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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
5
Proposed Ordinance No S directs Grand Rapids Wisconsin to issue 215000 in general street improvement bonds. The measure funds road work, fixes bond terms, sets interest, and pledges the city's full faith and credit. It authorizes annual tax levies to service principal and interest, with bonds payable at City Treasurer and optional exchange to Milwaukee Chicago or New York.
A municipal ordinance directs applying paid taxes to interest and principal of the bonds as authorized. The ordinance takes effect in full force after passage and publication, with specified section terms and payment mechanics.
Notice states the Common Council will consider the proposed ordinance at the next regular meeting on the Tuesday of December. City Clerk G. E. Bates signed the notice.
Wisconsin Wood County city authorizes sixteen bonds totaling 80 000 to fund general city indebtedness. Bonds 1 000 each issued January 1 1910 bear 4.5 percent interest semi annually July and January with principal redeemable in exchange on Milwaukee Chicago or New York. Coupons 22 50 payable each July 1 and January 1.
A 1909 Grand Rapids ordinance details Bond Nos 9 to 16 with various principal amounts and due dates, and a tax levy plan to fund interest and principal. It requires annual levies by city officers and specifies effective date and council action March December 1909 publication.
Appletree Barnes of Waupaca proposes an 80 mile electric line from Hancock east to Almond then to Grand View Hotel and beyond through Chain o Lakes to Manitowoc. The plan includes a sleeping car service from Merrill to Chicago and aims to connect Adams county towns to the state capital, urging interest and correspondence to advance to a board meeting.
An Osseo Recorder item reports hugging societies forming nearby. The first meeting raised 65 dollars for the church. The piece lists a curious rate schedule for hugs by age groups with prices from 10 cents to 75 cents and notes preachers are not charged.
Farmers are warned to avoid mixing wood ashes and lime with manure as it creates an alkaline soil condition that drives off ammonia and nitrogen. The guidance urges applying lime and ashes in different years from manure applications to protect soil fertility.
The notice asserts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy can cure influenza and counteract its tendency to pneumonia. Sold by all dealers.
Wisconsin physician, expert in chronic diseases and childhood nervous disorders, explains worm-related illness. He cites cases of tape worms causing paralysis and stomach pain, claiming many illnesses are misdiagnosed and urging attention to helminthology. He will lecture at Witter House December 10 11 12.
An advertisement notes hexamethylenetetramine as a key ingredient in Foley's Kidney Remedy. It claims the compound is a uric acid solvent and antiseptic for urine and urges early use at signs of irregularity to prevent serious malady. John E. Daly and Johnson & Hill.
A newspaper note debunks a circulating claim that the Star of Bethlehem appears at dawn each day and will return in 300 years. It notes no scientific basis for such a star, suggesting readers may be mistaking Venus or Mars for the legendary sight and that astronomers have not observed any Bethlehem star.
The treasury department has stated that people will continue to write checks for less than one dollar though a Civil War era statute aimed to curb certain currency circulation. The misreading of the law’s intent persisted for decades, but officials say the code has not been interpreted to ban such minor payments.
A Nashua police officer reports trial of several advertised cough medicines for a winter cold. He notes Foley's Honey and Tar helped two thirds of a bottle, calling it the greatest cough medicine in the world. John B. Daly Jr. & Hill Co.
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