Schools Reopen After Vacation in La Crosse
The La Crosse school system reports larger enrollment this year with several hundred students starting classes and new night school programs to expand instruction. Night classes run October 1 to May end under the industrial school board with courses in sewing, cooking, shop work, English for foreigners, shorthand, and bookkeeping. Teachers have returned from break and are ready to begin.
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W. Shakespeare
la Crosse
Board of Education
Industrial School Board
City Board of Education
L. P. Benezet
Unsettled Weather and Record Highs Across Plains
Yesterday’s maps show highs near 100 in Huron and 98 in La Crosse and Dubuque with 96 in St. Paul. Forecasts warn of showers tonight or Wednesday, cooler conditions, and moderate winds from Minnesota to Wisconsin as Dakotas storms drift east. River stages indicate a slight drop in the next 48 hours.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakotas
Lake District
Plains States
Manitoba
Huron
Sioux City
Salt Lake City
Plains
Central States
Dubuque
St. Paul
Montana
Atlantic
Gulf States
British Columbia
Plateau
Pr. du Chien
St. Louis
California Alien Land Law Declared Void at Meeting
Frank B Kellogg, president of the American Bar Association, announced that federal jurisdiction via the constitution voids California’s anti alien land law. He argued treaties regulate foreign citizens rights to own enter business and inherit property, and urged legislation to punish treaty rights violations.
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Montreal
California
Frank B. Kellogg
American Bar Association
Japan
Commonwealth
Record Crowd At Minnesota State Fair Sets Attendance
A sun baked day saw 139000 attendees at the Minnesota State fair. Four people were overcome by heat as temperatures neared 96.2 degrees. Equal Suffrage activists conducted daily meetings amid the crowds promoting their cause.
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ST Paul
Minnesota
Equal Suffrage Association
Tax reassessment starts here today
Assessors P. J. McCauley and Edward Sheridan began the city’s official tax reassessment and apportionment this morning under council authorization. The process aims to update an inequitable basis, with McCauley noting the work will take most of the year and that the resulting rolls will be absolutely perfect.
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P. J. McCauley
Edward Sheridan
McCauley
McC
Fireman Catches Fire in Chicago Brewery Coopers Fire
Fireman Michael Doherty was trapped under a falling roof and badly injured during a blaze at the Northwestern brewery cooperage in Chicago after a wall caught fire.
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Chicago
Michael Doherty
Northwestern
Labor Day Picnic Draws Thousands in La Crosse
The La Crosse Trades and Labor council organized a Labor Day picnic with about 4 000 attendees at Shooting Park. Printers beat Battlers 6 to 2 in a key baseball game amid races for youths and adults and various amusements, with no speeches this year.
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la Crosse
Copeland Park
Ori J. Sorensen
Pettibone Park
Trades and Labor Council
Bank Officer Vanishes After $25,000 Shortfall
Fort Worth, Sept 2. State National Bank announces vice president M L Wallis, twenty years with the bank, is short 25000 and has disappeared. He left three weeks ago for California on vacation and was active in church circles.
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Fort Worth
Texas
The
State National Bank Today
M. L. Wallis
California
Autoist Held for Second Degree Murder in Milwaukee
Milwaukee police report Roman Schubert, 24, was charged by the district attorney with second degree murder after his car struck Mrs Martha Lohmann, 30, and her daughter Mary, 4, killing the child instantly and fatally injuring the mother before he drove on without stopping.
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Milwaukee
Roman Schubert
Edward Yockey
Schubert
Martha Lohmann
Mary
Mrs H E Barron Dies at Local Hospital
Mrs. H. E. Barron of 1313 Charles Street died in a local hospital at 3:30 this morning after several weeks illness from complications of diseases. She was four years old and survived by her husband and four children. Funeral services are to be held Wednesday at Caledonia Street Methodist Church with time pending.
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H. E. Barron
Charles Street
Dineen Named Detective in City Police Shakeup
Mayor Sorensen and Police Chief Webber discuss changes after the death of John Taylor. Dan Dineen is promoted to detective to fill the vacancy, while shifts and night duties for Fitzsimmons Horak and Wendling are debated amid concerns over south side coverage and a known “bums” problem.
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Ori J. Sorensen
John Webber
Sorensen
Captain Dugan
Fitzsimmons
William Horshak
North la Crosse
McGrath
Dineen
Webber
Dan Dineen
John Taylor
John Wendling
Auto crashes into horse and buggy on South Salem road
An unidentified girl and a man claiming the name Rathbourne escaped serious injury when an auto rear collided with their buggy on South Salem road near the Klondike spoon. The buggy overturned and the horse bolted with front wheels, then returned to town. The girl suffered cuts but no hospital transfer was needed.
