John W Gates Sells Lakes Fleet for 5.25 Million
John W Gates and associates move a twelve-ship sale to American Steel & Wire, including the Gates and Empire City vessels. The deal, valued at 5.25 million, yields estate profits amid signals of easing ore carriage profits and lower future rates. Board of Health orders closure of schools and bans public gatherings to curb diphtheria and other diseases, urging citizen cooperation and quarantined compliance.
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Duluth
American Steamship Company
American Steel & Wire Company
Lakes
Gates
Hill
Edenborn
Elwood
Zenith City
Empire City
Queen City
Crescent City
Superior City
W. H. Gilbert
Palmer
American Steel and Wire Company
Condolence Resolution for Olson and Bereaved Family
North Star Tent No. 4 Knights of the Maccabees adopted a resolution expressing heartfelt condolence to Gilbert Olson and family after the death of their child Victor. Lina Haugen died of croup at about eleven and was buried. Foresters court reports prosperity and praise Deputy Supreme Chief Ranger Miss Davis for praising their degree work. Several candidates will be initiated soon.
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Seeley
John
North Star
Knights of the Maccabees
Gilbert Olson
Victor
Olson
Brother Olson
Tosras Oscar
M. Jerome
E. Bryan
Lina Haugen
Thomas Haugen
Ladies Court of Independent Order of Foresters
Davis
Thanksgiving Number of the Saturday Evening Post
The November 10 issue features The Thanksgiving number with Harrison Fisher cover art and articles by John W. Foster Frank A Vanderlip Carter H Harrison Major Arthur Griffiths and Captain John J Healy. It notes smallpox concerns vaccination rates and health measures in the city tied to a broader wartime vaccination push.
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Saturday Evening Post
Harrison Fisher
John W. Foster
Frank A. Vanderlip
Wolseley
John J. Healy
Brand Whitlock
Charles Battell Loomis
Burton Harrison
Harvard
Charles Malecomb Flandrau
Mooswa
W. A. Fraser
Enry ‘Iggins
Eart
Ozy B. Orr
Holman F. Day
Department of Men and Women of the Hour
Frank W. Thomas
Dying Judge McCloud In Isolation On Bass Island
S A Brown visits Bass Island to find Judge McCloud gravely ill and nearly blind. The former La Pointe County official lived alone, cared for by Brown, with an organ and a cat as his only companions. Once a leading northern Wisconsin figure, his end nears.
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Bayfield
Judge McCloud
Wisconsin
LaPointe County
Bass Island
Washburn notices set sale details and health closure
Auction ad, diphtheria cases prompt Washburn Board of Health to close all schools and gatherings from November 14 1900 until further notice. Also shop hours change with stores closing earlier and extended hours during December. Public urged to cooperate and shop before eight.
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Board of Health
Town of
Washburn
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John W. Gates
Great Lakes
Owen, Frost
Restau
Frcade Restaurant
Williams
Junkley
Celery
FOX Bros. Pharmacy
Dr. Hebbert
County Board
Court House
Bayfield & Western Railroad
H. H. Hayden
Eau Claire
Henry Hermann
Milwaukee
Court of
Milwaukee County
Alvord
A. W. Sanborn
Ashland
Drummond
Iron River
Mason
Pratt
E. Sauge
Pina Washburn
D. M. ‘Maxey
E. P. van Valkenburg
P. H. Grimm
Wis
Dawn McBeaty
Our Hoving
F. B. Hicks
W. J. Helland
Fee’y Retail Clerk’s Unionw
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