The Baraboo News (Baraboo, Wis.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
397 issues from 1904 to 1911, published in Baraboo, Wisconsin, digitised for Chronicling America.
Located in Sauk County in south central Wisconsin, Baraboo’s proximity to both the Baraboo and Wisconsin rivers made it an attractive area for settlement and the development of sawmills. The community grew rapidly and became the county seat in 1846. The Ringling Brothers called the town home, as did several other circus acts in the 19th century, earning the town the nickname “Circus City.”
The Baraboo News can be traced back to the Mirror Lake Echo, a small, short-lived title published by Levi Cook in Lake Delton, Wisconsin, between 1882 and 1883. By 1884, John Kartack had acquired the Echo‘s equipment and began printing the Advertiser, which included very little news until it was renamed the Baraboo News in 1885.
Kartack ran the weekly for ten years before selling it to A. D. Dorsett and Harry Ellsworth Cole from La Crosse. Cole had previously worked for the La Crosse Republican and Leader and later became an authority on the archeology and history of the Baraboo area; he also served as president of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and vice-president of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. Shortly after acquiring the News, the two editors also began publishing the daily Evening News. Dorsett left the News in 1906, making Cole the sole owner. Although he sold both papers to Harlan Page in 1910, Cole stayed on as editor until his death in 1928. Under the new dual leadership, the name of the weekly was changed to Baraboo Weekly News in 1912, and it…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress