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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
4
A Boston physician advertises a one day free consultation and examination offering complete medical services to cure nervous, chronic and stomach diseases. He claims bloodless methods avoid surgery and urges those with a wide range of ailments to attend, bring urine for analysis, and note that married women must come with husbands and minors with their fathers.
Madame Kasebier, famed New York photographer, hosted a reception for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the city. She invited over a hundred friends to meet the Indians, whose native costumes and feathered head-dresses captivated the guests. A white child asked, Mamma, do Indians lay eggs, reflecting innocent wonder at the scene.
The notice notes fevers at high elevations and malaria at lower levels, claiming Electric Bitters as the effective remedy to overcome climate affections lassitude malaria jaundice biliousness fever and ague and general debility. Sold under guarantee at Fisher Bros. drug store priced 50c.
Baraboo News subscribers may obtain the Milwaukee Free Press for one dollar from now until January 1, 1909. The deal includes campaign news and all other news for the remainder of the year. Send payment to The News, Baraboo, Wisconsin.
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A long list of visitors and residents traveling to and from Baraboo Sauk County includes Miss Wednesday Miss Byer North Freedom Mrs. C Byer in attendance and many relatives friends and relatives visiting across Wisconsin Illinois and South Dakota. The piece also notes civic events including the Baraboo teachers institute and canning factory developments with local leaders Col W F Vilas Major Charles H Williams and other veterans recounting Civil War era promotions and community enthusiasm.
Thursday Miss Grace Munroe organizes a North Freedom music class and many locals visit relatives or attend events in Baraboo Madison and Milwaukee. Various readings visits sales and civic notes mark daily life, with marriages licenses and court actions and community lectures announced.
Overwork and anxiety drain energy and health leading to nervous prostration. Dr A W Chases Nerve Pills offer a remedy claiming to build nervous energy and cure nervous diseases. 50 cents a box at dealers. Evanson’s Pharmacy carries the product and a testimonial from Miss T Martin notes restoration after treatment.
Advice urges temperance in hot weather with light meals and little meat. Don’t dwell on the heat keep a clear mind drink water but avoid ice. Encourages Christian Science and cautious habits during harvest season and notes a Fern Dell dance with Von Wald's orchestra invites all.
A Birmingham scene shows Senator Johnson hoeing geraniums in a yard when a fashionably dressed visitor questions his work. He jokes about years of service and, amid quips about pay, invokes a lifelong marriage as a binding contract, while the exchange lampoons peonage versus wedlock.
Readers learn the ritual for entering a print shop during the season. The process requires three raps at the inner door, providing name, address, and years owed for the paper, then a formal countersign with a ten dollar bill exchange as the editor confirms local news and issues a receipt marking the transaction.
Cedar View Mississippi merchant B G Stewart says customers get value equal to gold weight when buying a box of Dr King’s New Life Pills. Pills help constipation malaria or biliousness. Sold under guarantee at Fisher Bros drug store for 25 cents.
It recounts a humor tale by A M Downes former NY fire chief at a dinner. He described drama where a man fears a fire alarm and leaves, only to find it was neither fire nor water, his wife later confirming the silence. The quip highlights misperception in a humorous anecdote.
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