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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1908
Page
11
An old medicine advertisement promotes Chamberlains Cough Remedy as a safe, effective treatment for coughs colds croup and whooping cough in both babies and adults. It claims no opium or harmful drugs and urges purchase from Sexton Bros.
A fragment from Chicago periodicals shows a jab about a husband using a stenographer and a quip about romantic links. It shifts to a Dr Shoop Restorative advertisement claiming nerve health benefits with a free sample and ends with a gossip snippet about a local widower’s mourning band and remarriage.
A Kershaw man, C O Floyd, credits Dr King s New Discovery with curing long term lung trouble after six months of use, restoring weight from 155 to 170 pounds. The piece also mentions Sexton Bros drug store guarantees and trial bottles, along with brief notices about Health Coffee Imitation and a Sunday school joke.
A short ad claims Chamberlains Pain Balm eases rheumatic pains and aids rest and sleep. It notes Sexton Bros as the seller. The passage also mentions Suadians and moonlit dances, moon goddess festival, and superstition about the moon affecting fish and melancholy.
An old advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as rightly named for easing biliousness and constipation. It claims the pills are more agreeable and effective than other laxatives, with a 25 cent price at Sexton Bros drug store. Also notes trial catarrh treatments mailed free by Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin, promoted through Sexton Bros.
A devotional piece urging readers to choose good influences and bosses, study John the Baptist’s prepared disciples, and embrace Sunday School as preparation for life. It contrasts following Jesus with mere desire, stresses character in choosing work, family unity, and the aim to cultivate Christian gentlemen and a productive community through faith.
An elder testimonial from Marshfield Wisconsin touts Doan’s Kidney Pills as a cure for backache and urinary ills. Mrs W L Atwood reports improved kidney function, clearer secretions, and relief from dull backaches headaches and dizziness after using the product, urging readers to buy Doan’s at local stores.
Notice lists letters remaining uncalled for through August 8 1907. Names include Miss E L Gilbutsen Miss K Schmother James Seely Fred W Frank L A Haneli. Addressee must say advertised at pickup per postal notice. John F. Cote P.M.
Castoria bears the signature of Chas H Fletcher and has been in use for over thirty years under the enduring slogan The Best You Can Buy. This card notes longstanding brand trust and continued distribution across markets.
James Pardon, a Canadian banker, becomes entangled with Widow Bliss who rents his vacant shop and works to install a heat system using a covert underground tunnel. Their romance coincides with a daring crime as the widow and accomplices blow the vault and abscond with 80,000 dollars, fleeing before dawn. Pardon, haunted by a past robbery, contemplates his feelings as the pair vanish.
In Personal Adventures Colonel J. P. Robertson recounts a Turkish method of shoeing where a rope looped like a horse collar is placed over the head and drawn between the hind legs to lift the horse. The four fetlocks are tied, the horse is laid on its side, old shoes removed, and new shoes set, after which the animal is rotated and allowed to stand.
A crustacean once thought extinct in Britain, the scale tailed apus, has been found again in two ponds near Preston Merse, Southwick, Kirkcudbrightshire. It grows about two and a half inches long, with a large shieldlike carapace and a back-swimming posture. Its many legs and numerous spines invite comparisons to the king crab, with historic counts by Schafer at 1,802,004 and Latrelle noting around 2,000,000.
The University of Jena outlines the doctoral process with a Latin or German life sketch, maturity certificate, three years of study, good reputation, an original German scientific treatise, oath of originality, and a fee of 240 marks. The main exam centers on the thesis subject, with two minor subjects allowed. 280 thesis copies are distributed before conferring the degree.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report quotes a scientist describing insect hypnotism. A queen bee reportedly hypnotizes her hive with a unique hum, while death's head hawk moths are said to hypnotize and plunder, entering hives and inducing trance before extracting resources.
The Rev. Thomas Hooker of Connecticut argued in Hartford that all authority rests on the free consent of the people. His 17th century sermon inspired the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted in Hartford in 1838, seen as the first written constitution creating a government and described by a New York American praise as a perfect democracy.
A Washington Star exchange frames truth telling as difficult in journalism. The editor concedes honesty is hard to present without inviting challenges to veracity. The remark highlights the tension between candor and accountability in newsrooms.
A visitor declares a belief that a plan may succeed while Crowbar Claude downplays the moment saying there is nothing he would rather be. The quip captures a moment of rivalry and self interest in a terse exchange.
A clipped exchange shows a speaker wishing the other would marry them if wealth or poverty changed. The dialogue contrasts generosity with willingness to marry based on financial status. It captures social attitudes toward wealth and partnership in a brief, indirect exchange.
A sardonic aphorism from the Chicago Record-Herald notes that misfortune driving a man to drink might have sunk him even more under prosperity. The remark reflects press wit on fate and drinking.
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