THE WISCONSIN BULLETIN: Volume 3, Number 6 - August 1, 1914

Milwaukee: Wisconsin Advancement Association, 1914. “The Wisconsin Advancement Association, founded in 1910, outlasted all of the publicity organizations engaged in promoting the settlement of the Wisconsin stump lands. This association grew out of a ‘call’ issued by A.D. Campbell, State Commissioner of Immigration, in June 1910. He asked landowners to meet in Milwaukee for the purpose of forming a state development association. He urged that Wisconsin landowners begin an active campaign to prevent settlers from passing by northern Wisconsin lands for those in the West […] The large funds of the Association were put to a number of uses. A publicity office was opened in Chicago for agricultural and industrial exhibits. The Association organized a new bureau to distribute promotional releases to newspapers and farm journals of the Mid-West” (Arlan Clayton Helgeson, The Promotion of Agricultural Settlement in Northern Wisconsin, 1880-1925).

Published between March 1912 and December 1916, The Wisconsin Bulletin played a part in this promotional effort, presenting booster literature in a journalistic format. This issue presents a variety of reportage, statistics, and testimonials below headings like “Wisconsin Crops Show Big Yields” and “Bankers Surprised by North’s Growth”. A.D. Campbell also takes aim at developing regions like California (“Nothing But Shacks in Prosperous Fruit Belt of State”) and Arizona (“Visits Yuma, Arizona, and Finds Temperature 108 Degrees Above”).

Newspaper format, printed on both sides of a 30 3/4” x 22” sheet of cream stock (4 panels). Features 11 photographic illustrations and three maps, including one showing Wisconsin creameries, cheese factories, etc. Folded to the size of a mailing envelope, with some light toning and edgewear. Quite scarce, OCLC locates no physical holdings, only a microfilm copy at the Wisconsin Historical Society. (Inventory #: 77942)