Milwaukee Directory Sees Population Rise Amid Italian Growth
Milwaukee's new city directory places population between 360 000 and 365 000, up by about 10 000 to 12 500 from last year. Mrs A G Wright leads the effort reporting 5 000 added names, with 2 764 extra names accounting for a 6 634 population rise using a 2 4 multiplier. Italian migration expands the Third ward, prompting new canvassing and a new fruit peddler classification.
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Milwaukee
Wis
United States Census Bureau
A. G. Wright
Wright
Wisconsin Street
Austria
Wisconsin state briefs sweep through cranberry crops and crime
Grand Rapids reports a one week shutdown at Consolidated Paper and Pulp to deepen the tail race. Beloit barbers raise shaves to 15 cents and razor honing to 50 cents amid shopmen protests. Kenosha policers probe a burglary at a general store after an alleged office theft. Also: cranberries look strong. a missing priest in Turkey raises concern. multiple small notices on local incidents and municipal matters.
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Grand Rapids
Wis
Consolidated Paper and Pulp Company
Beloit
Kenosha
Postoffice
Swain A. McSwain
Appleton
Silver Lake
C. P. Wagner
Wallace Ingalls
F. H. Ehlman
Richard Thierfelder
Ehlman
Anna Thierfeld
Milwaukee Bridge Company
Racine
D. Elmer Roberts
New York State
Leo Wroclawski
Michael Higgins
New York
Steiner
Tombs Court
Wroclawski
Chippewa Falls
S. Swinson
Byron Post
Lucius O. Lee
Somers
Turkey
Lee
Presbyterian Seminary
Marash
Express firms to be investigated in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Retail Jewelers association plans to file with the Wisconsin railroad rate commission alleging discrimination by express firms. The complaint cites the transmission of jewelry in sealed 15 ounce packages and argues eastern and Chicago jewelers receive a 15 cent rate while Wisconsin cities are charged a higher jewelry rate.
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Milwaukee
Express
Wisconsin
Chicago
New York
Wisconsin Retail Jewelers’ Association
Franklin Thomson
Wisconsin Railroad Rate Commission
Preservation of paintings in a vacuum extends longevity
Painting under glass may be preserved indefinitely by placing the canvas in a vacuum. The method seals the artwork from atmospheric decay, likening it to sealing fruit. Since metal is involved in the operation, the process could allow pictures to endure indefinitely and remain in their first freshness.
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Apelles
Raphael
Michael Angelo
Darby Greely Clings to Major Belknap for Safety
During a Civil War march onto the steamer Sucker State, Darby Greely, in the Fifteenth Iowa infantry, is pulled from danger by his mother who, recognizing General William W. Belknap nearby, urges her son to stay close to the major for protection.
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William W. Belknap
Fifteenth
Iowa Infantry
Darby Greely
Darby
Banquet Banter Yields Lion Metaphor Turned Back
Hewitt jokes the banquet made him a lion, Jewett retorts home revealed a lion tamer exists. The exchange captures playful city social scene banter and local wit.
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Hewitt
Jewett
Local society notes and travels in VIROQUA
Mrs Martha Webb and her little daughter head to Nebraska for a month with relatives. Mr and Mrs Daniel Wise depart for Canada Washington and the Dakotas for a month visiting kin. Ladies host whist and bridge gatherings. Rev C E Buritters heads to Camp Douglas for sharpshooting. Frank Marshall sells horse Hattie Vernon to J B Kinder. Institute crowd gathers at M E parsonage for a charivari about expected marriage, but the couple remains unseen.
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Urumiah
Lee
Marinette
Wis
R. T. Phillips
Hall Avenue
Beloit
Ellen Morse
Walworth
J. W. Filbert
Manitowoc
Emil Heidemann
Great Lakes
Heidemann
Outer Harbor
William Kloss
Clarence Searles
Kenneth Andrew
Rock River
Addison Andrew
Neenah
Callie Babcock
Havilah Babcock
Miss Babcock
Corea
Oshkosh
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Frank Fisher
P. T. Doyle
Milwaukee
T. S. Bixby
H. H. Tholan
W. H. Smayle
Wausau
Joseph Moriset
G. C. Gehrenbach
St. Cloud
Minn
Thomas McCullough
Sioux Falls
S. D
E. N. Stanchfield
Martha Webb
Nebraska
Daniel Wise
Canada
Washington
Dakotas
E. M. Rogers
H. E. Rogers
Chas
Trowbridge
C. E. Buritters
Camp Douglas
H. P. Proctor, Jr
Rev. Jacobson
Iowa
C.M. Thompson
Marie Ovits
Frank Marshall
Hattie Vernon
J. B. Kinder
Viola
Institute
M. E
Butters
Kidney Cure Echoes in Oakville Letter
Oakville Indiana resident R A Gray expresses relief after ten years bedridden with kidney disease. He cites no relief from top medical care until Foley's Kidney Cure was recommended, calling it a Godsend. Signed O T Erhart.
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R. A. Gray
J. P
Oakville
Ind
Foley
O. T. Erhart
Drilling the Ancients and Early Military Discipline
Archaeology highlights disciplined armies in Rome Greece Persia Assyria and Egypt. Pharaoh Rameses II around 1400 B C is credited with Egypts first organized army. His early campaigns and Arab contacts reportedly led to a core trained force of over 100000 infantry cavalry and war chariots.
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Rome
Greece
Persia
Assyria
Egypt
Rameses II
Arly
Asia
Ganges
Caspian
First Man and Second Man Reminisce on Shared Fiancée
A brief exchange notes two men who were once engaged to the same woman. The first acknowledges the situation and admits the other has the advantage, humorously recalling that he married the woman while the other did not. The Philadelphia Inquirer records the witty repartee.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Money Mad Adventures Fire Engine Question
A reader wonders if a vehicle described as money mad will function, noting it now resembles a fire engine more than anything else and asking whether it will go when operated. The remark frames the puzzled, humorous tone of the adventures.
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