Alfred Page collection added to Sauk County exhibit
The Alfred Page collection of Indian relics fossils shells and other specimens was added to the Sauk County Historical Society exhibit in the courthouse. The items include stalactites the onyx shells fossils and stone implements gathered by Page at Prairie du Lac and surrounding areas. The collection showcases polished shells trilobites and various natural pieces valued for education and local history.
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Alfred Page
Sauk County
Connecticut
South Carolina
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Page
Prairie du Lac
Illinois
Leonard Dartaman
Prairaie du Lac
Otter Creek
Mr. Page
the Register of Deeds
Harry Thornton
Court House
Society
Ransom E. Stone
Science Hall
Madison
Croton
Vermont
Aarpenter
Elen Hardy
Wisconsin River
Yankee Street
Sauk Prairie
Buch
Sauk
Preston
Iowa
Prairie du Sac
Baraboo
Joseph Johnson
E. D. Ochsner
H. E. Cole
K. D. Perkins
Grandson of Mrs Rounds Dies in Park City Train Wreck
Mrs John Rounds of Fourth Avenue learns her grandson Benjamin Western was among the victims of a Park City Montana wreck last week. About twenty people died in the collision of two trains. Western, about eighty, was a son of William Western once living here and a passenger in the smoking car. The father is a son of Mrs Rounds.
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John Rounds
Fourth Avenue
Benjamin Western
Park City
Mont
William Western
Paper to be Sold in Baraboo Estate Sale Notice
V. S. Pease manager editor of the Boscobel Dial Enterprise announces the sale of the paper. It is owned by the estate of the late John W. Blake and located in a town surrounded by rich farming and dairying country. Mr Blake formerly edited in Baraboo and Reedsburg. a daughter Mrs A M Wells resides in the city.
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V.S. Pease
Baraboo
Boscobel Dial Enterprise
John W. Blake
Blake
Reedsburg
A. M. Wells
Big Creek Yarn Details Narrow Escape From Coon Attack
Big Creek correspondent in the Valley Leader reports Milt Soles narrowly escaped death when a coon crawled into his wagon bed late at night. After a fierce struggle Soles freed his foot from the animal and now lies with a sore foot. He offers a reward for the coon’s capture and identification.
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Milt Soles
Big Creek
fiaValie
Milit
Milt
Bartholomew Foley Receives Back Pension from Interior
Bartholomew Foley of Baraboo has been granted a back pension by the Department of the Interior. The allowance totals $17 per month starting December 4, 1891, covering nearly 17 years. Foley served in Co. B, 30th U.S. Infantry and is an veteran resident of Baraboo.
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Bartholomew Foley
Department of the Interior
Foley
Co. B
30Th U.S Infantry
Baraboo
State v Bell Delayed Third Time Over Liquor License Charge
The case of the State versus Andrew Bell, accused of selling liquor without a license, was postponed until October 9 by stipulation of the attorneys. This marks the third postponement in the proceedings.
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Andrew Bell
Snake Bites Valuable Horse in Black Hawk
A horse owned by John Reiser near Black Hawk was bitten on the neck by a snake last week. The animal became swollen but is reported to be improving and better now.
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John Reiser
Young Man John Steel Dies in Elgin Ill
A. L. Young and family were notified that John Steel, about 19, was killed in Elgin Illinois. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Steel, with Mrs. Steel a daughter of Mrs. John Young of Second Avenue. The Baraboo relatives plan to attend the funeral. The manner of death is not yet known.
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A. L. Young
John Steel
Elgin
Ill
Emery Steel
Steel
John Young
Second Avenue
Chicago & Northwestern
General Office
Funeral for Elgin railroad brakeman John Steel
Mr and Mrs L J Ferris and daughter Mrs Ed Boehm Mrs Mary Young and Ben D Young attended the funeral of John Steel who was killed near Elgin Illinois while brakeman on a Chicago to Savanna freight. He stepped aside from steam and was struck by a passenger train and died instantly. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Emery Steel formerly of Baraboo now Necedah.
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L.J. Ferris
Ed. Boehm
Mary Young
Ben D. Young
John Steel
Elgin
Ill
John Young
Steel
Chicago
Savanna
Harry
McGregor
John
Emery Steel
Baraboo
Necedah
Fatal boiler explosion kills engineer near Portage
A boiler explosion on locomotive No 1773 of the Milwaukee Road outside Portage at 4 am killed Engineer Fred J. Good of Milwaukee and badly burned Fireman Christian J. Hanson and Brakeman B. N. Taylor. Hanson and Taylor were found in a marsh, rushed to Dr Meacher, and listed in serious condition but expected to recover. The blast scattered brick and debris over the marsh and nearby grass, but the frame locomotive remained on the track and no freight cars derailed. Conductor Steltz led rescuers as the city awoke to the disaster.
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Portage
Milwaukee Road
Fred J. Good
Milwaukee
Christian J. Hanson
B. N. Taylor
B. C. Meacher
Ketchum Point Bridge
Steltz
Taylor
Superstitious Woman's Fateful Day in New York Times Tale
A New York Times piece recounts a superstitious woman drifting through a day of rituals and anxious omens. She ignores luck signals, fends off minor misfortunes, and fears a looming family death after a night of a howling dog.
