Write-up of Marshfield Wisconsin as a hub city
The Marshfield write-up describes the city as a central Wisconsin hub with rail junctions and strong manufacturing, dairy, and lumber sectors. It notes a premier cheese district, annual dairy product value around 1.25 million, and growth driven by conservation minded industry and progressive state legislation.
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Marshfield
Christian Science Monitor
America
Wisconsin
Omaha
Europe
Orient
Hawaii
South America
Wisconsin Dairy Products
Second Annual Road School Opens in Madison
The Second Annual Road School of the Wisconsin Highway Commission will be held February 18 to 21 at the Public Library in Madison. Practicing road builders from across the state will share experience, with lectures on quarrying explosives, day labor systems, labor supply and prices, and demonstrations of road machinery and brick construction. The four day session gathers highway engineers, county commissioners, and road committees for instruction and networking.
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Wisconsin Highway Commission
Madison
H. J. Kuelling
Milwaukee County
W. M. Weeks
du Pont Powder Company
Wisconsin
WAGES ON THE FARM AND Wage Trends Since 1840
Secretary Franklin Dye of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture notes farm wages have risen since 1840 from fifty cents daily for ordinary labor and seventy five cents for harvesting to higher monthly totals. He cites 1864-65 wages at 16 to 20 dollars per month with nine months board and three months at one dollar daily. He also provides 109 figures showing 22.06 dollars per month with board and 33.69 without board and reports from eleven counties in 1912 averaging 22.33 dollars per month with board and 54.72 without board.
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Franklin Dye
New Jersey State Board of Agriculture
New Jersey
On Hin Dignity Grocer Falls Into Cellar
A grocer who recently joined the militia practices drill in his shop and falls through a trapdoor into the cellar. A woman asks about his welfare, but he sternly tells her to go away and questions her knowledge of war.
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Jim
Resolutions oppose Sunday legislation in Congress
A mass meeting at the local Seventh Day Adventist Church passed resolutions remonstrating against proposed Sunday legislation before the United States Senate in Washington D C. The gathering condemned church state union and voiced strong opposition to the measure.
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Seventh Day Adventist Church
United States Senate
Congress
Washington D.C
Adventists Oppose Sunday Legislation In Senate Move
W H Budge of the Elder church leads a unanimous remonstrance against The Johnston Sunday Bill. The Seventh Day Adventists declare Sunday laws violate church state separation and oppose enforcing Sunday observance, saloon closures, and other religious legislation.
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W. H. Budge
Senate
United States
Dider W. A. Budge
Congress
Union of Church and State
Christ
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