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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1904
Page
4
The Marsheld Times reprints a reader’s note about Prof Elis Guineensis a palmist who reads futures from palm casts. It describes his origin seven generations back seven minutes after seven o clock on July seventh 1777 and how he offers weekly palm readings via artificial casts with odd humor and local gossip.
A young reader asks about a palm cast and a farm wage. The response says no raise, looming discharge, and poor fit for farm work but hints at Christmas gifts and a future in town banking. The letter includes family gifts and odd hair chain lore.
Rector E A Langeetot of St Luke's Ashburnham Ontario credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with curing a severe cold and cough just before Easter, enabling him to preach thrice. The report, part of a wider local notice, also mentions cheese buyer frauds in Outagamie County and a Wisconsin university short course in agriculture with 305 students in the 61st year class and 535 total students in related programs.
Advert says DeWitts Little Early Risers are pleasant and effective for children, delicate ladies, and weak people, with strong users calling them the best liver pills sold. Sold by RK, J Straps.
A Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling in State v Crowley et al holds a ring of sharpers who ran the green goods mail fraud not criminally liable. The case details payments, fake boxes marked with counterfeit money, sawdust in boxes, and extortion by a constable, with Burke admitting intent to pass counterfeit money. The court asserts Burke’s belief in the illegality bars conspiracy charges against the conspirators.
A health notice urges mothers to protect children from coughs colds croup and whooping cough. It promotes One Minute Cough Cure as a harmless pleasant remedy sold by R. J. Strauss.
An advertisement touts Dr Rea and Co offering treatments for numerous diseases and deformities from eye and ear issues to digestive, reproductive and nervous disorders. It claims cures for deafness, cataracts, paralysis, cancers, ulcers, and sexual debilities with no pain or blood loss. Consultation costs one dollar, with locations in New York and Evansville.
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