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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1913
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text appears to list notices, rates, and instructions with mixed junk. It mentions a price or fee amount and references a public notice style. The readable items include references to commerce, rates, and communications rules without clear events or identifiable entities.
A jumble of editorials protests high taxes and a proposed 199000 tax commission budget. Citizens critique government waste and insurance oversight, urging budget restraint and fair assessment while lampooning officials. A second item notes Senator Monk backing a highway rule to curb dangerous road work and require safe practices.
An eastern city family shifts their finishing school daughter into a maid role to observe practical housekeeping. The story follows the daughter donning an apron, entering service, and confronting class and gender expectations in a provocative moral anecdote from the Wisconsin State Journal.
A Wisconsin Agriculture Department note and the Wisconsin Potato Growers Association push a program to plant a few standard potato varieties in each community to protect the state's reputation on markets. It highlights Burbank and Rural New Yorker types as adaptable and warns of black leg and bacterial disease, recommending disinfecting seed with formalin. It also includes Michigan dairy commissioner remarks urging roosters be culled to prevent rotten eggs in hot weather, explaining incubation and rot and urging timely swatting of the old rooster after midseason.
Local notes report miss Lille Webb’s engagement to New Rom Favald Chinn of Grand Rapids on Sunday. Family plans for a move to Irelandton, Town as their new home. Several visits and small town events mapped, including a 18 to 4 loss by Grand Rapids to New Rome, and community updates on schooling, farming, and social gatherings.
Eye, ear, nose and throat specialist W Melvin Ruckle announces practice limited to ophthalmology and ENT. Office located in Wood County Bank Building. Glasses fitted correctly at Riverview E Hospital. Fel jephone Wo 264.
In Wood County and surrounding towns, Marshfield residents plan marriages including Warren Favall to marry in Pittsville and Miss Mabel Willis with Miss Grace Willis as bridesmaid. Community notices cover travel between Seymour and Willis households, a local animal capture later handed to a game warden, and numerous local visits, jobs, and gatherings across Sigel, Grand Rapids, Rudolph, and nearby farms.
Vesper residents contributed 168 dollars toward extending the lard road to the bridge while Henry Treutel delivered 150 dollars to the town treasurer. The balance will cover interest and labor as towns, counties, and the state match their shares. The 900 dollar goal aims to finish the road to the bridge as a stone crew advances. Also noted is a badger incident reported to Game Warden Sole and a local hospital trip for Herman Arnia, typhoid fever being cited.
A local report notes Axel Peterson and wife celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary with neighbors and friends. Visitors include Mrs G Pankow of Bummit, Sr and Mrs Otto Larenz. The Rev Dewey of Grand Rapids attended Sunday school, while Ninnie Peterson returned home from Grand Rapids after six weeks.
ALTDORE Trank Griffin and daughter Millie were callers at A Huser's Sunday. Quite a number from here attending the doings at Pittsville. M Youngs is going to do the threshing here. He has his machine fixed up in good shape. Frank Spear built a new shop and expects to do some work in winter. Pickles grow good in the kind of weather.
A notice from a Grand Rapids Wisconsin bank announces a loan of 2500 dollars at a stated interest rate. The letterhead mentions an officer over First National Bank East Side and provides a telephone number 338 for contact.
The Meeta organization holds meetings on the first and third Thursdays each month. R Weeks serves as president and Wm Pee Burcher as secretary. Meetings are in the MacKinnon Block on the West Side in Grand Rapids Wisconsin.
40 acres four miles from Rib Lake Taylor county on good road with frame house large barn small clearing and creek near school price 1350. Also 40 acres near Rib Lake with stumped frame house 16522 addition 12x14 saloon building barn and outbuildings some timber price 1000 part cash and terms. Acres with 12 cleared 20 total 2 percent miles from Rib Lake fenced land frame house stone ech priced 1500 with barns small outbuildings good timber price 9500 part cash and time trade for residence in Grand Rapids.
Owing ten advantage and health Loffer forsakens two farms in the town of PlovesAvith or without stock and machinery. Both places have excellent buildings, growing timber or running water on them. Located ten miles from county stat, eight miles from Grand Rapids, one-fourth mile to Post office and railroad station and warehouses. If you are looking for a good deal via farm write or call on Ratt Temmis, Rs R. t. Owner. No aygenis, 4b. Pad.
Norton PB owner promotes the Grand Rapids Veterinary Hospital as the only fully equipped facility in the city with modern appliances. Telephone 038, residence 361.
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