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Newspaper
Ladysmith News Budget
Location
Ladysmith, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
8
D H Richards Real Estate lists farm propositions large and small near town, cottage homes at bargain prices, a paying business for sale, and exchange options for wild land. Also offers poultry friendly small plots near the city and a hardwood timber pair, with an illness-driven need to change and pricing such as $550 for a good house and barn.
John Benn named post master at Medford. A logging camp worker lost in Brown Bros. woods near Rhinelander survived two cold days. Wisconsin River Improvement company gains dam and land condemnation rights. Hartwig near North Crandon badly frozen and not expected to recover. Oscar Franzen commits suicide near Barron. Melcher Warner killed and Henry Nelson injured near Stanley. Prentice saloons ordered closed by supreme court. Ballots challenge: 52 rejected. 25 to 49 license outcome. Writ of ceritori quashed. Gas engine accident injures M Valiquette Sr. Fox River mills run at full head after rains. A H Rynold attacked. chickens stolen. Cameron enjoys Rice Lake electric light. Hayward farmers institute deemed a success with talks on sanitation and cooking. Omaha round house fire at Ashland destroys two locomotives. Burnett County Journal notes Spooner trip forgetfulness.
In early times women prepared medicines in convents. Abbess Hildegarde founded a nurse school at Rupertzburg near Bingen on the Rhine in the twelfth century. She studied healing, taught nuns medicinal plant use, and compiled the Jardin de Sante a materia medica of medieval plant and mineral remedies. She corresponded with popes and emperors and was later canonized.
A wife tells her husband to give as much as he can spare beyond what he can afford, prompting a playful negotiation over next year’s allowance. The exchange captures frugal budgeting humor between spouses.
A fragmented dialogue shows John questioned about James and his temper, a man considering a wife portrait for an advertisement, and a clumsy remark about pairing a girl with axle grease, implying a seam of satire or industrial humor.
A witty exchange features an intellectual damsel urging palmistry and a local beauty retorting she can have her hands held easily enough. The light dialogue satirizes interest in fortune telling and self awareness.
A dialog ponders how to judge a powerful financier with the suggestion that the Bertillon system might provide the method. The quotes imply public interest in forensic trait analysis and personal assessment through measurement.
Mrs Knicker notes a boy’s polished table manners and recalls his mother feeding him at home before social outings in a witty household vignette.
A tense exchange ends with a quip about a man named Henry recognizing a portrait of himself with hair, prompting reflection on aging and identity.
Special correspondence notes visits by Alfred M. Paulson and Geo Morgan Jr. in Glen Flora and Appleton travelers. Mrs O Bates and Miss Inez Pearce travel between Ladysmith and local towns. Mrs J H Bowen and Miss Mabel Ellingson visit relatives. a mask ball with oyster supper is planned for January 2 with music and a promised good time.
Special correspondence notes a successful Christmas program at Cox school house on the evening of the 18th, with combined efforts of Cox and Sergeant schools and a Christmas tree maintaining interest to the close. Several locals travel, move, or plan holidays, and a M W A Christmas dance is announced for the 25th.
In St Paul Minnesota the week notes cattle hogs and sheep prices with daily and year to date figures. Steers and cows to choice grades command 5.50 to 6.30 and 3.60 to 4.00 respectively while veal calves fetch 5.00 to 6.00. Stockers and feeders show 2.50 to 4.60 for various weights and stock steers 1 900 to 1000 pounds bring 3.40 to 4.60 per hundredweight.
Bartley and Ingram plan a New Year masquerade to woo May Stanhope. Bartley’s police costume leads to a public misadventure, arrest, and an eye catching finale as Bartley returns to claim victory while Ingram suffers a bruising setback.
W. S. Mitchell of Corpus Christi argues at Hotel Duncan that people should eat more fish and less beef and pork for better health. He says coast towns with daily fish meals face less indigestion and that fish provides greater nourishment, noting local cooks struggle to prepare fish properly.
A grim retelling notes the night was dark as a man appears to jump in front of an automobile. The source adds a wry line about the actor’s habit of seeking the spotlight, framing the event as a dramatic misadventure.
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