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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1913
Page
3
A garbled prospectus urges home seekers and investors to request literature on a Westward opportunity promising profits in real estate and Canada. It touts low margins, large discounts, flexible terms, and immediate action to secure books and details before investing elsewhere.
An old newspaper ad offers thousand acres of land for sale near a lake with frontage. It promises low prices before February and urges quick action, mentioning a large mailing list and maps. The notice claims a town of 2000 residents nearby and references a Xmas issue for full details.
Prominent St Paul attorney Frank E McCray writes from Commerce Bid to Fred larris promising to buy lots 11 and 12 of the wholesale tract for 1000 dollars with cash discount. He notes personal inspection and recommends the land as a sound home or investment. He offers further information to prospective buyers.
Wisconsin farmers are urged to use only pure bred sires to preserve breed purity and improve farm stock. The guide explains grading up, risks of mongrel sires, and the need for licensing and public posting of stallion pedigree to ensure purebred breeding progress.
Senator Timothy Burke will present a bill in the state senate aimed at increasing deer numbers in Wisconsin forests and protecting human life. The measure would allow hunting only of buck deer during the season, with antlers visible before harvest and a projected 50 percent drop in hunting deaths.
A Grandap ids Tribune anecdote about a farmer who tests a pocket thermometer. It shows the device misread due to in transit and a neighbor’s mistaken temperature, prompting a near freeze scenario. Washington report notes Boys' Corn Club contests growing in the South under Secretary Wilson and a push to promote farm life through exhibits and county fairs.
Wisconsin reports from the College of Agriculture indicate oat smut affected up to 40 percent of plants in some fields last year. If farmers stop treating seed nuts with formalin, neglect could allow smut to spread again, causing wide spread losses across the state.
Advertising copy states Chamberlains Cough Remedy is superior for colds. It claims to follow nature, relieve lungs, open secretions, aid expectoration, and restore the system to health. Sexton Bros. markets the product.
Historical ad notes that many salves clog pores and fail to reach inner skin where eczema germs lie. It praises oil of wintergreen thymol glycerin as temporary, then promotes D D D as the fast, guaranteed itch relief with a full size bottle offer from Sexton Brothers, Druggists.
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