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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1910
Page
12
A catalog note lists fancy ribbons cretonnes art linens embroidery silk towels and stamping dolls to dress for holiday tasks. It highlights decorative textiles and craft supplies suitable for fancy holiday decor and handmade gifts.
A local retailer highlights a selection of dolls, hats pins belt pins and back comics alongside new handbags all marketed for value. Shoppers are invited to explore multiple styles and special price points.
A dated registry lists numerous land transfers across multiple towns including ferrimack Walton Woodland Baraboo Merrimack Reedsburg Sauk City and other locales. Buyers include D J Tyler Rose E Frazier Albert Shore A M Lotz and W J Rieck among others with prices ranging from 1 to 6500 dollars.
Transfers show Carl Schwenkee selling land in Reedsburg to J H Bear for 450 dollars. Property in Spring Green sells from Carl Schwenkee to J H Bear for 10 000 dollars. P H Alexander sells North Freedom land to Elizabeth Jan zen for 2300 dollars. Albert Koepp sells property to Julius Reich at Fairfield, 31.
Thieves stole about 30 pullets from Mr. and Mrs. William Wichern's southwest of town during a Skillet Creek Farmers' club meeting. Nearly all birds were Rhode Island Reds with a few white Orpingtons. A $10 reward is offered for information leading to arrests.
Monday items note Frank Ranney and sister visiting LaValle, Esther Emery visiting North Freedom relatives, George Schneller returning from Augustana hospital, Shirley Kier back to work in Reedsburg, the Prothero family moving to Marshfield Missouri, and Church social events plus a deer sighting near Kirk and Devil's Lake. Attendees traveled to Madison for an interdenominational Wisconsin churches conference. Items include a First M. E. social with Mrs. Cheek and Mrs. Black selling fancy articles and prompt service.
Saturday Editor White of the North Freedom Journal smashed two fingers getting out the paper. Several residents plan moves, including C. L. Thompson to Twin Falls Idaho and Miss Zoe Thompson staying in the West.
Mrs. Hettie Hodgman of Nelsonville Ohio writes Parisian Sage stops hair loss and dandruff after two to three uses, with a two week guarantee by Fisher Brothers. Ad touts a dainty perfumed hair dressing free from grease and sticks, 50 cents a bottle at Fisher Brothers and druggists.
W A Powers of Prairie du Sac will obtain five thousand dollars from the railroad company in connection with the death of his son who was killed by a gasoline engine two years ago while employed by the company. Mrs Albert Lowell and her daughter Miss Laura of Canton Barron County visited Nelson Goman before moving to Virginia for their future home.
Frightened neighbors awoke Friday at 2 30 am to a blaze at John Lothies farm near Lime Ridge. Two barns 160 by 80 feet and smaller structure burned with hay and fodder. Fourteen horses and fourteen milch cows perished. ten young stock saved. Loss estimated at 2500 to 3000 dollars. cause unknown. A letter cites the name John Toughney.
John Pieper traveled to Baraboo Greenfield and Caledonia in search of woodchoppers on Saturday. He returned Monday with his nephew J A Pieper of Greenfield. The report notes scarce workers and mentions Cassell.
Harvey C. Wisner and Mrs. A. E. McNeil were recently married in Denver Colorado. The Wisner family formerly resided a short distance west of Baraboo.
Otto Meikus of Reedsburg plans marriage to Ida M. Voiz of Excelsior, while the notice frames a separate ad text about catarrh remedies and a promise of a cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with a one hundred dollar reward for failure to cure and drugstore sale details.
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