Los Angeles Booms with Big Factory Plans and Real Estate Deals
The city cells a Durant factory site plan and multi story structures on Seventh street. Sisters who taught in Los Angeles pooled funds to buy Casa Verdun and La Ramada for 100000. Los Angeles reports record bank clearings and new theatres, hotels, and mills.
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Durant
R. C. Durant
New York City
Seventh Street
Balboa Hotel
Pixel
California
Glendale
Los Angeles
Graumans Metropolitan Theatre
Sixth and Hill
Great Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Iowa
C. F. Braun Co
San Francisco
U. S
New York
A. P. Johnsons
Olive
Owl Drug Co
Fifth and
Hill Street
Gepard
Wilshir
New Principal for Sauk County Normal School
At the Sauk County Training School Board meeting on the 19th Prin H S Hemenway was unanimously re elected with a 2600 dollar salary. He declines the offer. Miss Ellen B MacDonald of Oconto was elected principal in case he declines. Miss Irene McMillan and Miss Elizabeth Skinner were re elected as assistants.
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Sauk Co. Training School Board
Prin. H. S. Hemenway
Hemenway
Ellen B. MacDonald
Oconto
Irene McMillan
Elizabeth Skinner
Poet Maher Publishes Satirical Verse at 1356144 Margo Street
Mike and Hanna Maher of 1356144 Margo Street Los Angeles send a poem titled The Way of the World a critique on wealth status and social pretenses. The piece by B A Brininstool notes how fortune buys attention yet leads to loneliness when fortunes fade.
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Mike & Hanna Maher
Margo Street
Los Angeles
Cal
Maher
Inhaling Gas Incident At County Jail
William Peck, held on a robbery charge in Ableman, was found unconscious in a jail cell after gas fumes filled the room from two burners. Rescued by Sheriff Neitzel and later revived, he is now conscious but weak in Baraboo hospital. Police suspect distress or intent to harm.
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William Peck
Bastile
Ableman
Baraboo
Neitzel
G. W. Snyder
H. E. Cole
S. J. Hood
Clifford M. LaMar
A. S. Kingsford
Citizen Cornelis Donahue Found Dead in Baraboo River
The Baraboo resident Cornelis Donahue, born in Cork in 1850, was found near the Elizabeth street foot of Ringlingville after leaving his son’s home. The body showed he carried green leaves. no inquest was held. Funeral services were at St Joseph’s church with interment in St Michael cemetery.
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Cornelis Donahue
Baraboo
Elizabeth Street
Ringlingville
Melzi & Mee Gann
Donahue
Mound Street
Dennis Donahue
Manston
Water Street
City Hotel
Elizabeth
John M. Donahue
Ernest Sceales
H. J. Bohn
St. Joseph’s Church
Fr. E. C. O’reilly
Melzis
Thomas McMahon
Timothy Desmond
M. J. Coughlin
Joseph McEnany
John Troy
W. H. Hamilton
St. Michael Cemetery
Moriarty
Minneapolis
Mrs. Heils
St. Paul
Mr. Donahue
Cork
Ireland
America
Bridget Crawley
John M
Dennis
R. J. Reinhold
Baraboo Memorial Day honors three wars veterans
Memorial Day ceremonies in Baraboo honored soldiers from three wars. G A R and W R C members led morning events at the cemetery with a flag display and a World War procession. Afternoon services at First M E Church included prayers, proclamations, and remarks by Attorney Frank R. Bentley praising veterans and the cause of liberty.
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Baraboo
G. A. R. Lot
James Dibble
D. M. Quiggle
Sons of Veterans
George Hammermeister
R. M. Laurenson
Trinity Episcopal Church
Tas
F. R. Bentley
M.E. Church
Adolph Andre
Joe Hooker
Kenneth H. Conway
W. W. Moore
John A. Logan
Alton E. Cady
Lincoln
Frank B. Moss
Frank R. Bentley
France
Prairie du Sac Bridge Opens To Public In June
The Wisconsin highway commission reports the Prairie du Sac bridge will likely open to traffic by mid June. Fremont and Wisconsin Rapids bridges have completed plans, Sauk City progress continues, and overall bridge construction costs have fallen with hope for contracted work within appropriations.
