Barnum & Bailey Missed Sioux City Date After Mud Fracas
In July 1909 the Barnum and Bailey show failed to reach Sioux City, getting stalled in mud after Sheldon Iowa engagement. Townsfolk viewed a free animal exhibit as trains and wagons struggled out of the worst mud. The Twin City Twilight club netted 214.22 over expenses from the circus.
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Barnum& Bailey
Iowa
Sioux City
Sheldon
Illinois Central
Iowa Falls
LeMars
Onawa
Main Street
Town Falls
Cherokee
Lincoln
Neb
Roy (. Kindschi
John P. Kindschi
Sumpter
Twin Cities
Dode Fiske
Twin City
Twilight Club
County Farm Debates Imprisonment Policy With Board
County officials met to discuss imprisonments at the county farm. Commissioner J.8 Griggs J.M. Kindsech and William Riggert joined Superintendent Devor Cooper and Mercer on the committee to decide action. Supervisors to meet with the board of control soon to finalize plan.
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J. 8. Griggs
J. M. Kindsech
William Riggert
Devor
Cooper
Mercer
Board of Control
Loyd pair arrested for store burglary in Loyd
Bufort Bell and Elmer Francois prominent Loyd residents were arrested in Spring Green by Richland county deputy sheriff and Lone Rock marshal on charges of robbing W. H. Smythe’s Loyd store weeks earlier. The accused brothers in law were traced after wives provided tips. $171 in checks and $28.75 cash were found in a stove where part of the loot was hidden.
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Bufort Bell
Elmer Francois
Loyd
Richland County
Spring Green
Eugene Crary
Marshall
Lone Rock
W. H. Smythe
Richland Democrat
Francois
Bell
Spring Green News
State prints wolf and fox bounty certificates to curb fraud
Secretary of State J A Frear issues scientific wolf and fox descriptions on bounty certificates to aid county clerks in verifying claims. Certificates detail size color and marks to prevent payout of fraudulent bounties. Wolf bounty is 20 dollars. cub 16 dollars. state and counties share half each. Last year state paid 24000 dollars in bounty claims, counties matched. Chief Clerk Louis B Nagler expects the new certificates to cut payments.
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J. A. Frear
Louis B. Nagler
Secretary of State’s Department
Neighborhood News From Necedah And Baraboo
Monday reports from Necedah and Baraboo detail visits by local families including Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Smith and daughter Eleanor of Chicago and Mrs. N. R. Mitchell of Chicago. Baraboo notes H. H. Fullmer’s vacuum cleaner used at Portage and a Portage Masonic hall cleaning, with $900 machine and assistants Edward Oleson.
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H. W. Savage
Ernest
Lawrence
E. M. Savage
Delight
Chicago
J. E. Savage
Herman Smith
Harley Bennett
Loganville
August Hamburg
J. L. Hecox
Elroy
Necedah
E. Aug. Runge
Ralph
William Evenson
H. H. Fullmer
Portage
Baraboo
Vacum
Mr. Fullmer
Delton
Edward Oleson
Around The County notes from Sauk City visitors
Miss Anna Krause of Sauk City visits the East for a month visiting New York City Atlantic City and New Brunswick N J Casper Lemm falls 12 feet from a scaffold at the Wm Price residence in West Point George Lodde and daughter of Louisville Ky visit Sauk City Dr C V Heddesson and his brother Henry Lodde and Mrs Henry Koenig of Prairie du Sac are siblings Mr and Mrs Peter Mohr of Hood River Ore visit Sauk City guests of N J Reuter and F F Pape Mohr and the ladies are cousins
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Anna Krause
Sauk City
New York City
Atlantic City
New Brunswick
N. J
Casper Lemm
Wm. Price
West Point
George Lodde
Louisville
C. V. Heddesson
Henry Lodde
Henry Koenig
Prairie du Sac
Assessing Power Company Tax Plan in Kilbourn
State tax commission outlines that Southern Wisconsin Power property is personal property taxed as a single unit in the district of its principal place of business. Taxes collected by that district treasurer are later divided among districts where the property extends, based on assessor apportioned figures from a Kilbourn meeting on July 16.
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State Tax Commission
Southern Wisconsin Power Company
Kilbourn
State Board
Union Talk Draws Four Churches at Fairfield Wesleyan
Reverends E. C. Henke and H. G. Good led a Baraboo evangelistic service in Fairfield at the Wesleyan church. They preached to a union congregation from Baptist, Methodist, Advent and Wesleyan churches. Services rotate Sundays among the represented churches.
