This file portion of www.watertownhistory.org website
Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes
A collection of folksy historical stories based
on actual city newspaper articles
Compiled and
contributed by Ben Feld
Ben Feld in his “scriptorium” 08 2008
(noted story
may be part of larger file)
Don’t
Try To Make A Fool Out Of Me
The
Best Damned Lawyer in Watertown: The
Bill Cody Story
Girls will be Girls
And Men will
be Men
And Women will
be Women
Peccadilloes
in the Police Department
Clever
Woman Outwits Merchants
What Happens
When You “Give Someone the Finger”
When
There is Work to be Done ‘tis Folly to Play
Saloon
Patron Bites The Bullet
From Mud
to Bricks or What Took Them So Long?
Above collection preserved as file
within Historical Society digitalization set as WHS_005_121
- St. John’s
Lutheran Church, Watertown, Ben Feld slide show
June 20, 1903
AN ORDINANCE
Section 1. No person shall keep
for safe or for any other purpose, within the corporate limits of the City of
Watertown, Wisconsin, any gunpowder, dynamite, nitro glycerin or any other
substance of whatsoever name, which will explode from concussion or friction,
or fire, except the same be kept in tin or metal canisters containing not to
exceed five pounds each; and not more than five canisters all be kept in or
about any one building or place within said limits at the same time. Any person
who shall keep or store more than five pounds of dynamite shall keep the same
in a fire proof vault, located outside of any building, and which location must
first be approved by the Common Council. This section is not to be construed to
prevent any person from keeping or selling any common matches.
