Spencer residents mingle with visits and Christmas plans
John Farrington from Rib Lake visited relatives from Saturday to Monday. Mary Hanson traveled to Marshfield for Eastern Star. Will LaFever heads to Deer River to winter, while Guy Blaisdell inspects railroad ties. Ladies' Aid held a well attended sale and supper at the M E church. Several residents shopped in Marshfield. A Christmas masquerade at the roller rink is planned with paid entry for spectators and reduced skate fees for maskers. Church Christmas exercises and tree decorating are set for Monday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Blaisdell
Hewitt
Ladies’ Aid Society
M. E
Mr. Yonke
Westfield
Kidney Cure testimonial from James Donahue in New Britain
James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut says he tried various kidney remedies and doctors for diabetes with no relief until Foley's Kidney Cure. After two bottles he improved and after five bottles was cured, later passing a life insurance examination. Foley's Kidney Cure claims to cure backache and all kidney and bladder troubles. Sexton Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Donahue
New Britain
Conn
Foley
Sexton Bros
Bethel visitors and Adventist week of prayer notes
Bethel hosts W Kui and Stevens Point friends for a two week visit. J C McReynold spoke on Seventh Day Adventists progress. Local drug ads promote Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets with free samples at Sexton Bros. A church week of prayer runs through the Sabbath with daily meetings and a foreign missions offering expected to exceed 150000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Kui
Stevens Point
Elda
J. C. McReynold
Bethel
Chamberlain
Sexton Bros. Drug Store
Cis
Foreign Mission Board
No Opium In Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Ad
An old notice asserts that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy contains no opium or harmful drugs and is safe for children. It claims a thirty year reputation as a successful cold croup and whooping cough medicine, described as pleasant to take and liked by children, sold by Sexton Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Sexton Bros
Local Residents Update From Marshfield Area
Bakerville and Mr. Buschmann of Milwaukee visited Lambert Michels for several days. Miss Anna Jonas, once in Marshfield, works for Mr. Mike Michels and now for E. E. Ames. Mrs. Jos Nuber returned home after three weeks in Marshfield. Miss Rosa Kasberger traveled to Sun Prairie with Misses Tillie and Anna Michalski and Anna Nuber, accompanied by Miss Carolyn Kraemer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Buschmann
Milwaukee
Lambert Michels
Anna Jonas
Marshfield
Mike Michels
E. E. Ames
Jos, Nuber
Rosa Kasberger
Tillie
Anna Michalski
Anna Nuber
Suns
Carolyn Kraemer
Marshton and Area Social Notes and Local Ads
Edena Raymond sews for Mrs Vet Marsh while Carl Reichert returns to Chicago work. Mrs BH Cole Jr and Lynn Marsh return from Minneapolis and Mendota respectively. Clare and Mr Marsh travel from Weyerhouser, feed store in Earth warehouse. Concert and dance draw good attendance. A Wendorf visits from Conntleroy. Vinton Hansen of Marshfield attends Marshfield Second Regiment Orchestra dance. Piles relief ad from Dr Shoop ointment claims cures. Milton Page escapes injury after a buggy crash. Catarrh cure ads urge free trials. John Schroeder postponed hearing. Frederic recovers from wound. John Schroeder hauls wood for Louis Laemle. Cord price noted for wood. Orino Laxative Syrup praised as non irritant laxative. Canton Center Canner mentions service in U S. Chamberlains Cough Remedy recommended for croup and colds by Canton Center merchants Sexton Bros.
