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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1917
Page
3
A succinct patriotic line echoes Stephen Decatur urging national unity and steadfastness in conduct with foreign nations, mirroring historical sentiment about loyalty and judgment in public life.
A state bair on wheels drives a Wisconsin products special train on Chicago & Northwestern lines in Illinois and Wisconsin. Demonstrations and illustrated lectures showcase crops and dairy prospects to attract settlers. The tour extends three weeks through at least eighteen southern Wisconsin cities with ten Wisconsin faculty members and state migration officials aboard.
An unnamed correspondent describes a wife ill for two years with tuberculosis and the family's large spending on various medicines. They consider sending her to a Wisconsin sanatorium though doubt its availability and fear drugs failed. The article notes TB can cause major obstruction and that early recognition changes optimism, with no definite guarantee of recovery.
The piece argues that cure failures stem from poor prescribing rather than doctors or drugs alone. It warns against relying on unqualified recommendations and urges remedies to be tailored with judgment. It notes sanatorium use and emphasizes skilled workers over doctors for handling cure materials.
A writer recounts a man who claims to memorize three hundred names from letters. He describes a simple method: fix face and name in mind during a brief encounter, then greet the person by name on the next meeting. He asserts this rule has enabled near perfect recall throughout life.
The January American Magazine opens with Beath Tarkington’s leading piece Nipskillions reflecting his drink opinions drawn from personal experience and observations of men he knows. A close second essay argues married men fare better in business than bachelors, stressing the value of knowing people in commerce. The issue also includes Payslee, lively fiction by Witwer Lait Parser Putler Burnet Rothery Grayson, a popular Cinderella dance, poetry, Family Money, and other entertaining departments.
The work of classifying and opening to homestead claimants lands in national forests for agriculture proceeds rapidly. Over seventy million acres have been surveyed and the final report acted upon.
The Washington Post reports Rt. Rev. Charles Blayney Culmore, bishop of Porto Rico, lauds U.S. Marines for Haiti reconstruction. He says Marines transformed sanitation, economy, and civility, calling their work a major chapter in contemporary American history under the Monroe Doctrine.
Investigations by the forest products laboratory in Madison show spent tanbark can be used to manufacture asphalt shingles at a rate of 160 tons per week. The bark's value has risen from 60 cents to 2.50 dollars per ton due to this new application.
A Mil waukee Sentinel reprints a 1867 New Year tale from the Dream City noting brisk crowds and lively routines on January 1. Young men made calls to polite acquaintances as four young oxen reportedly delivered a hundred sixty calls, while the top recipient among the circle gathered seventy two visits.
Lime should be applied after plowing and three to four weeks before seeding alfalfa to allow incorporation into the soil. Ground lime stone is often applied to the preceding crop to ensure thorough mix before alfalfa.
A fragment cites a Woman's Home Companion passage arguing for a special chapter on being impersonal in etiquette and fiction. It lists guidance such as avoiding comments on fatigue or marriage, offering concrete help, not criticizing clothing, and refraining from fat remarks. The tone mirrors period etiquette advice.
A reader letter from Lost Valley Georgia praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy as highly effective for backing coughs and colds. The note asserts the cough always disappears after taking it and endorses the remedy for general use.
A State Historical Society letter describes early printing in Courtland New York with a Ramage wooden press and basic inking balls. It notes printers claimed they would never set type by machinery and recalls Wisconsin’s first printing as a lottery ticket job with a brevier font and crude ink. The second press appeared in Kenosha in 1836, a wooden box on a stump.
The piece advises turning cold taking into a habit easily broken. Start with a sponge bath about 90 degrees, keep the window up, and you will seldom catch a cold. When a cold occurs use Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to shorten its duration. obtainable everywhere.
Investigations on sulfur bleaching of commercial oats show the process bleaches hull and berry but often reduces germinating quality. Findings published by Weekly News Digest, Department of Agriculture, indicate limited bleaching benefits and notable drawbacks for oat viability.
I B Wixon of Farmers Mills New York praises Chamberlain s Tablets for stomach and liver disorders saying they are the best he has ever used. Obtainable everywhere.
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