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The Lemonweir River
Flowing southeast from its source near Tomah to its confluence with the Wisconsin River, the Lemonweir is a river of ancient rivers, a stream of braided streams. As it wends through the towns of New Lisbon and Mauston, its oxbows and meanders return
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The Dey Time Recorder
Although it looks like it could belong in a casino, this device helped people make money much more reliably. Despite its whimsical appearance, it was all about work. The Industrial Revolution moved work into factories where, rather than responding to
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Rima D. Apple is a professor emerita at UW–Wisconsin and has published extensively in women’s history as well as the history of medicine and nursing, home economics, and nutrition. Among her eight books are Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearin

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