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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1908
Page
10
A stitched-together excerpt from Chicago sources features fractured dialogue about a patent safety shoe using ashes to create a walking aid and a double-soled shoe design. Interspersed are colorful, humorous exchanges and garbled anecdotes from 1900s press clips.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a tense exchange involving a father and son about truth and money. The garbled lines reference a "New York id tag" and a gamble, with the son asking for a dollar if he is wrong. The scene captures confusion and bargaining in a domestic setting.
In a light exchange the Chicago Journal and Baltimore American note optimism and skepticism on leap year proposals. Madam Plug and Miss Sparks discuss tailored autos and bold bets as editors weigh public sentiment.
In a playful chat, a miss writes a love letter and critiques spelling with blots. Friends joke about a jealous partner noticing odd marks. The banter imagines a clever plan to hide the mistakes with tiny hearts and coy humor.
A parishioner questions Pastor Goodman about ongoing sin and commission, noting his long absence from church services and contrasting Sundays with weekdays in a Chicago Tribune piece discussing moral conduct.
At the One Horse Inn the frate drummer complains about no bed sheet while the proprietor reveals an actor staying has borrowed it. The actor is in the opera house performing the ghost role in Hamlet.
Charles McCormick of Kenville Manitoba reports 100 acres in 1907 yield 80 acres at 22 bushels per acre sold at 90 cents and 20 acres at 60 bushels per acre sold at 35 cents. Net profit over 1600 after threshing and labor costs. Samuel Sawatzky of Herbert Saskatchewan adds 70 acres producing 1750 bushels and notes prices for oats and barley.
The government opens 245000 acres in the Big Horn Basin Wyoming for settlement May 12 under the Carey Act offering irrigated farms at low cost with easy payments. A report with official notices of drawing plots and details is published by the Irrigation Department in Chicago. Free copies are available from the department.
A fragment describes a chemical experiment using white lead, charcoal, and a candle to demonstrate lead's transformation under heat. It claims the test proves paint purity and offers a test kit from National Lead Company, urging mothers to try the home demonstration and buy Dutch Boy products. The piece also includes unrelated ad copy and quotes.
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