Many visitors and locals spend time in the city
A long list of residents and visitors from Madison Beloit Portage Baraboo Sparta and Milwaukee travel through or visit here. Notables include Mr and Mrs Dennis Hawkins and Miss Emma Kunzelman visiting friends in Reedsburg Miss Lydia Neitzel at Prairie du Lac and Miss Ida Gross in Reedsburg. Several attend New Year celebrations and family gatherings with relatives in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dennis Hawkins
Madison
Emma Kunzelman
Reedsburg
Sam Roberts
City
Eric Karl
Wm. Mohns
Janesville
Lydia Neitzel
Prairie du Lac
Lizzie Clark
Briggsville
Mrs. J. Smyth
Portage
W. C. Palmer
Merrimack
Mrs. Palmer
Mrs. Arndt
Baraboo
William Markert
Caroline Buelow
Denzer
John Nattermann
Christina Markett
Sauk City
Dead Man's Graft Tells of Shady Sales Schemes
A long narrative recounts a string of con games centered on death notices and doomed stock in the 1905 era. A pair of Irish grafters peddled faded medical and legal books via C O D mails to heirs, while tobacco box tricks and apple crop fables fleeced wary farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph B. Bowles
Ohio
Toledo
North Attleboro
Mass
Illinois
Upper Sandusky
Cultivating Inner Beauty Outshines Plain Features
An editorial encourages plain girls to seek inner beauty through amiable character and noble desires. It argues that a heartfelt Christian life reveals deeper beauty beyond outward looks, quoting Spencer and urging self-improvement over envy of prettier peers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer
Boston Globe
Chinese waterways suffer coal ash contamination in fertilizer
The Chinese government struggles with canal humus pollution as steam boats dump coal ashes into canals. Peasants rely on dredged humus for fertilization, but its value is diminished by the ash pollution.
Hut Tax in Africa Excitement Follows Tax Payment
A Selukwe resident reports the township buzzing as natives arrive to pay hut tax. He notes singing and festive behavior, suggesting compliance with the pound levy imposed by the colonial government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Selukwe
South Africa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Miss Pleggerman of
Beloit
Mrs
Peter Hohn
Theo, Gunderson
Ida Gross
August Bartz
Paul Miller
Mrs. Cary
Mr. Diehl
F. P. Herfort
Chicago
Eva Colyer
North Freedom
E. R. Theiss of
M. Callahan
Mattie Brownell
Albert Herfort
Herbert White
John and
Joseph Comfort
Mrs. J. Falvey
Grace Brown
E. E. Colburn
Winona
North Freedom Yesday
Joseph Loy
Emma Graf
Isenberg
Lizzie Attridge
Loganville
Archie Campbell
Fond du Lac
M. Allen
Zr. K. Jewett & Co
Sparta
Wis
Oak Street
Kindschi & Grosinske
D. L. Montgomery
Elroy
August Dahlke
Greenfield
Ray Dodge
Kaukauna
Bert Dodge
W.C. Miller
Mrs. J. Miller
King’s Corners
Charles Miller
Joseph Luce
Clarence Luce
Fairfield
Denver& Rio Grande R. R
Fort Morgan
Colorado
Albert Roser
Benton, Wis
Ida Marquardt
Milwaukee
Ed. Ford
Sheboygan
The
Nick Massel
la Crosse
Herman Voll
Mayme McGuan
Maple Hill
Clara Zochert
John Rumpf
Walter Kenyon
Carl Kenyon
Frank Heim
Eugene Brewster
Mayme Rote
Alice
Tena Boodle
Harvard
Ed Kutzner
Mr. Alex.Clark
Kendalls
John Troy
Evo ET
J. P. Johnston
Hasling
Johnston,” Ete
Anna Kelly
Dan Rumpf
Westfield
Walter Hatch
Atty
Daniel H. Grady
James and
Joseph O’keefe
W.S. Pease
Michigan
Harlan K. Page
Wingra Park
Madison, Wis
Page
E. P. Lewis
Fifth Ave
Steinke
Denver
Anson Harvey
Kilbourn
H. P. Schafer
Wausau
Margaret Hill
John Madden
Idaho
Mayme Fay
H. R. Mohns
Garner
Hillsboro
C. Vanderhoof
Howard Moore
Wm. Moore
Edith Allen Pratt
Clarence A.pratt
Emma Reidel
Honey Creek
Lillian Loos
Oxee
Mary Reinhold
Wonewoc
Rudolph R
F. O. Schoenwetter
Carl Dyrud
Blake St
Elsie Schuette
Mrs. E. Boetcher
Erswell, Melzl & McGann
Masonic Block
Herbert
Earl Thomas
Toland’s
Business University
Y. M. CA
A. O. U. W. Hall
Mrs. L. Block
Chas. Cook
Mrs. Wm. Mobns and Son
Iva Moore
Green Bay
Sidney Richardson
Ableman
W. T. Main
University of Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station
C. H. Grub
Chas. A. Ocock
Frederick Meyer
Peter Burke
Mr. Burke
Mr. Meyer
Missouri
Daniel Rumpf
Indiana
Agnes O’keefe
L. G. Grover
Winfield
David E. Corbin
Roswell
New Mexico
Tamer
Therafter
New York
Grafter No. 1
Grafter No. 2
St. Louis
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