Baraboo social notes and local travels widen weekend life
Frequent visitors mingle through Baraboo and Devils Lake areas as families host reunions and motor journeys. Milestones include a Woodworth birthday gathering with relatives from Huron and Baraboo, trips by Welch family toward Idaho, and a church or charity tone as residents share news of guests, travel plans, and local incidents.
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Boo
H. C. Ladewig
S. P. McCarren
Manchester
Iowa
Jennie
Minneapolis
George Sensenbrenner
Hyacinth
Menasha
Devils Lake
J. E. Stekl
Wisconsin
Badger
Chas. Woodworth
Levi Woodworth
Howard Woodworth
Frank Woodworth and Son
Huron
S. D
Clay Alley
Jess Woodworth
Zella Woodworth
Ethel Hale
Arthur
Herb Rosine
Baraboo
H. G. Welch
Sandy Point
Idaho
Lake Pend de Orelle
Welch
Lsste
Spokane
Wash
Columbia River Highway
Portland
Oregon
Henry Dick
Justice Halsted
Byron Stevens
Frank Grone
Ivarold Green
George Hickey
Obituary: Mrs William Brew of Kilbourn Dies at Home
Kilbourn resident Mrs William Brew died at her Kilbourn home Tuesday after a prior surgical operation. She leaves her husband and a son.
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Wm. Brew
Kilbourn
Clarence Clark Jr. Dies at 31 in Michigan City Indiana
Clarence Clark and Mrs J J Clark received a telegram this morning announcing the death of their youngest son Clarence Clark at his home in Michigan City Indiana He was 31 Mr and Mrs Clark will depart immediately for Indiana.
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Clarence Clark
J. J. Clark
Michigan City
Ind
Kapelka and Fitzsimmons Tie In City Ceremony
Mrried Kapelka Fitzsimmons and Miss Ruth Fitzsimmons daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Fitzsimmons were married Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock. Rev C E Weed performed the ceremony under an arch prettily decorated. The double ring ceremony featured the bride in white silk with veil and a bouquet of white carnations. Attendants were the bride’s sister Lena and the groom’s cousin. A wedding dinner for about 45 guests followed at six o'clock and the couple will reside at the bride's parental home.
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Ruth Fitzsimmons
Peter Fitzsimmons
Herman O. Kapelka
C. E. Weed
Lena
Miss Ruby Dawn Murray Weds Micheal Beaver in Simple Home Service
This afternoon at one Rev. E O Coontz hosted the ceremony at his residence as Miss Ruby Dawn Murray, daughter of United, married Micheal Beaver with a double ring rite. Attendants Miss Ruth Prothero and William Paske. Bride wore white silk voile and carried a bouquet of sweet peas and ferns. Bridesmaid also wore white with sweet peas. The couple left for a short wedding trip and will reside on Sixth Street.
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E. O. Coontz
Ruby Dawn Murray
Micheal Beaver
Ruth Prothero
William Paske
Sxth Street
Wisconsin welcomes new UW faculty member Arthur J. Mertzke
Professor Arthur J. Mertzke, formerly of Baraboo, and Miss Virginia Dearborn were married in Riverside California. He met his bride at Pomona College and will join the University of Wisconsin faculty this school year. His parents are Mr and Mrs August Mertzke of Baraboo.
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Baraboo
Arthur J. Mertzke
Virginia Dearborn
Riverside
California
Deep Marshes Restate Public Navigability in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that marsh land turned by rising waters into navigable water becomes public water. Public retains hunting and fishing rights and states cannot alter this via reclamation or drainage acts. The Bay Boom Wild Rice and Fur Company case from Menasha framed the decision.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court
Wisconsin
Bay Boom Wild Rice and Fur Company
Menasha
Tennessee Republican Leaders Press for Suffrage Vote
Republican leaders in Tennessee urge Republican members of the legislature to back the suffrage amendment, signaling a coordinated bid to push the measure forward.