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Rathbourne
South Salem
Klondike Spoon
Charles Kabat
Kabat
Man jailed in protest over Chicago tail light law
John D. Cameron a retail sales manager for International Harvester remained in a dirty cell for 38 hours at the Fiftieth Street police station to protest Chicago's new tail light ordinance. In speeders court he said he was satisfied with his action claiming the law allows jailing a man for three days if funds are lacking after an accident. He refused bail.
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Chicago
John D. Cameron
International Harvester Company
Fiftieth Street
Cameron
Pegoud Repeats Daring Loop Deed In France Exhibition
Airman Pegoud flies a monoplane in a turtle loop for an aviation corps commission in Juvisy France. He climbs to 3500 feet then dives to 1300 feet and recovers upright after a few seconds upside down. M Bleriot says the craft will not capsize and air dangers are reduced. Army officers applause the stunt.
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Juvisy
France
Pegoud
Aviation Corps
M. Bleriot
Judge Mahoney Frees 32 Slum Prisoners on Honor
Judge Mahoney freed thirty two inmates from Chicago’s slum district on their word of honor. By midday 28 had returned to plead to minor offenses and all were discharged. He praised the integrity of the men and urged belief in humane justice despite tough conditions.
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Chicago
John A. Mahoney
Riff Raff
South Clark Street
Labor Day Sets New Heat Record in La Crosse and Midwest
On Labor Day 1913 La Crosse recorded 98 degrees at 3 PM, eclipsing the prior 97 in 1895. Dubuque 95 and St Paul 96 also posted September heat records, with cooler weather projected tomorrow. Chicago also broke September heat records at 95.4 degrees, with cooler conditions expected next day.
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Labor Day
la Crosse
Mississippi Valley
Dubuque
St. Paul
Mercury
Chicago
Reading system faces Sherman Act dissolution suit
In Philadelphia federal court the government filed a civil dissolution action under the Sherman law against the Reading system. The Reading interests control 75 percent of anthracite production and transport 50 percent of the state's coal, with the suit arguing the combination could, if unchecked, come to control every ton of valuable anthracite.
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Philadelphia
Anthracite Coal Trust
Reading System
Pennsylvania
Reading
Elgin Butter Market Shows 2 1/2 Cent Rise
Elgin Illinois early September butter quotes rose to 30 cents a pound, an increase of two and a half cents from last week, reflecting market movement in the local dairy trade.
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Elgin, Ill
Trains Collide in New Haven Wreck Kills Sixteen
A New Haven collision leaves sixteen dead and many injured as passengers are thrown from cars into a nearby field. The long sequence of wrecks on this road highlights a dangerous pattern with frequent serious disasters over a short period.
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New Haven
Conference of New Haven wrecks spanning 1911 to 1913
A list of multiple New England rail and transport disasters between August 1911 and June 1913. Entries note dates towns such as Conn and Mass venues including New Haven Berlin Junction Stonington Dorchester South Boston Stamford and Waterbury with casualties ranging from injuries to multiple deaths.
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Middletons
Conn
Berlin Junction
Clinton
Mass
Stonington Junction
Dorchester
South Boston
Westport
Green’s Farms
Putnam
Waterbury
Stamford
Wreck Kills Sixteen On Old Wooden Pullmans In New Haven
A White Mountain express collision with the Bar Harbor express in New Haven claims sixteen lives and injures scores as the engine plows through antiquated Pullman cars. Dozens of victims are reported at hospitals or in an improvised morgue, with evidence of horrific trauma and a hurried investigation underway.
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White Mountain Express
Bar Harbor
United Press
New Haven
Conn
Interstate Commerce Commission
Westport
Roasche
New York, New Haven & Hartford
White Mountain
Hotchkiss
R. A
Leonard Hotchkiss
C. W. Scranton & Company
Philo
Rutter
Frank B
Scranton Bolt & Nut Company
Scranton
Altschul
William
Norfolk
Green
Albert
New York
Avery
Harold
Martin
H. F
Bryn Mawr
Yann
Robert
Philadelphia
Imar
Harry K
Place
Charles W
Azoner
Harry
Mary Jane
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Anna M. Jenkins
Gertrude Wiebrecht
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Georgia E. Hill
Maude E. Hodge
John W. Taylor
Kellogg
Eigners
Wall
Sieger of the Carmen
A. Lavent
Butchers’ Union
J. Tikal
Buttlers’ Union
George Hanson
Carl Nugren
Harry Grosskopp
Rudolph Frank
Joseph Kalagars
Elsie Madland
Julia Brieman
Walt Zube
Thomas Zielinski
Fred Wingers
William Housworth
Hosital
Taylor
West Salem Road
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Elgin Butter Market
Stoddard
East 54Th Street
Merritt
Murphy
Agnes White
Tremont Street
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