11 Sep 1921
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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1921
Page
1
Reports describe broad labor agitation as workers press for better pay and conditions during wartime. Politicians and unions clash over funding, state business, and the pace of strikes while organized rallies unfold in several counties.
Washington plans for a world disarmament conference loom as the Armistice Day demonstrations begin. A U S delegation heads to draft positions and programs while labor groups women’s unions and educators rally to back the effort. President Harding has designated the delegation’s leader to synthesize views from senators and other advisers for the international talks.
The remains of Lieut Benjamin T Sewoski and Private Frank He4 died in France will be buried today in a double service at the Presbyterian church. The pastor Rev Claude R Shaver will officiate with the local military campaign furnishing pallbearers, and a church reception for soldiers after the service. Lieut Sewoski’s service is under the American Legion post with officers and guards, while Private Zein’s service is under Battery No 120 Field Artillery. Interments occur at the soldiers' Jolab Oil Grove and the private grounds of his father in the same cemetery.
Amid catastrophic flooding in San Antonio, a conservative tally counts 250 dead with many bodies still unfound. Relief work expands, disease prevention teams mobilize, and credit lines to farmers and livestock keepers are arranged through banks as cleanup begins and floodwaters recede.
Fragmented notice shows students seeking paid work including janitorial tasks and driving. It lists duties such as car driving, furnace cleaning, ravens care, and general cleaning, with a contact number and reference to a Monday night appeal for September 13.
Louis Church is arrested in Adams Wis after two men, Bernard Daugherty and Carl Asmus, are found fatally mutilated in Chicago. Daugherty, 38, a Packard dealer demonstrator, and Asmus, 28, were last seen with Church and his mother. Bodies discovered in a basement and later hidden in a garage, with signals of strangulation and severe trauma. Police suspect poison as a possibility and pursue motive tied to a cash payment for a car sale.
District Attorney Reid reports the first state raid on alleged moonshine makers in the city and county. In Haber saloon area at St Joseph’s Ridge investigators seized stills, mash barrels, and kitchen moonshine paraphernalia. No liquor found at nearby Cliffordwood Inn or Viroqua saloon. Huber to face charges Monday.
A crowd of about seventy five watched police dive for the drowned five year old when the footpath on Chester river’s Third Street bridge collapsed. Twenty five to thirty people died or were crushed, many women and children, with over twenty bodies recovered within an hour. Rescue teams and morgue crowds fought to retrieve victims as divers searched the muddied river near coal barges and ice boats.
Chicago authorities rescued Marie Zumbaci, a 17 year old kept prisoner in a basement since infancy. Doctors treated her for a year but could not restore speech, hearing, or mobility. She endured severe neglect and suffered developmental harm from repeated procedures and failed attempts to repair both mind and head.
The Plan Biggest Fair organizers urge full cooperation from manufacturers and jobbers for a La Crosse Dey event. A Like eld committer and business leaders will tour Monday to outline plans for the Dig day while Elks arrange the elsie parade as a feature of Joe La Crarse Tay doings.
United States government offers a five thousand dollar reward for the capture of Joseph George Rogers alias Lewis Schlm who escaped from the county jail during a post office raid. A posse of about two hundred men in automotives horses and on foot scour the area for Miss Marty Holmes a presumed insane escapee who fled from guards after a hospital transfer.
Minnesota outdoorsman William Jaren died instantly when a shotgun discharged in the oil box of a railroad speeder. The tragedy also involved four small children and raised safety questions about handling firearms in moving work equipment.
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