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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
3
Practical era guidance covers maintaining sweet potatoes in dryness, winter stock care, sheep handling, haying and shelter, dairy efficiency, and weatherproofing barns. It discusses feeding regimes, milk production costs, silos, cream handling, tank maintenance, and manure benefits, plus crop rotation and fertilization for fruit trees.
Miss Downing of Lamar and her aunt Mrs Haselton survived a ten foot high flood crest on the Big Sandy Creek after their horse died and they were swept two miles into the Arkansas. A log carried Downing to safety as rescuers later saved her with a raft that splintered. She wandered for four miles in darkness until a late rescue by Donald Shaddy and companions.
Henri Williams from the northern Altoona mountains faced a wild hour when a snake coiled on his horse’s leg. The startled horse bolted along a road beside a deep ravine, slipping on a breakneck run then finally slowing after three miles as Williams struggled to control the frightened mount.
Charles Edwards, a miner at Lance colliery near Whesharre Pennsylvania, was carried up and down the shaft in a runaway cage driven by a clogged hoisting engine. Charles Young, operating the engine, reversed it in a fraction of a second and repeatedly reversed to prevent catastrophe until coworkers shut off steam. Edwards was removed in collapse but survived the ordeal.
In Winsted Connecticut Alexander W Regner and a laborer drilled holes in large rocks beneath a chestnut tree to blast them with ten sticks of dynamite. They left the explosives, but squirrels reportedly ate the sticks, possibly hoarding most of it, prompting hunters to fear the outcome if a dynamite filled squirrel is shot.
Noah Brous, 73, of Krotze y ille in Snyder county, displayed remarkable nerve staggering two miles home after a mountain incident. A freak accident left Miles delirious with skull fractures from a heavy tree limb.
Secretary of the Navy Victor Metcalf resigned due to chronic illness effective December 1. President Taft accepted the resignation and named Assistant Secretary Troma H. Newberry as successor, a move long anticipated and likely to continue into Taft’s term. Newberry has naval service background including the Michigan state naval brigade and volunteer Spanish War duty.
May 1898 trade in the Yosemite war service marked by Mr. Newberry. He joined the caval department as a businessman after directing several Detroit manufacturing concerns. He served as superintendent of instruction paymaster and general freight and passenger agent for the Detroit Bay City Alpena Railway. As assistant secretary of the navy he influenced department business and maintained close ties with President Roosevelt. Roosevelt, who once held the position, approved Newberry's advancement with satisfaction.
A wandering map seeker failed across five drug stores trying to obtain a patented article. In two shops the clerks recalled past stock, noting agents' visits and delayed deliveries, while one store admitted losing the item after supply runs ran out, and another boasted never having the item in stock despite earlier demand.
A brief note from the Clave land Leader remarks on a stylish woman famed in high society. The anecdote notes that even a two year old baby recognizes her presence, signaling strong social visibility and local intrigue.
An official of the Marine Hospital Service moves to breed cats with superior rat catching ability to extend the war on rats in Honolulu. The plan aims to boost pest control effectiveness in the island city.
A patient named Mel Lucy Quebeck of Mechanic Street Rope Valley recounts eight years of chronic kidney pain. She describes backache, pressure, swollen head, and vision spots before relief found using Dean's Kidney Pills. The testimonial claims rapid improvement and notes the product availability from Foster-M millburn Co. in Buffalo.
A Denver woman writes to Lydia E Pinkham praising the remedy for long standing female troubles and post operative weakness. She notes relief from backache and bearing down pains and urges other women with similar symptoms to try the product. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
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