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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1911
Page
3
In Brentwood Tennessee Mr AB Ruoker reports severe cough and weakness from illness. After trying many remedies he credits Peruna with stopping the cough and restoring health quickly. He urges others with weakness and cough to try Peruna and asks readers to request the free Peruna Almanac from their druggist.
An aged dialogue on gallantry and courtesy circulates in a Boston setting with remarks about giving up seats, hats, and berths for women. It features a quip from Thomas W. Lawson and a funeral joke about a millionaire financier, ending with a note on eggs rising in price and a humorous line about a hen and a homemaker.
A reader letter warns prejudice swindles minds and wallets while presenting a testimonial about Grape-Nuts. The correspondent claims long use improved digestion, appetite, and weight after suffering eructations, urging continued daily consumption and referencing “The Road to Wellville” and “There’s a Reason.”
In Wheeling West Virginia Laura Farnsworth Schenk fails to secure unanimous verdict on charges of poisoning her husband. Eleven jurors favor acquittal one for guilty, Judge Jordem frees her as the panel declares no chance of a verdict. Prosecutor hints case may be dropped. Schenk to seek bond reduction and immediate release within weeks.
Madison reports the legislature quickly advanced the Stephenson investigation, approving a joint resolution to print 2,000 copies for members, passed Senate and Assembly without dissent, signaling both majority and minority reports will be considered. Printing delivery is pending after members review the repack.
Wisconsin State Telephone Association will hold its annual convention in Madison on February 12. The group, formed July 13, 1920, includes seventy companies. Exhibits of modern telephone apparatus will be shown and speakers include Alonzo Burt, W. F. Goodrich, J. M. Storkerson, and F. J. Mayer. A hearing on pending state legislative bills affecting the telephone business is planned.
In Madison the Wisconsin Brotherhood of Threshermen elected officers for the year: President Bert Patterson Lodl Vice President J W Meixner De Forest Secretary and Treasurer Peter Heiser Thorp Chairman of Membership William Prisk Montello A resolution was adopted opposing a winded? twine factory at the state prison and another favoring state aid for highways.
A dense fog near Byron prevents visibility and costs Clifford H. Minnis, 33, a Saotine conductor from this city, his life. Minnis was aboard a north bound freight and was taking the siding when a following freight crashed into his train, death resulting instantly.
The Spring City hotel in Waukesha suffered serious fire damage with a loss estimated at 10000 dollars. The insured building, valued at 16 006, is owned by Thomas H. Jones of Ridgeway.
In the case of Charles Timm against Dr. A H Hartwig of Watertown for five thousand nine dollars damage for alleged slander the jury returned a verdict for the defendant.
A historic markets roundup listing grain and livestock quotes from Milwaukee Chicago and Minneapolis dated January 8 1911 with Butter creamery extras eggs and dairy prices alongside wheat corn barley oats and cattle hogs and sheep values. Includes No 1 hard and portland wheat quotes and livestock ranges for butchers steers cows calves and hogs.
Wisconsin dairymen prepare for a February state convention in Neenah expected to draw at least 2000 attendees, with an after banquet organized by the Neenah Business Men's Association and business meetings on the convention’s final day. Reports from Monroe, Marinette, Sheboygan, New Richmond, Eau Claire, Antigo, Beloit, Kenosha, Racine recount robberies, libel suits, injuries, a firearm incident, a pawnshop aspiration, and a prominent Racine widow’s death revealing local social and crime news across multiple towns.
Read as a newspaper card, this note cites a Toronto Star report from December 1910 predicting Western Canada provinces Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia would reach ten million people by 1920. It argues wheat wealth, railway growth, and immigration would drive rapid population and export expansion, highlighting settler incentives and ample land.
Public notice-style advertisement urges readers to use Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney symptoms noting warnings of dropsy and Bright's disease. Testimonial from W P Miller of Pender Nebraska claims life was saved by the product. Product sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
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