Classified Advertisements Seek Marshfield House Rent
Homes for rent and land offers from 1900 era ads. A seven room modern house with furnace hot water bath and plumbing to rent to Marshfield buyers. Contact A. L. Mac Farlane Oak St. for details. Also California land sale with $10 down and 10 monthly installments offered by Virtle Leicht 212 W Centra Ave St Paul Minn for a San Joaquin valley small farm investment.
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Marshfield
A. L. MacFarlane
Oak St
California
San Joaquin Valley
Virtle & Leicht
W. Centra
Ave
ST Paul
Minn
To Trade A Farm For City Property Or Cash
Trade offer from Anton Dallendorfer for 80 acres with eight room farmhouse a frame barn basement and well kept machinery. Seeks good income city property or fair monthly payments. Office over Merchfield State Bank.
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Anton Dallendorfer
Mershfield State Bank
Cand of Thanks for Mrs James Christensen Death
We express our gratitude for the sympathy and support shown by friends and neighbors during the illness and death of our wife and mother Mrs James Christensen. James Christensen and Family.
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James Christensen
James. Christensen
How to Prevent Bilious Attacks
Coming events cast their shadows before this piece notes bilious attacks cause loss of appetite and dullness. It advises taking three Chamberlain's Tablets at onset to ward off the attack and mentions sale by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
Pharmacy Ad Pledges Exact Adherence to Doctor's Orders
TRY A TIMES WANT AD on the bottle is the nurse's duty. Vol ieying to the letter the directions of the doctor is our duty and we fulfill t in every case. No medicine can be too good. Our prescription work guarantees the best to be had.
Edison on Sleep as a Bad Habit and Energy Reform
The Louis Post-Dispatch questions Mr. Edison's claim that sleep is a harmful habit and predicts a future shift away from rest. It notes his past ideas about motive power and transport, then jokes about leisure fatigue and the appeal of comfort in sleeping, mentioning working hours and the odd inevitability of a good bed.
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Mr. Edison
Hlm
Tia
Mr Edison
Louis Post
Russian whiskers crown a defense in wartime lore
A George W. Monroe quip extols Russian whiskers as the ultimate defense, claiming their durability outmatches tactics, armament, and patriotism. The humor envisions soldiers with steel like facial hair bending ground, bullets caught in beards, and whiskers deciding battles across future wars.
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George W. Monroe
Red Cross
Carnegie's Busy Life Traced From Scottish Birth to Steel Leader
Andrew Carnegie, aged seventy nine, born November 25, 1835 in Danfermline Scotland, moved to the United States in 1848 settling in Pittsburgh. He started as a loom worker's assistant then learned telegraphy and railroading rising to superintendent before joining Woodruff Sleeping Car Company. Carnegie later joined the steel industry and became a major benefactor funding libraries across the United States and Britain and the Carnegie Hero Fund.
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Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Danfermline
Scotland
United States
Pittsburgh
Pennaylowe Nuts System
Mr Woodruff
Sleeping Car
Woodruff Sleeping Car Company
Mr. Carnagia
Great Britain
Itis
Care Aegle Hero Fund
Why He Stopped the Train Near West Liberty
A passenger train on the Bis Pour line between Springfield and Nellefontaine halted near West Liberty to untangle a frightened hearse caught in a wire fence. Conductor Philip Henn explained the delay after no rural mail wagon collision occurred. The incident, reported by the Indianapolis News, notes strong town sentiment and a vow to assist locals in need.
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Springfield
Nellefontaine
West Liberty
Philip Henn
Ellie Yoder
Indianapolis News
Germs Thrive in Salt, Doctor Reports at Pasteur Institute
Doctor Rappin of the Pasteur Institute in Nantes reports that concentrated marsh brine does not kill germs but provides a breeding place for them. The discovery notes a surprising survival in salt environments and calls for further study.
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Rappin
Pasteur Institute
Nantes
Walt Mey
Yharts Ja de Soto Barty Wes Uh
Michigan Supreme Court Case On Spirit Mediums And Disorderly Conduct
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a self described clairvoyant and soul reader advertising occult services was properly convicted of disorderly conduct. The offense was deemed the act or the advertisement itself, with no required intent, a misdemeanor. The write up notes similar attitudes in New York, Delaware, England and a French impostor conviction for photographing a spirit.