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E. C. Henke
H. G. Good+ sell
Baraboo
Fairfield
Wesleyan
Baptist
Methodist
Advent
Omen of Prosperity as Railroads Readied 400 Locomotives
The Pennsylvania Railroad ordered 400 locomotives idle seventeen months to be readied by July. Industry-wide optimism follows hopes Congress will pass the tariff bill, expected to spur a return to predepression levels and renewed business activity.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Congress
The Ever Changing Waist Line
A humorous explication of fashion shifting waistlines by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow in the August American Magazine. The piece notes daily changes from slept-in comfort to headlines declaring waistlines at the knees and jokes about prognostication and fashion authority.
Game to the Last Partridge Marries and Divorces Men
An Indian woman named Partridge has been married to Robin Sparrow and Quayle and has divorced each of them. This Partridge is certainly a bird.
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Partridge
Robin
Sparrow
Quayle
The Usual Way Breaks Up Dinner Table Society Entrance
A humorous observation notes that as a woman decides to enter society her husband disrupts the moment with a dreadful dinner table incident. The quip highlights domestic tension around social ambition.
Novel Pincushion Sign Signals New Baby Births in Holland
In parts of Holland a silk pin cushion on the door knob proclaims a birth. A red pincushion indicates the newborn is a girl and a white one a boy, a curious local custom noted by Home Chat.
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Holland
Was Not Dead But Sleeping
Big Creek resident Big Creek Will Jackson’s family gathered at his bedside Monday afternoon after a trip home left him unconscious. Doctors from La Valle diagnosed a paralytic stroke but later he awoke in the yard Tuesday morning. He had consumed alcohol before leaving town. Miss Margaret Cain of Elroy visited her cousin B V Coughlin. Claude Aimes works for Frank Douglas for the year.
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Big Creek
Will Jackson
Miller
la Valle
Margaret Cain
Elroy
B. V. Coughlin
Claude Aimes
Frank Douglas
Too Many Lily Fingers Not Enough Blisters
William Allen White argues the demand of the times is for workers who will work. He notes overcrowded professions and job seekers preferring office positions over labor, calling out too many lily fingers and too few hands with blisters.
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William Allen White
Kansas
The
Times
Swallows False Teeth In Cashton Woman To La Crosse Hospital
Mrs. John Kiley of Cashton broke her tooth bridge while eating on Tuesday and fragments lodged in her throat. Dr Cremer drove her to a La Crosse hospital for treatment. Henry Supply, who accompanied her, reported the teeth were recovered and the patient was improving.
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John Kiley
Cashton
Cremer
la Crosse Hospital
Henry Supply
la Crosse
Norwalk Star
Unity Park Camp Sees Historic Camper Turnout
In Wonewoc the Unity Park spiritualists celebrate the largest camper turnout ever recorded at the camp, marking a record for attendance and activity.
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Unity Park
Wonewoeg
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed for Sick Kidney Symptoms
Baraboo resident K. A. Smith testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills eased frequent kidney secretions and back pain, restoring regular kidney action and reducing rheumatic symptoms after buying at Evenson's Pharmacy. Foster Milburn Co. markets them. price 50 cents.
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Bright
Dean
K. A. Smith
Sixth St
Baraboo
Wis
Evenson’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan
Figures That Hurt From Indiana Health Board
The Indiana state board of health reports that in one year 790 mothers aged 18 to 45 and 425 fathers died of consumption. These deaths left 2,515 children under 12 without parental care. The piece urges action to fight the “great white plague” and asks what readers are doing to help.
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Indiana
Child Mortality in New York City
A weekly average of 450 deaths occurs in New York City among children under five years old. This figure highlights the severe toll of illness on young children in the city during the period reported.
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New York
New York City
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Barnum & Bailey
Gollmar Brothers
Stanley, Wis
Peoria
Ill
Rockford
Madison, Wis
Fond du Lac
Janesville
Elgin
Kalamazoo
Mich
Ringling Brothers
Kearney
Cheyenne
Wyo
Laramie
Salt Lake City
Utah
Ogden
la Grande
Dr. A.’ Medicine Co
Evenson
W. Ghase
N. R. Mitchell
A. W. Friskey
Berwyn, Ill
J. P. Moran
Fifth Avenue
Wonewoc
H. C. Bers
H. C. Berg
Moresco Refrigerates
John F. Reuland
Fisher Buros
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