Decay of Fox Hunting in a Modern Rail Era
The London Field foresees fox hunting ending as a live rail cuts across the countryside. It imagines a pack of hounds crossing an electric railroad and the fox fleeing into the new landscape.
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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1904
Page
3
The London Field foresees fox hunting ending as a live rail cuts across the countryside. It imagines a pack of hounds crossing an electric railroad and the fox fleeing into the new landscape.
An advertisement extols August Flower as a universal remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia with 35 years of claims and 40 million bottles sold in the United States. It promotes trial bottles at 25c and regular bottles at 75c through Evenson's Pharmacy and cites broad success and liver-regulator benefits. Also noted is cotton production's importance in foreign trade and a testimonial for Cole's Carbolic Salve from Taunton Massachusetts.
Local lists show numerous visitors from Madison Chilton and Lodi over holidays. A major break in at Frank Manor’s First avenue home preceded smallpox quarantine updates in Portage as doctors note milder cases and few new infections.
Boston Store announces its largest ever sale with deep cuts across menswear women’s wear and children's clothing. Wile suits 13 and 16 dollars reduced to 10 and 12 dollars, coats to 14 dollars, and wide ranges of suits, gowns, and accessories offered at substantial discounts to stretch a dollar.
In a dancing tournament Paris competitors Vincent and Mile and Scherin achieved a six hour and three quarters endurance Waltz. A Berlin participant danced sixteen consecutive hours from nine in the morning to one o’clock the next morning.
An ad touts Cole's Bludbilder as a nerve tonic to purify blood and boost health. It markets a cure for Cretinism based on Vienna professor von Wagner’s studies, claiming fifty two treated cases improved body and mind, including speech and school readiness, with a price of one dollar per bottle.
The text argues spruce wood pulp keeps paper prices low, aiding newspaper and book costs and mail weight. It also advertises Cole's Veterinary Carbolisalve for horse and cattle wounds, claiming quick cures without scars and hair restoration, priced 50 cents and 1.00, guaranteed by druggists.
A Makaloio watches Livingstone study a thermometer and take notes then laughs at his effort saying the explorer plays like a child.
Mrs S H Newson of Decatur Alabama endured three years of indigestion stomach and bowel trouble with death seeming inevitable. After trying various remedies she used Electric Bitters and rapidly recovered. The medicine is advertised as the remedy for liver stomach and bowel troubles. 50c guaranteed by Fisher Bros. Drugists.
Experiments with common house flies show that even after decapitation the bodies can continue functioning. Thirty six hours after their heads are removed the bodies of some insects have lived for eighteen days, illustrating surprising post head- severance resilience.
Fresh testimony floods in praising Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs, colds and lung troubles. A Bentenville Virginia resident claims three years of bronchitis ended after using the remedy. Trial bottles are free, with regular sizes 50cc and 1.00, guaranteed by Fisher Bros Druggists.
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