By Lyle Hansen
August 4, 1899
The United Comrades of
the Spanish-American War made an excursion from Oshkosh to Kaukauna, stopping
at Eden Park. A more appropriate name would have been the "United Order of
Bums and Boozers," for a bigger crowd of drunks and rowdies has not struck
this city for a long time. Had the excursion landed within city limits, there
would have been a cooler full of "soiled doves" and others who indulged
in boisterous conduct, but our police have no authority over the city line.
Baltimore,
Md., July 29 - Upon one scaffold and
simultaneously, four negroes were hanged at 9:48 a.m. in the city jail yard.
Three of the men paid with their lives for assaulting a 13-year-old girl while
the fourth for killing a woman he lived with.
A girl named Mary, at
birth, dropped the ‘r’ when she grew up and became Miss May. As she began to
shine in a social way she changed the ‘y’ to ‘e’ and signed her letters Mae.
About a year ago she was married and now she has dropped the ‘e’ and it’s just
plain ‘Ma.’ That’s evolution.
August
11, 1899
A Little Chute girl
sent $1 to New York "specialist" for a "sure cure for
freckles." This is the receipt which she received: "Remove the freckles carefully with a
pocketknife; soak them over night in salt water; then hang up in the smokehouse
in a good, strong smoke made of sawdust and slippery-elm bark for a week.
Freckles thus treated never fail to be thoroughly cured."
“Mamma, what would you
do if that big vase in the parlor should get broken?” said Tommy.
“I should spank whoever
did it.” She said.
“Well then, you better
begin to get up your muscle,” said Tommy gleefully, “cuz Papa’s broke it.”
The 12-year-old son of
William Alger on the south side had his left hand badly mangled by the
explosion of a dynamite cap Monday. He found the cap at the Kaukauna Fiber
mill, where he as working.
Work was commenced
Tuesday on a new solid stone engine house for the Kaukauna Lumber and
Manufacturing Company on the Island, the same being 20x36 feet. This company
has also just completed a mammoth new lumber shed, 58x120 feet, at their yards
for the storage of lumber. As soon as the necessary ground can be secured next
to that already occupied by Mr. Jansen, they will erect another shed of the
same dimensions, removing part of their old ones which have covered too much
ground.
August
18, 1899
During the extreme low water,
the first of the week the boys had great sport catching suckers and carp in the
rapids just below the dam. They could be caught by hand.
The Union Paper and Bag
Company is the name of the old Western Paper Bag company since this institution
entered the trust. They are having their name painted in big letters on the
roof of the mill this week.
August
25, 1899
The boiler in the sash,
door and blind factory of the A. H. Wieckert establishment at Appleton
exploded, killing one man instantly, injuring another so seriously that he died
within an hour of his rescue from the ruins, fatally wounding a third and
seriously injuring eight others.
New York,
Aug. 23.
– Colored children of this state, under a decision of the superior court of
Long Island, are barred from attending public schools with white children.
