Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Time Machine Trip to April 1909


By Lyle Hansen

April 2, 1909 

Postmaster J. C. Mitchell says his Rhode Island Reds have added another notch to their record, he is having found an egg one morning measured seven by eight and one-quarter inches in circumference. It might be well for John to keep an eye on his neighbor's ducks.



Kaukauna will have a baseball team this season and will be a member of the league composed of Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Oconto, Peshtigo and Menominee.  J. A. Devereux will be manager this year and James Jones will be assistant manager and team captain.


April 9, 1909
Nugent Bros. have just purchased one of Edison's latest improved motion picture machines for their Five Cent Theatre which will be installed immediately upon its arrival. The machine is brand new and will be shipped direct from the factory at Orange, N. J. The improved Edison machine practically eliminates all flicker in the pictures presented and is much more pleasing, improving the motion pictures fully 50 percent over the old-style machines.




April 16, 1909
Fred Hoehne turned out a 100-horse power friction clutch this week for the Patten Company of Appleton. This was the largest appliance of this kind he ever made as the casting weighed over 1,000 pounds. Mr. Hoehne departed for Chicago Thursday to order further machinery for the new addition which he is building to his machine shop.

April 23, 1909
The Kaukauna Fibre Company’s plant has been closed down this week on account of a dull market. Whatever orders come in are filled from surplus stock. Very few of the other mills are milling at full capacity.



The Kaukauna Fibre Company



August Mill, one of Kaukauna’s pioneers died this past week at his home in Kaukauna. He was 74 years old. He is survived by his wife Johanna and five of their nine children. August came to Kaukauna when it was known as Ledyard in 1883. He operated a general merchandise business on Second Street. Business grew and he built a two-story building on the corner of Main Avenue and Third Street two years later.  He was elected Outagamie County Treasure in 1894 and served for four years. He also served as poor commissioner of this city for several terms. He suffered from poor health for the past several years before his death last week.


April 30, 1909
During the severe electrical storm Thursday afternoon lighting struck the Combined Locks paper mill, entering the grinder room and doing considerable damage to the wet machines. The electric plant connected with the mill was also badly damaged.


 Interurban on the corner of Lawe Street and Wisconsin Avenue. 

What came near being a fatal accident occurred at the intersection of the railroad with the interurban car. The fully loaded interurban had stopped for the signalman to ascertain if the way was clear. He gave the signal to advance but as the car started across the tracks the motorman perceived an approaching switch engine and turned on full power. The engineer also saw the car and put the train in reverse. The interurban missed the train by about a foot. Passengers on the platform jumped when they saw the impending collision, one of which sustained a sprained wrist. The women and children in the car screamed in terror and even the cheeks of the men blanched at the expectation of an accident.


 Teddy Roosevelt in Africa

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