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Plain Speaking & Fair DealingThomas Bowen (1808-1883) settled on the border of Wisconsin and Illinois, just south of Monroe, in 1836. He had such a prosperous farm that five years later he raised 4,000 bushels of corn. This flooded the market, and corn became almost worthless, bringing only 10 cents a bushel. In frustration Bowen swore that he wouldn't take less than 25 cents...
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Wisconsin Magazine of History
The Winter 2009-2010 issue of Wisconsin Magazine of History features articles on Women for a Peaceful Christmas, a group formed in 1971 to protest U.S. involvement in Vietnam by urging citizens to celebrate a more traditional and less commercial Christmas; Milwaukee's anarchist scare in 1917 after a police station bombing killed 10 people; the process of investigating farmstead life in 19th-century Racine County via historical archaeology; and Arthur Covey's Kohler murals. |