New Denver irrigation project aims to feed expanding crops
The article outlines Denver’s move to secure an extensive private water system to irrigate 25 miles of semi arid land around the city. It notes a U S Supreme Court ruling affirming Colorado river rights, plans for a large reservoir in two years, and the organization of the Denver Reservoir Irrigation Company. The plan envisions suburb corridors by trolley to Boulder and Greeley and a shift toward market gardens near Denver, fostering farm families and new crops.
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A Simple Remedy Against Rural Towns Trusts
D M Carr argues for home patronage to halt mail order and trust-driven decline of agricultural communities. He claims sustained local employment, stronger stores, better real estate values, and improved schools and churches depend on keeping money local and resisting large city dominated commerce.
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D. M. Carr
Schools and churches stand as nation’s moral core
A reflection on American life praising the free exercise of religion and the expansive public school system. It argues that strong towns with active schools and churches foster education, civic virtue, and national advancement, stressing the link between local vitality and higher learning.
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United States
Overlooked Opportunities in Farm Produce Trusts
The 1900 census shows vast U S egg and poultry output and farm butter and cheese production. It argues that towns with exclusive produce shops could pay farmers better prices by bypassing general stores and sending supplies to city commission houses, enabling profitable, trust-like operations.
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United States
Dairy Trusts
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Good Roads Movement Sparks Broad Savings Across Farms
The good roads movement, hailed as highly important, promises vast yearly savings for about 80 million farmers if each saves $10 through better roads. Nationally, improvements over the past years yield $50 to $100 per farmer, totaling hundreds of millions annually. Townswith agricultural bases push for road upgrades, fueling civic pride and competition. Legislatures have begun work, foreseeing major changes in highway building and maintenance over the next dozen years.
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United States
Gave Much Work to Women Invention Creates Jobs
The typewriter invention has provided work for more than 1,000,000 women across industries. It enabled new clerical roles and expanded office productivity, marking a significant shift in women’s employment opportunities.
The Cheerful Man Brightens a Humid Day
A discussion extols the cheerful man who refuses to be cast down and lifts others with his positive outlook. He notices small signs of air movement, helps others laugh at petty troubles, and turns disappointments, like a poor fishing day, into good times and appetites, uplifting the entire group.
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Mr. Knozzleton
Lettuce in Ten Minutes: Florist Claims Miracle Growth
A florist boasts a miracle method to grow lettuce in about ten minutes by soaking seeds in alcohol, planting in loam with quicklime, and watering. He says leaves appear in minutes, expanding rapidly, enough to harvest a ready salad in half an hour, even at dinner parties with a blooming centerpiece salad.
Autographs versus holographs show value gap
An antiquary notes that autographs are worth little while holographs can fetch large sums. A man destroyed grandfather letters by cutting out signatures, getting about 50 cents per signature. Had he kept the letters intact, they could have earned $100 to $500 each, a loss near $24,000 illustrating the difference.
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Washington
Aaron Burr
Hamilton
Andre
Jefferson
His Daring Bluff
A humorous dialogue about names and meanings. A woman asks who Jupiter Pluvius was and learns Pluvius is a family name, and Jupiter a Roman emperor known for a long reign. The exchange touches on rain myths and Roman history in a playful banter.
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Prisoner’s Morbid Plan Dies of Indifference
A visitor references a prisoner believed dying, but the warden notes the inmate lost interest after realizing the public did not care if he survived.
Eau Claire Market Gardener Plans County Irrigation Plant
John W. Lufkin, the county’s wealthiest market gardener, begins operations on Eau Claire county’s first irrigation plant. He backs a stream with a concrete dam and builds ditches to water 200 acres of sandy loam, aiming for a greatly expanded gardening potential.
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Eau Claire
John W. Lufkin
Increase in Jag Galaxy in Fond du Lac Saloons
In Fond du Lac a local jag ordinance requires posting portraits of habitual drunkards in all saloons with notices to saloonkeepers to deny liquor under penalty of license loss. Mat Dengel requested his photo be included to aid sobering up and a return to a decent life.
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Fond du Lac
Mat Dengel
Painters Elect Officers At Wisconsin Convention
At the third and closing day of the Wisconsin Association of Master Painters and Decorators convention officers were chosen for the ensuing year. Henry F. Moers of Racine was elected president F W Duprie of Beloit vice president Leonard Forester secretary treasurer and eight board members A C Gray Green Bay S J Brown Milwaukee John Williams Milwaukee H G Presser Racine and W E Thompson Fond du Lac named to the executive board Nicholas Ayre was chosen a trustee for three years.
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Wisconsin Association of Master Painters and Decorators
Henry F. Moers
F. W. Duprie
Beloit
Leonard Forester
A. C. Gray
Green Bay
S. J. Brown
Milwaukee
John Williams
H. G. Presser
W. BE. Thompson
Fond du Lac
Nicholas Ayre
Ends His Days in a Cell in Marinette
Thomas Casey, longtime county jail inmate known across northern Wisconsin for a two decades of cells died at a hospital from injuries received while scrubbing his cell. Once a contractor, he spent years as a steady toper and earned a permanent lodging place behind bars. His profane tongue contrasted with his grim humor, endearing him to many.
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Marinette
Thomas Casey
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Casey
Kenosha Holds Largest Single-Day Criminal Plea Class
In Kenosha County, with Judge O. T. Williams presiding, nine prisoners from the county jail entered guilty pleas in circuit court. The defendants faced felonies from forgery to burglary and grand larceny, making it the largest such cohort in a single Kenosha county court day.
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Kenosha
O. T. Williams
Milwaukee
Lawrence University Plans Conservatory of Music Reorganization
Lawrence university trustees announce a major reorganization of the school of music to create a conservatory that shall stand preeminent in its territory. A practically new faculty will greet students in music at Lawrence this fall.
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Appleton
Lawrence University
Lawrence
War on Small Boy Smoker Milwaukee
Police begin a campaign to arrest all under sixteen who smoke tobacco, including shopkeepers if the act occurs on premises not owned by the parents. The new orders target minors and enforce parental and business liability.
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Milwaukee
Bribes Offered to Mothers? Women Pressured for Delayed Matrimony
In Appleton the Fox River Paper mill superintendent S R Wagg promised twenty finishing department workers in wages to abstain from marriage for a period. Each girl would receive 15 cents extra per day.
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Jilted man fatally shoots woman in Racine case
Edna Carabo, 38, was shot and killed by Martin Gax or Martin Scholesky, 48, who had been jilted by her after she chose John Markovitch. The incident occurred in Racine as the breakup led to a deadly confrontation.
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Martin Scholesky
John Markovitch
Granite reaches Madison for state capitol West Wing
The first consignment of granite for the west wing arrived from Bethel Vermont and was hauled to the capitol park. Each block is wrapped in heavy paper and placed in heavy wooden crates to prevent chipping. Blocks are marked for wall placement and back-wall work will begin at once.
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