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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1907
Page
8
Coupler Co Inc announces incorporation and a plan to build a steel foundry in Marshfield to manufacture the Wendt Coupler. A limited stock offering is available to Marshfield citizens. visit the office for full particulars.
A verbose 19th century advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a safe, alcohol free remedy for weak nervous and overworked women. It cites professional endorsements, lists ingredients, and offers free consultations, medical books, and mail order access from Buffalo New York. The copy emphasizes its composition and lack of habit forming drugs, urging readers to seek the formula's validity.
The Wisconsin legislature weighs joint resolution 22S to allow state aid for country road building, shifting costs from farmers to all property owners. A second bill proposes 40000 yearly for two years to fund the State Geological Survey to study economical road materials and aid local officials in utilizing road taxes more effectively. Petitions are circulating urging passage, with voters urged to express their stance to their representatives.
The Parnassus Literary Society presented Crick et on the Hearth with strong performances from John Perrybingle and Mrs. Perrybingle. Tackleton Caleb Plumme Bertha May Fielding Mrs Fielding Tilly Slowboy Old Gentleman Chas Fors atharyne Gross an Peter Miller Charley Faber Ethel Milligan Vera Randles Richard Rheinboldt The climax in the third act drew applause as Jona Perrybingle almost commits murder but is stopped by a cricket chirp. Pearl Poerner’s blind Bertha drew tears and Peter Miller’s Jackleton and Tilly Slowboy provided humor.
Complies with state laws requiring special labeling. Calumet Baking Powder claims high quality, no injurious substances in food, and physician recommended merit. Wenzel and Wenzel promotes meat and table supplies with clean, equal treatment in their shop.
The text traces the spread of teacups and coffee cups in Europe from the 17th century, noting early dates in Venice 1659, Paris 1662, London, and Leipzig, while describing the shift from armless porcelain to conventional handles, the use of Chinese porcelain, and the rise of porcelain collecting amid forgeries and high prices.
Darwin cites Diet and Dietetics notes that Gauchos and pampas hunters thrive on large amounts of meat and fat. Eekinos and Siberian trappers may eat heavy meat or fish if accompanied by fat and active open air living. The author links high fat intake with necessary activity levels for endurance and health.
A historical note recalls an 1847 famine era plan to open a Galway to Ballinrobe waterway via Lough Corrib and Lough Mask. A Cong canal to Lough Mask was built to relieve distress, creating jobs but failing to hold water due to the district dock's porous nature being overlooked.
A tortoise, famed for heavy sleep, hibernated in a dim cellar corner after a new cook arrived who knew nothing of tortoises. Months later the creature woke, caused a kitchen ruckus, and the astonished cook exclaimed she had broken the kitchen stone with her winter.
A brief collection of antiquated gambling terms tracing Craps to English roots with possible French links, plus a Shetland wool anecdote about Spaniards teaching dyeing and a quip on healthy fruit use for better digestion.
Two ancient schoolmen argue that modern learning races along a railroad and a railroad with too few safeguards. The Philadelphia Ledger records their quips on progress and education.
In the Ottawa Free Press item a bull has forty reds to travel to reach a tramp while the tramp has thirty two reds to reach the fence. If the bull goes one fourth faster than the tramp, how close will the latter come to the grand hoist. The article’s tone mixes playful puzzle and editorial aside about certainty.
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