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Prairie DU Sac
The
Wisconsin Highway Commission
Fremont
Wisconsin Rapids
Sauk City
Grace Lusk Attends Father Funeral Amid Penitentiary Custody
Grace Lusk, former Waukesha teacher and 1917 murder defendant, was granted permission by Waupun Warden Towne to attend the funeral of her father Dr A P Lusk in Wausau. The service at the Masonic lodge in Mosinee and burial at Stoughton proceeded Monday. She returned to the penitentiary afterward under guard.
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Grace Lusk
Waukesha
State Penitentiary
David Roberts
Bravery recipient Jose Cruze executed for murder in Spain
Jose Cruze, a twice decorated soldier with two War Crosses, was executed in Spain for the murder of his landlady. The case ties his battlefield bravery to a fatal crime leading to the sentence.
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Jose Cruze
Spain
Baraboo Wins Third Game From Kilbourn
Baraboo High School baseball defeated Kilbourn 13 to 5 marking the third win over Kilbourn this season. Haugh and Ruhland pitched well and Mould and Rothman contributed strong base running and defense. Substitutions included Higgins for Veling and Smith for Peterson.
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Baraboo
Kilbourn
Kilbourn High School
Baraboo Battery
Haugh
Ruhland
Mould
Baraboo Kilbourn
R. Thom Mould
Thom Prine
Taleb
Rooney
Folleth Haugh
Kane Hanson
Waterman Cooper
Flickner
Veling
Od Smith Peterson II
Morris Baraboo
Peterson
O’neil
Morris
Sauk City High School
Fortnightly Literary Club Holds Its Thirty First Annual Banquet
Rainy Friday evening did not dampen attendance as nearly sixty members and friends gathered at the Morris hotel on Mirror Lake for the Fortnightly Literary Club’s 31st annual banquet. Secretary Griggs led with roll call and witty quips while President Cole outlined next year’s program featuring talks on nature, capitalism, Bergson, democracy and more by members and guests across months from October to May.
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Morris
Mirror Lake
R. B. Griggs
H. B. Cole
Paton McGilvray Son of UW Professor Murder Suspected in Boston
Four bullets found in Paton McGilvray body lead Dr. C H Bunting pathologist to declare murder. The University of Wisconsin professor father in Madison seeks the killer as Boston police had treated the death as self inflicted. McGilvray served in the A E F and held Italian front decorations.
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Paton McGilvray
University OF Wisconsin
Boston
C. H. Bunting
Mcnday
McGilvray
The
University At Madison
Bunting
W. F. Lorenz
Psychiatric Institute At
Madison
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Mike
Hanna Maher
Sauk CO
B. A. Brininstool
Cornelius Donahue
Baraboo River
Richard Brandt
American Legion
Norman Quale
C. M. LaMar
R. Hirschinger
Clarence Farnworth
T. B. Towle
Jennie Thomas
Belle Wood
A. S
George V. Moore
A. R
L. H. Palmer
George Hanson
H. Koppke
O. H. Hulbert
Kramer
Ketchum
Ella Barber
KK. L. Palmer
Walnut Hill
Ralph Ketchum
R. J. Martiny
Guy Plummer
Frank Carlisch
Transportation Committee
Arthur P. Cheek
Carl DuBois
Oscar Doppler
R. P. Plummer
Charles Rote
C. E. Rissley
W. C. Johnson
W. O. Pietzsch
Pietzsch
Nathan Farnworth
Bentley
Milwaukee
Washington
McKinley
Roosevelt
Wilson
Europe
J. W. Herrington
A. Fry
L. Anderson
Grage Lusk
Morris Hotel
John Burroughs
Dean H. L. Russell
Leta Johnson
J. E. English
G . W. Andrews
A. C. Kingsford
Henri Bergson
BE. M. Adams
Bergson
Emma Gattiker
Clara T. Runge
Man
A. Reinking
M. C. Crandall
Christina Wright
Power
F. H. Horstman
the Jew In
G. T. Thaerer
the Zionist Movement
FE. C. Henke
S. A. Pelton
Ralf T. Runge
Clifforad M. LaMar
C. F. Stekl
Rait T. Runge
Margaret Hill
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