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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1920
Page
3
La Crosse hosts the county medical society gathering with visitors from across the state. The event includes a Wednesday night meeting and reception and a riverfront gathering Thursday evening. Local officials hope residents welcome the doctors and show La Crosse as a welcoming town.
A historical essay excerpt discusses Henri Bergson and the Athenians as models of pursuing exactitude over being nearly right. It notes how ancient Greece promoted creative joy and intellectual efficiency, contrasting with modern habits of compromise. It also touches on political finance and the meaning of a candidate having a "bar" in 19th century debates.
The ostrich feather business rebounds as Dame Fashion embraces plumes. U.S. import value last year reached 2.5 million dollars, with the world trade near 20 million. California started the farms in 1882, now expanded to Arizona, Alabama, Texas, and Florida. Feathers from living birds yield crops valued at 25 to 100 dollars, with birds living up to fifty years.
The article notes that the phrase caught on as a symbol of wealth in campaigns. It discusses how candidates now leave fundraising to party patriots to collect contributions. Variants include a hogshead or a small keg representing funds.
A critique notes how old magazines stay fresh to young readers, with Mark Twain Henry James W D Howells and others as leading figures. It argues the content remains readable and new, while the literary advertising pages reveal the era’s fading recall of notable fiction.
Elsie, torn between James Mead and Paul Browning, wrestles with love, duty, and money as she rejects wealth and status for a chance at true affection. A glittering jewel becomes the emblem of guilt and sacrifice amid a Westchester drive and a moral crisis.
Ten years ago the board of education voted to move sixth to eighth grades from Washburn to Longfellow due to severe furnace failures at Washburn. The town’s business leaders and trades clubs prepared for a three day trip to Camp Doug, Back River Falls, and Winona starting September 20, with about seventy five members and a traveling band.
A fragmentary story from Winnebago High reveals student publishers debating a proposed weekly newspaper priced at 55.00 per week for 500 copies. The mock-up dummy and a cast of students struggle with cost, feasibility, and printing hurdles while one student pursues an ambitious solution.
A riddle asks why blacksiths are the most frequent law-breakers. The answer from yesterday says you can never rely on a stuttering boy because he always breaks his word.
During a Sunday school picnic near Columbus, an overloaded row boat capsized at Buckeye Lake. Agnes Deutch, 14, who promised Elsie Sanderson's mother to look after her, dived in and grabbed Elsie as she surfaced, then swam to shore with her. Elsie, 10, could not swim. Agnes remarked she kept her vow to care for Elsie.
A generous man plans a secret engagement gift to ensure Elsie’s happiness, arranging his cousin’s bank opening and a ring for the wedding. He instructs her to buy household scrubbing brushes, then departs on a motorcycle as she fears the future. Paul returns, surprised, and Elsie confesses her dream of him.
A vintage call to used maps teaching geography through hands on activity. Paste a United States map on cardboard, cut into 43 pieces, and reassemble to learn cities rivers harbors and landscapes while reinforcing geographic knowledge. The Boys and Girls Newspaper invites reader letters to Chicago address for a youth newspaper project.
A twelve year old Dickens sits by London bridge telling a girl tales of the slums while working in a blacking factory to support debt ridden parents jailed in Marshalsea. He earns seven shillings weekly and often goes hungry before growing to author The Old Curiosity Shop and The Marchioness.
The article notes watermark origins with the Ancient Watermark and claims John Tare, a fanermaker of Sterenaze, fed a flower for his watermark in 1491. It highlights the use of alche peraled floral imagery in early paper marks.
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