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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1907
Page
8
A fragment from The Marshfield Times recounts a humorous exchange about weight between Shutter and officers, lampooning military discipline and extreme adiposity. The dialogue features exaggerated lines about fat, bluster, and a playful threat of ridicule amid a wartime setting.
A Kershaw business leader recalls healing from lung trouble after six months on Dr King s New Discovery. The ad claims thousands cured annually, with a trial bottle and price of one dollar. Also mentions origin of Bridge Whit from a Russian term and a long, scattered note on card game history.
Dangers of s cold and how to avoid them notes that more fatalities stem from a cold than other causes unless properly treated early. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is praised as prompt and effective, aiding nature in loosening coughs and restoring health, sold by Sexton Bros. An Optimistic Author discusses a manuscript journey involving magazines, postage, and a tailor.
J R Blankenship of Bees Tenn touts Electric Biters as a guaranteed cure for back and kidney troubles after reporting relief from the first bottle and full recovery after several. Sold at Sexton Bros drug store for 30 cents.
A narrator recounts a covert kiss with Aunt Agnes, a teacher in a deaf mute school, during a dimly lit train tunnel ride. A prank escalates when a conductor is bribed, and the moment culminates with laughter and a lingering, uneasy memory for the speaker. The tale ends with the narrator seeking future favors from Aunt Agnes while remembering the event.
A lone swan named Dick mourns his mate killed by a red fox at Mount Washington Cemetery. He guarded the body and was wounded protecting her. Since then he hides by the water and refuses to mate, clinging to a single lifelong love despite cemetery interference.
Special announcement asserts Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung troubles is not subject to the Pure Food and Drug Law as it contains no opiates or harmful drugs and is safe for children and adults. Sexton Bros promote the product while a Philadelphia bar anecdote recalls a lively courtroom moment from Harper's Weekly.
An ad declares Foley's Honey and Tar will cure coughs and prevent pneumonia with no opiates and a yellow package. The surrounding text includes a fragmented room scene where characters discuss time and a clock, ending with a startled exchange.
Pa enjoy freedom from chilblains writs John Kemp of East Otsheld Me. He claims Bucklen's Arnica Salve, used for salt rheum and other skin ailments, cures fever sores indolent ulcers piles burns wounds and frost bites. Available for 25 cents at Sexton Bros. drug store.
A compact ode extols laughter as the sunshine of the soul and a remedy for woe. It lauds its power to banish melancholy, envy, and depression, asserting that without laughter society would wither and conscience grow dim.
An old advertisement promotes Oring Laxative Fruit Syrup for constipation and Freventics candy tablets to prevent colds. It claims laxative syrup restores bowel action without upset and Preventics can head off colds, pneumonia or bronchitis. The piece features a humorous anecdote about a reformed conscience and a calf.
A New York Sun style note laments decline of traditional criminal artistry. It argues modern tools like chrome steel alarms and electric safeguards have eroded forgery and illicit methods. Writers claim old aristocrats of crime lack successors and that new methods are easily duplicated by unskilled thieves.
Lyon & Healy of Chicago offers fixed low prices on over 1,000 pianos in stock with nationwide shipping. Skilled pianists select exact tone for distant buyers, featuring Steinway and Weber among top makes. Catalogue titled A Piano Book is available. address 10 Adams Street, Chicago.
A humorous quip from the Lovieville Couyrier-Journdl depicts a senator and a youth debating bribes. The exchange turns on the idea of spurning small versus large bribes, delivering a playful moral on public integrity.
Advert for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders used by a nurse at a Children's Home in New York. Claims to break up colds in 24 hours and cure fevers headaches stomach troubles teething disorders and worms. Sold by druggists 25 cents with sample by mail. Vref Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York. Also notes a late Mrs Longworth calling walking suits slinkers as a gender remark.
Mr August Sherpe, a noted loverseer at Fort Madison, Iowa, endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills as rightly named for their agreeable action and healthful effects. The pills claim to cure biliousness and constipation, sold for 25 cents at Sexton Bros. drug store.
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