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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1907
Page
10
The item surveys quirky notes from 1907 era press. It mentions Bedouin girls, Italian origins, Lyons trade, a Manila hotel project, Lipton and Peary pole talk, Colorado peak records, English mortgage wealth, and debates on dignity and annexation. It cites varied opinions and curiosities, from fashion to science and social views, reflecting an eclectic newspaper page.
Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago returns from 15 months in the Congo Free State with 45 000 miles traveled and 780 photographs. He details pygmy life near river sources, their heights from three to four and a half feet, and the discovery of over 100 forms of the game cat's cradle played by Congo natives. He notes risk-free travel for nonintrusive outsiders and plans to install his relics collection in the Walker Museum.
A bronze statue model of Colonel Ingersoll, ordered by the Ingersoll Monument association, is finished in Peoria. The heroic size work will be cast in New York and unveiled at Glen Oak Park on July 22, 1907, the anniversary of his death. The clay model, showing a natural pose in ordinary clothing, was completed by sculptor Frederick E. Trieve of New York, Peoria-born and trained at Florence and Rome.
A planing mill near St Augustine Florida runs by a water wheel fed from an artesian well. The owner sank a 460 foot bore and a 130 foot pipe to reach rock, letting water rise 22 and a half feet above ground. A 16 foot wheel is driven by the water, generating up to 15 horsepower. Water flow can be stopped or started by a screw valve, with no fuel cost. A winter shoe workers course is announced by Mr C A Ja to improve skills.
A 1906-era critique argues mail order houses drain wealth from small towns. It cites Chicago firms moving $132,000,000 over two years, warns profits flow to central centers, and urges home buying to sustain local communities and jobs. It laments consolidation and calls for readers to assess the true costs of mail order patronage.
A brief dialogue centers on Wise David refusing to share the piano. He questions why others must eat at the instrument, insisting no one else should lean on him while he plays, highlighting a playful tension over musical space and skill.
Peruna is described as a household friend across the English speaking world and an old remedy for catarrhal diseases of the head throat lungs stomach kidneys bladder and seminal organs. The ad urges asking a druggist for a free Peruna Almanac.
A Danish author Sophus Bandits writes a striking novel with Wilam Shakespeare as its hero. Queen Alexandra, impressed after reading the original, advised translation into English. An English edition will be dedicated to the queen who is herself a Dane.
A Fulton Oswego County family recounts a year and a half old daughter’s worsening eczema and eye ulcer. After six doctors failed, they tried Cuticura Remedies at $1 and saw dramatic improvement in eight months of illness, though eyesight could not be restored. The couple credits Cuticura with saving the eye if used earlier and endorses it for skin problems and blood impurities.
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