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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1921
Page
4
A December 1921 editorial ponders global and local mood amid events titled China wishes an open door and Wisconsin an open winter. The piece jests about moonshine, medicinals, and bootlegger fines while lamenting mail thieves and robberies in a compact, period voice.
The Non-Partizan Leader highlights a drop in owner operated farms from the 1920 census. Of 6,449,242 farms, 60.9 percent are owned, 2,455,879 by tenants, with several Southern states showing more tenants than owners. Georgia alone lists 206,875 tenants to 102,123 owners.
The text argues for early establishment of cerebral habits through a college course titled How to use the mind. It notes psychologists say few acquire new habits on their own and that habits are often inherited or imposed by external authority, urging this course at the start of a student’s college career.
It describes catarrh as a constitutional disease that weakens lungs and digestive organs, dulls taste smell and hearing, and may lead to consumption. It recommends Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify the blood for relief, citing Mrs. M. Jenney Shaw of St. Johns Ohio as a testimonial.
Purported health claim for Pure Blood medicine describing it as absolutely necessary for perfect health and claiming the product thoroughly purifies and cleanses the blood to keep it pure.
Portage residents plan to reserve a theatre section at the Bara Boo for Miss Lulu Bett at the Al Ringling in honor of Zona Gale author of the play who lives in Portage.
Reedsburg and Richland Center played to a tie at the Second city on Thanksgiving Day. Reensburg star Reuland had a brilliant performance against Bara boo for Reedsburg as the standout. Hotel guests free flames in Pa jamas headline Escape barely.
A collage of items notes idealized phrases and social aims from a Sauk Portage and general public life. It mentions labor settlement criminal depictions and a joke about a book titled Eighty five Ways To Propose along with consumer tips for cold relief and street crowding concerns.
Transfers list multiple land transactions in Baraboo Prairie du Sac Spring Green Honey Creek Delton Merrimack Reedsburg Reedsburg years. Parties include B S Bass Ruth Hutchins Accola Frederich Brandt May Douglas Pauline Hein Britget Donahue Theodore Schluter Wm Zautke Dick Krueger Theresa Timlin and others with nominal prices and transfers to family or neighbors. Amounts mostly one dollar with several larger sums noted.
Thanksgiving day in Fairfield featured numerous local visits and dinners. Families from Baraboo and nearby farms joined Barton, Battles, and Webster households with about 33 attendees. The town held a Thanksgiving program and basket social at the town hall raising 32.90 for two schools amid dreary roads and misty weather.
November 1877 notes a temperature around ten degrees below zero marking a record cold start to winter. The piece covers social events, school news, church activities, local commerce, notable deaths, and community notices from Baraboo including maps, elections, weddings, bank finances, and prominent residents.
Mrs EB S Purdy of Portage argues that Mr Arthur English misattributed a kleptomaniac tendency to Mrs Yellow Thunder. She cites Yellow Thunder wife Madame Washington known to officials and Indians. Rev John Gillem recalls Yellow Thunder had one wife after 1849 and notes land purchase at Fairfield.
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