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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1917
Page
2
Fragmented classified style text appears to advertise towing and cleaning services with vague promises. It mentions mail orders solicited and an expert installation and start. It requests reliable agents and lists a distributor in Wisconsin with a noisy, garbled address.
An old advertisement touts Mall’s Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a $100 reward for failure to cure, featuring testimonials and a Toledo company address. In city business, the Marsnville City Cemetery Board reports a year end balance of $426.50 and an appropriation of $500 to the Central Wisconsin State Fair association for 1917.
The Wisconsin conservation commission rejects a Marshfield Gun Club petition to avoid closing upland game bird seasons. It notes most protective associations urge closure for partridges and prairie chickens citing dwindling stocks. Marsh, a former official, defends hunters noting severe weather and prior cutbacks, arguing closing seasons harms conservation and sports interest.
United States District Court Western District of Wisconsin notices a trustee will sell at public auction the Marshfield store property from the Tapson estate. Items include stock of merchandise about 2547 dollars value fixtures 924 dollars and minor cash book accounts. sale subject to bankruptcy court approval with a 5 percent cash or certified check deposit and 124 percent bid balance due at confirmation. Frank Vaughn trustee Marshfield Wisconsin.
Market notices show prices for potatoes per bushel butter dairy and beef costs. Livestock figures include beef per dozen live weight dressed weights and hides with references to calf and chickens in the feed and meat markets.
Listed price sheet shows bulk and ton rates for wheat oats barley rye corn and various feeds including meal, pig feed, middlings and ground cow feed. Figures appear garbled with some values unreadable, but total shows 840.00 as a bulk price near end. Key items include flour and grain prices per bushel or ton and miscellaneous feed items.
Notice requests all water users to conserve supply due to extreme demand from railroads and weather. Railroads cooperate with the company to prevent waste while ensuring adequate supply for community needs and fire protection. Marshfield Water Electric Light Power Company issued the notice via Superintendent Wayts.
An old notice describes bilious attack symptoms and relief from Chamberlain's Tablets as prompt and effective. It also states Colonel Roosevelt has asked permission to raise a volunteer army division and pledges enlistment with his four sons.
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