Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Time Machine Trip to May 1884

 

Kaukauna Time May 1884

By Lyle Hansen

May 2, 1884

The Edison electric plant for the Frambach Paper Co.'s Mills has been placed in position and is now in full operation. Wednesday night, the mills were lit for the first time, and the machinery worked to the total satisfaction of the company. The plant has a capacity for fifty burners, each shedding the light of sixteen candles, or equal to four coal oil lamps. This will light the mills so brilliantly that they can do more work with it than with any other light and do it cheaper.

 

It is the intention, we learn, of Manager Frambach to soon exchange the present plant for a more powerful one, by which he can furnish light to the other parties. He will also extend the necessary wire, and supply our citizens with light, provided he can secure a sufficient number of subscribers to warrant the undertaking. The public is generally invited to call and inspect the working of the machinery.


At a marriage ceremony the bride was requested to sign her name in the register.  Excitement caused her fingers to tremble and as a result she made an enormous ink blot. “Must I do it over?” she asked. “No, I guess that will do” was the response of the preacher. “Oh, don’t scold me.” “I will pay more attention the next time.” 

 

Charles Pearsall, of New York, ate 360 eggs in five days. He won a wager of $5, but we should think he would be ashamed to look a hen in the face in five years.

 

May 9, 1884

Charles Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, put a bullet through his own heart at Richmond, Missouri, on the 6th.  No cause assigned.


Out in the Indian Territory the Choctaws continue to administer justice in their own way. When an Indian commits a theft, he is given thirty-nine lashes on the bare back for his first offense. The second offense he receives ninety-nine lashes.  If there is a third offense he is shot like a dog. The victim is allowed to select the person to do the shooting. No jail is required to confine the victim, there is never an attempt to escape to do so the shame of being branded a coward. No blindfold is used, and he stands up bravely and accepts his fate.

 

May 16, 1884

In the last five or six years the production of iron in all countries has increased by 43 per cent. Steel production is up 140 Per cent and coal increased 34 per cent.


New York – The other night a man came home at 1 a.m. in a wavy condition. His wife believed he may have had a problem. “I declare It’s a shame for you to come home so late” “Tishn’t late m’dear it’s early.” “Why you should have been home three hours ago.” “S impossible love, impossible.” “How is that impossible?”  “Cause I washn’t full three (hic) three hours ago, dear.”

 



Capt. R. W. Andrews of Sumter, S. C., aged 94 years, started on the 9th on a pedestrian trip to Boston. He will stop at Washington to attend to a pension claim based on the war of 1812.

 

May 23, 1884

The constant din and clatter of the mechanic's saw and hammer, which is heard about town from morning until night, is apparent to the most casual observer that the building season has commenced.

 

Manager Frambach, of the Frambach Paper Company says that so far, he finds that there would be enough subscribers for lighting in their business or place of dwelling to warrant the undertaking, and he will proceed immediately to place the poles, wires, and other needed appliances for the light. The power needed to generate the electricity will be drawn from the company's mills, and the expense for furnishing each light will be but one dollar per month, or equal to eight-foot gas burners burning 1000 feet of gas per month, at the cost of $3.00 per thousand, which is the usual estimate of gas consumed.


 May 30, 1884

 

The work of completing the round house has commenced this week in dead earnest. It will now continue until finished after which the building will accommodate twenty-six locomotives, being one of the largest of this kind of building in the state.

 

Of 11,338 natives who left Hamburg for foreign countries during March, all but 74 were bound for America.







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