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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1917
Page
8
Stripe disease now found in barley fields across leading barley counties. Infected plants show light to brown stripes on leaves, spreading as heads form and causing diseased plants to die. Seed treatment with formaldehyde is recommended to control the pest next spring.
In a July 1 dispatch from Peking, readers are told U S Marines in China now enjoy eggs priced at thirty cents per hundred, a surprising note amid discussions of living costs. The piece lampoons the global cost of living while relaying the Marine dining detail.
Marshfield endured a scorching week culminating in Sunday as the hottest day of the year. The weekly temperatures ending July 29 show several high readings, signaling a stretch of record warmth and lingering heat across the area.
In Bakerville on July 30 Mrs. Rabe of Jowa visits her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs William Jonas. Mr and Mrs Suttmeyer hosted visitors from Towa. John Michalski’s horse injured by a wire fence. George Fischer Sx and Triends met Joseph Cleichaner's on business. Mrs Peter Schuster, Mrs Seidler Sr and Mrs Hopp with Reuben grandson visited Sicklinger home Sunday. William Nickler and son visited relatives. Al Zinthefer and family. Emil Motl’s father visiting. Joseph Kasberect helps Emil Motl haul hay.
Mr and Mrs John Behnd and son and daughter of Ath ens visited Ed Lehnherr over Sunday. Mr and Mrs Johan Hannam and family visited their son L Hannam over Sunday. Maggie Gropy, employed in Marshfield, is home on vacation. Mr and Mrs L Fohl of Marshfield visited Joseph Eckes last Sunday. John Knebbling of Warekee county came last Thursday to live with his sister Mrs Matt Kunish for the coming winter.
Henry Frederick of Me Millan died Friday evening from heart failure at his home. He was 73. He was buried at Spencer on Monday. Ardell the famous French aerialist will appear at the Marshfield Fair on August 21 22 and 24 in his stunt atop a hundred foot pole. He defies death daily during the fair. Dont fail to see him.
A long list of Company K players is recorded including Bradly Romers William Popp Wayne Wyman Clem Ostertag William Bustedt Joseph Schmitz Ray Bekes Anson Price Otto Kops and many others such as George Hart Robert Peat Algin Hanser and John Kelly The roster covers numerous names with no dates or actions attached indicating a unit membership or listing for a military roster.
The quartermaster general of the army awarded six firms a major motor truck contract for use with the expeditionary force in France. The package totals over 25 million dollars, including 1,800 Packard, 400 Locomobile, 3,700 Pour-Wheel Drive, 700 Pierce Arrow, 9,000 Jeffery Quad, and 900 Garford trucks. An estimated 80,000 vehicles will be acquired, with three thousand dollar unit prices suggesting a large war-time procurement scale in Wisconsin.
A traveling salesman bragged of hotel favors on his honeymoon trip. In the dining room he found no honey on his table. A waiter whispered that his wife no longer works there and that all honey is now replaced by water, leaving the groom embarrassed by the change.
Wood County allows a deer hunt during the last ten days of November after years of closure. Petitions for reopening circulated earlier this year but did not reach legislative action. The rabbit season runs from October 15 to February 1, marking the open period.
Hewitt residents report visitors from Manitowoe and Dorchester this week. Frank Sehmatz and family, joined by Louise Lemberg, traveled by Buick to Durst residence while George Ley family hosted guests from Dorchester and Milwaukee. Farmers in the area are busy making hay amid pleasant summer days.
Senator Henry F Ashurst recounts an eastern tourist visit to a dry Arizona area. The stranger asks about rain while locals boast poullfrogs eight years without swimming. A motorist paints a striped spare tire cover for night visibility to curb rear-end collisions. Charlie Chaplin, a British subject, says he is ready for service if England calls.
The fragment describes ancient global uplift and mountain building affecting Europe and America, noting the Himalayas and Andes as evidence. It claims continents were higher after formation and suggests this influenced glaciation, then hints at a later erosion or reduction, concluding with the Earth as an elastic, bulging body responding to load changes.
An Indiana man aboard a steamer on the Ohio with a mare and a two year old colt was thrown into the water by a sudden careen. The owner clung to the mare while the colt swam downstream with helpers urging him to cut loose the colt. The steward shouted to hang onto the mare and not swap horses as a man unable to swim, making for shore, survived the ordeal.
A historical anecdote recalls Napoleon as a Bri enne student facing a probing exam question about supplying provisions in a besieged town. His reply from the enemy line showed quick thinking and earned him swift advancement.
Fifteen University of Wisconsin men, part of a 100 student group, have been commissioned provisional second lieutenants for five years by the United States Army. They will be in active service only during the war. More commissions are expected as the broader group of 150 completes training and a second camp at Fort Sheridan is planned for mid August.
The University of Wisconsin and the State Historical Society in Madison hold over 248000 and 197000 books respectively with about 250000 pamphlets. The five library stacks total six floors per wing plus departmental libraries and roughly 58648 feet of shelving. Reading room shelves contain no fewer than 5000 volumes issued to students for reference upon request.
Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of the American Food Board, denounces Germanys wartime plunder claim as a dreadful fallacy. He compares Germany to a youth who digs for garden produce only to discover another quarter, illustrating hidden profits and self sufficiency mystique amid wartime scarcity.
A man discovers a hole in his pocket causing a string of misfortunes as coins fall out. He realizes the pattern when he finds a dime and then another quarter, exclaiming about striking a real miner’s vein while noting the cold sensation sliding down his leg.
William Dean Howells argues in Harpers Magazine that Bret Harte and the San Francisco poets were western in name only. He asserts Harte’s California roots were limited and that eastern influences shaped the California literary scene of his era.
The New York Sun notes toothbrushes are a modern convenience dating to the American era. It cites Lord Chesterfield in 1704 advising gentle mouth care with water and arquebusade, condemning sticks. Thackeray’s Henry Esmond is faulted for anachronistic brushing and hair oiling, as wigs and lack of oil use defined early 18th century gentlemen.
The excerpt recalls the poet Richard Savage and his remark about the "tenth transmitter of a foolish face" as a vivid, if scornful, illustration of heredity. It hints at the idea of family likeness and a suggested narrative about inherited traits.
The Orst Earl of Shrewsbury born with a fused toe finger condition died in 1453 and passed the rare anatomical peculiarity down through male lineage for nearly 300 years. The trait affected toe bones and fingers, with the first two joints fused on each hand except the big toe, as reported by Loudon Standard.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph note recalls a classroom game on defining wife. Responses include rib, guiding star and guardian angel, helpmeet, and amusing lines about soothing adversity, keeping a man from folly, and a partner for fault finding, with the teacher declaring the best definition.
The passage quotes Charles Lamb musing on antiquity as a paradoxical charm. It questions why the past holds so much reverence while the future remains unseen, contrasting antiquity with modernity and pondering the value of looking forward.
An exchange recalls the play’s flow with a rough moment as a 250 pound man clambered over a performer twice to exit and reset for the next act, capturing the risk and improvisation behind a live show.
A central timing clock in the factory records the run times of every machine in the plant, creating a precise efficiency metric by logging each unit’s operating hours from a single location.
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