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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1909
Page
11
Olive Adams presents a tale of a tall couple who clash over physical type yet fall into love. After a carriage collision and years of hardship, a fragile painter becomes the bride of her patient, protective partner, embracing a life of dependency and devotion.
In a Lawrence Glician biography of Edward MacDowell, quotes recount his witticisms about a high school girl’s piano performance of his Wild Rose at a graduation. He joked she pulled it up by the roots and compared an organ recital to a hippopotamus wetting a clover.
A New York Sun item recounts how a grandmother boasted of tough tricks on farm life. She supposedly killed hornets with a thumb and finger, praising the deed while a swelling finger later proved the hornet’s sting. She also claimed feeding chopped snakes to chickens enhanced flavor, especially at Thanksgiving.
A theatrical exchange unfolds as He speaks of constraint and awkwardness in Miss Jones’s presence. He confesses his engagement to her mother, revealing a complex, tense moment amplified by misunderstandings and romantic entanglement.
Horace Fletcher reports King Edward adopts a simple vegetable heavy diet to beat summer heat. Fletcher notes the king eats minimal fatty meats and starches, relying on milk and crackers. he claims a six day diet costs about 3 dollars and eight cents for two adults and four children.
Keep witch hazel and hydrogen peroxide accessible for children who injure themselves indoors in summer. Teach them to apply witch hazel for bumps and bruises and peroxide to cleanse wounds. These remedies reduce weeping and troublesome sores and may prevent blood poisoning.
Instructions describe safe rescue steps for drowning victims. Grasp the person by the bale and tow them with the head resting on the rescuer's chest. Clear water from air passages by turning face down over a barrel and driving water out. Follow with artificial respiration to revive.
The text notes summer alters eating habits due to heat, prompting more activity and sweating. It suggests people digest and dispose of wastes better in warm weather, leading to higher food intake. Fruits are favored while meat should be limited and not heavily cooked in hot weather.
When stomach heart or kidney nerves weaken organs fail. Do not drug the stomach or stimulate the heart or kidneys. Get a prescription known to druggists as Dr Shoop's Restorative. Restorative tablets or liquid built up these nerves. sold by Sexton Bros.
Fragmentary ad style notice referencing an “iife tree” growing in Jamaica and claiming life endures staves broken from the silent. It also promotes Dr Shoop’s Night Cure antiseptic suppositories and a free book for women from Racine Wisconsin with address by Sexton Bros.
Cut flowers stay fresh by adding sugar to the water. A full bit of sugar helps keep the water sweet, effective even for wallflowers. Dr. Shoop's Pink Pain Tablets claim to relieve many pains, including headaches and general aches, with a free trial offer from Dr. Shoop in Racine Wisconsin. sold by Sexton Bros.
A Minnesota girl jokes that every third girl is a breadwinner while noting the others are bread makers. The remark satirically mirrors a Cleveland Plain Dealer quip about hometown scenes and local life.
Chicago's Riverview Exposition is described as the city's marquee amusement project with a $5,000,000 build, drawing millions yearly and promising 18,000,000 visitors this season. It touts grand attractions including Frontier Day Fetes, amphitheater shows, bullfights, Mexican bands, and a robust industrial exhibit with wireless telegraphy and dirigible balloons.
The Riverview Exposition unveils a scenic spectacle titled The Creation by E W McConnell, featuring Fable characters and a Valley of the Euphrates setting. A $28,000 pine organ and electrical effects accompany scenes of Adam and Eve, temptation, and expulsion. Another novel feature is The Races, an English panorama with fifty horses on chariots racing to Coventry.
The Riverview Exposition showcases a Court of Honor described as unequaled since ancient gardens. A crystal lagoon glitters with silver and gold fish, emerald lawns, lombardy poplars, and prismatic fountains. Reproductions of Niagara Falls loom giant scale among marble settings and white pavilions.
The D. D. D. Prescription or Citot Wintergreen Compound, made by the D. D. D. Co. of Chicago, is promoted as an effective wash to relieve eczema itching. Sexton Bros. assert long experience and safety, noting that some old cases may take longer but show immediate soothing relief after application.
The Wisconsin Business University at La Crosse announces its fall term begins September 7. The Northwest training school reports 6055 graduates employed earning six million dollars and offers a free catalogue.
A persuasive late 19th or early 20th century patent medicine plea promotes Dr Shoop’s Restorative for stomach liver heart kidneys and nerves. The letter promises a 30 day home test with no risk, urges readers to request order forms, and lists ailments and contact address in Racine Wisconsin.
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