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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1913
Page
8
The letter-writer mocks Mrs Spandee Swelltop of Connecticut claiming she plans a 315006 home for cats with janitor service, hot and cold chowder, catnip beds, and access to a barber, noting it as an example of lavish spending and social satire amid a tense legal society debate.
A fragment contrasts opulent excess with urban misery as a fashionable woman spends vast sums on luxuries for pets while untold children lack milk and clean water. It questions wealth disparity and the cost of indulgence versus basic human needs.
Marshfield plans a day long Fourth of July celebration with the Second Regiment band staging activities from daylight to dark. The complete program appears in the paper along with amusements and contests to suit visitors from all areas. A local farmer sold a 500 acre parcel for 32500 in cash, while comments on Chicago and social trends round out the piece.
A Marshfield man orders flowers for a funeral and for his sweetheart with a miswritten sympathy card prompting a joke. Willis Arnold promotes a floral and industrial parade. A birthday joke features Mr Jones and a four year old with a clever comeback. An Irish mishap ends with a mule and a groomed hoot in a stirrup.
The piece notes numerous drowning deaths along Wisconsin rivers in spring and summer, with a Stevens Point incident where Rose Krueger and Walter Voigt drowned during a boat seating exchange. It argues Marshfield needs boating recreation, comments on summer weather and fashion trends, and predicts a hot, wet July.
Mrs Nellie Kusmaul formerly of Marshfield passed away in Minneapolis on Wednesday. Her body was sent to Marshfield for burial with services at the Presby terian church at 2 39 p m Saturday officiated by Rev J A Stemen. She had lived in Marshfield previously and is survived by three sons William Melvin and Lathrop.
Public ownership details for Marshfield Times, Marshfield Wisconsin. Barr Campbell as publishers and managing editors list stockholders holding 1 percent or more of stock. No bonds or mortgages, six month circulation data requested. sworn before Notary Amos Roll on June 27, 1918. Bargains weekly in classified ads.
William Hellmuuth Jr. of Stevens Point was killed when lightning struck his home Tuesday night while he sat with his four month old daughter in his living room. The infant escaped unharmed though severe burns marked the father’s limbs, breast, and neck as the current entered through a door knob. The house suffered heavy damage but a small fire was quickly controlled.
The snippet echoes humor and sales pitches from the New Orleans States promoting Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with a summer readiness angle. It also notes a Wisconsin statute requiring daily emptying of an office cubsider, reflecting quirky local legal mention.
A health notice stresses that neglect of constipation leads to serious illness such as typhoid fever and appendicitis. It cites personal testimony from C E Ayers of Montpelier Vermont praising Dr Miles Laxative Tablets, sold for 25 cents a box with a money back guarantee.
A Goodrich branch farmer rejects standard spelling in a letter to Soo Line Superintendent C. E. Urbahns as printed in the Stevens Point Journal. The missive, dated January 24 1913 from Athens Wisconsin, showcases a simplified phonetic spellings and garbled phrases about trains, fenst, and tangential notes. The sender signs as Fred Tenno and describes rune-like word forms and misunderstandings of the line’s operations.
Ignatz Schissler of Marshfield Wisconsin describes kidney trouble dizziness and backache that worsened into weakness and urinary distress. After trying various medicines he used Doan's Kidney Pills from Sexton Bros Drug Store and reports relief and better health. Price 50 cents per box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is U.S. agent. Remember the name Doan's.
Dysentery is a serious illness but curable. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is claimed to cure even malignant and epidemic cases. Sold by all dealers.
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