Saturday, September 2, 2017

Time Machine Trip to September 1888

September 1, 1888
Stone from the quarries of this city will be used in the construction of the new dam to be built near Richmond paper plant at Appleton. The stone will be transported up the river by steamer.

The habit of gum chewing in this country is producing a race of hallow-cheeked young women. The constant exercise of the muscle hardens the fatty covering that conduces to roundness. Not only is the fullness of the cheek destroyed but there is a tendency to wrinkle the skin.  

September 5, 1888
A long-distance telephone exchange has opened in New York. The telephones are in glass cabinets. One can sit in a cabinet at a handsome cherry desk and send messages to hundreds of places.

 

                   
1888 Indian Head Penny          1888 Silver Dollar

September 8, 1888
John Broeren, of Holland, who called this office, says considerable excitement is occasioned in that town over the discovery of what is believed to be gold. The find is on the farm of Anton Eiting. He was plowing a new field, and found the substance among the gravel. A quantity has been sent off to be assayed.

The woods west of Kaukauna are on fire. Some people thought the boarding house in combined locks caught fire. 

The Lake Shore railway has placed Frank Eklund as flagman on the south side crossing. Mr. Eklund is a young man who as a brakeman lost his leg while in the employ of the railroad.

September 12, 1888
A safety envelop has been invented which is tinted in such a manner as to turn black, blue and red, if an attempt is made to open it while it is not affected by moist air or fog.

September 15, 1888
C. C. Green was spilled out of his wagon yesterday forenoon while delivering goods in the Second ward, and was thrown headlong under the horse’s heels. He escaped with fewer bruises than it seemed possible he could do, considering the precariousness of his position.

A young man named H. Schrake while coming home from his work Thursday evening found the draw open and walked off into the canal. He was rescued.

Menasha – “The work of enticing girls to the stockade dens of the northern pineries has again commenced. The proprietor of one of these places was in this city under the guise of hotel-keeper, wanting to hire dinning room girls. He succeeded in getting three young women to accompany him. The girls were not of unblemished reputation, but would certainly not have accompanied the man if they had known the place to which they were going.” 

September 19, 1888
The Sun editor has termed The Times “Kaukauna Jumping Jack.” He probably begins to feel that The Times is “Jumping” over his sleepy sheet in popularity.

September 22, 1888
Forty imported republican speakers have been secured to talk high tariff and free whiskey in Wisconsin. Never before, has such an array of talent been sent to this state. It means that republicans are getting frightened.

The managers of the Combined Locks enterprise have been extremely annoyed for weeks by the presence of a saloon just over the line of their property. Carney, a Kaukauna man had moved his fixtures to the locks in the hope of bettering his trade. The workers of the combined locks are as steady a set of men as are ever gotten together but the presence of a saloon close by has a demoralizing. A suit was commenced against Carney for selling liquor without a license in the town of Buchanan.

Springfield, Mo., - A rumor reached this morning from Christian County, the home of the famous Baldknobber king, Dave Walker, to the effect that five of the witnesses who testified against him in his trial for murder, have been lynched by ex-Baldknobbers. They waited until the Supreme Court had passed upon the case of Walker, and that he must hang. The Baldknobbers wreaked vengeance on the five leading witnesses who testified against him. 




September 26, 1888
A Patent has just been issued for a camera for instantaneous photography, which weighs less than two pounds and can be carried in a man’s pocket.



The story is that the police have been investigating the cause of the death of a beautiful young slave woman found floating in the river with her hands and feet firmly bound. The body was identified as that of a girl who belonged to a wealthy Turk. The decision on her death was rendered that she come to her death by drowning, she, having cast herself into the river with the purpose of taking her own life. The Turkish coroner seems to be in the front of his profession ruling that she bound her own hands and feet before throwing herself into the water.  

September 29, 1888
The contract for the construction of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal has been awarded to  two company’s one from Toronto and the other from Watertown N. Y. The amount of the contract is $1,200,000.

The building of the new city lockup is progressing. Joseph Hennes has charge of the mason work. The dimensions of the building are 16 by 26 feet.

The water in the river here was at the lowest stage ever known in this locality.






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