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Tenn
Tennessee
Hall of Fame for Trees Compiled by American Forestry
The American Forestry Association is compiling a Hall of Fame for trees. Proposed entries include the De Soto Oak of Tampa Florida the Octopus Tree in Charles City County Virginia and the Great Tree on Boston Common blown down February 15 1918 and the Green Tree Hotel at Le Claire Iowa an elm known to Mississippi River boatmen as a waiting place for job seekers.
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American Forestry Association
Tampa
Florida
Mississippi
Charles City
Virginia
Boston Common
le Claire
Iowa
Great pageant to be given at Wisconsin University
Almost 1,000 persons will take part in a pageant and song festival on August 2 at the University of Wisconsin. Summer session students and teachers stage The Living Circle a pageant of community life with a climax of song and light effects at the agricultural pavilion.
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Wisconsin University
University of Wisconsin
Agricultural Pavilion
Myrtle Named Girl Inspires Quick Poetry Rhymes
A Chicago comedian shares a playful verse about fitting the name Myrtle into a rhyme. The piece humorously notes the challenge of a suitor with no prior Myrtle in mind and offers a short rhymed couplet ending with Myrtle as a turtle dove.
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Myrtle
Chicago
Turtle
Robert Bacon Estate Valued at 7.6 Million
The estate of Robert Bacon, former U S ambassador to France and former J P Morgan & Co executive, died in May 1919. A transfer tax appraisal filed by the state comptroller shows a gross estate of 7 585 565 dollars.
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Robert Bacon
United States
France
Financial House
J. P. Morgan & Co
State Comptroler
Menasha Brewers Fined for Manufacturing Beer
The Walters Brewing Co of Menasha was fined $1,000 by Judge Geiger after entering a guilty plea to manufacturing 400 barrels of beer in May. The beer ranged from 2.4 to 4.8 percent.
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Walters Brewing Co
Menasha
Geiger
Extinguishing Fire With Talcum Powder At Plant
Firefighters smothered a naphthalene blaze at Chatfield Manufacturing Co by dumping eight 50 pound sacks of talcum powder into a 5000 gallon storage tank. The $18,000 fire was likely caused by heat from two large napthalene stills. The talcum stock was kept on site for emergency use.
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Chatfield Manufacturing Co
Illinois coal mines set to reopen Thursday expected near normal output
Operators and miners officials forecast on Monday night that 90 percent of Illinois mines would be operating today and that Thursday would bring a return to near normal production levels across the state.
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Illinois
Petition to compel peace declaration dismissed by judge
Chief Justice McCoy of the district of Columbia supreme court dismissed the petition to compel Secretary Colby to publish the peace resolution vetoed by President Wilson and declare the United States at peace with Germany and Austria.
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McCoy
Distrit
Columbia Supreme Court
Colby
Wilson
United States
Germany
Austria
Oat Crops Average Fifty Bushels an Acre in Wisconsin
Oat harvests in Wisconsin are in full sway with yields generally promised from forty to fifty bushels per acre. The spring wheat crop is a partial failure due to hot moist weather in June as heads were forming.
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Wisconsin
Badger Aeroplane Co Formed in Sparta
A new Sparta enterprise, the Badger Aeroplane Co, announces exhibitions rides and a school of aeronautics to promote flight activity in the region.
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Aeroplane Company
Sparta
Badger Aeroplane Co
Two Die As Car Strikes Pole On Michigan Ave
A touring car sped along Michigan Avenue Chicago and crashed into a boulevard electric pole killing Mrs. Jesse Brown and driver Robert J. Bock. John Healy a cattle dealer was probably fatally injured.
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Michigan Boulevard
Chicago
Jesse Brown
Robert J. Bock
John Healy
Frisg Aerial Mail Service In September
Air mail service from New York to San Francisco is expected to be inaugurated for the first week in September. Assistant Postmaster General Praeger announced on Tuesday at a press briefing in Washington.
