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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1885
Page
2
The piece recalls a hare hiding from boys planning winter sport and a Band of Mercy member in star, contrasting cruelty with compassion. It blends a New Orleans Picayune extract about humane action with other classroom reads on kindness and memory. The stories urge empathy and warn that deeds return as fate.
The page presents a set of puzzles and word games from The Weekly Wisconsin including a cryptic enigma about authors, a scriptural drop letter and word square entries, kitchen diagonal clues, decapitation wordplay, and a Central Changes puzzle. It also recounts a La Crosse Republication item about S S Flannagan recalling a Civil War tale of a soldier’s knapsack, a lover’s letter, and a reunion with an old Confederate veteran now in the Shenandoah Valley Railroad service.
Numerous marriage notices list couples wed in cities such as Oshkosh Cambridge York Waupun Forest Eau Claire Hartford Franklin Viroqua Green Lake Palmyra Milton Fennimore Onalaska Janesville Arlington Lake Emily Peebles Belmont West Point Fldorado Medina Milwaukee and other locales. Partners include M Goeltmann Ida Mueller Lewis Buskirk Mary Telfer H J Lackey Ida Shepard E D Merrill Laura Sweet Geo Iggulden Lizzie Bather W E Lougee Ella Reed Milton Sanders Ruth Nelson T N Groves Minnie B Cox Cyrus Abbey Lillie Jennings Walter Steerx Jessie Jackson E A Watrous Nellie Partridge Chas F Saunders Myra E Kidder Wm F Earl Nellie Wilkenson Philip Eigenmann Susan Meyer A W Bailey Addie Baldwin John A Duff Johanna Johnson John B Seward Jessie Roberts W H Mehner Alma Goutermont L Matthews Isabella MN Smith M Vs French H M Myvatt Theresa Wakeman Emil Decker Bertha Colie Florence A Smith and others.
A compiled death list records individuals from Darien to Milwaukee with ages ranging from 5 to 84 and dates from March 2 to March 23. Names include Anna Serl, Mary Fisk, Jacob Rose, Daniel Cronin, Otto Kiens, Zadock Waite, Mrs. Isaac Vides, Mrs. Thomas Lynch, Jacob Miller, Mrs. Rachel Minckler, and many others, noting residences such as Delavan, Green Bay, Fond du Lac, Milwaukee, and Oshkosh.
A column invites readers to contribute practical recipes for home cooking including Brrr Stew and Macaroni Peppixe. It also offers notes on hog cholera prevention with soap suds, Lima beans cultivation, grape vines, butter records, orchard fertilizer, and the joys of poultry farming with colorful breed recommendations.
A composite column shows readers asking about newspapers laws odd queries and household recipes. It notes answers by the editor and readers later. It reports the death of E L Clark assistant secretary of interior and ends with an advertisement-like nod to Dr Harter's Iron Tonic.
Harvey Michigan reports the icebound steamer Michigan sank after being crushed between two floes in open water near Holland. Captain Prindiville says the wreck occurred Thursday afternoon at about 400 feet depth. Built 1882 for Goodrich, owned by Detroit Grand Haven Milwaukee line, insured at 115600.
Mapisoy March 24. First honors in the State University senior class to graduate next June are awarded by the faculty to Grace Clark of Madison in the modern classical course and Charles I Brigham of Milwaukee in the ancient classical. Wells Health Renewer promotes health and relief from indigestion and dyspepsia.
A Victorian era note questions the logic of offering cash to anyone who cures a disease. It cites Dr. Sage and his Catarrh Remedy as having cured thousands of cases of obstinate catarrh who only sought help due to the promised premium. The piece ends by asking who will bid next for cure or cash.
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