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Newspaper
Ladysmith News Budget
Location
Ladysmith, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
2
Ladysmith News and Weekly Budget publication details for 1907 are noted with A. A. Hadden as publisher. The issue mentions Bruce lightning activity suggesting metal deposits and reports the Citizen's Union failed to convene a meeting due to no quorum, criticizing its law and order stance.
The State Board of Immigration advertises for farm and stock, water, and fruit tree photographs with data for use in promoting Northern Wisconsin. The images should showcase local possibilities to attract settlers and investors.
The Anti-Saloon League is asked to contribute toward Ex-Governor Peck of Wisconsin's travel expenses as he writes observations for Evening Wisconsin and St. Paul Pioneer Press. His sober-minded articles counter brewer aims, while a revived monthly market day in Ladysmith would aid local efforts, with Commercial Club urged to lead and fund it.
The county board’s recent meeting reconsidered the poor farm matter and saved the county several thousand dollars in interest.
The speaker credits a single man who faced the board to push for what he believed was right. He notes that leadership attracts support, but the key need is officials with courage to stand alone and pursue a fair, square deal.
The article cites over 250 million dollars yearly in U S fire losses and links high insurance rates to national carelessness. It compares New York fire data to Paris and London, listing causes such as matches children playing with fire lighted cigars candles and lamps and urges public education to lower rates.
The article recalls a March 4 fire at Collingwood school near Cleveland that killed 173 students who were burned or trampled. It notes the blaze originated from a defective furnace beneath the front stairway and urges reforms to prevent similar fires.
A Cumberland Presbyterian correspondent notes cantaloupes boost farmer profits and land condition in Tennessee. J. W. Garrett grows 55 to 160 acres with yields around 4600 dollars. intensive culture, soil analysis, and diversified farming rise. Strawberries fetch up to 200 dollars per acre and aid soil. early cabbage also profitable.
In a terse exchange a speaker calls Keats a weakling Wordsworth a mollycoddle Byron a conspirator and Shelley an undesirable citizen dismissing the poets as a frivolous distraction and sending them away.
The article notes widespread wild berries and promising cultivated fruit across the region. It highlights Bayfield, Chippewa Falls, and Durations with orchards up to sixty acres, plus experimental plots in Wausau Medford and Barron, urging careful site and variety selection and urging cooperative study with the State Horticultural Society.
The article touts Juan Joaquin county, California as the world’s greatest grape region with Lodi as its center. It notes California yields about 2 tons per acre versus Lodi’s 4 tons, growing to an anticipated 6 tons as two thirds of vineyards come into bearing. It highlights Flame Tokay as the flagship grape and recalls a September Tokay carnival celebrating grape history.
Tantalum has been hammered into sheets and proved extremely hard. Sir William Crookes reports that a hole had to be bored through a plate of this metal using a diamond drill at 500 revolutions per minute. The drill worked ceaselessly for three days and nights, yet only a small 0.2 millimetre depth was achieved, leaving debate over which suffered more damage the tantalum or its diamond.
An old wartime style consumer alert promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney illness and abnormal secretions. A testimonial from H A Sheldon of Ladysmith Wisconsin claims relief and urges purchase at Mooney’s Pharmacy. Forthright price listed as 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo NY is cited as sole US agents.
A light text snippet shows Jimmy planning to miss school by feigning illness. He pretends to wash his face to convince the teacher he is unwell, hoping the day is suitable for skating.
Varicocele rupture and enlarged glands purportedly cured painlessly with no blood loss. Promises one of the century’s most scientific cures. Consultation $1.00. DR. REA & CO. contact at 202 Nicollet Ave Minneapolis Minnesota.
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