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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1908
Page
11
In a comic tale, Billy Williams courts Emmn Scott and May Parkinson, bungling invitations and jealous clashes. A misaddressed love note reveals his true affection for Parkinson, briefly easing tensions as Scott learns the truth and the rivals share Billy’s attention before another flare of drama. Ambrose Spencer.
Pat, a city bartender, has long lived with a failing marriage though he blames his wife for impatience with his habits. He jokes that she deserves a divorce but cost keeps him from granting it. After a severe pneumonia attack, he quips that doctors “make a habit of holding out hopes” as his wife asks about his fate. The exchange ends with his line about recovering.
A New York Post item notes dealers advertising Bibles that record births and ages, including women’s ages. It suggests several families hide Bibles during moves, wary of personal data falling into malicious hands as prosperity rises.
Warsaw cor report tells of a Polish pilgrim in a church who complained a thief stole his purse. A priest advised trying to locate the thief, and the pilgrim entered the crowd, found his own purse hidden in his back, and retrieved the exact amount. The thief escaped as the pilgrim rejoiced.
The article explains dance name origins from languages: quadrille from French meaning a small square. contredanse as country dance via couple positions. polka from Bohemian patka meaning half step. waltz from German waltzen meaning to revolve. adds the tre e? and Sig from French pique. Harpers Weekly cited.
A group of butchers discuss odd stomach contents from an anomaly and recount stories to amuse the crowd. An old farmer recalls feeding a cow with a lantern left in the yard, which they later found inside the cow’s stomach still lit after slaughter.
A department store customer asks for exchange on three pairs of shoes. The clerk notes the patent leather is cracked due to old stock and likely expired patent, reflecting issues of warranty and product dating.
Inquirer reports a puzzling scene as a Hooded figure known as Father Joe questions why the elderly woman remains in the coal yard. The exchange hints the woman may be acting on a late season cue to lay in coal, suggesting superstition or habit rather than an imminent danger. The odd pairing drives local curiosity.
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune page features a reporter asking Sver about a trip in Stocra and a Russian refugee recalling a knouting there one summer, conveying a brief texture of conversations and era speech.
A brief newspaper quote shows Mr Hogg asserting women have forgotten how to laugh and Mrs Hogg countering that remark may target married women, reflecting a chatty letters or commentary exchange in Cincinnati society pages.
In a fragmentary Philadelphia Lodger piece Aunt Mandy, a wary but merry washerwoman, reflects on a projected marriage to Br’er Johnson in Lig Breed. She argues the match promises six months of big washes for her, framing the plan as a rickety yet hopeful path amid scarce prospects and family gossip.
In Wilhelm Meister Schuchardt recalls Goethe dictated with startling speed as if reading from a printed book. Even amid barber visits, library notes, and family interruptions the author resumed reading the last sentence and continued as if uninterrupted, illustrating a remarkable focus under disruption.
In a New Hampshire corn village, 9 giants tall, 98 Rass Mellin preaches silence as a virtue. He runs a shop and, famed for talking too much, shares a tale about advice on mattresses. A native asks for the best kind, Mellin says Fluske, then years later Straw, admitting he ruined himself by talk.
A historic Danish society, Manian Insurance, binds noble families to insure a female child at birth. The girl’s guardian pays a lump sum and annual fees, and on reaching twenty one gains a fixed income and a princely residence. If she marries or dies, the benefits continue in the noble class. The scheme, longstanding, keeps poverty from old maids among Denmark’s nobility.
A quaint exchange features a chemist and a patient debating liability after a tonic doubles as a youth elixir. The patient proclaims he was thirty nine and is now nineteen, a change challenged by the claim that minors are not held responsible for their blunders.
A tombstone found during demolition of the old churchyard of Radnorshire bears a curiously unloving In Memoriam. The inscription vows that shrubs may wither and earth rot, but the dear wife will not be revived, a stark memorial that reads I plant these anruba upon your grave, dear wife.
A brief exchange appears quoted from Fliegende Blatter with flirtatious banter about dreaming of Ostend and wishing to be together. The playful line contrasts travel plans and intimate dreams between a couple.
A fragment discusses searching a dictionary for corroboration rather than information. It references names like London and Vit. Blts and includes remarks on philosophy as discretion, framed as a quoted or dialogic line. The readable text is limited and unclear on concrete events or entities.
An old promotional snippet touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe for children and effective against coughs colds croup and whooping cough. It claims no opium or harmful drugs and cites Sexton Bros as sellers. Also references Dr Shoop's Restorative from Racine Wisconsin and a trade quote about low pressure systems in a plant.
C. O. Floyd of Kershaw S.C. tells of a ten year battle with consumption ending after six months on Dr King’s New Discovery. He gained from 135 to 170 pounds and his cough and lung trouble disappeared. Sexton Bros drug store guarantees healing with 50 cent and one dollar bottles and a free trial bottle.
A humorous clash over divorce prompts witty retorts between a husband and wife. The page also features an advertisement for Health Coffee Imiation from Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin claiming a fast brew made from toasted cereals with nuts.
A short promotion notes Chamberlain's Pain Balm can relieve rheumatic pains and improve rest and sleep. It suggests trying one application and mentions Sexton Bros as the seller.
The Right Name. Mr August Sherpe, overseer of the poor, at Fort Madison la, says Dr Kings New Life Pills are tightly named and act more agreeable, do more good and make one feel better than any other laxative. Guaranteed to cure biliousness and constipation, 25¢ at Sexton Bros drug store. Young girls begin hast their say with When I get married. Married women start everything with two I was a girl.
Trial catarrh treatments are being mailed out free on request by Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin. Tests prove to the people the great value of this scientific prescription known to druggists as Dr Shoop's Catarrh Remedy. Sold by Sexton Bros.
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