Unclaimed Letters At Marshfield Post Office 1908
Uncalled for letters listed at Marshfield Post Office through March 17 1908 include Henry Carrier SE Eggett Angus Gause CE Krause Frank McGinnis Mrs Lineie Miss Lillie Queer Miss Kate Skeel Addin Schloskey Miss Mary Vaughn MF Persons. Postmaster Jons F Gore urges the addressees or their agents to say advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Carrier
Eggett
Angus
Gause CE _ Krause
Frank McGinnis
Lineie Peter
Lillie Queer
Kate Skeel Addin
Schloskey
Mary Vaughn
Jons F. Gore
P.M
Dr Shoop Green Salve Advertises Lip Care
Dr Shoop's Green Salve is promoted as a soft creamy healing ointment for lips and skin blemishes. A bedtime application promises pink velvet lips by morning and a free trial box is offered. Large glass jars priced at 25 cents. Sexton Kros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Shoop
Probate notice in the estate of Joseph Leitner
The Wisconsin county court for Wend County grants letters testamentary to Frank Leitner for the estate of Joseph Leitner deceased. Creditors are ordered to present claims for examination and allowance by June 18, 1907, with publication of notice for four consecutive weeks in the Marshall Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Wend County
Doxwon Leioner
Decensta
Vaid
Joseph Letiner
Leivner
Joseph Leitner
Jane
Grand Rapids
Sakt
Marshield uTimen
Marshield
Coun
W. Je Conway
Reading Dairy Papers Pays for Farmers
An old supplication notes readers may neglect farm papers due to cost and time. A Hoard's Dairyman census of 1500 dairy farmers across several states found readers earned up to six dollars more per cow than nonreaders. The piece advocates subscribing to Hoard's Dairyman for two cents a week, with a five month trial for 25 cents, and gives simple steps to subscribe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supie
City Daily
Minnesota
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iews
Indiana
Chio
New York
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Connecticut
Iit
Hoard
Dairyman
Huard
G. L. McKay
Iowa College of Agriculture
California
Oregon
Washington
Hoard's
Fort Atkinson
Wis
Ulver Bird Rescues Her Brood Before Drowning
A ningoen bird with her brood was shot and fatally wounded yet she saved her young. She surfaced with her five chicks clinging to her wings, all suffocated after remaining underwater too long. London Mat reports the tragic scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Mat
Philosopher Warns Men About Delayed Marriage Proposals
A Kankas philosopher warns men against a girl who takes time to consider a marriage proposal, implying she hopes something better will turn up. He consoles himself that nothing better may turn up, as reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yan Bhe
Hitosele
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Whistle Blows at Quitting Time in Yonkers
A Yonkers Statesman snippet notes factory whistles blow for quitting time and to signal workers to begin or end shifts. The exchange features Jill questioning the whistles as an auivanze and Bill asserting their relevance to work times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Jill
Yonkers Statesman
Marshfield School District Seeks 500 Wood Cards
The School District No. 1 of Marshfield Wisconsin seeks five hundred cards of sound body maple and birch wood four feet long for delivery to city school buildings this winter. For prices contact Dr. W. S. Heaton at Central Avenue Marshfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshfield
W. S. Heaton
Central Avenue
Wis
Sed
Foley's Honey and Tat Cough Remedy Not Affected by Law
Notice to customers stating Foley's Honey and Tat for coughs colds and lung troubles is not affected by the National Pure Drug and Food Law as it contains no opiates or other harmful drugs and is recommended as a safe remedy for children and adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Sexton Bros
Low Rates Southwest Tie Warask Reported
Tail details regarding Tae very lw homestekers Dales Wow with no effect from Chicago to Arkansas, Texas and Mexico. Priotrai, acting General Passenger ent. Watpst Ealtraad, 80 Adinis street, Chicago.
Public Speaker Interrupted by Cough Remedy Ad
An advertisement notes that public speakers are often interrupted by coughing and claims Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds, prevents pneumonia and consumption, and contains no opiates in a yellow package, attributed to Sex ton Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Sexton Bros
Homeseekers Excursion to the Northwest Reduced Rates
West and Northwest excursion via the North Western Line offers greatly reduced fares for travel to the territory indicated. Standard and tourist sleeping cars and free reclining chairs are included. For full details and sale terms contact Chicago and Northwestern Railway for complete particulars.
