Thursday, June 12, 2025

Time Machine Trip to June 1925

 Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

June 4, 1925

John Lenihan of Chicago has set a record in High School baseball by batting out 18 safe ones in 19 times at bat for a season’s average of .947. 


The Thilmany baseball team defeated the R. R. Shops 7-5 on Tuesday afternoon. 


June 11, 1925

Most of us get the bulk of our knowledge of the world about us from newspapers and there is no denying the value and importance of what comes to us in that way. We can rove over the whole world in a few moments. The aviators take us to Iceland or to Siberia or to Patagonia.

Wanted women 20 to 60 years old to pick cherries in the largest cherry orchard in the world. Easy outdoor work, good money, good food, sanitary community houses to sleep in. Martin Orchard Co, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.


June 18, 1925

Nellie Amter, 17, of New York City studies music at Cleveland, O. She has limited funds for travel, so she often hitch-hiked home for visits. Her rules are don’t get into a crowed auto; and don’t accept rides after dark.


A few weeks ago, there was an important conference of physicians, chemists and other men of science at Washington to determine whether, or not “leaded gasoline is so poisonous a compound as to endanger the public health.


About eighty-five per cent of all the petroleum in the world comes from the wells in Mexico and the United States. That may gratify our pride at the moment, but will North American petroleum be exhausted when the supplies of other countries remain almost untouched?

James Hoolihan, 16 of Whitney Street, Kaukauna is in the hospital where he is recovering from the amputation of four toes, Hoolihan and two friends “bummed” a ride on the train Tuesday evening. As the train was pulling out, he slipped, and his foot was crushed by the train.

It’s too long a time between drinks for the farm horse. Farmers will take a jug of water to the field for themselves but think nothing of making the horse wait until he goes to the barn at noon or night for his drink.

Dear Miss Flo – Recently a gentleman aided me in repairing my car when I was quite distant from any town. He was so kind that I asked his name and address. It so happens that we are of the same town, I should like very much to know him better. Would it be considered a breach of better rules of etiquette to write to him?

Flo - If you wish to know him better, you might have your father, brother, or other male member in your family to write him thanking him for his kindness to you. 


June 25, 1925

A dry cleaning, dying and pressing establishment to be known as Sanitary Cleaners will be open on or about July 1st, at 113 West Second Street. Milton Metz, at present, employed at the Mulford clothing store at 115 East Second Street, will be in charge.


Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette died Thursday of heart failure, he was 70 years old. His health began to fail before the 1924 Presidential campaign in which he was the Independent presential candidate.   

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