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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1920
Page
4
Baraboo Weekly News lists subscription options including three months six months and annual plans for readers. The notice presents pricing and duration details in a concise ledger format typical of periodical notices.
July 8 1920 reports describe damp keynotes from Chicago and San Francisco. Eugene V Debs declares from Atlanta prison he will not tour for his campaign. An Oklahoma man wins a Republican delegate slot while his wife attends the Democratic gathering.
President Sarasin warns Switzerland is ruined by an avalanche of gold coins with no outlet in Europe. He says banks hold gold causing industrial stagnation and a nearly ruined hotel trade due to adverse exchange. The country lost over six billion francs from the war.
A Madison Democrat item recalls a Russian Jewish immigrant family arriving twenty years ago. The father worked tirelessly at the newspaper and university, guiding three daughters to honors and successful careers in Chicago, with one becoming a physician, proving education and industry can overcome hardship.
A fragment from a seventeenth century humor piece notes St. Antonius' Sermon to the Fishes as a gem of poetic wit, remarking on Europe as too set in its ways.
A Milwaukee News reflecting on Wilson and the League of Nations notes the world’s rejection of Fourteen Points. It mocks diplomats as pikes eels crabs and turtles while the sermon ends with readers preferring the old ways despite edifying discourse.
A reader from Bloomer Wisconsin requests renewal of their News subscription. The note describes the newspaper as “like a letter from home” and asks for continued delivery. The message is signed by P T Hackett.
A Baraboo resident now in Owen thanks The News for thirteen years of prompt delivery. The writer notes local growth since moving eight years ago, with new homes and roads, expanding dairy farming, cleared land, and improving soil for hay and grain. crops delayed by rain. Owen, Wisconsin.
Textile mills in the United States used 58.6 million pounds of wool in May 1920, up from 52.0 million a year earlier, though down from April and March. The drop is blamed on transportation difficulties, weaker demand for finished goods, and tighter money late in the month.
Miss Linda Barry of Sauk City plans to begin work as supervising teacher of Sauk County by mid August. She aims to take on the supervisor role in the Sauk County education office, signaling a move into county administration.
A digest of varied clippings mentions a Babler testimony on the Lowden campaign fund and debate over salaries for officials. It cites Wisconsin history on white settlement, Good Roads essays, leaders and books shaping American minds, and accounts of Wheat fields tours through Kansas, Chicago, and western expansion.
Albert M Myers, once living in Sumpter, is traveling to California. Writing from Beresford, South Dakota, he notes numerous cottonwood trees in Dakota with trunks about 1.4 feet in diameter at the base. Squirrels, both grey and fox, are plentiful. basswood is absent.
The Sauk County YWCA announces a ten day camp at Messenger shore Devils Lake from July 10 to 20 1920 for Girl Reserves and girls ten years or older. Miss Lilly M Andrews leads recreation Miss Leila T Johnson and Miss Julia Spickard handle Bible study Camp nurse is Palma Grahn camp executive Lela R Getman.
The listing includes Sumpter Prairie du Lac Grenville North Freedom Walton Reedsburg and Baraboo. The total number of clubs in these places is thirteen.
Fond du Lac’s Prospect Johanna Poseh displaces Piebe Pontiac Dekol Ill. as Wisconsin’s new champion Holstein. As a junior four year old, she produced 412.7 pounds of milk and 16.465 pounds of butter in seven days eight months after calving, with total butter output of 518.4 pounds in six months of testing.
Advertisement urges readers to choose Diamond Dyes to avoid streaks and ruined fabrics. It promises easy directions included in every package and emphasizes the quality of the dye for better results.
A vintage beauty tip recommends mixing juice from two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to create a quarter pint lemon bleach. Apply daily to face neck arms and hands for a fair rosy white complexion, noting the skin's improvement.
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