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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
10
An advertisement extols Make-Man Tablets as a safe tonic for nervous exhaustion insomnia and multiple ailments. It claims rapid, strong effects for weariness irritability and general vitality with a money back guarantee and nationwide mail order at five cents per box, six for two fifty.
A pharmacist provides a box offer for Make-Man Tablets with a request for 4 cents to cover mailing, includes name and address, insists on one box per family and asks for plain writing.
Eleven churches in the La Crosse Valley Baptists' association join a rally at First Baptist church this afternoon and evening. Program includes levotional at 2:30, welcome by Rev. J E Ayscue, address by J F Breen of Kendall, reports by societies, talks by N F Clark of Appleton, model devotional at 7:30, address by Dr L W Hulbert of Wauwatosa, and social time at 9:30.
Miss Lucy Helen Pierson is the state secretary and will attend the vesper service at the YWCA Sunday from 4 to 5 PM. A vesper tea follows from 5 to 6 30 PM for members to meet her, then the quartette meets. The YWCA plans a bazaar of the seven ages on December 10.
The legislative committee on good roads chaired by Assemblyman Jones will meet at the La Crosse court house on October 29 to hear local arguments for and against good roads.
A man spends so much time using his friends that he has no time to study them. The remark underscores a social dynamic where reliance on peers overrides personal reflection and learning.
A home remedy promises to restore vigor and alleviate nervous exhaustion in men misusing vitality. The formula blends fluids and syrups, recommending a fifty cent balmwort, sarsaparilla compound, cardiol essence, and endomene tincture, mixed and taken after meals.
Charles Schroeder, 58, died in Milwaukee hospital after his limbs were torn by a Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul locomotive in Muskego avenue yards. He was on a switch engine pilot helping compose a train when he fell onto the tracks. His wife and three children were at his bedside.
Milwaukee reports a forger using the name J. H. Bradley passes worthless checks drawn on R. J. Bennett & Co believed to be a non existent Alton Illinois lumber firm. Hotels in Monroe and Brodhead have cashed such checks. Suspect is about 50, 5 feet 9, 175 pounds with enlarged finger joints.
A. W. Stark proprietor of the Plankinton house barber shop was arrested after a federal grand jury indictment charging possession and intent to pass a counterfeit $2 bill. He was released on $2,000 bond for an alleged May 26 offense.
Lee Kruger awaiting burglary trial escaped from Waupun jail by breaking a 15 inch brick wall. Four other prisoners were stopped by the sheriff’s daughter who raised alarm and alerted deputies, preventing a wider breakout. Krieger’s exact method remains unknown.
George P. Bartlett, secretary of the Wisconsin Bankers Association, believes a new gang of bank safe blowers is active in Wisconsin. He links the Athens Downing Waterford cases and the Minocqua robbery, and awaits detailed vault-wrecking data to confirm if the same group is responsible. A detective with the Interstate Bankers Association in Minneapolis is reportedly gathering information.
In Minneapolis a mob of 125 prominent residents visited Madison Jackson’s home on Hamline Avenue and read a proclamation declaring colored residents unwelcome. The incident followed colorist tensions after W H Simpson bought land on Milburn Avenue and began building, prompting a mass meeting and anti colored resolutions. Jackson and his family are in Washington DC while Simpson occupies the house.
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