Our Wisconsin BADGER BELL Collection - 1975 WISCONSIN TELEPHONE CO 24pg BOOKLET

Description: For sale is a 24 page booklet "A collection of interesting historical anecdotes about... OUR WISCONSIN". This booklet reprints 49 of the "Do You Know" sections from The Badger Bell leaflets which were included with the Wisconsin Bell telephone bills in the 1960s and 1970s. This booklet was released in September of 1975 and includes: - First "Airborne" Badger Soldier Saw Duty Through The Civil War- Badger Ex-logger's "Savvy" Saved Flotilla, Won Nation's Gratitude- You'd Never Get Rich Trapping Badgers in the "Badger" State- Mendota, Monoma, Kegonsa, Waubesa White Man's Choice of Red Man'd Names- Bored Sailors Played "Ice Baseball" The Year Lake Michigan Froze Over- State's Great March "On Wisconsin" Nearly Written For A Big Ten Rival- We Missed Being In Virginia Or Canada By A Pen-Stroke!- De Langlade, First Badger Settler, Led Braves in Braddock's Massacre- "Bowie Knife" Potter Had What It Took To Make Dueling Silly- If Robin's A Robin He Isn't Our Robin, Who's Really A Thrush!- Violet "Elected" Our State Flower by School Children's Vote, 2 to 1- The Tale of The Red Men of Red Banks- Montello Granite Honors Memory of Grant, Civil War Heroes- Young Lieut. Jeff Davis Was A Pioneer Wisconsin "Lumberman"- Ever Been In Port Ulau? It's Not As "Foreign" As It Sounds- "Going To Law" Offered Humor And Headaches in Pre-Statehood Days- Grandfather Falls Saw Real Grand-Daddy of All Log Jams- "Forty-Horsepower" Locomotives Gave State Plank Road Bad Time- Three-Town Rivalry Made Early Milwaukee "Bridge War" an Epic- A Pioneer Badger Industry Was Lead Shot Making, Here's How- Mr. Duluth's Flair For A Phrase Endures in Trempeleau Country- "Zach or Lew" Posed Choice for 1848 Voters Much "Ad or Ike" Does Now- State Historical Society Opens Lyman Draper Centennial Year- Appleton Had America's First Hydro-Electric Power Plant- Tragic Mis-Step, Widow's Devotion, Brought New Hope To War Wounded- M & M, Our Only Railroad in 1851, Ran 20 Miles: Now We Have 7400 Miles- Lemonweir's Oddish Name Another Wisconsin Enigma- Indian Descendants of Heroes of '76 Now A Tiny Tribe Here in Wisconsin- Even 17th Century "Badgers" Had Need of a "Bell System"- Mrs. Juneau Knew How to Win Friends and Influence Indians- Militia Leader Who Taught Grant and Sherman Sacked as "pro-U.S."!- Genius Created Rock-and-Roll Alarm with Built-In Fall-Out- Speechless Candidates, No Rallies, Made 1918 Campaign A Weird Affair- State's "Repeal" of U.S. Slave Law Fostered "Underground Railroad" in Stormy Years Before Civil War- Home of The Circus Business for a Century Was Wisconsin- "Head-On Collision" of Rivers Missed by A Few Thousand Fee- Lawrence Student's Song Made Graying Hair Symbol of Felicity- Finch Outlaw Gang's Raids Plagued Badger Settlers in Wild West Style- "Angel Voice" of Ole Bull's Violin Sang Its Way Into A Madison Girl's Heart and Into A Longfellow Poem- "Now is the time for all good men" to learn how to Escape Being Millionaires- Dream of Happy Future in Wisconsin Ended for 130 Dutch at Our Doorstep- Dodgeville Had First Courthouse in Wisconsin and Came Very Near Being Chosen State Capital, Too!- "Fireworks" Over Ozaukee's Birth in 1853 Were Quenched in Lake Michigan- State's Only Covered Bridge is a Sturdy 76-Year-Old "Prefab"- Grand-Dad's Vutter A Very Smart Turnout, When Horsepower Meant Just That - A Span of Fast "Nags"- No Other State Can Tie This - And We're Knot Fooling You- Wisconsin's Northeast Boundary Satisfied None, But it Stopped A Move For A "State of Superior"- "Bad Ax" No Fit Name, Scared People; Settlers Had It Changed to Vernon- Our Sleuth Re-Discovers Old Indian Game of Snow Snake for Scout Set This booklet is being sold by the original owner from a smoke-free home. NO RETURNS. Thanks for looking.

Price: 16.99 USD

Location: Longmont, Colorado

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