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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1906
Page
1
Fragmented notices describe illnesses and obliquely named social events, a city council vote raising labor wages, theater plans by Winnniager Bros, and upcoming performances. Names include Ida Donahue, Miss Doyle, Mayor Merrill Nowar, J. Whitley, and Louis Bauman, with references to Grand Rapids and Steffanson.
Fragmented OCR text presents a garbled banking guide titled Banking Made Plain No 6. It mentions various names and scattered phrases without coherent context. The readable content includes fragments like Aegis Heyer, Cheney, and Petersen, but no clear events, dates, or outcomes to summarize.
The notice lists names of addressees awaiting mail including Mrs I Boi Coney Misa Hattie Miss Emily Thompson Nellie Wood 0 D Gentlaman Akey Lee Armstrong W H Knight Kristofski Borman Peterson Roy Flammer Hermon Bryanna Louis Stahl El Walker Tom.
Grand Rapids welcomes the Metropolitan Carnival Co with attractions on market squares for all sides. Highlights include The Lady of Flames, Zabrab the man in Red, the Palace of Mystery, the Electric Theatre showing Edison inventions, a vivid moving picture of the San Francisco disaster, a new Penny Arcade, and Parker’s modern Merry Go Round. The Marvelous Griffith performs sleight of hand with nine billiard balls, assisted by Miss Gladys Palmer, plus the Hindoo magician Zahrah and her hypnotized assistant. Bring children to enjoy the shows and marvel at wonders on stage near the light and crowd.
The Philadelphia School for Nurses buys properties at 2219 45 Chestnut Street to fund free nursing scholarships for rural and small town women. A two year program may shorten to eighteen months with home study, including room, board, uniforms, and round trip fare. A short course is offered for quicker preparation. Nearly 206 scholarships available this year.
County Superintendent Morrin leads a teachers institute this week at Lincoln High School drawing many educators from across the county. A long list of attendees includes Fred Eberhardt Alexander Koeh Ceila Vadnais Floy Borg Bert Essal in Katharine Bever Ito Snider and many more. Cranberry Men Meet At Gaynor March marks Wisconsin Cranberry Growers Association annual convention with talks on experimental station work and industry outlook.
Rowland and Clifford present Dora Thorpe a love story adapted from Bertha Clay with Maud Brandan in the title role. The company claims the only authorized version and has drawn praise, while a party including Mason Hopgood Lampoon Snyder Bergen and others sails to Winnipeg to scout timber land and homestead prospects in the West.
John Fawley hosts a Wednesday evening dance at Biron with music and supper. Roundabout runs from Dixon house at six o clock for round trips costing twenty five cents. ladies free. Wood County Normal opens August 23. applicants to meet faculty on August 21.
The local bagahall team defeated Green Bay and Grand Rapids in a nine inning contest at Waupaca on Sunday. Opponents rallied in later innings but home-side hitters led by Martersast Weekler Bandolin Dalia Yowell Wilson and FB Powell held the edge with a series of early runs and steady defense. Monday’s game against Green Bay’s Giants illustrated the visitors’ strength as they won 12 to 4, with Heeman pitching for the locals and strong late hitting from the visitors. The Nationals topped Nekoosa 11 to 10 at the air grounds on Sunday afternoon.
The couple Mixa Alvin Bealer and Charles Wagner married in a morning ceremony at St Pauls Lutheran Church Row. A wedding dinner followed at the bride’s home for many friends and relatives. Both are prominent in the city with the groom at Grand Hapids Foundry Co and the bride noted as a popular young lady. They will begin housekeeping on the west side. The Tribune extends congratulations.
Robert Menore of Nekoows injures both arms on Sunday while watching a ball game at the felt grounds. He tripped on an old wire stretched between the police. The injured man was already in a sling from a prior broken arm two months earlier. The opera house show last Friday evening My Wifes Family drew strong applause for its humor and light plot. A group of 55 UAK members and friends departed Saturday for St Peat aboard a festively decorated car for a Great Bay and Western trip, signaling a promising good time ahead.
Hornan Zager to Bertha oethke of Han. Adolph Albert to Marths of Hansen. Janes T Knoen of Viroqua to Nadia P Downing of Pitteville. Fred Ekermann to Ida Bosechen of this city. Kager to Bossert, Brow ryone at Wood and Coal.
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