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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
5
The Baraboo News edited by H. E. Cole outlines subscription prices for three months and six months. The issue is dated Thursday September 17, with a published price of 75 cents for a three month plan and 1.25 dollars for six months.
A transient found Marshal Buckley's cane and intends to keep it at all hazards. The notice notes a large appetite in the Durward's Glen area and warns of a 40 percent rise in living costs affecting the man with the appetite who was there recently.
A Florida town enacted a regulation restricting the speed of air ships overhead as reform advances. The measure signals a push for stricter controls on aerial traffic amid ongoing local governance efforts.
An Ohio inventor unveils a device claimed to do away with typewriter girls and jokes that his wife must be a cat, reflecting early 20th century humor about work and marriage.
The Omaha Bee argues that a spinster is not always to blame for her condition and asserts that many such women deserve congratulations rather than censure.
A local humorous note alleges a marshal caused fear with a fake arrest and mentions bootleg liquor in walking canes in Birmingham Alabama. The writer jokes that nearly every man there has developed a limp recently.
A historical quip recalls a judge asking a defendant if he is the accused. The reply uses a racial slur and a barnyard tale about stealing a chick, reflecting dated vernacular and attitudes in the era.
A fragment urges workers to prove themselves by distinguishing the 19 percent wage increase from the 40 percent rise in living costs and to align earnings with expense growth.
The Septem ber Century piece envisions growing world and U S wheat output. It cites vast lands in South America North Africa and Asia awaiting demand for wheat with steel plows and self binders. If Russian and European peasants gain modern ag tools knowledge, global wheat production could surge further.
The list presents the Republican ticket across statewide and local offices includingpresident William H Taft and vice president James S Sherman with regional candidates such as Arthur W Kopp Platteville James O Davidson Soldiers Grove John Strange Oshkosh James A Frear Hudson Andrew H Dahl Westby Frank L Gilbert Madison James E Abbott Madison Wilber Cahoon Baraboo Frank F Mueller Reedsburg Grant Dryer Dellona Carl Du Bois Baraboo S H Wood Baraboo James H Hill Spring Green John A Malone Baraboo George B Gibbons Baraboo Gustav Scharnke Ableman.
Six year old Samuel Thomas Williams son of Mr and Mrs Thomas J Williams 318 First Avenue died at midnight from spinal meningitis after a brief illness. Funeral services planned for Tuesday afternoon.
Sauk County Agricultural society officials publish a truthful statement denying that Aton and Mandeville were refused fair space. They state no application reached the president and that space was offered by the superintendent of privileges in the Art building. Officials, including J. W. Davis and S. A. Pelton, affirm commitment to a square deal for all exhibitors.
Ione Franklin married William T. Marriott Tuesday at the bride’s home. Rector Wilson officiated before about 50 relatives. Attendants wore blue and white. The couple will reside in La Crosse after a Chicago visit.
First publication September 17, 1908. In Sauk County Court the petition of Eva B. Lippitt seeks the heirs and rights to lands in section 11 township 11 north range 6 east. Hearing set for November 10, 1908 at Baraboo Courthouse at ten o'clock. Dated September 15, 1908. County Judge W T Kelsey and Attorney G M Perry Black River Falls Wis.
An evening of entertainment at 219 Eighth Street featured all Pittsburg performers except host F. Von Post. The program included solos duets and a mixed quartet with Mrs Frank Neeley Mrs Ord Bohannan Robert Chalmers and others. Portia Martin of Baraboo performed selections and facial expressions delighted the audience.
A letter to the editor challenges a Milwaukee based item about the Skillet Creek Farmers' Club and road improvements. The writer disputes quoted statements about the club’s role and criticizes a Free Press correspondent’s portrayal of Wm Toole, noting misquotes and reflection rather than recollection.
The city announces a premier lecture course arranged by management featuring high caliber talent for a series at the Congregational church. Attractions include Skovgaard Concert Co on Oct 6, Parlan Newhall Bell Ringers on Nov 23, Dr L G Herbert on Dec 10, and The Macey Entertainment Co on Jan 28. Season tickets cost 1 and are on sale.
A gasoline stove caused a fire in the Heaton house occupied by August Gross in Reedsburg Tuesday morning. Neighbors William Fisher and William Krueger arrived and used a garden hose to extinguish the flames. The blaze was intense but brought under control quickly.
A New York Sun reader recalls an ideal apple pie from childhood. The piece romanticizes a crust saturated with the pie juices and innards of green apples, arranged with butter and sugar, dusted with nutmeg, and topped with a pale rosebud crust, offered as a reverent, impressionistic memory rather than a recipe.
Elder J. W. Cook recalls a Clair county Missouri service where rain and darkness met a candleless room. A resourceful brother tore planks from the platform to create a splinter light and a traveling preacher delivered the message to a crowded schoolhouse.
A jeweler explains that diamonds, though valued for hardness, are combustibles like coal. Fire would burn diamonds with a gemlike flame leaving only a clean plate and no ash after combustion.
The account recalls John Quincy Adams collapsing in Congress and Dr. W A Newell, a New Jersey congressman and later governor, first reaching him. Newell claimed Adams spoke the line This is the end quick a little brandy to him, a version disputed by popular histories.
A humorous exchange between Billy and Tommy about wanting to be a giraffe. Billy imagines clearing a baseball fence with a giraffe neck, while Tommy warns of mornings when a giraffe neck would be awkward during soap and water scrubbing by their mother.
A neighborhood exchange features a patronizing man challenging knowledge of farming and Mr. Corntessel replying that someone who knew farming wouldn’t have bought a farm there. The dialogue highlights doubt and irony about expertise and location decisions.
A disjointed exchange questions if a man walked with a woman and would die for her. He confirms but recalls a sudden interruption when someone shouted Hands up and he fled three blocks chased by her mischievous younger brother.
This ad urges business owners to measure ad spend impact on sales and promises annual contracts for newspaper space. It argues direct response advertising improves yearly volume and offers to tailor inches to fit any budget to reach local customers.
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