Time Machine Trip to November 1903

 

Kaukauna Time – November 1903

By Lyle Hansen

November 6, 1903

Fifteen students from Purdue University among them several members of the football team were killed and fifty or more others in a total of 1,200 players or "rooters" on a special train were injured in a terrific collision on the Big Four Railway while entering Indianapolis.  The students’ special ran into a coal train at Riverside Park, crushing to splinters a coach, telescoping a second coach and hurling it down a 15-foot embankment, and upsetting and smashing a third coach.

 

November 13, 1903

 Seven of the eight cutter girls at the Thilmany Pulp & Paper mills went out on strike Wednesday for higher wages. They were being paid 75 cents per day and struck for an increase of $1.00. An increase in wages were allowed and Thursday they are all back at work.

 

The fine new pipe organ which has just been installed at St. Mary's was dedicated last evening. The Kimball Company installed the organ.

 

November 20, 1903

Diphtheria is reported from most of the Fox River Valley cities, Menasha reports twelve cases quarantined with half a hundred exposures.

 

The 7:45 interurban car from Appleton ran off the track this morning just as it rounded the sharp turn at the head of Wisconsin avenue. Ther was no damage, but the passengers had to foot it into the city.

 

November 27, 1903

Barbers of the city have received copies of the sanitary rules sent out by the state board of examiners. There are in all 12 rules, though more than that number of subjects is touched on. While some are quite stringent, they are only such as are always observed by the best shops. By the new law barbers are required to keep a copy of these rules posted in a conspicuous place.