth and La Crosse streets. About twelve miles of work expected.
Chronic indigestion sufferers are urged to try Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin which digests food when the stomach cannot. The ad praises laxative digestive toning properties and cites testimonials from Frank Connor of Madison Wisconsin and Mrs Cunningham of Weir Mississippi. Readers may request a free sample by sending name and address to Dr W B Caldwell Monticello Illinois.
YES CHICAGO. Mary R. Macarthur, the British representative, was the most active delegate at the convention. She is described as a brilliant speaker with magnetic force and a strong personality, qualities that, with her wide experience, make her a major factor in uplifting women laborers.
A humorous verse presented to The Tribune portrays a telephone operator as listening to gossip and news from all around. The poem notes she knows which women chase boys, couples in distress, and each man’s mischief while remaining an observer of town whispers.
A playful caution about a telephone girl whose secrets could destabilize friendships and marriages. The verse imagines how a single whispered tale might unleash trouble, cause divorces, and stir church factions, turning friends into foes.
Mrs. Charles E. Miller of Wilmington Ohio reports eight years of dizziness heart palpitations and weakness followed by recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She says four boxes restored strength eliminated melancholy and restored daily life. The pills also claim to cure anemia rheumatism after effects of flu and nervous disorders. Free booklet Plain Talks to Women offered. Price 50 cents a box six for 2 50 from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
The verse hints at a tele phone girl who could stir the town with a tenth of the scandal she knows. It laments reverberating sorrow and warns of the consequences of lies told by or about the girl, suggesting social tensions and gossip.
J Anderson burial duties called by Mesdames Peter and Oscar Peter son in Beaver Creek. Byron Moore recovering from illness. Mr and Mrs J E Blankley with daughter Mrs H Richardson and family move to Spokane for new farm. Norwegian church youth society held a basket social. Hunters take many ducks as lakes freeze. Kraut and pickles being prepared at Pickle and Canning. Agricultural school opens with 117 on first day, 147 enrolled. Stella Keizer to return to Minneapolis soon. Moonlight Dancing Club to host social with Rick's orchestra on Friday night.
In Viroqua Wisconsin on October 15 the Entre Nous Club was formed with about nineteen members all teachers or former teachers. Miss Tilda Omundson will lead until Christmas as the group studies Julius Caesar and holds its first meeting tonight. Also noted are illness of Geo Gulbrandson and business trips by Stephen Minshall. Marriage licenses issued to W Lloyd Bolen Franklin and Gertrude Burcham Webster and to William Thomas and Betta Rane.
Kin of Forest along with Paul Lawrence and Leona Grill of Viroqua and P. L. Porton with Rhoda Nei of Franklin appear in the readable fragment.
President James T. Day of the Board of Public Works reports the La Crosse common council has less than 400 dollars left of a 1500 dollar appropriation for street sweeping. He says bills are due and streets will be swept twice a week until the balance is expended.
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