Local notes and notices from Spar ta and nearby towns
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ford visit Chicago while August Fisher stays in Milwaukee. Mrs. Rowlands of Portage visits the city. Wanted a set of Stoddard's works for cash apply at News. Fred Mould and family move into the brick house on Fourth St near city hall. Mr. and Mrs. Jack O'Keefe and daughter Lucile go to Chicago. Miss Maude Archer, Mendota asylum stenographer, visits home two days. Dr. Morley of Princeton charged with drunkenness and jailed five days. Rural Free Delivery Carriers exam held at high school. names listed. Curry & Burt promote Christmas window. Chas. O. Stimson transferred from American Express Spar ta to Baraboo. H. Kohn replaces him.
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Chas. O. Stimson
American Express
Baraboo
H. Kohn
LaCrosse
Mr. Stimson
American Express Company
Messenger
J. R. Skillman
Sparta
Sparta Democrat
North Western Limited to St Paul and Minneapolis
The North Western Line announces daily electric lighted trains from Chicago to St Paul and Minneapolis with drawing room and compartment sleeping cars, extra long berths, refined toilet and reading lamps, buffet and dining car service, and Chicago dinner. Tickets and booklets available by sending stamps to W B Kniskern in Chicago. rates via Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
W. B. Kniskern
Chicago
North-Western Line
Baraboo
Agent Chicago & North-Western Ra Y
Enrollment in Wisconsin short course reaches 320 students
The University of Wisconsin reports 320 students enrolled in the Short Course in Agriculture with 182 in first year and 138 in second year. Statewide representation spans 59 of 71 counties and 25 students come from outside Wisconsin. A Farmers' Course runs February 6 to 16 for farmers over 25, with circulars available from Prof. D. H. Otis in Madison.
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University of Wisconsin
Sauk County
Tobias Clavadatscher
Sauk City
Waldo E. Gross
Merrimack
David E. Hanzlik
Wonewoc
Anthony Rick
Spring Green
Henry Schoephorster
Prairie du Sac
Robert KE. Volz
Reedsburg
Lawrence Accola
John H. Accola
Lyman O. Kindschi
Arthur C. Ochsner
Plain
Howard Palmer
Baraboo
Kenneth L. Premo
Robert Lachmund
College of Agriculture
D. H. Otis
Madison
Wis
New Car Line to Southern California Opens
Pullman tourist sleeping cars run daily from Chicago to Los Angeles without change starting September 15 via Chicago Union Pacific Northwestern Line and Salt Lake Route. One way colonist tickets from Chicago from 33 dollars. double berth in tourist sleeping cars 7 dollars. Tickets and reservations at Chicago Northwestern offices or S A Hutchison manager 212 Clark Street Chicago.
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Pullman
Los Angeles
Chicago
Union Pacific
Northwestern
Salt Lake
Chicago & Northwestern R
Pacific Northwest scenic beauty and resources booklet
The Chicago and North-Western Railway issued a illustrated booklet detailing the Pacific Northwest's scenery and natural resources and rapid growth. It offers low excursion rates to the Lewis and Clark Exposition with personally conducted tours from Chicago. Send 4 cents in stamps to W. B. Kniskern for full details at 215 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.
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Pacific Northwest
Chicago & North-Western R.y
Chicago
East
W. B. Kniskern
Jackson Boulevard
New Sleeping Car Service To South Dakota
The Chicago and North-Western Railway announces a new Pullman Standard Sleeping Car service. It departs Rochester at 8 45 p m daily except Sunday and arrives Manhattan 11 35 p m Tracy 2 40 a m daily except Monday. Through coach to Pierre S D and Brookings connection to Watertown Redfield. Similar eastbound service. for rates and tickets contact a ticket agent.