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Twenty-third Street
New York Times
Tattoos and Lightning Sizzle In Odd 19th Century Notes
A lieutenant recounts Japanese Nagasaki tattooing with blood drinking by the tattooers and long hours under the needle. A Royal Society note describes a dramatic lightning strike on a Northumberland moor creating a central hole and radiating furrows with earth boreholes nearby.
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Lieut. Marlinspike
Uncle Sam
Nagasaki
A. Herschel
The
Royal Meteorological Society
Northumberland
Baraboo Graduate Advances to Wisconsin Engineering Program
Charles J. Gaskell, after six years in his father's tin shop at Ash Street and Third, leaves Baraboo High School to begin electrical engineering studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He earned a reputation as a first class timer and aims for strong trade wages while pursuing his course.
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Ash Street
Charles J. Gaskell
Madison
University of Wisconsin
Baraboo High School
Walter Braun
University
Chicago
German Methodist conference closes with assignments in Ripon
On Monday morning at Ripon the German Methodist conference concluded by reading assignments. Rev. W. H. Elske is assigned to Baraboo for another year.
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Ripon
W. H. Elske
Farmers Club Meets After Summer Vacation
The Farmers' Club holds its next regular meeting on Friday evening October 9 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Roser. The program covers University Extension Work parliamentary practice and visiting with a large attendance expected after the summer break.
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Farmers’ Club
Leonard Roser
R. B. Griggs
H. HK. Cole
The
United States
Work on Bridge Again at Delton Timme’s mill
Delton September 29 work has at last begun on the bridge at Timme’s mill. It was to have been completed by October 1 but appears to be a 1909 target.
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Delton
Timme’s Mill
Injury During Corn Cutting Wears Outward Shoe
Eddie Graves suffered a severe toe gash while cutting corn at Glen on September 28. He wore a very large shoe at the time and received medical attention for the injury.
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Glen
Eddie Graves
Ben Colden Horse Bitten by Rattlesnake
One of Ben Colden’s horses was bitten by a rattlesnake last week in Greenfield on September 28.
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Greenfield
Ben Colden
Births in town announce two newborns
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Weber on Sixth street a son Sept. 26. Born to Mr. and Mrs. James La Valle a daughter.
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Chas. Weber
Sixth Street
James la Valle
Burglar Foiled by Creaking Floorboard Mystery
A late night break in at the Grigson home ends when a squeaky board betrays the thief. The burglar drops a bag of valuables before fleeing, leaving the board to continue its eerie creak. The tale appears in Youth's Companion with accompanying reflections on discretion from Addison and Bright.
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Grigson
Mr. Grigson
John
Dress as well as you can in the modern age
A New York Men's Wear column urges readers that proper dress is a daily duty and social business sin to neglect. It stresses a good front and backing it with real ability, arguing that dressing well is mandatory in the twentieth century.
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New York
Rural manufacturer calls debts in humorous notice
A rural manufacturer prints a witty subscriber notice urging debtors to settle. It asks those who know they owe to call and settle, those unaware to call and discover, and those who refuse to call to stay where they are for the firm to reach them, as noted by Harpers Weekly.
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Harper’s Weekly
Electricity from the body, ether, and heat alike say Hovendon
Frederick Hovendon of London claims electricity, heat, and ether are a single fluid and that people exhale electricity from their fingertips. He photographs the process by placing a finger in a square glass box filled with cigarette smoke and air while an arc lamp shines from below.
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Frederick Hovendon
London
Guild of the House of God to care for English cathedrals
A proposed English organization named the Guild of the House of God would dedicate itself to caring for all English cathedrals. The plan outlines a focused mission channeling efforts toward preservation and maintenance of sacred architectural heritage.
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England
Guild of the House of God
Mosquito Plague Delays Trains In New Jersey
Quotation from Puck notes that in New Jersey mosquitoes are so dense that a herd crossing a railroad track often holds up a train.
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America
New Jersey
Puck
Merrimack visitors and Baraboo notices fill town page
Seneca Corbin visited Merrimack on business while notices from Baraboo report two young lady clerks sought at the Boston store and carpet cleaning at Baraboo steam Dye Works. Ads mention Electric Tonight program, local clubs meetings, bead loss, and a doctor’s clinic schedule by Dr. Brewer with upcoming visits to Spring Green and Warren house in the city.
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H. H. Thomas
F. P. Neeley
Pittsburg
H. J. Cone
New York
Cone
Thomas
Maude Munroe
Portia Martin
C. J. Underkofler
George McGilvra
Waupaca
Underkofler
McGilvra
W. A. Lawson
Milwaukee
Star Organization
Baraboo
Frank T. Ripley
Boston
C. C. Pratt
Ripley
Wonewoc
Columbus
Ohio
Galveston
Texas
Brewer
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Historical Society
Baraboo River
Gollmar Brothers
Okla
Enone Watonga
Elk City
Clinton
Fredrick
Mangum
Hobart
Lawton
BIG Creek Yarn
Marauder
Joseph Addison
John Bright
Seneca Corbin
Merrimack
G. A. van Pelt
Reinking Block
Stricken Blind
the Electric
Twentieth Century Club
Pine Street
H. W. Barker
J. H. Pilley
Elmer
Anna Blawasch
R. W
Arland
Williamsburg
Charles Roick
Henry Roick
Dubuque
Roick
Sun Shine Club
Ida Gibbons
Cumnock School of Oratory
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