Rural Carriers Trend Toward High Tech Mail Delivery
Baraboo rural carriers emerge as progressive figures amid humor and speculation on future delivery. Routes 5 4 1 8 feature talk of Halley’s Comet transport wireless systems via Marconi and aerials as the imagined next step. Patents to harness cyclones and tornadoes surface alongside plans for electric circuits and faster, reliable mail routes.
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Baraboo
George de Koeyer
Route 5
Halley
Colorado
Kid Bumr
Charles W. Thomas
Route 4
Green House
Marconi
Frank Plummer
Peary
North Pole
3.Plummer
W. W. Morse
Riel Plummer
Route 8
Kilbourn
Prairie du Lac
Passes a milestone as George Weirich turns 75
George Weirich of Sauk Prairie celebrates his 75th birthday. Born in Germany he came to America with his family in childhood. The Weirich family traveled from Cleveland to Kenosha then settled on Sauk Prairie, with George later working in pineries and river rafts before settling in Baraboo area. His sons include Edward in West Superior and Emil and Louis in Baraboo. daughters Mrs H A Ochsner in Honey Creek and Mrs Fred Gollmar in Baraboo.
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George Weirich
Sauk Prairie
Germany
America
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Kenosha
Sumpter
Mineral Point
George
Weirich
Pineries
Weirich Bros
Baraboo
Edward Weirich
West Superior
H. A. Ochsner
Honey Creek
Fred Gollmar
Emil and
Louis Weirich
Local critics rail at opportunistic campaign touts and farm life
A columnist derides season political candidates and their public grandstanding. He mocks self promoters who promise big public works while farmers struggle with crooked corn rows and a stubborn field. The piece uses farm anecdotes to argue people should mind their own business.
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Panama Canal
Board of Supervisors
Court House
Improvements at Devils Lake Depot and Lake View Hotel
General Manager Aishton and Northwestern officers inspected Devils Lake on October 1 and approved a new crossing depot on the public road east of Lake View hotel. A gravel road and public pier will be built, eliminating private property disputes. The Lake View hotel will be refurbished with cement walks around the building and grounds, and overall improvements planned for the coming season.
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Aishton
Northwestern
Devils Lake
Lake View Hotel
Who Wrote the Fre Letters
Denver investigation into anonymous letters continues with a closed hearing led by U S Attorney H H Morgan Postal Inspector J P Walker and state fire marshal officials. Rumor says two parties admitted writing the letters as authorities question witnesses in this city.
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United States Postal Department
Denver
United States
H. H. Morgan
J. P. Walker
J. M. Sexton
T. M. Purtell
Prairie du Sac News
Death of Merrimack Town Boy Henry Thoelke
The funeral for six year old Henry F. Thoelke, son of Henry Thoelke, Merrimack town, was held this afternoon at home with interment at Kern's corners. He died October 2 from convulsions, a condition he had suffered since age one and a half, after illness began at eleven. His mother died less than a year ago, leaving him with one surviving sister and one younger son.
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Henry F. Thoelke
Henry Thoelke
Merrimack Town
Kern’s Corners
Thoelke
Death of Frank Crivits in Wisconsin
Frank Crivits a Baraboo railroad dispatcher dies at 25 in Galesville Wisconsin after a long illness with consumption and a trip to New Mexico for health He is survived by his wife and parents and was married shortly before leaving Baraboo Funeral likely Monday in Galesville
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New Mexico
Frank Crivits
Baraboo
Northwestern Railway
Galesville
Wis
Crivits
West
Rosebud lands draw opens in South Dakota Oct 1908
The U S land department announces an official opening for Rosebud Tripp county lands in southeast South Dakota with registration points at Dallas Gregory Chamberlain Presho and other towns. Registration runs Oct 5 to 17 1908 with drawing Oct 19 at Dallas. Entry requires payment of 4 50 or 6 per acre and one fifth of purchase price at entry. 160 acres maximum. Soldiers and sailors may appoint agents.
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Rosebud
Tripp County
Dallas
S. D
W. B. Kniskern
Chicago
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
U. S. Land Department
Tripp
South Dakota
Chamberlain
Gregory
Presho
O’neil
Valentine
Neb
James W. Witten
Justice Andro Weds John H Gluth and Lillie L Born
John H Gluth of Kreedom and Lillie L Born of Honey Creek were married by Justice Adolph Andro in Baraboo. Attendants were Henry Born and Tillie Kopf of Leland. The couple will reside in Freedom.
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John H. Gluth
Kreedom
Lillie L. Born
Honey Creek
Baraboo
Adolph Andro
Henry Born
Tillie Kopf
Leland
Cane sugar making described by Walter Wight in the South
Walter Wight of Foley Alabama describes the cane growing and sugar making process in the south. He details planting in April rows four feet apart six inches deep harvesting before the first frost pressing at mills boiling juice in pine knot fires and cooling in troughs before storage in kegs. He notes long keep time if sealed.
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Walter Wight
Foley, Ala
Baraboo
Southland
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Mcans
Egypt
Frank Grivits
Gales
Ville, Wis
Chicago & North Western
Meyer
Brule
Paul
Justice Andro
Bowen
Milwaukee
Jaquish
Ida Gibbons
Robert
Madison
James. Bidwell
Easton
Adams County
George B. Gibbons
Park Street
Walter G. Wight
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