Hollister Tea Claim Targets Women's Health
An advertisement by Sexton Bros promotes Hollister's Rockey Mountain Tea as a restorative for women, stating it makes the puniest specimen strong and healthy for 3S cents, touting a pretend medical benefit and urging purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollisters Rockey Mountain Tea
Sexon Bros
Hollister
Rockey Mountain
Sexton Bros
Civil War Romance Told by a Veteran
A veteran recounts two Civil War incidents showing love and fate. The first recalls a Tennessee bivouac and a country girl who later recognizes the speaker. the second tells Bill Havens, a young comrade, who dies after sending a blood written plea to his beloved via a gold watch chain. The tale ends with the audience’s fatigue at war stories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Tennessey
Char
Pye
Bill Havens
Havens
Reat
Bill
Art
Bhi
Bill Haveny
Bil Sying
Big
Ellsworth Emoreon
Clemens and Wise in a quixotic duel tale from Mark Twain
In Mark Twain’s Auto Wogeapity, a fragment recalls Jere Clemens a U S senator and Leius remembered for another service hubris and a fanciful duel of Governor Wise and John Brown’s leg wound. The narrator muses on history and personal pride, ending with noting Adan Clemens as a precursor to the famed author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jere Clemens
United States
Leius
John Browns
Wise
Huporbing
Clemens
Adan
Mark Twain
Age at which great composers wrote masterpieces
The London Musical Times table lists composers and their masterpieces with the ages at which they were composed. It suggests most masterpieces fall between ages 30 and 40, but notes exceptions: Bach at 8 forty eight, Wagner Meistersingers at 49, Handel Messiah at 65, and Haydn Creation at 65, implying later works can also be great.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Musical Times
Bis
Brethoven
Weber
Frivachuts
Schyngerl
Mendelagoba
Schumann
Plang
Warver
Bach
Wagner
Arty
Messiah
Ifty-Aix
Harydu
A Turkish Sultan and the Banker Bond Bonanza
A sultan of Turkey admired sessip and called banker Abraham Beg to learn small talk. On route to the palace, the master of the horse prepared to question him but Abraham agreed to answer late. The sultan, delighted, showed bonds valued at seventy two and paid a large dividend, revealing a curious sequence of events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Sessip
Abraham Beg
Pera
Abraham
Door Abraha
Abdul Axix
Nirgsell
Abratsan
Courts of Love in the Middle Ages tale
Fragmentary passage discusses the medieval notion of courts of love formed in southern France to judge matters of the heart. It mentions knights, poets, and ladies and hints at formal decisions on romantic questions, though text is garbled and incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vbi Wu
France
Omurney
Joe Knights
Spoiled Pleasure and a Late Night Lecture
A fragmentary exchange shows Mrs. Meyer asking Mrs. Schulk about trouble and bad humor. Mrs. Schulk notes her husband stays out every night, returning after midnight. She planned to lecture him, but the scene ends with a cryptic reference to a foot vane at nine o clock and a misread foreign phrase.
Eighteenth Century Manners at Handel Festival Notice
A fragment mentions a 1790 Handel festival at Westminster Abbey with a notice for women. It warns no ladies admitted with bats and requests arrival without feathers and very small hoops. The OCR fragment hints at etiquette expectations for attendees and emphasizes modest dress codes of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weatminster Abbey
It Is Strange How Some People Cry at Weddings
A fragmentary exchange from an old column notes that crying at weddings seems tied to marital status. The dialogue contrasts single and married mourners, hinting at deeper feelings about commitment and loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Cynic Defined in The University Word Book
In The university Word Book Am lrone Blerce a self described cynic offers a definition: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. He cites Serrhians who plurk out a cynic s eyes to improve vision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yniv
Amlrone Blerce
Stray Stories Quip Sparks Talk Over Child Talk
A fragmented line from Stray Stories in the Tifaatk State Journal references a quip about children learning to speak and the danger of parents overhearing remarks. The odd exchange implies humor about early speech and luck, with a remark attributed to Mr. Smythe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Habler
Mr. Smythe
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John Farrington
Rib Lake
Mary Hanson
Eastern Star Lodge
Will LaFever
Deer River
Minn
Mesdames
F. W. Heath
G. H. Heath
Frances Stoltenaw
Anns Kourt
Marsafield
Bakerville
Granton
Edena Raymond
Vet Marsh
Carl Reichert
Chicago
BH. B. Cole, Jr
Minneapolis
Lynn Marsh
Mendota
Clare Marsh
Weyerhouser
Earth
A.W. Wendorf
Conntleroy
Vinton Hansen
Milton Page
Milton
John Schroeder
FP. L. Prederick
Louis Laemle
John
Orino
Saxton Bres
Henry and
Roman Fecelm
Ladysmith
Lunber
G. Case
Canton Center
Cann
U. S
Chamberlains
Jena
Tifaatk State Journal
W. Stump
C. W W. Stump
Canton
Ohio
Vinci
Sexton Brothers
H. E. McEachron Company
Omaha Deport
R. Salzman
Mgr. Telephone
First National Bank
Cartan
Sorrius
Adam Haver
Footer Rote & Tanning Co
Idd
Fifth Street
Appleton
R W. Nickerson
Appleton, Wis
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