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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1917
Page
2
An advertisement urges women to use Triumpl Pills for irregular or delayed periods. It claims safety and dependability, notes not sold in drug stores, and directs readers to request information from the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin, 1811, free of charge.
Milwaukee, Feb. 23. Wisconsin distillers will not oppose the Byrne bill which calls for a referendum on prohibition. Assemblyman Mahon, attorney for the Wisconsin Association of Wholesale Liquor Dealers, announced the plan. They will push an amendment to submit the question at the spring 1918 election instead of the fall.
The trial of Dr. A. H. Lillie for manslaughter in the death of Martha Dannies of Random Lake opens in Milwaukee municipal court today. Circuit Judge Byron B. Park of Stevens Point will preside.
London reports Premier Lloyd George told the Commons the allied cause hinges on solving the tonnage shortage. He warned of drastic measures, urged cutbacks on non essential imports, higher home production, and self supporting army in France. Proposes minimum agricultural wage and guaranteed wheat prices to stabilize food supplies and prices. Brew ers to be cut to ten million barrels annually.
An old fashioned rural scene is revisited in verse as a new poet recalls fathers stumping land with axes and cramped toil. The poem contrasts past hardships with modern farming shifts, noting bankers aiding settlers, the rise of tractors and machinery, and rail routes changing the landscape.
A Wisconsin farmer with tuberculosis improved after a month in a sanatorium where supervised rest and fresh air revived his strength and voice. A nearby married woman, prompted by tuberculosis education, alerted a visiting nurse who convinced another patient to seek treatment, indirectly leading the farmer to the sanatorium and a recovery judged miraculous by his doctor. The episode underscores the sanatorium’s healing influence and community spread of care.
A Missouri resident in Weatherby reports a severe cold attack that improved after taking two bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The writer, J. Metcalf, credits the medicine with a quick cure and recommends it for future colds, noting it is obtainable widely.
Applications and petitions are in order for 1517 18 farmers institutes per E L Luther superintendent. Effort is to complete the two day program schedule by mid summer.
The General Staff’s universal military service bill, sent to Congress by the secretary of war yesterday, is praised as the best measure yet. It aims to provide a ready army, offers broad exemptions, and would develop youth physically and mentally without hardship, ensuring the nation is never again forced into war with unready recruits.
Mrs Amanda Herbart of Wawnesfield Ohio says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been used in her family for twenty years and has never failed to cure a cough or cold. Obtainable everywhere.
The post office lists unclaimed letters for the week ending February 26 1917 including Bull Fred Mos serman three Stuhr three Frieda.
Fragmentary data shows market terms including dairy butter beef veal live weights dressed weights and hides. Scattered figures mention per dozen prices per cwt and per th with unclear units and several misspellings.
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