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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1885
Page
2
A poem for children describes a brown clad toad living by a roadside bog. He sleeps in winter and reappears in spring with a changed outfit, munching bugs that harm flowers while remaining silent and helpful to the gardener. The piece frames the toad’s ugliness as defense and ends with a light bow to young readers.
Carl, the youngest in a farming family, joins his Uncle George on a Boston voyage. He hides a toy cannon, travels aboard the Fidelia by night, and accidentally explodes it on deck, injuring his eyes. He wakes in hospital aboard the Manhattan bound for Liverpool before a swift recovery and a lesson learned.
The Washington Agricultural Department expands diffusion peroxide diffusion batteries at Kansas and Louisiana farms to recover sugar from refuse cane. If successful it could nearly double sugar yields for northern growers and likely southern too, per Mr. Hughes of New Jersey Sorghum Works.
Our lady readers invited to contribute practical recipes for housewifery. Instructions cover fried green tomatoes and onions, fried caprice, tomato pickles with vinegar and spices, yellow pickle, practical peach pie filling without top crust, tomato and onion pickles with detailed spice blend, cucumber pickles with brine, and notes on a Wall Street figure Russell Sage plus a remedy claim about Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy.
A mastodon tusk found in Illinois weighs 175 pounds, described with humor as a giant toothache for a creature. The ad touts Brown's Iron Bitters as a cure for neuralgia, citing Mr. W. W. Redman of Piqua, Ohio, who claims permanent relief after use.
A compact column presents reader questions on names addresses sales songs and methods with brief answers from contributors. Items discuss locating comrades guitars recipes and scholarly terms with two week response promises and prize notes for complete solutions.
A jumble of puzzle clues and entries appears, listing word games such as Fish and Serpents, Half Square, Charade, Inverted Pyramid, Irane Positions, Enigma, and Double Acrostic, with names like Clara Horney and Mrs. Livum Rina, plus notes on submission to Editor Puzzle Department.
A cascade of Wisconsin notices reports Casper Duuer dying of heart disease in Oshkosh at 66, a Racine three year old drowned in a cistern, Ann Judkins fatally injured by a Madison train, Joan Farrett killed by a North Prairie freight train, and other local tragedies. Widespread notes cover Thomas Good shot near Oconto while duck hunting, Peter Janiech’s death at Waterloo postmaster, Macom Doxants assaulted in Menasha, and Catharine Cavanatas dying after lung bleeding in Madison with bank funds noted. Additional items recount Samual Cole’s long Lafayette County service, a Maine Ontagamie cattle incident causing Carlsen’s death, jail-break attempts at Crosse and Elroy, fish hatchery tallies for 1885, and prospects to expand Milwaukee and Madison hatcheries. An ad closes for Sartatga Business College in Milwaukee.
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