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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
4
The Baraboo Weekly News lists subscription prices for three months six months and one year with rates in cents and dollars. Editors and proprietors HH EK COLE and K Page are noted.
The piece links the suffrage victory to a new political era led by women, notes the Tennessee ratification and state actions, and emphasizes a 9 percent rise in cars in service driving a $22,270,000 increase in the national automobile bill, underscoring democratization of mobility.
An Emporia Gazette item notes that Automobile spending nearly equals all railroad transportation costs in the U S. The Railway Age cites an annual auto expenditure around six billion dollars, with 1919 motor vehicle registrations totaling over 7.6 million at about 1200 dollars each, implying auto investment nearly half the railroad valuation.
A wide assortment of snippets reports whisky eggs shipped from Canada, busy rail travel, a Bryan speech at Chicago, a lost diamond, a Princeton car tour record, and a musical professor advancing to Sterling College. Also noted are travels, cartoons, local letters, and a Wisconsin wedding in Reedsburg with plans to move to Arkansas.
The article recounts the long struggle for women's suffrage from Maryland in 1647 with Mistress Margaret Brent through Abigail Adams in the Revolutionary era to the 1848 Wisconsin statehood, highlighting key momentous appeals for female political voice.
The article suggests that the illness is thought to stem from uric acid in the blood. It mentions Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier claimed to relieve the condition and improve strength.
Dr R W Thompson of Reedsburg and Miss Margaret English of Antigo were married at the bride’s home on Tuesday with Dr R P Thompson acting as best man. The couple planned a coastal wedding trip and expect to settle in Feedsburg after October 1st at the Devor house on North Park Street. Weidman Whitty nuptials noted for Harvey Weidman of Westfield and Miss Eliza Whitty of Winfield. The piece then shifts to a health advert on Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Hood’s Pills advocating their use during vacations for better digestion sleep and energy.
E. W. Reese married Miss Artie Snyder of Spring Green at the M. E. parsonage Wednesday morning. Rev. L. W. McKibbin officiated with M. Snyder and Miss Marion Reese serving as best man and bridesmaid.
Michael Busch unearthed $1300 in gold buried in a tin can under a rock while excavating on a half acre site in Mayhew Lake, Kenton County, Minnesota, to build a store.
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