Wisconsin G A R elects officers at Racine encampment
The Wisconsin department G A R announces officers led by Department Commander E D P Coe of Whitewater with K B Lang Racine as Senior Vice Commander and D J Dill Prescott as Junior Vice Commander. Delegates to the national encampment include M J Rothford Altoona and J Beth Green Bay. The next encampment will meet in Eau Claire. Coe will appoint Col J A Watrous Milwaukee as assistant adjutant general. Resolutions oppose consolidation of eighteen pension agents.
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Racine
Wis
Wisconsin Department
E. D P. Coe
Whitewater
K. B. Lang
D. J. Dill
Prescott
Samuel Bell
Beloit
W. J. McKay
Madison
H. W. Rood
J. M. Rothford
Altoona
Louis Sholes
Milwaukee
H. R. Allen
Merrill
B. S. Vieders
Mauston
John Beth
Green Bay
B. F. Bryant
la Crosse
Phil Cheek
Baraboo
Eau Claire
E. D. Coe
J. A. Watrous
Vacation by Grand Trunk Railways Fare Deals
Are you unsure where to spend your vacation The Grand Trunk Railway System offers many delightful resorts with special low round trip fares. If you tell how much you can spend on railroad fare a publication detailing attractive routes and fares will be sent. Geo W Vaux A G P T A 135 Adams St Chicago.
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Grand Trunk Railway System
Geo. W. Vaux
T. A
Adams St
Chicago
Young man marries as Hillview Place lot bought
A young man marries and begins his plans by purchasing a lot in Hillview Place. Clarissa advises staying encouraged while Malinda mentions ordering a sack of Gold Medal Flour.
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Hillview Place
Clarissa
Malinda
Liberal training urged by Van Hise at Wisconsin commencement
At Madison on June 18 the fifty-fifth University of Wisconsin commencement awarded 555 degrees as President Van Hise urged liberal training and scientific research for the state. Honorary degrees were given to Calvin Milton Woodward and Frederick Belving Powers. the ceremony featured Bach’s Band and a threefold university duty to educate, assist state institutions, and expand knowledge.
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
University Armory
van Hise
Calvin Milton Woodward
College of Engineering
Washington University
St. Louis
Frederick Belving Powers
Welcome Research Laboratory
London
Power
Board of Regents
Bach
Milwaukee
George E. Hunt
the Univers
University
Ex Governor Herrick Urges Ideal University Goals
Ex Governor Myron 1 Herrick of Ohio urges Wisconsin to build an ideal university blending liberal arts with material progress. He argues for continuing pure scholarship and applied science without lowering intellectual and spiritual advancement, pledging to push the institution toward an ideal, comprehensive university in Hill View Place.
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University of Wisconsin
Two Topers A Teacher's Experience
A Minnesotan schoolteacher known as The Postum Preacher recounts liberating “coffee-pot slaves” by switching to Postum. She describes tremors from coffee, nervous prostration, and improvement after using Postum with cream, noting steadier nerves, better sleep, appetite, and health.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Woodmen Picnic Draws Big Crowd at Elroy
Elroy Wisconsin June 18 estimates place attendance at 7000 to 8000 for the eleventh annual Bara Boo Valley Woodmen's picnic. The association includes seventeen communities from Kendall to Logansville and country camps to the number of seventeen.
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Elroy
Wis
Baraboo Valley
Woodmen’s Association
Kendall
North Freedom
Merrimac
Trippville
Hillsboro
Sauk City
Wonewoc
la Valle
Reedsburg
Lodi
Logansville
Ironton
Cazenovia
Country Camps
Wisconsin plan to standardize banking law proposed
A special committee recommends a uniform banking act modeled on Wisconsin law with added power for the state banking commissioner to appoint receivers for insolvent banks. The proposal will be presented at the seventh annual convention of state bank supervisors in St Paul on June 18 to 20. Commissioner Bergh of Wisconsin will respond to Governor Johnson's welcome.
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Madison
Wis
National Association of Supervisors of State Banks
St. Paul
Wisconsin
New York
Bergh
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Steamer Causes Levee Break at Wagner's Landing
Murphysboro reports the Wagner's Landing levee on the Mississippi broke when a steamboat hugged the shore, sending waves over the embankment and flooding over 2000 acres of corn. An emergency embankment near Raddle diverted the water, protecting the bottom district of Jackson County and the lake district reclaim.
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Murphysboro
Wagner’s Landing
Mississippi River
Jackson County
Raddle
Lake District
When a woman opting out of marriage is already free
A concise remark notes that a female person who does not wish to marry is effectively already independent. It emphasizes autonomy and choice without endorsing any particular social expectation.
A Lesson in Health and Kidney Cure Claim
An advertisement claims Foley's Kidney Cure makes sound kidneys and will positively cure all forms of kidney and bladder disease. It asserts the medicine strengthens the whole system and is endorsed by O. T. Erhart.
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Foley
O. T. Erhart
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