website  watertownhistory.org

 ebook  History of Watertown, Wisconsin

 

Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes

 

 

A collection of folksy historical stories based on actual city newspaper articles

 

Compiled and contributed by Ben Feld [1922-2011]

 

 

Ben Feld in his “scriptorium”     08 2008      Ken Riedl photo

 

ARTICLES:

 

            What Every Woman Should Know

 

            The Lake Koshkonong Monster

 

            Criminating Evidence

 

            Don’t Try To Make A Fool Out Of Me

 

            Ask For Directions

 

            The Best Damned Lawyer in Watertown:  The Bill Cody Story 

 

            William Cody Profile 

 

            The Law East of the Crawfish    

 

            The Burial of Thomas Bass    

 

            Boys will be Boys,

                   Girls will be Girls

                    And Men will be Men

                    And Women will be Women

 

            Chickens Come Home to Roost

 

            Ellen McDermott ["Crazy Nellie"]

 

            Young Love 

 

            Bring ‘Em Back Alive 

 

            A Solution For Everything 

 

            Peccadilloes in the Police Department 

 

            He Done Her Wrong 

 

            Clever Woman Outwits Merchants 

 

            What Happens When You “Give Someone the Finger”

 

            When There is Work to be Done ‘tis Folly to Play 

 

            City Government 101 

 

            Saloon Patron Bites The Bullet 

 

            The Long Way Home 

 

            From Mud to Bricks or What Took Them So Long? 

 

            The Milwaukee Street Bridge 

 

Above collection preserved as file within Historical Society digitalization set as WHS_005_121

 

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