Pigs and hotel tales spark a satirical stroll
A group on a lawn chuckles at a zealot who mocks pig care and lives, while a hotel resident’s absent mind leads to a humorous blonde moment. A clipped “daily short story” extract mocks romance plots as a riverbank scene unravels, and a Montana miner’s souvenir recalls rough-town hotel rules. Old papers note humorous autos and farm mischief, ending with a Times clipping sale.
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Farm Journal
Montana
Cali
Oil on Waunaker Streets Considered by City Council
Waukesha Freeman reports on oiling Central Avenue as an alternative to sprinkling. Two tank cars totaling 14,452 gallons have been used, covering about 95,500 square yards with 0.3 gallons per square yard. Costs run about 2.2 cents per square yard. Residents note dust reduction varies by location. Oil is thick, dark, with a temporary odor, and a light sand topdressing is applied. Separately, Postmaster Upham gains an extra clerk to boost night mail service, enabling nighttime handling, box pickups, and through connections with trains, with details to follow.
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Central Avenue
Waukeshe Freeman
Edw. Butler
Wisconsin Avenue
the Freeman
A Upham
Upham
Eugene Vanderhoof
Mr. Upham
Northwestern
Grand Rapids
Chicago
Milwaukee
Marshfield Taxpayers Told of Assessment Roll Review
Notice from Marshfield Wisconsin City Clerk announces August examination of the city assessment roll by taxpayers on August seventh and eighth with the Board of Review meeting August eleventh from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the City Clerk’s office. Dated July 18, 1911, City Clerk C. S. Wepner.
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State of
Wisconsin
County of Wood
Marshfield
Board of Review
Two Weddings Monday Unite Prominent Manville Families
Miss Flossie Martel and Charles Schrader of Manville wed Monday at the M E church with Rev Coram officiating. Attendants were Miss Julia Egger and Otto Stagardt. The marriage unites two prominent Mannville families as friends extend best wishes. Mildred Kelley of Stevens Point and Cert A Koecher also married Monday morning at the M E parsonage by Rev Coram.
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Flossie Martel
Charles Schrader
Manville
Coram
M. E. Church
Julia Egger
Otto Stagardt
Mannville
Mildred Kelley
Cert A.koecher
Stevens Point
M. E. Parsonage
Lawn clippings feed city chicks as green fodder
City poultry firms shift to lawn clippings as chopped green feed for young and old chickens. Mowing neighbors’ lawns becomes a cash or barter resource, with clippings providing fresh, juicy greens. The practice could boost urban poultry operations and even convert waste places into lawns.
Wealth of Nationa and Britain as wealthy nations
The text argues Britain is the wealthiest nation globally based on outside investments but notes no data exists to measure individual wealth. It says to assess wealth requires considering investments, government incomes, foreign trade, and national production.
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Great Britain
Fire at Grand Rapids destroys landmark building
Early today the Hoskingen building in Grand Rapids Wisconsin was nearly burned to the ground. A gasolline stove in the ground floor restaurant is blamed for the blaze which threatened the Johnson Hill company stores. Getts Sop pool rooms were damaged by water and fire. J J Jeffrey law office above the Sitterly restaurant was destroyed, with few books saved. The old Corrivean building, once the leading mercantile store, suffered extensive loss.
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Grand Rapids
Wis
Hoskingen
Johnson & Hill Company
Getts & Sop
Gre
J. J. Jeffrey
Sitterly
G. A. Corrivean
GOOD BASEBALL GAMES AND REORGANIZATION
The city baseball team is reorganized and will play ten games after a camp week. They have confirmed dates with Grand Rapids and Stevens Point, and will host the new Wausau semi pro team. The squad will be strengthened with a strong battery and top players. Season tickets selling for two dollars fifty cents guarantee ten games, with funds aiding seating improvements.
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Grand Rapids
Stevens
Wausau
Gibson County Holds Annual Rat Killing Day in June
The second annual rat day in Gibson County Indiana featured aggressive measures that slaughtered 4000 rats. Govt estimates place rat maintenance at two cents per day, totaling nearly 30000 dollars saved yearly and reducing future rodent descendants. Source notes from Popular Mechanics Magazine August issue.
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Gibson County
Ind
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Origin of Blackguard in English Language
The term Blackguard arises from a nickname once used for a group of people in London who mocked horse guards at St James Park. Webster cites a different probable origin linked to the clattering of utensils. Today, it denotes a person of low character who uses abusive or scurrilous language.
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Blackguard
Horse Guarda
St James Park
London
Webster
State fair aid rule updates limit premiums and purses
Secretary Frear issued a circular to county agriculture societies detailing a new law that increases state aid for county fairs while mandating premiums be paid by bank check or draft, capping a single premium at 50 dollars and banning immoral exhibitions. State aid rises to 80 percent of premiums, but purse subsidies for horse races or similar contests are removed, raising overall aid by about five percent.
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Frear
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Rox
Peps
the Times
Waukesha
Wepner
First National Bank BF
Mpa
Eene Teleenena
Wis Mar Shetel
Li Ae
Wisconsin’s
Metropolis
Spencerian Business College
Basin Street and Broadway
Robt.c. Spencer
E.R Otis
Mgr. & Prin
Sexton Brothers
Incorporated
Wood County
Taylor & Scott Co., Wood County Abstracts
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