Baraboo Holiday Goods Directory Promotes Reinking Store
Honest goods at honest prices has guided Mr. Reinking's 25 year business growth. The leading exclusive dry goods store in central Wisconsin offers fine dress goods cloaks suits and linens. The Baraboo Sauk County store highlights gifts such as furs linens cut glass homemade crafts gloves and lace with a bargain basement featuring special holiday bargains.
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Reinking
Wisconsin
Madison
Reinking’s
Baraboo
Sauk County
Serving Apple Sauce in a Roast Pig Christmas Table
The article suggests serving apple sauce in hollowed Baldwin apples as a decorative side for roast pig at Christmas. Hollow out each apple, fill with seasoned apple sauce, insert a twig stem, and present on a pretty plate with orange rind for flavor.
Sun dogs scarce among mariners last spring and summer
The era saw few sun dog sightings as foggy conditions and atmospheric anomalies limited reports from sailors during the prior seasons.
Curry & Burt Baraboo Store Delivers Fine Men’s Furnishings
The sprightliest clothing house in Baraboo at 412 Oak Street in the new Democrat building offers a fine stock of boys and men’s furnishings. Curry and Burt are expert judges of material and workmanship and serve customers on the spot, aiming for lasting satisfaction.
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Baraboo
Oak Street
New Democrat
Curry & Burt
Henry Dillenbeck’s Baraboo Cigar Store Highlights Holiday Goods
Henry K. Dillenbeck runs a popular Baraboo cigar store on Fourth avenue near the Warren House with the county’s largest stock of cigars tobacco and chewing stuff. The shop emphasizes good fellowship a homey atmosphere and a busy counter crowd. An adjoining billiard room adds to the lively scene with scientific billiards often played. Henry’s Christmas boxes cigars pipes and briar or meerschaum pieces are advertised as ideal gifts at fair prices.
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Baraboo
Henry K. Dillenbeck
Fourth Avenue
Warren House
Henry
Henry Dillenbeck
Holiday jewelry gift suggestions from Lindahl Gustafson
The piece praises Lindahl & Gustafson in Baraboo and nearby Sauk County as bright, fresh jewelers offering up-to-date designs and courteous treatment. It mentions Oak Street jewelers next to Reinking's, noting early visits, fair dealing, and the lasting value of gold silver cut glass and diamonds as gifts.
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Baraboo
Sauk County
Lindahl & Gustafson
Oak Street
Reinking’s
Bara boo tale stirs town chatter
Local readers recall a long ago tale in Bara with playful mischief and a hint of superstition. The fragment hints at a communal memory and small town humor during a bygone period.
Ruhland and Okern Store Promises Good Value at Baraboo
Local shoppers are urged to visit Charles Ruhland and Hans Okern in Baraboo as they offer a large, varied one floor department store with cheap rents and ample stock. The ad touts fair prices, bright lighting, and a wide holiday assortment of groceries dry goods and furnishings, encouraging customers to inspect before buying.
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Baraboo
Page reads as as‑yet unsourced shopping mandate in Baraboo
A directive to first list required items and then purchase every listed item in Baraboo. The text frames a careful preparatory step before a buying spree, implying inventory and procurement planning across local shops.
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Baraboo
Stanley Store Heads Sauk County HolidayGift Showcase
The Stanley Co marks 50 years as Sauk County’s holiday shop offering gloves, china, furs, linens, dress goods, perfumes, and children’s items. This season’s display is larger and newer with courteous service and right prices. Early buying urged, plus Stanley's grocery department for Christmas dinner essentials.
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Stanley
Sauk County
Stanley’s
Manufacture of Chartreuse Distillery Plant Count
Analysts at the Chartreuse distillery report more than 100 plants used in liquor composition. Aromatic region specific plants are indispensable, while similar plants from other districts are useless.
Odd Wager Proves Cork Feet Hard To Burn
A commercial man bets he can endure heat longer than an older rival. Both feet soak in hot water then boiling water raises the challenge. The elderly man finally reveals his foot is cork, proving the wager won and the younger man loses the bet.
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Chicago Chronicle
Unique Napkin Holder for Childrens Napkin Comfort
The American Agriculturist offers a bowless brown linen holder 15 inches long and nearly two inches wide. Red floss edge with initials, holly decoration, and safety pins on ends fasten to the napkin in front of the shoulders. It keeps the napkin smooth across the chest without collar or tie disruption.
