Time Machine Trip to October 1907

October 4, 1907

The Kaukauna high school team is likely to prove to be a winning aggregation. Kaukauna made the score 10-0 in the first half as they defeated Menasha and would have added to it in the second half if not for the rank decisions of the referee. Griffith, Beulow and Lindberg were the greatest ground gainers for Kaukauna.

A. Golden & Co. have removed their second-hand store from Wisconsin Avenue to the southside on Second street next to Klumb’s wagon shop. They will continue to purchase hides, rags, scrap metal and old iron. They also buy second furniture.

October 11, 1907

The New London High school team met dire defeat here Saturday at the hands of the Kaukauna high football team the score totaling 39-0 at the end of the game. The home team handled the ball on the forward pass in a manner which brought them great gains proving it a most effective method of scoring touchdowns.

October 18, 1907

Chicago baseball champions are “World Champions” for the first time in baseball history the big pennant symbol will float over Chicago National League park next season. The Chicago warriors made themselves world beaters by winning their fourth straight victory over Detroit’s American League champions. The score was 2-0 and that puts four knots in the Tiger’s tail that never will come out.

J.G. Fechter and Father Dusolt, assistant at Holy Cross church, made a record breaking automobile run from Sherwood late Monday afternoon. They were visiting friends and started for home at 5 o’clock and were at Father Rohde’s residence just twenty minutes later. The distance covered ten miles. When slow moving wagons saw the dust coming toward they cleared the road as the automobile shot by them with the speed of an express train.

The giant turbine steamship Lusitania is queen of the ocean. She crossed the Atlantic in four days and fifteen hours beating all other records. The Lusitania beat its old record by nine hours.  In every way, she is the fastest ocean steamship in the world.  

October 25, 1907

Uncle Sam is planning to distribute during the coming year nearly 5,000,000 acres of land. This will be the biggest distribution since Oklahoma was opened. The land is located on eight different Indian reservation in four states.

The new eight-hour child labor law, which went into effect in New York State will have an important bearing on the children of the state. The law will protect 700,000 children on New York City alone. It is expected that this will materially affect attendance at the public schools.

Again, the Kaukauna high school football team has demonstrated its superiority by defeating the DePere high school team by the score of 7-0.

Appleton – The Appleton Coated Paper company started up its new mill at Appleton Tuesday morning. The plant manufactures white enamel book paper and is the only one in the state.

THE FLYING DEATH OF THE HIGHWAY