Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best style of romantic story telling. Following this is a pretty little poem entitled "Recompense," by Annie L. Brakenridge; the "Pheasant in Old Britain," by Charles Turner; a very amusing story called "After Muskalonge and wall-eyed Pike," by K. D. Peterson, describing fishing adventures in Wisconsin. The first of a series of articles on wrestling is contributed by E. Hitchcock, Jr. The writer tells us something of the similarity of ancient and modern wrestling which is quite instructive. Another instructive article on "Women and their Cameras" is by Margaret Bisland. We are told how a woman can begin...
Bonds in railroad affairs represent conservatism, while stocks represent enterprise. The two great aims of the railroad reformer is how to allow each of these two farces, conservatism and enterprise to assume their relative positions in the best manner possible. The speaker then spoke of the building of the Wisconsin Central road to Lake Superior by eastern capitalists some years ago, their large bonded debt, the attempt of a few of the largest stockholders to depreciate the value of the stock and buy it up at their own price, and their failure. Mr. Abbot thought too that a railroad foreclosure...
...conclusion Mr. Abbot spoke of the Wisconsin Central scheme as a model one and expressed his approbation of a responsible standing committee as the governing power of a railroad corporatlon. With such a governing power, it would be impossible for a few men either rapidly to assume control of a road or to wreck...
...Wisconsin. 200 per cent. 61 per cent. 250 per cent...
...will be seen that in 1869-70 Harvard led Yale numerically in two states, Wisconsin and California. Now we lead them in five states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, California and Iowa. The correspondent of the Advocate has chosen a very inopportune moment for taking up his clumsy weapons. If he had been here in '79-80 he might have found some basis for his argument. There was a strange proportional falling off in the number of western men here between '69-70 and '79-80. But in the last ten years, the very ones chosen by the Advocate's correspondent...