The Complete Holder for Napkin Rings Described
A simple durable napkin holder is detailed with materials light in weight and possible double construction for strength. Edges should be machine or hand sewn, with decorative options and safe finishes. Initials may be placed to end to prevent napkins misplacing plates, with clips as an alternative to pins.
Simpler opportunities hidden in plain sight
Orison Swett Marden stresses in Success Magazine that greatness lies in the simple chances around us. The key is the mind to recognize opportunities, the eye to see them, and the pluck to seize them and extract value.
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Orison Swett Marden
Success Magazine
Star in the Evergreens Christmas Exercises for Schools
Hezekiah Butterworth offers simple, affordable ideas for Christmas programs in schools and Sunday schools. A star theme with Bible stories and hymns like Kirke White's Christmas hymn, a lighted star procession, and Magi tableau. Include Scripture readings on "star" and a chorus to Bringing In the Sheaves.
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Kirke White
Hezekiah Butterworth
Woman’s Home Companion
Sunday School
All Benevolent Schools
Andersen
Grimm
Jesus
How to Decorate the Christmas Table
The article suggests a tiny table tree adorned with Santa Claus ornaments, candles, tinsels, and bright balls, available from 50 cents or more. It also offers DIY options using a fir branch or a stiff red paper rose with a candle as an elegant centerpiece.
Little cake babies for Christmas trees and table
Bake small cakes in patty pans frost with white icing and draw faces with melted chocolate. Create crying and laughing expressions by mouth curves. Wrap each cake in a tissue paper circle two inches larger than the cake and cinch with thread to form a tiny cap.
How to Make Icing for Christmas Cake
Almond and sugar icing for the Christmas cake is prepared by mixing four ounces of ground almonds two ounces of sifted sugar and a stiffly beaten white of egg. Spread on the cake and let set then apply a second glaze of icing sugar water and vanilla. Let cool in a warm oven until firm and decorate as desired.
Sweet sensitive souls in fiction and life clash
In the Atchison Globe commentary the writer argues that a "sweet, sensitive soul" fits in novels but proves hard to live with in real life, highlighting the contrast between bookish charm and real-world behavior.
The Ideal Guest Shines In Simple Courtesy
A Harper's Bazar note highlights the two guest roles and spotlights an "I. G." or Ideal guest. She G rooms neatly, leaves beds stripped, puts away belongings, and closes blinds to spare the maid and preserve the hostess's decor. Her rule: never repeat in one house what she has seen elsewhere.
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I. G
Harper’s Bazar
Seal of Minnesota flour sold by A L Young in Baraboo
A L Young markets the Seal of Minnesota flour as a trusted, well established brand in Baraboo 113 Fourth Street with a separate feed store at 115 and phone 99. The ad argues against paying for advertising and encourages buying a proven product that has won county fairs, medals, and premiums. It also promotes Mr Young's grocery line and Christmas dinner preparations.
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Minnesota
Baraboo
A. L. Young
New Use for Flypaper Story Sparks Cat Flight Deterrent
Iris the Angora cat named by Betty causes a domestic scene when she tries to run away. Betty reports the cat’s escape attempt followed by a whipping aimed at the flypaper to trap the animal, a curious home remedy recounted by Iris’s owner.
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Iris
Betty
Uncle Eben's Idea about Work and Fishing
A Washington Star quote attributes failure in life to men who see work as a distraction from fishing. Uncle Eben humorously divides priorities, suggesting leisure interferes with effort.
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Uncle Eben
Washington Star
Charles Wild Furniture and Piano House Ad
The long established Charles Wild furniture and piano store on Third Street promotes seasonal goods pianos and organs, favorable terms, and the finest furniture designed to brighten homes. Shoppers are urged to visit soon while selection remains best.
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Charles Wild
Third Street
Mr. Wild
Wild
Corner Drug Store in Baraboo Holiday Offerings
As holidays near, Baraboo’s Corner Drug Store led by W E Barincer highlights new tasteful gifts and attractively priced items. The store combines seasonable merchandise with its usual drug, patent medicines, sundries, and cigars.
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Baraboo
Baringer
Marriott Shoe Co Offers Complete Sauk County Store
The Marriott Shoe Co prideful Sauk County store offers work dress and slippers for all ages with exact quality and low margins. The Red Front promises fair prices and the Marriotts’ honest goods and courteous treatment mark the shopping experience.
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Sauk County
Marriott
Marriotts
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