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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1920
Page
8
Gloucester Mass. Esperanto sails for Halifax to meet Canadian Del awanna in a North Atlantic championship race. Crowds line the wharves as Captain Welsh leads toward a 50 mile course with hopes of winning and a nod from Senator Harding.
Earl Hirshheimer failed to win a varsity golf squad spot during last week's tryouts at Maple Leaf Country Club amid poor course conditions. University figures John Dickens and WWina Palacheck from La Crosse attended a Square Club dance at Burk Hotel, while WE Walker announced departure from advertising instructor post in commerce. John Gordon McKay of economics returned to Alma due to his mother's illness as Ralph Immell Blair spoke in Janesville on campus issues. Otto Endres led Madison to a 6 0 win over Racine at Camp Rumball. Madison dominated the game, with Ked Madison and Harris Racine's key players.
The report covers a U S ambassadorship appointment in Rome, an amateur hockey circuit in the northeast, a speed skating championship won by George L. Hossfeld of Paterson New Jersey, a coroner report blaming two and a rail official for a New York Central wreck with seven dead, Canadian provinces voting on liquor import bans, a Salt Lake City linotype world record, and Spokane notes on birch grassCanadian whiskey prices.
One million weddings were celebrated in 1919 and only 70,000 new homes were erected. I Roger AliWer of Macon Georgia told the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries that housing must be treated as a national problem. He cited 1918 as 20,000 homes built and urged a demand for 1,250,000 dwellings in 1919, arguing ownership reduces radicalism and stabilizes society.
Madison Wisconsin reports an unprecedented warm autumn with a sixty year record for high temperatures. The mild weather boosts harvests but delays winter clothing sales, while economists note mixed effects on business. A Chicago note mentions an Army balloon race entry landing near Charlotte Michigan.
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