Nekoosa Girl Weds Dorchester Man in June Ceremony
NEKOOSA GIRL MARRIED NEKOOSA GIRL MARRIED Wekoosa Tribune-Mary, daughter of Mrs AL White, marries Mr. George Solehenberger of Dorchester Wisconsin at the family home Market St at 1 PM Tuesday June 10 Rev C A O'Neill officiating. Bridesmaid Miss Frances Solechenberger best man Will Engwall. They plan a short wedding trip then reside in Dorchester. Out of town guests include Miss Frances Selechenberger of Dorchester and Ray Cook of Yellum Washington.
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Wekoosa Tribune
Mary
AL White
George Solehenberger
Dorchester, Wiss
Market
Frances Solechenberger
Will Engwall
Dorchester
Wis
Armenia
Frances Selechenberger
Ray Cook
Yellum, Wash
Increase in Cancer Deaths in the State
Cancer has risen to nearly top of causes of death in the state with 1893 deaths in 1918 and an average about 1831 annually over the past eight years. Nationally about 89,000 die from cancer annually compared with 130,000 from tuberculosis. The disease, a major adult illness, claims one death in eight among women and one in fourteen among men over age 40, with 85 percent of deaths occurring after age 45. The trend shows cancer increasing in every civilized country.
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United States
Tve
Binoculars Return After War Service for Krohn
Black River Falls Journal notes Dr. E B Krohn lent his German bought field glasses early in the war. He received a one dollar Treasury check and a promise they would be returned if not destroyed. After eighteen months parcel post returned the glasses with a War Department certificate praising patriotism and loan. The piece praises wartime efficiency and urges reduced fault finding toward government.
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Black River Falls Journal
Germany
Europe
Army
EB. Krohn
U. S. Treasury
War Department
Holsteins Bring Big Prices at New York Sale
Holstein cattle fetched record prices at Oliver Cabana’s dispersal in New York. A bull sold for 126000, the highest ever, cows brought 40000 and 335000, a nine year old bull earned 60000, and a yearling heifer went for 22000. Total sales reached 754270 with an average 3504 per animal, confirming Holsteins as a premier dairy breed.
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Oliver Cabana
Bima Center
New York
Sunda
Beliarel Tobi
Beamer
Bulletin Et Pharmacy
Gog
Jensen Anderson buy Grand Avenue building for teardown
Jensen and Anderson have purchased the building on Grand Avenue that housed their garage and the adjoining burned structure. They began tearing down the Johnson and Hill Grocery space and will later begin work on the building they occupy. Lumber from the demolished structures will be used to construct a new garage on Fourth Avenue.
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Jensen & Anderson
Grand Avenue
Johnson & Hill Grocery
Fourth Avenue
Lightning Fatal at Buena Vista Farm Killing Boy and Horses
A 12 year old boy Henry Okray and a span of horses were struck dead by a lightning bolt at Antone Okray's Buena Vista farm during a thunderstorm. The father, unconscious and paralyzed from the hips, survived after tending the team and son as the storm approached. Neighbors carried the injured to the house where the family mourns the loss of the boy and six brothers.
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Almond Press
Antone Okray
Buena Vista
Henry Okray
Okray
Misread his Hand in France by Cor poral Bucher
A Pride of Place story from Indge, by Corporal R V Bucher of the Signal Corps, Somewhere in France. A stevedore in a base port regiment salutes an officer who misreads him as a general. The exchange reveals a comical mix up as the officer corrects the sentry who calls him captain.
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France
Darky
Rastus
Indge
R. V. Bucher
Signal Corpa
No Time Wasted Kirk Villagers Face Subscriptions Row
In a Scottish village the Kirk's Sandy McNab collected funds for repairs. The minister learns Sandy drinks at every house as he collects, since the subscriptions fund ends with a wee drappie. Sandy jokes that some kirk members are totalers.
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Sandy McNab
Sandy
Happilly
Meenister
Kirk
Les Totalers
McClary
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