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The five historical items from this edition, with their newspaper proof. Play first if you want to guess.
Farmer William Braatz pointed the stem of his briar pipe at fugitive Grant Poole. Poole mistook it for a revolver, dropped his own weapon, and surrendered. The report credited the farmer’s bluff with capturing a man sought after a fatal shooting in Oakfield.
Kewaskum Statesman · Jun 6, 1908
Open the original newspaper ↗A local Elmore brief reported that Wm. Rauch shot a woodchuck with a snow-white tail. The paper joked that nobody had yet used the tail to predict the winter. The item has no separate headline; it appears within the Elmore Etchings column shown in the clipping.
Kewaskum Statesman · Sep 16, 1899
Open the original newspaper ↗A balloon carrying two people passed near Kewaskum on a windy Tuesday morning and attracted widespread attention. The paper thought it might be in an international distance race that had started in St. Louis. It did not identify the balloon or its pilot.
Kewaskum Statesman · Oct 22, 1910
Open the original newspaper ↗A Monroe clerk alleged that a state home had billed both Green County and a patient’s guardian for the same board. Each had paid about $300, bringing the total to roughly $600 in less than four years. The clipping concerns duplicate payments for one patient.
Kewaskum Statesman · Mar 7, 1903
Open the original newspaper ↗Gustave Krause’s cow gave birth to three healthy calves near Eden in Fond du Lac County. The article said the animals were purebred stock and that Krause intended to exhibit them at a fair. It treated the births as a remarkable local occurrence.
Kewaskum Statesman · Apr 3, 1909
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