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Newspaper

Baraboo Weekly News

Location

Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1921

Page

6

Car and buggy collide on Second Avenue and Birch Streets headline

A Dodge driven by Martin Arndt and a horse and buggy driven by Louis Wichern collided on the corner of Second Avenue and Birch Streets. The buggy wheel broke and the car driver agreed to cover the damage.

Kaool VO NO Dodge Turing Martin Arndt Louis Wichern Second Avenue Birch Streets Otto Arndt Eleventh Street Naomi Fletcher Baptist Church W. W. G. Club Benjamin F. Queerhammer Cazenovia Baraboo H. H. Prange Bunce Club Seventh Street Maurice Madden Madden Atchison Kansas F. E. Tryon Red Cross C. F. Steki Vicinity R. F. Lewis Reedsburg

Local notables gather for farewell party and school debates

A farewell for Mr and Mrs John Rafferty was hosted by Mr and Mrs Eugene Squires with eighteen guests. Mrs Rafferty, formerly Florence Downie, has long resided here. Sauk County reflects in University of Wisconsin enrollments and a dramatic high school debating society session covered speeches on Hughes immigration and disarmament. Tomah joint debate planned for December 9 with Madison High and upcoming contest with Tomah.

Wm. Chandler Lodi John Kirschner Kirschner Peterson Mr. Chandler Loch John S. Rafferty Spokane Washington Wisconsin Rapids Paul Sass Reedsburg Rudyard Mich Carl Charlie Sauk City John Reuter Place West Point State Bank of Rudyard Michigan John Rafferty Eugene Squires Seventh Street Squies Raferty Florence Downie Sauk University of Wissonconsin Arthur H. Bargenbuch Spring Green Clarence Mathews la Valle Wisconsin Walter Lehman Charles Evans’ Hughes Lenihan McGinnis House of Representatives Tomah Madison High

Telephone office clash over shocking wire talk

A London Weekly Telegraph quip recalls a girl in a telephone office warning the chief clerk that some wire conversations are unfit to hear. The clerk replies that working around electricity invites shock. The remark captures early 20th century office humor about broadcast and wire chatter.

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