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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
4
A Baraboo pupil recalls Miss Almira Savage and her Virginia governess years 1841 with remarks on southern hospitality and slavery. The piece traces Savage’s Baraboo arrival in 1854, coeducation shift, and the 1855 seminaries expansion including staff, curriculum, and a new building.
The article recalls Miss Savage's Congregational influenced school with wooden desks and blackboards. Pupils read Bible verses, attended weekly prayer meetings, and produced a student edited paper Gems of Thought. It details teachers, Latin work, starry astronomy outings, spelling contests, and the shift from rural to formal schooling.
Mr O Fuller of 26 Willow Street Gloversville New York testifies the pills cured a complete nervous wreck with constant headaches fatigue and lack of ambition. He reports eight boxes taken improved sleep strength digestion and blood quality with a sharpened appetite. Fifty cents a box at dealers or from Dr A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY. AT EVENSONS PHARMACY.
A reminiscence recalls Miss Savage who founded a female seminary after 1857 in a building she occupied with Miss Prescott. Students, patrons, and local citizens supported her, with anecdotes from Max Clark and Frances Elliott detailing her disciplined yet loving approach, travels, and lasting influence. The piece hints at continued chapters.
The six boys with Mr Rowe of the Y M C A completed a ten day hike. They traversed the Lower and Upper Dells near Kilbourn, camped at Newport for several days, and returned with catfish eggs a dozen clams pearls and many photos. Juveniles named include Herbert Cramer John Arnott Otto Arndt John Sprecher Leland Cornell and Fred Wells.
Camp MacPherson and Prader lead a morning initiation at Camp Douglas with pranks on Hans Schilling and Pete Lee before noon. The band’s signal corps organized a lengthy drill and a safety lecture on wounds and drownings followed.
State W C T U committees named to organize the Baraboo convention next fall with Mrs. George B. McGilvra as general chairman and Mrs. W. W. Morse in charge of entertainment and information. Other assigns include Mrs. Ed Goode, Mrs. H Porter, Mrs. R B Griggs, Mrs. M Dickens, Mrs. George Moore, and Mrs. J W Layden for various duties. Local society to meet Tuesday with Mrs. L F Halsted.
Mrs. Mary Falkenstein of Lodi and Mrs. J. H. Ryan of Freeport visited several days with Mrs. Falkenstein’s daughter Mrs. L. Weirich.
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