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North-Western Line
Rochester
Mankato
Tracy
Chicago
Baraboo
Pierre
S. D
Brookings
Minneapolis-Redfield
Watertown
Redfield
Chicago & North-Western Ry
Nickel Plate Holiday Excursion Rates to New York and East
Christmas excursion fares from Chicago to Buffalo and eastern points are a fare and a third for round trips with returns by January 3 1906. Sale dates December 23 24 25 30 31 1905 and January 1 1906. Through trains from La Salle and Van Buren streets with Nickel Plate dining cars and three through trains daily.
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Chicago
Buffalo
New York City
Boston
la Salle
van Buren Street
Running Curves to Right of Way the Early Railroading Way
The piece recalls how the Pennsylvania Railroad early in its history used curve posts and flagmen to claim right of way. Rivalry on curves led to seven hours of delays before a decision standardizing who moves first. Ridley and Courson held speed records on the Pittsburg division and No. 29 now runs in two hours twenty minutes under new limits.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Chicago
Thomas Ridley
Pittsburg
Ridley
Altoona
Courson
Ritual of the Eskimo Masks in Easter Sun Festival
An Arctic Alaska explorer notes an elaborate Eskimo ritual with heavy masks used during their Easter festival. Dressed emissaries portray the sun moon and Arctic creatures amid chants and dances. Some masks hang from roofs while others open to reveal human faced masks, reflecting belief that each being has a human spirit.
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Arctic
Alaska
Excursion Tickets to International Livestock Exposition Chicago
Excursion tickets to the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago via the North Western Line will go on sale December 16 to 20, with return until December 24 inclusive. Apply to agents Chicago and North Western Railway.
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Chicago
North-Western
Chicago & North-Western Ba Y
Japan Remembers Friends on Prof Rein’s 70th Birthday
Japan sends a cablegram of congratulations to Professor J. J. Rein of Horn Germany on his seventieth birthday, marking cross national ties during wartime.
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Japan
J. J. Rein
Horn
Germany
University of
Reason for Choosing Pastor in West Side Congregation
A West Side church chose a new pastor after trials with previous ministers. A respected woman advised that the candidate’s wife tolerance would keep the pastor calm at home, preventing outbursts at church. The call was made and, according to New York Press, both pastor and parishioners were thriving while his wife remained unseen.
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West Side
New York Press
The Happy Igorrote and His Simple Life
A humorous Portland Oregonian piece lampoons the Igorrote who saves money on creased pants and pips his pup for companionship. It portrays a cheerful, frugal figure living plainly with pipe and dog, mocking pedantry about pedigree.
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Portland Oregonian
Household Hints Book Causes Unusual Confession
A book agent extols a household hints guide while a customer recalls using it to kill a rat and smash cockroaches and to knock a cat off a fence, prompting a wry exchange in a Milwaukee Sentinel clipping.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
His idea of tourists in Yellowstone park humor
Burton Holmes recalls an amusing Yellowstone trip encounter showing a local inhabitant distinguishing travelers from business visitors. He describes meeting a muleback resident at a sharp turn who questioned their purpose and asked if they were traveling or headed somewhere in particular.
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Burton Holmes
Yellowstone Park
Government Road
Mr. Holmes
Confinement Kills Indians at McNiel's Island Penitentiary
The article reports that fifteen long-term Indian prisoners at McNeil's Island in Puget Sound show twelve under three years’ confinement dying of consumption. All inmates, sentenced from ten to twenty years, face limited life expectancy. Warden O P Haligan argues confinement reveals hereditary tuberculosis in Alaska natives and Eskimos.
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United States Penitentiary
McNiel’s Island
Puget Sound
O. P. Haligan
Added to Towns Beauty One Man Supplied Trees to Tonawanda
Dr Heinrich C Leonhardt of Tonawanda supplied thousands of elm maple and chestnut trees to the city after a dinner suggestion for shade tree planting. He stored saplings in a Tonawanda nursery and offered trees to all who would plant them per nursery directions. Two thousand trees were distributed rapidly, transforming streets with young saplings and promising a lasting shade monument.
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Tonawanda
Heinrich C. Leonhardt
America
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