Janesville Machine divides into six departments because of increasing business. A.J. Craig is appointed general manager. Slack work results in the railroads' laying off many Janesville men. Fire destroys the Doty and Feed Mill, a city landmark on Milwaukee Street since 1954. Mabel Griffin Walker, Celia Millay and Jennie Jacobson are jailed for drunkenness.
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Janesville Police Department adds an officer so that each policeman can have a day off each week. Police receive many complaints about auto drivers not using mufflers and suggest an ordinance requiring mufflers. Remarkably, only one person is killed in a rail accident during first half of the year. Janesville is chosen as site for the 1913 state convention of retail liquor dealers. Reluctant to pay, property owners on Washington Street protest city decision to repair and pave the street.