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Newspaper

La Crosse Tribune

Location

La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Sep 30, 1920

Page

5

Spafford and Backas wed at noon in Lipbie home

Libbie C Spafford and George Backas married at noon on Wednesday September 29 at the Lipbie home of the bridge’s Patoes Mr and Mrs Wilbeet Spafford 1005 Badger Street Charlotte. Rev AH J Witherbee officiated. Details describe the reception and attire with a honeymoon planned for Minneapolis and Sioux City.

Patoes Wilbeet Spafford Badger Street Lipbie Charlotte George Backas AH. J. Witherbee Catherine Yung Anor Mink Malinda Hetlund George Dunes Tooms Lala Sirs Anna Young Hall Sander Judith Larsen Pearl Jresson Sonte Tackus Minneapolis Sioux City

Community Events Schedule and Local Visits Listed

Local notices outline a busy calendar from September 30 to February with church receptions, entertainments, club meetings, theater performances, and educational lectures. Notable items include Amy Elizabeth Carson readings, Brus ludy Club events, Great Lakes String Quartet, and various Normal School lectures and concerts in La Crosse and Milwaukee areas. Mrs Yates travels with Mrs Evans visiting in Rochester and Chicago, while Mr George Arrott travels to Milwaukee for a week’s visit with his sister.

Congregational Church First Baptist Amy Elizabeth Carson Alata Oregon Brus Ludy Club Paviey” Oukrainsky Baltet la Crosse Great Lakes la Ase American Legion Ladies’ Aid Society St. Marys W.c Watripp Caropbell Libracy Club First Presbyterian Sharer Patters Church Family Usmatic Women's Leagns Comméres Bulldiog S—High School Bratlane Myrna Sharlow Prosor Dennis Hortense Niesen Abraham Lincoln Cled Cecil Burlsish Edna Gunpar Peterson la Crossa Theater Girmay Allen McQuhae Frederik Landis Lea

Four Classes of Mankind and Card Origins

An old explanation credits playing cards to a 1990 invention for Charles VI’s amusement during melancholy fits. The four suits symbolize society’s estates with hearts for royalty, spears for nobility, diamonds for merchants and commoners, and clubs from a clover leaf for peasants.

Charles VI

Good Steel and the Edge of a Knife

The text discusses steel quality and edge fineness, noting that sharpness comes from pliant, springy steel able to bend to the optimal entry point. It contrasts blades that gut nails with those that fail to enter, and mentions a boy asking about a dead letter, defined as a letter that died at the post.

Boston Transcript

Moving Day Predicted as Gotham Faces Big Move

Yorke reports New York expects a record moving day with 75,000 families and 150,000 items shifting to 2,000 moving vans. Real estate men warn it will take at least 24 days to place nomads in new quarters amid scarce vans and scarce housing.

Yorke Yorks Tto

Newark Shoe Stores Open La Crosse Branch

The Newark Shoe Stores Co will open a new branch at 423 Mun Street in La Crosse on Saturday October 2. The world’s largest shoe retailer, with about 100 stores in 100 cities, promises hundreds of models for men women and boys direct from metropolitan fashion centers and will distribute useful souvenirs to attendees.

Newark Shoe Stores Co United States Mun Street la Crosée

Twelve Per Cent Cut Announced By Milk Condensery

Chicago reports a 12 percent price cut by a major condensed milk company. Earlier notices by another firm suggest broader dairy price impacts. meanwhile government mail response times improve as War Risk Insurance speeds up processing.

Chicago, II Flae Treasury Department

The Greatest Need and Tarmer Corn Exchange Quotes

A fragmented quote exchange notes that the country needs production and enthusiasm to deliver the goods. The Washington Star is cited, mentioning Tarmer Corn and a remark about needs and delivery. The text also touches on soap film color dependence and 1919 England strikes and lockouts totaling 1,413.

Tarmer Hess Washington Star England

Evening classes and local ads parade through city paper

Keefe Business College offers evening courses to earn while you learn, with Gateway City Transfer Co handling baggage needs. Notices announce dances with Mack’s and Cy Crouse orchestras, sales on coats and dresses, tire bargains from Gates Halftales and Solberg Tire Co, plumbing and painting services, and a visit from Joseph Kammerling seeking a license to wed Malinda Kane.

Keefe Buswhess College Gateway City Transfer Co A. Cc Badke John’ P. Tipherty News House Caledonia Freedom of Ireland Wallensreider Ben Farm Armory Hall Mack Cy Crouse Gross Siven St. Telenbane Sts W. GC. Nichols Prospect Street Donald Genghorn Solberg Tire Co Holmen Crouse Ragadoura W.M. Crowley W. F. Schram Burrows Alfred Adams Sjent-Camp Iovnit Thel Clures Leona Lee Elin Biweeti Ap- Manes Thill-Manning-Whaler State Street Underwood Sothern Tire Lawrente Adimerast Naiti West Indies Jorris Newburg Thill-Manning-Whalen Co Clost R. Bay BW. Tiets Avon, St Hoover Bills Loomia Street Olga Caspersen Linker Electric Co Serton Auto Donald Arenz Powell St Sterealt VorWald-Bedessem Leonard Bleeber Circuit-Court Lyte Btles Wis Seleast Joseph Kammerling Milwaukee Malinda Kane

Grand Canyon Erosion Examined By Guide and Traveler

A travel guide and traveler discuss the millions of years required to carve the Grand Canyon. The traveler quips about government time, while a Southwestern Telephone note and Rubens' legacy appear in the periphery, with scattered scientific terms on charcoal and carbon content.

Bel Varved Southwestern Telephone, News Rubens

Dean of Badger Lawyer Dies in Milwaukee at 61

Gerry W Hazelton, longtime Wisconsin legal figure and 1860 Lincoln-era nominee, died in Milwaukee at age 61. He saw public affairs in the state for about sixty years and is survived by his daughter Miss Anna Hazelton.

Milwaukee Gerry W. ‘Hazelton Wscolur Lincoln Anna “Uazleton

Austria's Vorarlberg seeks union with Switzerland

The western Austrian province Vorarlberg petitions Vienna to unite with Switzerland. The move, sent to the League of Nations, asks for permission from the Austrian government amid ongoing secession efforts.

Vienna Vorarlerg Austria Gounery Lis League of Nations Switeerla

Beautiful Actress Credits Complexion For Success In Aphrodite

New York actress Dorothy Dalton credits her rise in the production Aphrodite to her complexion. She claims skin texture and color drew managers and outlines a skincare routine and a beauty product Derwilla with a money back guarantee.

Dorott New York Dorothy Dalton Aphrodite Liska Imyaris

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