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Newspaper

Baraboo News

Location

Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1904

Page

6

Baraboo Schools Close for Yuletide Vacation

Baraboo city schools shut for holiday recess with pupils free to skate or sled. Santa visited the teachers at the High School, presenting small gifts. Mrs. Nehs impersonated Santa. Christmas programs filled rooms 4,6 and others with songs plays and drawings. Teachers stressed not overbearing gift giving and planned state teaching meetings in Milwaukee.

Santa Claus Minerature Wm. W. Nehs Yuletide

Friday Visitors and Local Weather Notes

Friday brings Arthur Noyes of Minneapolis to the city. T. Lewis of 337 Second street is ill with diphtheria. Mrs. Hewitt and Mrs. Freeman of Delton are in town. Bert Noyes of Reedsburg visits friends. Miss Edith Wheeler returns home to Waukesha after a visit. Mary Louise Van Orden of Willard School in Troy New York plans to return home Saturday. Snow is about one inch in Eau Claire and northward. Miss Biller from Waukegan visits sister Mrs. M. Mugh for weeks. The Hungry Ten enjoyed a banquet last night. City Marshal Stone reports 17 more delinquent poll tax payers, vowing payment this fall.

Largest locomotive built for heavy freight on B and O lines

The American Locomotive Company built a 149 ton exhibition engine in Schenectady for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. It features two cylinder sets with high and low pressure, six driving wheels per side, and a boiler pressure of 235 psi, designed to haul heavy freight on mountainous grades and reduce the need for extra engines.

St. Louis American Locomotive Company Schenectady New York Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Collier’s

Origins of the World's Fair Traced to Stourbridge Market

The piece traces modern world's fairs to the Stourbridge fair near Cambridge founded by Carausius in 207 AD. It notes the fair's early prominence and its impact on British commerce through continental trade reports. Later revived by King John for a leper hospital, it endured for eight centuries as England's greatest fair.

John England

Dr Miles Heart Cure Claims Quick Relief for Heart Disease

An advertisement touts Dr Miles Heart Cure as able to strengthen heart nerves and muscles, relieve palpitations and breathlessness, with a testimonial from HH D McGILL of Frost Ohio describing rapid improvement after using the product. The ad promises a refund if the first bottle does not help and notes Miles Medical Co of Elkhart Indiana.

Miles Dr. Miles HH. D. McGill Frost Ohio Miles Medical Co Elkhart Ind

Sauk County Tax Notice Seeks Redemption of Lands

County Clerk announces sale of city and village lands in Sauk County Wisconsin for nonpayment of 1901 taxes. Parcels listed with assessed owners and due amounts. redemption required by May 20 1925 or property conveys to purchaser per law. Baraboo court house seal.

Sauk Wisconsin Sauk County Baraboo Charle

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