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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1908
Page
3
In La Crosse a large rally is planned to boost baseball and local politics. Fans are urged to attend the game and turnout to support the iron freeport team Hawley and the Colts, with emphasis on pennant dreams, public duty, and November elections.
La Crosse theater hosts The Wolf by Eugene Walter with a dramatic plot set in Hudson Bay and a twin hero conflict. The program features Miss Cecil Jefferson, Froste and Veryman, and Mr. O’Brien with strong music acts, plus new stage design and reserved seating at Young’s Drug Store for 190 Main and 3rd.
A humorous dialogue centers on Malindy and Mr Jones as she teases him about marriage and laundry prowess. The scene unfolds with playful dialect, flirtation, and a proposed match tied to a license while Malindy asserts pride in her work as “the best washer in this town.”
Vida uses a telescope to spy on Phil Cal and James Kahn below. She notices Phil kissing a yellow flower and placing it in his breast pocket while a tense discussion unfolds between Phil and Kahn about factions and motives.
A Spring Garden Street family famed in Catholic circles spent winter in Rome sending rural daughters to school. Back in Philadelphia they hosted Vatican dignitaries and faced a mortifying moment when the three blond daughters refused to greet their father’s guests. The piece weaves in jokes about heaven and a gallery heckler, ending with a quip about Mary the charwoman’s eye injury and marriage.
Colsin Albert Halstead notes that Birmingham city gas committee recommends a price cut. Cash buyers under 30 200 cubic feet quarterly pay about 53 cents per 1000, power purchases around 36 cents. There are 57 000 automatic meters in use and 42 090 cooking stoves issued for consumers.
A long advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a pure non alcoholic remedy made from native forest roots. It says the formula is sworn to, promises blood purification and relief from catarrhal head and throat conditions, weak stomach, torpid liver, bronchial issues, lingering coughs, and warns it is not a miracle cure and patience is needed before results appear.
Vida witnesses a man aiming a gun at Phil from behind a crumbling dyke while two men stroll nearby. Phil is killed. Vida flees in panic as the killers vanish. James Kahn appears steady as trouble closes, and Vida confesses all to him, while Phil’s killer is left at large.
A fragment describes a boy under ten who handles money lessons through small change and fines for minor car damages. The story notes his thrift, discipline, and humorous yet pointed attempt to teach the value of money by insisting on payment for luxuries.
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