Local social notes and travels fill Marathon city
A long list of brief social items from Marathon city highlights visits and trips. J P Hume heads to Kaukauna on business while Laura Bolte, Fiora Reitz, Louise Reese and Lulu Sterry enjoy weekends in Eau Claire Stevens Point and surrounding areas. Guests include Misses Massloff Pflum and Whitney, Mrs. Pilum, Mrs. Mayer and others visiting from Milwaukee Escanaba Wausau and Oshkosh. Families and couples travel to Green Lake Stillwater and Butternutt Lake. Community events cover church meetings and a bands concert with charity fund contributions.
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J. P. Hume
Kaukauna
Laura Bolte
Eau Claire
Fiora Reitz
Wausau
Amy Wright
John Johnson
Ella
Escanaba
Mich
Mayme Sullivan
Chain O'Lakes
Waupaca
Rose Schmirler
Edward and
Hubert Weber
Milwaukee
Stephen Leahy
Superior and Vicinity
RK. Connor Co
Harry Fink
Blodgett
Northwest Collegiate Institute Report Praises Sherry School
Charles P. Andrews of Abbotsford reports the Northwest Collegiate Institute at Sherry faced a hard year with endowment shortages yet finished with healthy students and improving staff. New teachers were hired, obligations met, and plans for a better year ahead include Sept. 1 opening and diverse courses under Christian guidance. John Gadson boosts Holstein breeding with ten registered cows and a two year old bull for sale, urging local dairymen to evaluate before purchase.
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Northwest Collegiate Institute
Sherry
Charles P. Andrews
Abbotsford
Andrews
John Gadson
Gadson
The Need of a Specialist Visit in Our City
Dr Turbin, famed Wisconsin specialist with worldwide renown, arrives for a monthly visit. He will meet chronic cases beyond regular doctors, offering candid disease descriptions and potential cures. Consultation costs nothing and patients may receive honorable treatment and relief if accepted. Tuesday July 28 at Biodgett Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turbin
Wisconsin
Biodgett Hotel
Wallace Brothers Take Over Thomas House In August
Wallace Brothers of Neillsville will assume charge of the Thomas House on August 1 as Landlord Faulkner retires. The new proprietors, seasoned hotel men, plan improvements to build a better trade and enhance the property. The piece ends with an agricultural analogy about soil air and plant roots, noting soil must be airy to support growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles K. Harris
Wisconsin
Wallace Brothers
Neillsville
Thomas
Faulkner
Woman voter illicits vote with wit at municipal election
In a local election a clever woman chap uncovers a vote for her candidate after arguing policy with a disagreeable man. He mocks her ability to talk the hind leg off a donkey, but she replies she would rather drive him to the polling station than to the hospital. The retort amuses the voter who then promises support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tne Bost
Heat in the human body and fatal temperature thresholds
The article explains that if no body heat were lost for thirty minutes the body would rise two degrees, and a core temperature of 106 degrees is fatal. It notes that a sudden loss of internal heat regulation could wipe out humanity within four hours, and equates twenty four hour body heat to raising six and a half gallons of water to boiling point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainaeapo Us Journal
An Old Greek Glutton and His Fiery Dining Habit
An Old Greek Glutton recounts Philoxenus famed for extreme greed at meals. He bragged of a crane like neck to savor hot dishes longer, trained his throat with scalding water, and pressed cooks to serve ferociously hot fare. A guest left, calling the host an oven exchange. The Milwaukee Sentinel notes neighbors helping with telephone access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philoxenus
Thia
Gormandizer
Unclaimed Letters At Marshfield Post Office 1908
Unclaimed letters listed at Marshfield post office up to July 22 1908 include Jacob Gabriel William Thompson Lata Wagner Mae. Addressees must call for and say advertised. Joux F. Cone, P.M.
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Marshfield
Jacob Gabriel Wm. Thompson Lata
Wagner Mae
Joux F. Cone
P.M
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A. A. Hastings
Grand Rapids
Louise Reesé
Lulu Sterry
Stevens Point
Eleanor Massloff
Laura Pflum
Lena Whitney
Spencer
Matt Wright
Weise
Green Lake
Florence Graham
Minneapolis
Stillwater
Minn
Jos
Pilum
Trene
Oshkosh
Menasha
Normington
J.J
Frank Normington
Anna
Marie Brandle
Otto Warnecke
Vicinity
J. F. Cole
Richard Mayer
Anton Dopp
Andrew Thebe
Jj Andrew Thebe
Frank Pym
Stratford
Ladies Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
J. H. Burns
Alene
Idaho
Agnes
Hamilton Roddis
South Vine Street
J. A. Burns
Coeur d'Alene
Miss Burns
Olive Voelker
Ladies’ Aid Society of
The
Lutheran Church
Albert Kisten
West
Clarence Carner
Spokane
Washington
Pankow
J. C. Marsh
A. A. Graves
Loyal
Butternutt Lake
Wm Lindsey
W. D. Wheeler
Mrs. Lindsey
Yellowstone Park
St. Paul
Florence
Dora Batson
Central Wisconsin State Fair Association
W. H. Budge
W. H. Kamps
Douglas
Mauston
Fred Allman
Superior
United States Grand Jury
Noll and Greisinger
Rose Brother
Democrats
Wood County
Bryan
John Juno
William Juno
Henry Kantza
Blanch
Mantitowoc
Chilton and
Depers
F.J. Schwalbach
South Germantown
Mess & Geiger Mert
Central Avenue
John Schroeder
Marion
George J. Lang
Schroeder
E. M. Deming
Wayne
Madison
Monona Lake
Iowa
Sherry School
Thomas House
Milwaukee Bentinel
First National Bank
Nob Reserve Apanta
Navona Bank
U. S. Treas Urer
Oval
National Banc
H.G. Hamprighi
H.G. Hambright
Prank Vaughn
B. EF. McMillan L
Thom Vd
Scraefer
American National Bank
U.S
Bankéra
C. S. Treaster
T. S
Aone A
Iesa
Swisconsin
Wood
E Lindemann
G. Lindemann
Bauer
Wis
W.D. Connor Geo
H. Reynolds
Directurn
Jone
CFA
ENA
Washburn
Crosby
Eckes& Eckes
Eckes & Eckes
R. Connor
S. Office
the Marshfield Times
Dr. King
Botti
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