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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1909
Page
3
President Roosevelt transmits the country life commission report to Congress calling for government help to improve farming, cooperation, education, and living conditions in rural areas. He stresses three focus areas: better farming, better business, and better country living, with a plan for outreach and an appropriation to finish the study.
The Juvenile Protective Association of Atlanta will run the Uncle Rems Home for Children as a memorial to Joel Chandler Harris. The site has been donated and substantial funds raised. The institution, named a juvenile state, will include a school nine gymnasium and a mechanical workshop.
A long government commission report to the President argues agriculture is broadly prosperous but under531utilized in profit. It cites lack of knowledge, credit, and organized rural life, and urges a national plan including surveys, extension work, education reform, roads, and stronger farm organizations to lift farming communities. It stresses knowledge, education, organization, spiritual life, and coordinated action across federal and state levels.
Appleton reports Jay Condy a Lawrence College student from Harvey was sentenced to one year at the state reformatory in Greendale after pleading guilty to arson at the college inn. The judge opted to suspend sentence earlier but sentenced him on second consideration to serve one year.
Mrs. M. A Schwerin of Detroit reports her infant Vivian had about sixty boils on the head at eight months. She used Cuticura Soap and Ointment with repellant. later a red scald-like humor behind the ears recurred every spring but healed after continued use.
A dry goods salesman asks Centerville’s alorekeeper Cyrus Craig about winter entertainments. Craig notes no events have occurred aside from two pupil concerts and two lectures at the academy, with no town entertainments arranged.
Prof Munyon advertises Cold Cure sold by druggists for 25 cents a bottle. The pills claim to relieve head, throat and lungs without opium or narcotics and come with a money back guarantee. A free Magazine Almanac is offered by The Munyon Company of Philadelphia.
From Our Trees and How to Know Them by Clarence M. Weed. The text notes the tree’s distinctive majesty across gutmer autumn spring and winter, endearing all who come under its influence.
An assortment of vintage ad copy and stray phrases appears, praising infant remedies, health tonics, and household products. The text mentions CASTORLA, Garfield Tea, Brown's Bronchial Troches, and Lewis' Single Binder Cigar, alongside ephemeral commentary on settlers, sermons, and a highwayman motif.
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