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L. Arthur Wilder
Michigan Supreme Court
New York
Delaware
England
France
Royal in Its Magnificence at Carnegie Library
A Carnegie Library report features a large founder's room described as fifty to sixty yards long with indirect lighting and a flagged floor. The space holds four or five thrones one folding bed, a table with a fancy, and no sleeping accommodations. The article notes the room's royal palace feel and questions Mr. Carnegies use of the space.
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Pittsburghs
Carnegiebrary
Boston Eventing Transcript
Typhoid in War Time Across U S Military History
Scientific American notes typhoid fever afflicted armies in 1870 Franco Prussian War with 72 000 cases and 7 000 deaths. In the Weer war British forces saw 57 000 cases and 8 000 deaths. In 1898 U S troops faced 20 798 cases and 1 050 deaths among 108 000 men, with one in five infected. Even garrison troops in camps suffered one in six. Nine tenths of 1898 U S troop deaths were due to typhoid fever.
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Germany
Span
United States
Scientific American
The Doorman’s Plea at New York Theater
Silvestro, a theater doorman, pleads to owners and staff while admiring the theater, its manager, and fellow workers. He declares devotion to the show The Marriage of Columbine and offers his life to serve the establishment and its people. The scene highlights pride in duty and longing for validation.
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New Yorks
Silvestro
Columbine
Silvestra
Sara
Mr. Hopkins
Slete Soldislaulo
Wires Near Houses Prompt Ts Danger Suggests Eight to Ten Feet
A man trimming a tree was electrocuted after a branch struck a live wire. Philip Edelman urged in Scientific American that power lines be kept far from structures, proposing municipalities require vertical separation of eight to ten feet from nearby objects.
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Philip 2. Fdelman
Scientific American
Edelman
Sense of Fitness War Fragment
A golden haired woman in a hospital ward remarks that wounded English soldiers look “dinky” in their cerl and wonders if they resemble prize ponies rather than men who have bled for their country. The scene contrasts superficial adjectives with the gravity of war.
Farmers' Wives Buy Bread in Town Again
A short dispatch notes that farmers' wives routinely visit town to buy bread, remarking that farmers' daughters are not mastering cooking as they did in the past and reflecting on changing domestic habits.
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aMfitchol Tribune
Strange bodily response during Cleveland concert
An observer described felt rhythmic movements while listening to a Cleveland musician's performance, noting the beat seemed to extend from the orchestra to the audience and grew more pronounced, culminating in a physical sensation that affected their body.
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Cleveland
Mr. Stockowski
Estate of Peter Allmann hearing set for March 2 1913
Wisconsin Wood County court orders Mary Allmann to show cause on March 2 1913 at 10 oclock before Grand Rapids probate office why her administration should be examined and the residue assigned. notice to interested parties via three weekly newspaper publications in Marshfield Times.
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State of
Wisconsin
County of Wood Ss
Wood County Court
Peter Allmann
Mary Allmann
Grand Rapis
Marshfield
Dance and danger in a crowded concert hall turn perilous
A thirtyish woman knitted and swayed to music as the Belgians’ threat loomed. The Sibeling number drew approving nudges, Zimbilist pressed light insistence, and the Marche Slave built to a clash with a knitting assault. The narrator flees as bayonet-like sensations strike.
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Zimbilist
Judge Bodkin recalls Gallagher and inverted commas
From Bodkin's reminiscences a Dublin editor Gallagher is described as never reading a book and misusing punctuation. The Dublin General Advertiser revised copy mercilessly and believed inverted commas protected style. A reported theatrical line becomes a comical misquotation highlighting editor’s eccentricities. TRY A TIMES WANT AD!
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Judge Bodkin
John B. Gallagher
Dublin General Advertiser
Docna
The
Freeman's Journal
Recognized Advantages of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
A promotional note claims Chamberlains Cough Remedy loosens and relieves coughs, aids expectoration, opens secretions, and helps the body expel a cold. It supposedly counters progression to pneumonia, contains no opium, and can be given to both children and adults. Sold by all dealers.
Bell System celebrates line and service expansion
The Bell System highlights decades of engineering progress from the first telephone to the transcontinental line. It notes a staff of 550 engineers and scientists, 21 million miles of wire, 9 million stations, and universal service claimed for 100 million people across the United States.
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Bell System
Atlantic and Pacific
United States
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Associated Companies
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