Good morning.
A new months ends an old year. There’s a chance of snow in Whitewater today with a high temperature of forty, but a greater chance overnight tonight. There’s no chance of snow for San Francisco today, but instead a likelihood of breezy skies with a high of sixty-six.
For a while — where a while is defined as about two weeks — the national heavyweight wrestling champ hailed from Marshfied, Wisconsin:
1906 – Fred Beell Crowned Heavyweight Champ
On this date Fred Beell, of Marshfield, Wisconsin, won the American heavyweight wrestling championship in New Orleans, taking two of three falls from Frank Gotch. Beell’s reign was brief. Sixteen days later, he lost a rematch to Gotch. Beell’s victory was the only match that Gotch lost from 1904 until his death in 1918. [Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
And yet, and yet – however brief his reign, he was the national champion. Well done.