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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1904
Page
8
A Marshfield Times review extols the Good Templars of the city for temperance work. It highlights weekly meetings, membership growth, and efforts to combat drinking and its harms. The piece calls for unity, courage, and active resistance to liquor in the community.
Sherry wishes a merry Christmas to all and notes Wm D Jones returning for the winter. Mrs S A Pipe is asked to call for chair recure. Fred K Becker, local blacksmith, is busy serving farmers. A lively group visited Mr and Mrs Iver A Johnson. The German Lutheran church plans Christmas services Sunday evening.
A Christmas tree event is planned with a Sabbath show by Sherry Presbyterian and Santa Claus expected to attend. Town clerk Hugh C. Jones reports county land tax rolls show a reduction of over $3 per thousand. An old landmark, the Sherry saw mill, is being torn down and moved to Smith’s farm near Arpin for barn use.
Auburndale notes list residents and visitors including John Baltus in Stratford Roy Potter in Milwaukee Joe Kotas Geo Grass visiting Sherry and Marshfield, plus plans for a December 26 dance at H Leipka hall. R Connor Co ships horses to Leona. Dr Thomas Clark to Knowlton. Brande family welcomes baby boy. Local ad promotes Cole's Veterinary Carbon salve with prices 50c and 1.00.
Town of Spencer activity as Geo Hanson visits friends on Sunday. Aug Frank shops in Marshheld. Chas Foth returns from rustication in Jefferson, Wis. Logs and wood hauled by prominent farmers at $1.26 a cord. School closes Friday for a week with dialogues and recitations held. Widespread sickness. hopes for improvement. Saint Nick arrival anticipated with sleigh bells and reindeer sounds.
Names from Moon and nearby communities appear in a sequence of short notices. Ernest Rosin of Mosinee is visiting. Levi Francisco moved to Mr. Brigham's house. Tony Gebauer and wife stayed with Leo Gebauer. Wm Davidson left for Halder to work. Neil Rice moved to a Southeast Moon site. a new wedding season is hinted as Christmas bells approach. water tanks and road work for log hauling are mentioned. a local Saturday dance drew few attendees.
A 19th century advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. It states the remedy works through the blood and mucous surfaces and offers $100 for any case not cured. Includes testimonial list request and price 75 cents, with Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A passenger recounts caring for a persistent young boy begging for Christmas money on a train. After a night tending the child, a benevolent stranger funds the effort, and the boy’s father later appears, leading to a modest Christmas dinner in an impoverished home. The tale ends with the grateful family and a note about charity.
The article describes London society women giving small particles of radium as Christmas presents. Costs range from 10 to 50, and accompanying gear includes a spinthariscope or other apparatus shaped like a ring. Spark flashes seen in darkness, fueling high demand for radium among chemists and suppliers in Bavaria and Austria.
The piece describes simple crafts such as a picture frame from gun pipe and shoe strings, a paper weight from brick paper and red tape, a towel rack from a baseball bat and cigar foxes, a pipe rack from one inch plank, and a tobacco jar from a dried muskmelon shells.
A Country Life in America excerpt describes long held Christmas beliefs. It cites oxen speaking at midnight in adoration of the Nativity and a one hour power of speech restoring lost spirits. It mentions Judas Herod Pilate and the daughter of Herodian as figures involved in midnight visions and fates.
The text describes an old English Yule jog rooted in Juul lore and Seundiniings practices. It notes Christus eve ceremonies and preservation of the Yule log to guard the home against fire through the coming year. It mentions fear of misfortune if the log or room is disturbed.
An old fragment notes that belief varied on Christmas date with some placing it January 6 and others December 25. It mentions Devonshire traditions claiming a sax gbries at noon on Christmas day could predict next year’s apple crop, citing Nationslus tritated Slugazine.
A dialect vignette from Frank Sealle's Popular Monthly describes a Christmas dinner held in a cabin. Deacons, the preacher, and guests gather as a sheriff arrives and jokes unfold. The feast features possum meat and turkey with brown and smoking hots.
An old Philadelphia Ledger piece recalls Saint Nicholas, bishop of Asia Minor, as the generous bringer of gifts to children. It notes the origin of Santa Claus fonts in his name and story, recounts the three purses of gold tale, and mentions the Decem ber 6 feast in Germany where the figure visits children.
An 1890s style advertisement asserts a germ causes baldness and dandruff. It promotes Klin as a hair growth remedy, claiming it stops shedding and promises cures. Offers 50 cent and dollar bottles from The Certha-Kiin Medicine Co in Milwaukee, Wis.
A Washington Star item recalls a parent deciding to dispel Santa Claus from a young son’s mind. The child, asked if his feelings were hurt, replied with pity that the parent was likely one of the bad boys Santa ignores.
A fragmented notice describes a Christmas promise by a Miss Saintly to give a silver dollar to any boy with a perfect conduct mark, with a quip from Billy McGinnis about a quarter vow. The text reads as a dated school dayItem from a past issue, showing local ritual and classroom humor.
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