Hudson meters fight sparks rate dispute changes
Hudson city authorities argue against compulsory meter ownership and insist state rate commission requires meters installed at city expense with a uniform charge to all consumers. Northern Wisconsin notes report officers elected and local civic happenings across Barron, Dunn, and surrounding counties.
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City of
Hudson
State Rate Commission
Northern Wisconsin State Fair Association
Chippewa Falls
A. G. Cox
Robi. B. Clark
P. F. Favill
John Horrigan
Abbess Hildegarde’s Role in Medieval Medicine
Early text describes Hildegarde of Rupertsburg near Bingen on the Rhine founding a nurse school in the twelfth century. She studied healing, taught nuns herbal use, simple compounding and dispensing, and authored Jardin de Sante, a medieval materia medica. She corresponded with popes and emperors and was later canonized.
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Hildegarde
Rupertsburg
Bingen-on-the-Rhine
Hildegard
Jardin de Sante
Materia Medica
You Don’t See Clearly Says Sarcastic Lady
A witty exchange unfolds as a Sarcastic Lady teases an Egotistic Person about eyesight. He claims perfect sight per an oculist while she implies his view is limited by using one eye. The dialogue highlights sarcasm and verbal barbs in a brief social encounter.
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Ego
Over the County News Briefs Preview Local Sickness and Visits
Special correspondence notes a Sunday with no sermon due to the minister’s illness and many residents suffering colds. Visitors include Emmett Campbell from Winona Minnesota and Charles Jordan at Charles Stoda’s home.
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Mable Bates
Ladysmith
Frank Tea
Emmett Campbell
Winona
Minn
E. C. Campbell
Charles Jordan
Charles Stoda
Wood chipping and parcel post notes in Roosevelt message
D H Richards traveled on business while Attorney Thomas went north on Wednesday. L E Bierman hauled wood to the mill and Jas Wilbert sawed wood for W J Musser. The parcel post question in President Roosevelt's message receives little attention.
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Roosevelt
State wealth tied to individual capacity and education
The passage argues that a state’s wealth and efficiency come from the working capacity and knowledge of each citizen. It emphasizes that government and institutions must actively promote the best educational development for all, through coordinated efforts like Wisconsin’s Extension Division, to increase overall wealth and welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Wisconsin
Real Estate Listings Offer Farm and Business Propositions
An agent promotes farm properties near Ladysmith and southern Wisconsin to prospective buyers. Highlights include a small poultry farm with house and barn for 550, hardwood timber options, a well-developed farm valued at 1300 with exchange potential, and two southern Wisconsin business propositions tradeable for northern Wisconsin land. 160 acres near Ladysmith at 11 per acre, with $200 annual hay value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladysmith
Wisconsin
Bare v Bare summons in Rusk County Circuit Court
Nellia Bare sues J. W. Bare in Rusk County Wisconsin. Defendant must appear within twenty days after service to defend. failure to respond may result in judgment by default. Plaintiff's attorney is Thomas & Carow of Ladysmith Wisconsin.
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J. W. Bare
State OF
Wisconsin
Thomas & Carow
P. O
Ladysmith
Rusk County
Oldest Church Organ Found on Gothland Island
In Gothland in the Baltic Sea near Visby the bones of history lie in eleven and twelfth century churches. Sundre yielded what is likely the oldest organ, its case surviving seven centuries. Pedal and manual holes resemble modern organs and paintings from 1240 adorn the exterior. The organ’s use shifted to a sacristy preserving holy vessels and vestments.
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Gothland
Baltic Sea
Visby
Sundre
Lynx Lesson Sparks Classroom Confusion With Cad Die Joke
In a playful exchange a teacher asks Tommy to describe a lynx after discussing big cats. Tommy defers, saying he thought Willie Wuggles could fill in due to his brother being a cad die, prompting a pause and a moment of humor in the classroom.
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Willie Wuggles
Tommy
Willie
Black kid gloves spark fashion fashion talk
A shopper asks for latest black kid gloves and doubts their style. The shopman says they are new, in stock two days. She notes tan stitches and learns vice versa means seven buttons in French before buying three pairs.
Not That Brand Poked By Talking Linguist
The exchange features a linguist praising Esperanto as fine and easy to acquire, while the self confident speaker resists, declaring he can talk English if desired and dismissing the language as a “potted tongue.”
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Arndt
Gust Arndt
Lyell’s Cigars
Court House
Samuel Kawalaki
Gilman
Owen
Geo. Petry
Curtis Emerson
C. McMahon
Rusk
Radisson
Ethel Grey
Roy Gardner
New Auburn
Boyceville
Barron County
Barron
Chetek
Cumberland
Rice Lake
Farmers’ Institute
Red Birch Lumber Co
Catawba
Dunn County
Antigo
Crandon
Bloomer Advocate
Chas. Scoville
Scoville
Edward Salwisky
Rhinelander
Hebron
Tomahawk
Will Gilligan
Hawaiian Islands
Alfred Frank
Trempelea County
Tony
Alfred
Waukesha Canning Co
Almena
Dallas
Soo
Ashland
Amadoy Lake
Saydee Bates
Vern Griffith
Atlanta
Robert Bates, Jr
Howard Goff
Frankie Stevens
Hawkins
William Jordan
J. W. McCart
New Hutchinson
Collins
Gladys Stevens
Flambeau
Ladies’ Aid
J. B. Burrington
D. H. Richards
Thomas
L. E. Bierman
Jas. Wilbert
W. J. Musser
D.H. Richards Real Estate
O. K
Circuit Court
Nellia Bare
D.H. Richards
Val Ty
Vienna
Tel
James A. Michaelson
Fritz
National OF
Laurids Jorgenson, Pres
Saan
J. W. Fritz
W. E. Thompson
Sasn SS
Jung
THE
Carl Jung
Nelson & Hand
Perham Logging
Allen Nursery CO
Rochester
N. Y
Gyprhodi Magazine
Ami
Munn
Scientific American
Mimn & CO
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