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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
5
A fragmented local health ad touts Dr. Crane's Quaker Tonic Tablets as a reliable preventive remedy for a prolonged illness, urging regular use. The copy stresses the disease is poorly understood and promotes the tablets as a main contributor to health, with a purchase price noted in cents.
A new post office department order effective Oct 1 requires every farmer along rural routes to install a roadside mail box accessible to carriers without dismounting. Each box serves one family, except near relatives or shared dwellings. Noncompliance means the carrier will stop service. Existing approved boxes from March 28 1901 may remain until Oct 1 1902, after which new standards for size, shape, material, and workmanship apply to manufacturers.
G P Hawparcet Grand Rapids City Superintendent endorses Andrew E B Palch for the Wood County Republican nomination for County Superintendent of Schools. Praises Palch as a well educated, experienced teacher with certificates from Northern Wisconsin Academy and Beloit College, noting leadership and business sense.
USDA climate and crop bulletin notes very favorable conditions statewide with all cereals harvested and yields heavy. Marshfield in Wood county reports abundant oat crop, strong corn progress, fair potato yield, good pastures, and overall high quality. Pere Marquette offers a Detroit excursion on Aug 20 for five dollars with tickets valid ten days.
The Wisconsin Sportsman's Show runs September 6 to 27 at the Milwaukee Exposition Building under the Milwaukee Industrial Exposition Association. The display highlights outdoor life, Wisconsin hunting and camping gear including pure food products, with rail excursion rates and 25 cent admission. The event features art galleries and a strong lineup, plus a noted performance of A Wise Woman at Adler’s Opera House August 16 with tickets 25 to 75 cents. Also listed are unclaimed letters at Marshfield post office and the sixteenth annual Wisconsin Cranberry Growers meeting at Cranmoor with talks on production costs vines planting and Canadian fruit law.
This city welcomes a highly endorsed performance by a company billed as “A Wise Woman” with universal press support. They travel from New York to San Francisco and plan a single stop here at the opera house on August 16 with strong expectation of success.
A concert under the Ladies' Aid society will be presented at the Presbyterian church on Thursday evening August 28. The program includes Prof Adams orchestra, Mrs F L Samuels and local performers, and Mrs Dr L A Bishop Miss Byrd Perry and Miss Sadie Ecke of Fond du Lac. Watch papers for the program.
Expressions of thanks to friends who aided during the illness and death of the late Mrs. Hannah Slogan. Also notices advertising dry cleaning for kid gloves and millinery novelties from M. Lueckenback with hair work orders.
Wisconsin Central announces various excursion plans with specified routes and dates. Milwaukee accounts include Wisconsin State Pair and Industrial Exposition trips with fare discounts and ticket sale windows through September. St Paul and Minneapolis and Chippewa Falls fair trips show tiered roundtrip rates and sale periods. Stevens Point Fair offers one and one third fare. Home Visitors and Home Seekers excursions cover Ohio Indiana and western southern states with added surcharges and sale days. Agent contact W Ay Engel for details.
Geo W Fry of Viola Iowa reports relief from months of stomach trouble after using Kodol. He says his neighbor with dyspepsia also benefited, praising the tonic Rogal and recommending a dose after meals at Kamps drug store.
The Northwestern line offers excursion tickets on four dates in August with return by September 30, for eye catching rates to Butte Montana due to the International Mining Congress. Tickets sold through Chicago & Northwestern agents, with additional weekend and monthly offers to St Paul Minneapolis and Chippewa Falls for state fair and regional events.
W H Dibble of Sioux City Iowa recounts a picnic injury where his one year old son rubbed poison into his eyes. A neighbor advised DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve, and after the first application the boy recovered quickly. Advertising copy warns of counterfeit products and promotes sale at Kamps drug store 4015.
The Pere Marquette railroad issues a Summer Tour Book with routed rates to the East. The booklet is alphabetically arranged to help travelers estimate trip costs. Refer to this paper for full information and a copy of the booklet.
Agricultural committee enhances the premiums list for winter and spring wheat rye oats barley flax clover timothy red top blue joint grass and best bundle green corn stalks. Exhibits hang wall style in three strong cords and will be saved for state advertising by the Cowmittee. Lost gold hairpin worth reward offered near Gleason's grounds to Marshfield.
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