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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1897
Page
15
Mrs J S McGronag of Rockford writes that Lydia Pinkham's Medicine cured her after doctors failed. She suffered heart pains fainting spells breathing trouble and female ailments including inflammatory ovaries painful menstruation and uterine displacement. The testimony urges other women to try the compound.
An essay on moral effort and honest labor urging purpose beyond profit. It celebrates devotion to quality from room lighting to statue chiseling, arguing sustained integrity outvalues quick gains and defines true work by noble intent over flashy results. It cites philosophical and religious voices to frame a timeless standard.
A vivid description from Harper's Round Table imagines three Treasury officers destroying old bills by maceration. Bills are fed through large cylinders, pulp and soda mix are used, and the shredded remnants are wiped, sold, or repurposed into small images sold in Washington stores, with claims tied to former power.
A quirky column cites a Mexican official resigning his post due to wealth, mentions regulated medicine prices in Prussia with an annual price list, and records a Siberian low temperature from December 90, 1871. The text blends medical remedies, political notes, and weather trivia in a miscellaneous historical snippet.
Miscellaneous observations report blight on Chestnut trees in Toronto Ont thought destroyed by caterpillars. Noted items include cricket grounds in London, potato production in England, theater crowds at Covent Garden, and local oddities from Knoxville to Memphis.
Unclear ad copy promotes Hall's Catarh Cure as a cure for deafness and catarrh. Mentions a remedy by CHENEY & CO and products like Bali's Family Pills, touting long-standing cures and sales via druggists and foreign markets.
A fragmented notice promises a Salzer Seed Co catalogue with farm seed studies and testimonials. Readers are instructed to send a notice and ten cents to John A. Salzer Seed Co in La Crosse Wisconsin to receive twelve rare seed samples valued at ten dollars for a seed starter program.
A fragment notes a statistic on beld headed men in the country with a figure suggesting a proportion around fifty percent. The text is incomplete but implies a discussion of male headwear prevalence or a broader sociological claim.
Balzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes Golden Kind Watermelon as a sensational freak of nature. The advertisement offers prizes and promotions from 181 to 41 days earliest ripening, numbers like 5300 for a melon and 1.00 per fruit, with a seed book offered postpaid for 4 big pages.
A collage of sensational health ads and brief items including claims for Texative pills and Hostatter’s Stomach Bitters, notes on Cleveland’s return from a hunting trip, and local crime reports. Also mentions Glenn’s Sulphur Baths, Wells hair dye, and Gold found in Tussey’s Mountain with assorted testimonials. Other bits include a Theosophical reader arriving in New York and Madagascar’s wealth claim.
An OCR fragment mixes patent medicine claims with political figures and regional trade notes. It mentions Kemp's Balsam and Lane's Family Medicine promising swift cures, references P. W. McKinney former Virginia governor, Henry C. Payne, and Congress member Jenkins. It also notes growing exports from Tacoma and rising irrigation and stock concerns across South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.
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