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New York
San Francisco
Praeger
Naval Officer Dies Jump From Fourth Floor Window
Lieut. Benjamin F. Himman of the U S N on leave from the Great Lakes Training Station Chicago leaped from a fourth floor window in his sister’s home in New York Friday and was instantly killed after suffering a nervous breakdown. He served in the legal department at Great Lakes.
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Benjamin F. Himman
Great Lakes
Chicago
Walter R. Root
New York
Himman
Great Lakes Station
87 year old woman enjoys flight at Camp Edwards
Mrs J C Goff of New York age 87 tried flying at Camp Edwards Sea Girl New Jersey and approved the experience. She asked if she was too old and was told not at all by Lieut Paul Micelli who strapped her into the passenger cockpit.
Sugar hoarder faces prison time in federal case
A Lessen, operator of a small grocery store in New York, was convicted of sugar hoarding and faces a two year prison sentence. Testimony showed he once held about 200000 pounds of sugar in warehouses.
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A. Lessen
New York
Lessen
Largest Georgia moonshine still seized in raid near Starkville
Federal Prohibition Agent Garnett W Sage reports the capture of a 900 gallon moonshine still, the union of 500 and 400 gallon outfits, in Blue Springs near Starkville Georgia. One white man and a negro fled into a swamp while one negro was arrested.
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Georgia
Prohibition
Garnett W. Sage
Blue Springs
Starkville
Titanic survivor Catherine Crosby dies in Milwaukee
Catherine E. Crosby, one of the few survivors of the ocean liner Titanic, died at her Milwaukee home at age 72.
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Milwaukee
Catherine E. Crosby
Speculation in Coal Exports to Be Eliminated
Operators at a Washington meeting on Friday moved to eliminate speculation in coal shipments from mines to tidewater ports. They discussed export and transshipment to American ports to curb price manipulation.
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Washington
Tidewater
One Dead Two Hurt In Milwaukee Dairy Truck Crash
A Gridley Dairy Co. truck crashed into a wagon on Friday near Milwaukee, killing one man and injuring two others.
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Gridley Dairy Co
Milwaukee
Abandon Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville Ky
The War Department announced on Wednesday that Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville will be abandoned. The 1st Division stationed there is to be transferred to Camp Dix, New Jersey.
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Camp Zachary Taylor
Louisville
War Department
Washington
Camp Dix
Nid
Hundreds of French Bridges Destroyed in World War
World War devastation stretches to France where about six hundred bridges of all types were destroyed by German or Allied forces. The loss highlights extensive damage across the country as strategic targets fell.
Turkish cabinet resigns as new ministry formed
The Turkish cabinet has resigned and a new ministry is being formed by the grand vizier. The reshuffle signals a transition in government leadership and administrative priorities.
U S Plans to Deport 2000 Hindu Aliens
Immigration authorities initiate a broad removal of Hindus in the United States with Ellis Island processing of twenty seven Singhalese from western Pennsylvania. Officials estimate about 2000 Hindus and others entered unlawfully, linked to eastern barren districts.
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United States
Ellis Island
Pennsylvania
Carpenter Falls Six Stories in Los Angeles
George Warden a 23 year old carpenter fell six stories in Los Angeles. He suffered a broken rib with no other injuries found by surgeons.
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Carpenter
George Warden
Los Angeles
Whisky and Distillery Sold for 769347 dollars
Old Jordan distillery and 400000 gallons of hisky have been sold to several New York capitalists for 769347 dollars. The building will be dismantled and the machinery will be taken to Cuba where it will be set up again.
Man killed as brass foundry oven explodes
Frank Wilton aged 25 of Chicago is dead after a gas oven exploded at the Binkmann Brass foundry in the city.
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Frank Wilton
Chicago
Binkmann Brass Foundry
Aviation Post Burns Six Planes Destroyed
Fire of undetermined origin at Scott field five miles east of Belleville Illinois destroyed a hangar six airplanes and several Liberty motors. Damage estimated at 100000 dollars.
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Scott Field
Belleville, Ill
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