Senate and Assembly Debate Rail Hours and Primary Reform
The Wisconsin Senate laid over a La Follette bill memorializing Congress to limit railroad workers hours, with Whitehead proposing suspension and Connor agreeing. The session covered election reform proposals, including cumulative voting and a post office savings bank idea, plus executive appointments such as State Veterinarian David Roberts and others pending confirmation.
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Madison
Wis
Senate
Assembly
Congress
Whitehead
Connor
Sanborn
Assemblyman
Berner
Wisconsin
Brockhausen
Harris
Milwaukee
O. L. Olen
Waupaca
Ledvina
Olen
David Roberts
Waukesha
Elmer, Grimmer
Marinette
State Board of Control
Henry D. Smith
Appleton
Board of
Saloonkeepers Seek AG Action Over Sunday Closure
La Crosse saloon keepers plan to petition Attorney General Gilbert to enforce state law closing saloons on Sundays and Wednesday evenings. Downtown owners posted notices to close all day Sunday, citing renewed reform talks among pastors, brewers, and city officials while brewers and the mayor resisted Sunday restrictions.
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la Crosse
Gilbert
Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association
Pastors’ Union
Brewers’ Association
Hoover Still Busy Swindler Targets Sioux City Victim
A notorious con artist named Hoover, who previously swindled in Rockford Dubuque Quincy and other cities for four to five thousand dollars each, appeared in Sioux City defrauding attorney and loan agent J. M. Brown of three thousand dollars. He used the alias Charles W. Newmann and other names across the country.
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Hoover
Rockford
Dubuque
Quincy
Northwest
Sioux City
J. M. Brown
Charles W. Newmann
Land o Cotton at Turner Opera House Friday Night
The singing southern musical romance The Land o Cotton will be seen at Turner Opera House Friday evening February 8. The lyric drama is new and original in construction with music by modern composers. Bartley Rice wrote the piece and appears in the lead male role. The second act unfolds on Halloween night with a host of grotesque personalities in an elaborate musical melange.
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Turner Opera House
Bartley Rice
Hallowe
Probate court February term day in county court
Tuesday was February term day in the county court with a calendar listing claims Franklin Patterson William Aspel Frank Broughton Israel J Smith Wm Mevins Wm Brown Henry P Johnson Frances Robertson Michael Joy Final Settlement Edw C Wenger H W Martin Gottfried Butt Wm Mevius Yost Altman Martin Conway Probate of Wills J FF Phillips Lydia Stuart Helen Holmes Charlton Anna Elmer Ephrai Miller Wm Hein Administration Fred J Becker Melchair Figi Geo Bleiler
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Franklin Patterson
William Aspel
Frank Broughton
Israel J. Smith
Wm. Mevins
Wm. Brown
Henry P. Johnson
Frances Robertson Michael Joy
Edw
C. Wenger
H. W. Martin
Gottfried Butt
Wm. Mevius
Yost Altman
Martin Conway
J. FF. Phillips
Lydia Stuart
Helen Holmes Charlton
Anna Elmer
Ephrai Miller
Wm. Hein
Fred J. Becker
Melchair Figi
Geo. Bleiler
Wright to face rail rate commission hearing in Madison
Colin W Wright will appear before the railroad rate commission in Madison next Tuesday. The Milwaukee Road seeks a hearing on the propriety of providing certain information in response to Wrights request. The company offers passenger data in two paragraphs but objects to eight others. It will supply passenger counts receipts and arrival times only. Wright sought freight and total receipts information.
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Colin W. Wright
Madison
Railroad Rate Commission
Milwaukee Road
Wright
Mineral Point
Cattle Sale Rules Tied to Tuberculosis Certification
The state livestock sanitary board proposes a bill next session to ban cattle sales in the state for breeding show or dairy use unless a veterinary certificate shows cattle are free of tuberculosis within six months of sale. Violations carry a fine from 50 to 100 dollars. Also a patent medicine ad touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea at 35 cents.
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State Livestock Sanitary Board
Local Notices Touch Several Families and Deaths
Mrs. Joe Miller dies in Kansas at almost eighty. funeral held at Beam Chapel with four daughters surviving. Albert C. Miner of Valparaiso Indiana, brother of local residents, dies January 16 1907. funeral at Valparaiso Christian church with large attendance and Graceland burial. Other updates include visits between families and illnesses in the Twin Grove area.
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Joe Bradley
Janesville
Seth Bradley
Oakley
Austin Myers
Joe Miller
Gladfellow
Kansas
James Chadwick
Beam Chapel
Barnhill
Sam Holmes
Bert Orton
John Boyer
Lula Tracy
Monroe
Carrie Ostrander
Berry
James Berry
John Myers
Olive Whitehead
Albert C. Miner
Valparaiso
Indiana
William Carter
Christian Church
Valpariso
J. O. Smith
E. L. Loomis
M. E Bogarte
A. J. Londerback
J. H. Cloud
J. E. Roessler
George W. Neet
Graceland
Notice to Settle by Dr. R. B. Clark
Notice to settle debts owed to Dr. R B Clark. Call at his office in the Commercial Bank building or at the store to settle within 30 days. Accounts not settled will be placed in the hands of a collector. Dr. R B Clark.
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R.B. Clark
Commercial Bank
R. B. Clark
Also Mentioned on This Page
la Follette Service Act
Commissioners of Fisheries
Laurence
P. Mayer
Hudson
Board of Health and Vital Statistics
Q. C. Sutherland
J. Q. Emery
Albion
Dairy and
Roberts
the Times
Probate
Live Stock Board
Hollister
A. F. Lichtenwalner
Twin Grove
Andy Kryder
John D. German
East Side Square
Monroe, Wis
Opera House
Schneider Bros. Shoe Store
Stephenson Street
Freeport, Ill
J. S. Clark
W. B. Monroe
C. E. Secor, M. D
Benkert & Stauffacher South Side Square
THE
Citizens Bank
WM. Kelley
Prop
South Jackson Street
P. S
M. ED
Robert O. Bowman
Methodist Church
Times
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