Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Time Machine Trip to June 1910


June 3, 1910

The publisher of The Times is pleased to announce that we have recently inaugurated an improvement in our mechanical department which places us another stride in advance. In keeping with our well-known policy of always giving subscribers the greatest possible return for their money, we have just installed one of the latest improved patterns of the two-letter Junior Linotype. By its use we will be enabled to issue a better paper than we ever have been in position to produce heretofore, although The Times has for years been one of the largest weekly papers in the state.

Tributes of respect were paid to the honored dead by the living comrades of the Grand Army on Memorial Day. Loving hands scattered flowers in the silent resting places in memory of the dead veterans there.  We have dead soldiers in fourteen cemeteries and many battle fields and southern burial places. Our dead outnumber the living veterans and the difference is fast increasing.

June 10, 1910
In the dual track meet between Lawrence and Ripon last Saturday on Lawrence Field, Appleton, Frank M. Charlesworth of Kaukauna, was second highest point winner on the Lawrence team. The Kaukauna athlete took two firsts and a second, making all thirteen points for the Lawrence side. He was beaten only by Beyer for individual honors, the latter taking all three weight events which gave him fifteen points.


The announcement has been made that William F. Cody, known the world over as “Buffalo Bill” is to retire. Since 1872 he has been before the public as a showman in the Wild West performances.


The stampede begins to Alaska as estimated of 15000 people will be leaving Seattle for Nome and other points north this month. The people are drawn to Alaska by reports of rich discoveries in the Iditarod gold fields.



June 17, 1910

The unusual spectacle of two large boats passing each other in the government canal occurred Wednesday noon. The Leander Choate bound down river and the Gov. Transport Wolf upward bound both whistled for the Lawe Street Bridge at the same moment and met each other in the widest part of that channel, the bend just below the bridge where they slowly and safely passed.


Nearly 25,000 of the immigrants who arrived at the United States ports during the past year ending June 30 were denied admission and compelled to return to the country where they came. Various reasons were assigned for the refusing to allow them to remain. Physical defects and the probability of them becoming public charges were the most frequent reasons. The year ending admitted over 1 million new arrivals. 
June 24, 1910
A blazing carload of cedar logs piled ten feet high rushed up to the north side depot Tuesday shortly after the noon hour and demanded assistance. It was almost useless trying to extinguish the fire with the small depot hose and so the fire department was called up and promptly responded. The fire was not easily extinguished as the entire load was blazing fiercely before a double line of hose could be trained on it and it took about an hour and a half to hunt out the last smoldering embers.




The spur of munificent prizes for the aero plane flights has brought on a campaign likely to be decisive. Nearly the whole world is anxious to be shown that man can fly like a bird. Big money will await the aviator who can transport passengers several hundred miles and return them to the start. This will prove the flying machine to be more than a mere toy.  

  







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