Six days of racing at the Wisconsin State Fair
The Wisconsin State Fair hosts six days of racing featuring the $2,000 2:0 pace on Tuesday and the $5,000 stakes for trotters, with events including the Chamber of Commerce stake and the Pabst Blue Ribbon Cup. Grand Circuit trotters and Milwaukee drivers headline a week of auto speed events, pace and trot races, and state championships framed by local sponsors and hotel backers.
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Mibvinke
Milwaukee
Parasilo
Chamber of Commerc
Mankinton Hotel
Milwaukee Track
Ibs
Louis Disbrow
Wisconsin
Worlly
Largest Flag Attracts Attention At City Fair
The fair will showcase the largest American flag ever made unfurled daily with patriotic songs. A major professional event aims to lower Bob Burman’s 494 second track record on the Tilizen Bente, as Milwaukee Day draws crowds and harness racing prospects. Citizens urge Dishrow to attempt the record drop.
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Fury
Bob Burman
Bente
Tishrow
Citivens
Milwaukee Live
Dishrow
Skim Milk Endorsed as Economical Cooking Ingredient
Madison Aug 20 skim milk is urged for daily cooking due to economy and nutrition. Health authorities and the New York legislature support its use, noting its digestibility and similar protein content to whole milk, with careful handling and explicit labeling under law.
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Madison
State Board of Health
United States Department of Agriculture
State Dairy and Food Commission
New York
Uedes
Wes
Markets and Prices From the Daily Trade Ledger
An OCR fragment lists market terms and prices for commodities including potatoes per unit, beef and pork pricing by weight and dressed forms, veal live and dressed, calf hides and beef hides, and chicken products. Several garbled entries and misread terms appear, with fragments of shorthand and nonsensical codes interspersed. The readable items indicate standard wholesale pricing practice for meat, poultry, hides, and produce, typical of a daily market page.
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Butler
Laxative Tips Plus A Tater Tale
Outdoor exercise and a full glass of water before breakfast help bowel regularity with fruit and vegetables. When needed, Champlain's Tablets are mild and pleasant. A playful rustic verse follows about ten little taters being reduced one by one through various buyers ending with the final consumer.
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Commissioner Dix
Aboard a Transatlantic Vessel A Lone Emigrant's Fate
Amid luxury and peril aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic, emigrants contrast with steerage life. Adolph Staler, a twenty five year old Danish mason, and his wife Amelia Starr struggle to survive as the liner sinks. Amelia clings to her husband and is saved. Adolph is lost, later found alive after days adrift. Amelia re settles in America and raises their daughter Jen a Starr, who later witnesses a labor parade with her mother.
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Atlantic
London
England
Jerluthun
Amelia
New World
Adolph
Tidle
Wenvbig
Tey
Peive
Invor
Leon
Ameren
Tal
Atlan- Ule
Ainters
Eaytasy Khan
Wil- Honen
Metion
Amela Starr
Sol
Leviarhin
Iisa
Adderivan
America
Auiille
Sernile
Ameiia A
Seirors
Adulph Star
Jena Starr
Tuen Leu
Brinks
Adolph Stabe
Houslin
Te Saiv
Invention patent aids milk aeration and cooling
Notice to dairymen about a new patent for an aerating cooling and deodorizing device that treats milk from the cow before shipment to factories and stations. The aerator is guaranteed or money refunded and available from Marshfield Milk Aerator Co in Marshfield Wisconsin for 23 cents.
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Marshtield Milk Aerator CO
Marshfield
Wis
Unclear text hints at family intrigue and parade day
Fragmentary account describes a meeting about a reunion and a man named Brahe with a wife distant in memory. It mentions a daughter, Waldise, and plans for a Mayne parade, with Mrs Stahy interpreting events as providential. The piece references a contractor father and Tahor day participation.
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Benya
Stuur
Ginsu
Patriotic Sendoffs for Soldiers Urged Across the Nation
Washington declares men called into service under the selective service act have volunteered and urges communities to mark the first quota’s departure with fitting ceremonies. The speech praises democracy, equal rights, and the collective effort to support democracy as the war effort begins.
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Washington
Deust
Liver Trouble Relief Claim from Webster City Reader
A Webster City Iowan, Joe Dingman, reports recurring liver trouble with side and back pain and a sour stomach. He used Chamberlain's Tablets and says after half a bottle he felt well with no pain, noting the remedy is obtainable everywhere.
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Joe Dingman
Webster City
Iowa
Chamberlain
Lord smiled, but Jones says he laughed aloud
Mr Jones, now a father of triplets, is stopped by a minister who congratulates him. The minister says the Lord has smiled on you. Jones retorts that the Lord smiled by laughing out loud, illustrating humor from a Ladies' Home Journal joke excerpt.
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Jones
Ladies’ Home Journal
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