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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1920
Page
9
A garbled OCR text hints at medical and pharmaceutical items including powders and remedies. Mentions a lawyer physician pharmacist chain and various nonsensical brand-like terms, amounts, and a price of 1.00, conveying an obscure, broken ad fragment without clear context or readable entities.
Seventy six students will receive diplomas at tonight’s Oshkosh High School graduation in the auditorium. Speaker will be Wilson S Naylor of Lawrence College with talk on Young America and the New World. A Red Cross American Legion meeting clarified care priorities for disabled service men.
Three motorists were fined in municipal court for speeding on the Fond du Lac road near Oshkosh on June 13. Arthur J. Anderson Henry Capun and W F Roramek appeared with counsel claiming long driving histories and first arrest, paying fines and costs. Another driver, Ros Smith of Gren Bab, faced trial for following too closely and paid $14 plus costs.
Oshkosh Horticultural Society hosts a public exhibition at City Hall tomorrow afternoon and evening. Members expect a large crowd as local growers display fruits vegetables and flowering plants from Oshkosh and Winnebago County.
A disturbed OCR fragment reports an interurban vehicle collision killing two pigs along a waterway near Oshkeaths Neengh. The southbound interurban nears a fence and scattered pigs, with two killed instantly on the track.
Exhibitors are instructed to bring products in containers by tomorrow morning up to 2 pm, with judging to run until 3 pm. Recent storms have caused damage in Howrrs, bruising many promies entries. Exhibits include vegetables and fruit in Nerval sewers, with entries tied to the Northwestern submission area.
Oshkosh directors discuss a four beet sugar factory plan with Green Bay sugar men and local banks at the Athearn hotel. Representatives from Green Bay including J H Taylor and J A Kittell joined Oshkosh officials, with no definite action today and a follow up meeting planned. The proposal contemplates about 1 225 000 dollars in expenditure.
Citizens complain the Main Street bridge warning bells fail to produce a clear signal when the draw opens. They urge larger gongs on approaches farther from the draw to give drivers time to stop. Witnesses Homer Pipkorn and August Strey say no bells were heard during a near-accident, and other drivers confirm weak or faint bell signals.
Beginning today pupils in most city public schools from the fourth grade upward start final exams or semester tests. High school students began their exams Monday. Students below the fourth grade resume regular work Thursday night with final marks issued Friday. Some schools avoid commencement exercises while hosting picnics and social events before exams.
Mrs Nellie Brown widow of George T Brown sold her residence at 78 Algoma Street to Dr John F Schneider recently named head of the Oshkosh public schools health department Jennie Marvin of the Normal School faculty has occupied the Brown residence and Dr Schneider has been living at 505 Washington Street Both move to Pittsfield Mass E A Crane was the broker in the sale The consideration is said to be about 19000 dollars
Obituaries record the deaths of Mrs Wilhelmina Kleinschmit and others with service details. Kleinschmit died at her son’s home after long county residence, survived by seven children, thirty-one grandchildren and forty great grandchildren. Services planned at Tusten and Riverview Cemetery. Additional funeral notices for Mrs. Beer GerN weak and Reotone Wilson note church services and private interment.
Short notes recount an ambulance transfer to St Marys hospital for Mrs. Gorscheis and a death in De Fatur, Ia. Other items mention Measles and smallpox quarantines, a burglary trial release in Neenah, and various local engagements and repairs including paving work and municipal tours.
An apparent list from the county clerk of a Hay Hardware Co includes multiple couples and addresses such as Herbera Wi. Gane Oshkosh Ruth Flukixer Menasha and George W. Keasmans Edna Remmel Oshkosh. the note mentions Albert L. Ladman Pearl Widnes and others. A separate item records OT Stan secretary of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers association being requested by the federal tommission to attend a meeting. the meeting was postponed.
Members of the Fond du Lac Evangelical church Mens club plan a visit by auto to Fond du Lac. A committee reported contracts for the church organ and lighting, with Charles Warting overseeing decorations.
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