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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1920
Page
8
Page ad list shows assorted household goods and tonics with prices, including envelopes, toilet articles, deodorant, medicines, and patent products. Names such as Parker’s Fountain, Sloan’s Liniment, Horlick’s Malted Milk appear amid varied product lines and small price points.
The piece notes that honeymoon photography now requires a Kodak camera in addition to the bride and groom. It highlights West Pocket, Folding Autographic Kodaks, Folding Brownies, and Leather Carrying Cases as popular options for capturing wedding memories.
Visitors attend from Apple A and Berlin while Omro hosts a guest. The board of industrial education plans its monthly meeting tomorrow evening. Elks drum corps from Green Bay to Chicago convention with forty six members. Local couples Jasper G Pickett and Wah Ham Reagan spend weekend in Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay by car. Fond du Lac hosts wedding of Bernard Breister and Lorelda Kraus yesterday.
The county court with bonds of $100 acts as guardian for Jack Wilson a minor. Miss Kathryn Hert of Detroit attends the wedding of Adeline Steinhilber and will stay about a week. Mrs W S Bishop and Bessie of Pickett return from visits in Minneapolis and North Dakota. Joseph and John Ratchman arrested for vagrancy. Joseph finds employment while police seek a job for John. Two new smallpox cases plus measles and chickenpox reported since last update.
Oshkosh Elks lodge No 292 boosters call for at least 150 delegates to attend the national convention in Chicago. A special train and meals are provided. uniforms and hats supplied. The meeting urged younger members to canvass peers, with the Association of Commerce praised for support during the drive.
A city health department note appears amid varied city briefs. A sales pitch promotes Morgan white cedar shingles and Hemlock lumber with no cost estimates. Other items report smallpox cases, court continuances, transit arrests, license rush, and a death near Berlin of Bran Ellis aged 85.
Miss Mabel A. Vincent of Milwaukee High School Bible club served as director of music and entertainment at the Lake Genesee conference in Wisconsin. Forty three girls enrolled with daily programs from 7 to 10:45 p m including campfire activities and stunts. Honors awarded for promptness neatness and athletic participation with a blue triangle symbol for fifteen points. Directors from Milwaukee and other towns returned home Saturday noon after a week emphasizing comradeship.
City clerk Witzel has appointed enumerators to conduct the 1920 census of school age children in Oshkosh. The list includes W N Skowland covering wards one seven eleven. Grace Hawkins for wards two eight. Jennie Oxholm for wards three four nine. Charles T Yule for ward five. Joseph Lamer for ward six. W H Leopold for eleventh ward. James J Bowen for tenth. John D Stewert for thirteenth. Citizens are urged to aid the enumerators in counting local children.
The city will gain a sizable share of state money in the upcoming apportionment. A census is intended to enumerate all children aged four to twenty, though the text appears garbled in places.
Oshkosh men D. W. Gear and 7. E. Russell represented their club at the Rotary International Convention in Atlantic City. About 2000 attendees with 1260 delegates joined from China to Uruguay, demonstrating a high Rotary spirit. They later visited Philadelphia and New York City after the gathering.
Benjamin H Lampert son of Congressman Lampert and head of Lampert Construction was appointed by the city council to the positions of superintendent of the municipal water department and consulting engineer for the city. The appointment runs from July 1 to May 3, 1921 or until sooner terminated, with a combined salary of 33500 yearly. Lampert will earn 2500 from the water department and 1659 from the city as consulting engineer, reporting under Mayor McHenry who will remain water department manager. Lampert brings university training from Wisconsin and extensive engineering experience with the company and plant construction projects, including filtration and administration.
The report highlights Mr. Lam ipert and Mr. McFlenry with notable service in France. It notes active duty with United States engineering corps and a commission sign as captain in that branch.
Strike narrowed to five Wisconsin sites and two in Michigan as timber plants reopen in Gladstone Sagola and Newberry. Q T Swan of the Northern Helmock and Hardwood Manufacturers association reports only these locations still show possible milling. Several Michigan meetings vote to resume operations while Wisconsin plants gradually resume production.
Advertisement notes a long established line of home remedies including spices extracts soaps and toilet preparations. It promotes products claimed to have stood the test of time and invites readers to buy trusted remedies seen as reliable for many years.
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