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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1919
Page
2
The article recalls the Seneca Falls convention of July 1848 where resolutions demanded equal rights in property wages contracts and rights of testimony and sue in courts. It credits the movement with civil educational and political gains achieved since then.
A Baltimore Sun editorial urges the Republican Party to resist political theater in this session and focus on sincere patriotism. It argues voters tire of old fashioned mountebankery and predicts the next Congress will profit from genuine disinterested conduct.
United States meat use reached 17.25 billion pounds in 1918 with 3 billion pounds more for export. Producing 15.75 million cattle and nearly 70 million hogs, livestock levels rose from 1917, signaling prosperity amid industrial labor.
The New York World reports Germany’s total war dead at 2,050,460 with 4,207,038 wounded and 615,922 captured or missing, arguing the casualties exceed earlier official counts and hint at near-total exhaustion of Germany’s fighting manpower. It notes recovery will be hampered by unprecedented population losses and calls for viewing hospital educational work as part of reintegration.
The article asks if wounded soldiers like the educational work in reconstruction hospitals. It notes occasional implied criticism and answers bluntly that they like it once they engage. It raises a broader question about whether men enjoy work.
The piece urges firm action against radicals, stating they cannot destroy American institutions or public opinion. It argues judges will be replaced, law will prevail, and explosions may spur realization, with police enforcing justice and punishment to the limit.
Reedsburg plans two big Fourth of July events in the ball grounds near the powerhouse. The day starts at 10 with a county championship trap shooting tournament led by secretary C H Dinsmore. Teams include Reedsburg Ableman La Valle Loganville Lyons. A La Valle versus Ableman ball game follows.
At the Indiana State Association of Spiritualists meeting in Indianapolis the state board’s revocation of Mrs. Anna Thornsden’s license as pastor of the Progressive Church was upheld 50 to 32 after she allegedly used a trumpet seance to contact Dr. Crum. The dispute highlighted rifts between the state and Chesterfield groups.
A NYC department store grants space for a green carpet miniature golf course with paid lessons. The article also notes a century since Washington Irving’s Sketch Book publications and mentions diverse items from war service profiles to posters and memorials including Mt Theodore Roosevelt in the Black Hills and a Shullsburg mystery money drop.
A column of light notes and quips from Kansas City headlines and local life. Snippets on Vanderlip's career shift, labor strikes, state rail talks, and playful vignettes about city sights and personalities fill the page with a quick, period tone.
A tree was planted funded by eight dollars from friends or relatives. The Park Department of the city will plant and care for the tree and provide a name plate to mark the event.
The graduating class visited Bara boo as guests of Miss Beer, their principal. On Tuesday they toured educational sites in Madison, making the year end a pleasant and profitable finale to their school year.
The Madison engineers visited this week. Rev A C Wilson of Oconomowoe will lead a boys group to the resort during summer. Brescia Dolaieni painted his launch to sail on Lake Wisconsin at Merrimack. Pine stands west of the Claude cottage are thriving. Officials feared Split Rock would blast onto the track. dynamite was placed but rock fell away from rails and no damage occurred. Kippe and J Harlan Bretz with Chicago University party arrive. geology class may reach forty. signs placed at Toma hawk Elephant Rock The Cave Balanced Rock Devil's Doorway and pot holes. Hield buys E S Johnson cottage at north Devils Lake. he travels from Madison to prepare for occupancy. he is with Peters Shoe Co of St Louis with Chicago ties.
A large dairy barn and milkhouse on Fred O Donnell’s Prairie farm north of Lone Rock were totally destroyed by fire. Five purebred horses perished. no machinery was saved. The 34 by 100 foot modern barn, built two years ago, housed stock with individual drinking fountains and stanchions. Fire was discovered around midnight. nearby firemen and neighbors could not prevent total loss.
Paul Conley arrived at Newport News Virginia June 1 then went to Camp Grant arriving June 7 and mustered out June 9. He recalls no mail from October to December, then 30 letters one day and 15 the next. He read them all, and his Christmas box arrived the day after he got home, with his mother’s fudge tasting fine after six months away.
Mrs. William Walters and her daughter Miss Ethel of Garrison North Dakota stay with her uncle C. C. Anacker in Portage and will visit Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Anacker in Caledonia before returning west.
In this note the cost of bad roads is framed as a fuel tax. It argues a 20 gallon fill at 25 cents per gallon results in five gallons wasted to road resistance, equating to about $1.25 of the $5.60 price as a road tax on the motorist. The idea portrays road deterioration as a hidden levy.
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