Time Machine to July 1903

 

Kaukauna Times – July 1903

By Lyle Hansen

 

July 3, 1903

Ed Jansen, 17, of the town of Buchanan met with a terrible accident about 8 o'clock Friday evening at the Kimberly Paper Mill. While about his usual duties, he in some way came in contact with one of the main belts which carried him around the pulley and threw him down into the basement, a distance of over 15 feet. When he recovered, he shouted for help, but no one heard, until he had crawled some distance. Both legs were fractured above the knees and received some internal injuries. His condition is critical although he appears on the road to recovery.

 

The Board of Education held their annual meeting last Thursday evening. Prof. A. M. Olson was re-engaged as principal of the Kaukauna High School and re-elected as city superintendent. School will commence this year on August 31.

 

July 10, 1903

Will Deering, a 16-year-old boy employed at the Thilmany Paper Mill, narrowly escaped losing his life Thursday morning. H accidentally fell onto a revolving shaft and was caught resulting in a gash torn in his abdomen necessitating the putting of fifteen stiches by Dr. H. B. Tanner.

Word received from Rome says Pope Leo XII has been suddenly stricken with severe disease of the lungs. All the cardinals in Rome and the pontifical court are in attendance. After receiving the words of absolution in confession, the aged pontiff stated: "God's will be done."

Pope Leo XII died at 4:04 Monday afternoon.

 

July 17, 1903

While going up Plum Creek hill with a load of hay, John Duffy got a hasty transfer from there to the ground and did not stop rolling until he landed into the creek splash. No injuries.

Outagamie County Sheriff Thos. Mitchell and his officers raided the Beaulieu roadhouse just east of the Kaukauna city limits about midnight Monday, collecting all the inmates of the place. There were no men visitors present at the time. It is suspected the men were tipped off, as only the inmates were captured. The bunch of “soiled doves” were conveyed to Appleton to the county bastille. It is doubtful however, if the cases will go to trial, as attorneys will advise that fines be paid to settle out of court. 

 

 

July 24, 1903

Superintendent O.M. Farwell of Thilmany Pulp & Paper mills has just granted letters patent on what is said to be an invention of more than usual merit. It is an entirely new method of making a water mark in paper. Not only is it new, but it is a much cheaper method of doing this work although perhaps it may never be used in water marking writing paper, but for all other such work it is bound to supersede the old way.

 

Conductor Dwight Munger and Brakeman Otto Dorn of Kaukauna were badly injured Tuesday night in a wreck near Sheboygan, their train having broken in two. The men were taken to the hospital and cared for.

 

July 31, 1903

A rash automobile driver was saved from a forty-foot drop into the river off the Lawe Street Bridge yesterday. The driver sent his devil wagon full speed against the guard rope which crossed the bridge when the draw was open. It was very lucky for him that the rope held.

 

During the time that Americans have been preparing an advisability of sending their Jewish petition to Russia, the papers of that country have been getting busy devoting considerable space to the Negro lynchings and murders in America. A Russian newspaper cartoon representing Uncle Sam driving an automobile over two Negroes, his right hand wielding a whip.