Wisconsin town meetings shift to Australian primary system
Wisconsin legislation signs a broad reform of town and village meetings. The Bichler measure establishes caucuses seven days before elections, primary nomination by caucus or electors, and Australian style official ballots. The change, praised as home-rule expansion, accompanies several other bills on urban governance and state services.
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Wisconsin Police Chiefs elect Malone Calder and McKay
The Wisconsin Police Chiefs Association in Neenah unanimously elected Thomas R. Malone of Wausau as president Don McKay of Waukesha as secretary and treasurer and Thormas Calder of Merrill as vice president Waukee was chosen as the next meeting place Chief H C Baker of Racing spoke on law enforcement citing social evil and Sunday clogging as major police problems.
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Thormas Calder
Merrill
Waukee
H. C. Baker
$2,000 Rug Purchase Sparks Navy Secretary Debate
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels admired artistic Persian rugs but balked at a $2,000 price tag for office furnishings. He declined to sign a warrant stating the allowance would lapse if not used, joking that democratic simplicity could not justify the cost and ordered the rugs removed.
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NAILS UP WIFE TO STOP TALK IN Jersey City Suit
Mary L Cerem filed for divorce from Dennis Carent accusing cruelty including nailing up windows to stop gossip with neighbors. The couple formerly lived on West Hamilton Place Jersey City and have two children. Carent sought desertion but the court denied a decree. They were married about 25 years.
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Carents
Moonshiners and the mountain whiskey myth explodes
A rambling, period voice portrays moonshiners as sly yet generous figures in Powahontas and surrounding areas. It explains a strict local police-like watch, the danger of outsiders, and a mock guide to obtaining illegal liquor. The piece links peach and fruit abundance to illicit whisky production and its social toll.
Moonshiner Sees Law as Persecution Not Justice
In the case at hand the subject argues the government allows market sale of raw products on lands without a license and questions the justice of penalizing transforming and selling those products without a license. He frames the moonshiner as a victim of detection and capture, not a guilty party.
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Where is Gour Queen Mary in England today
The Weekly Graph debates gender roles sparked by an American editor's remark that English women are treated poorly. It cites Price on England as a man's country and questions the influence of Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra versus American women readers.
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Bees Swarm Beard Kills Man in Wind Gap Shed
Pat Jeremiah Kramer, 72, was stung by a swarm that enveloped his face and head in his wagon shed on Wind Gap road. He fought the bees until unconscious and died three hours later despite medical aid. His son found him with bees on his head, arms, and neck, swelling his features to twice their size.
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State Happenings From Across Wisconsin
A fragmented long list covers myriad local incidents from Iron River to Kenosha. A sawmill owned by Hines Lumber in Iron River was destroyed by lightning with $50,000 dam age. other notes include a Waukesha county teachers institute set for August 11 to 16. a Toland farmer, seventeen, died by suicide near Oconomowoc. a Cana dian bride’s wedding disruption in La Crosse. and updates on marriages, fires, rescues, and deaths across Phillips, Colfax, New Richmond, Marinette, Eau Claire, Green Bay, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, La Grange, and Kenosha with various accidents, arrests, and institutional events.
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