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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1885
Page
5
A fragment heavy with religious verse and quavering lines on faith and endurance. The page then shifts to brief news notes from governors vetoing bills, fires, accidents, crimes, political shifts, and local incidents including floods and a public whipping in Sarahsville.
The article describes a massive forty-five ton snow cutting machine mounted behind a locomotive. A large funnel drives snow into a rotating knife assembly within the funnel. A counter rotating windmill fan shreds the ice and propels it through a pipe that can swivel up to 60 feet high or 150 feet to the sides, designed to clear drifts.
A Washington Street merchant debunks the myth that frozen apples lose value. He explains that when Baldwins and other eating varieties are frozen in fall and left undisturbed, their vitality is suspended and they ripen in spring. Thawing rapidly damages fruit. slow, dark storage preserves plump fruit ready by May or June.
Financial update from Milwaukee March 14 1885 shows fair banking demand with warmer weather. Bank clearings total 592 194.89 for the day and 3 241 496.85 for the week. Prices and rates across bonds, currencies, grains, meats, and stocks are listed with multiple city comparisons and market movements.
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