Time Machine Trip to July 1902

 

Kaukauna Times – July 1902

By Lyle Hansen

July 4, 1902

The Glorious Fourth is here, but boys should be careful. Don't get reckless with toy cannons, giant firecrackers, skyrockets, revolvers or anything that may disfigure you for life or even suddenly terminate your career so that you will never celebrate another Fourth.

 

The war tax of $3 on each 100 pounds of tobacco, which has been in force since the breaking out of the Spanish-American war, was removed July 1.

 

A uniform advance of fifty cents per ton on coal took effect Tuesday. Hard coal is now selling at $7.50 per ton.

The members of the Kaukauna Brotherhood of Boiler Makers joined the general strike on the Chicago and Northwestern system and Tuesday morning walked out from the shops in this city. There were twelve boilermakers and eight helpers in the strike here.

 

Woodrow Wilson has been named president of Princeton university. Wilson replaces the retiring president Patton has been head of the university since 1888.  

 

The parents of William Kluge, the young man who lost his life some time ago at the head of the government canal while withdrawing needles from the head gates have filed a claim of $5,000 damages against the Union Bag and Paper company for the loss of life.

The place of ill repute spoken of in The Times last week received notice from Mayor Mulholland Saturday morning to pull up stakes. Tis well and respectable people of the city applaud the rot.

July 11, 1902

C. W. Larson's bottling works on Depot Street was badly damaged by fire. The origin is unknown but is attributed to combustion among some of the chemicals used in the institution in the manufacturing of the various bottled drinks.

The old reliable, George Kromer, who happened to be here to celebrate the Fourth, couldn’t resist the temptation of donning a uniform and helping out, his old team in their game against Appleton. When Kroenig was taken sick George stepped in and it seems as much in place as if he had always been there.

 

July 18, 1902

It may be so hot now that the farmers cannot sleep, but he can take comfort lying awake and listening to the price of his corn crop grows.

A Bohemian couple holds the record for procrastination. Franz Rosner, 100 years of age, was married on his deathbed to Anna Renner, aged nine-three at Oberpolitz. The two had been in love for seventy-five years but had kept putting off the wedding day.

July 25, 1902

It is figured there are 474 railroad employees to every 100 miles of line. The wages paid to all railroad employees for the past fiscal year was $494.055.627.

Jefferson Davis is to be commemorated by an arch soon to be erected in Monroe Park, Richmond, Va. The arch will be 65 feet high and 70 feet wide and 24 feet breadth. The thirteen seals in the attic represent the Confederate States.  

Johnnie Feller, 8 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Feller, met his death Wednesday morning by drowning in the canal at the third lock. He was with several small boys who were watching the excursion boat Evalyn as it passed through the canal. No one noticed him fall in and it wasn’t until later afternoon that he was reported missing. 

  

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