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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1919
Page
5
An editorial piece warns against overwork and unhealthy habits in youth. It argues that middle aged deaths rise from heart and kidney disease and strokes due to nervous strain and poor routines. It urges temperance, moderate labor, and avoiding heavy tobacco and alcohol to secure longevity and family welfare.
Colonel Arthur Woods reports tests on 600 returned servicemen show 64 percent gained efficiency, 22 percent unchanged, 4 percent declined. Most dischargees seek work promptly and employ many agencies nationwide aiding placement. The trend indicates preserved individuality but overall uplift as the country absorbs veterans.
A New York Tribune piece muses on autonomous women dubbed rigid and semi rigid and a limpid blimp woman Dora from David Copperfield. It wryly contrasts self sufficiency with dependence while imagining a grim future of steel ribbon helpers.
The article reflects on debts beyond money, praising gratitude to maimed veterans and urging public action. It discusses postwar needs, public works, returning soldiers, and fundraising through Liberty Loans and War Savings Stamps, detailing costs and interest and the program’s goals.
Riverside residents hosted guests including Mr and Mrs M d Harman and Mr and Mrs John Reed. Geo Fischer and family attended a pavilion picnic at Marshfield. A Riverside hard time party is planned. Edward Johnston finished painting his house. Rozelville youths plan westward departure. Geo Fischer Jr departs for St Paul to hire out. John Stuler remodels his home. Leajie Grooms and kin visited from Cassville. Mr Groom notes fewer stones than expected. crops in the area are reported fine.
The 1918 cotton crop including lint and seed was valued at 2.087 billion dollars to the growers. This figure, three times the 1914 crop value and double the 1918 high, was computed after the close of the cotton year by the U S Department of Agriculture Bureau of Crop Estimates using average grower prices and monthly marketings.
Mr. and Mrs. Casper Gallatin entertained Mr. and Mrs. Will Hopp and family of Riplinger and the Theo Windrow family on Sunday. Oscar Kile and family visit relatives as he leaves his job at North Hewitt cheese factory. Aloysius Simon of Lynn spent Sunday with relatives. Miss Mary Horn visited the A Noonan home. Miss Katherine Wanke of Minneapolis visits her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wanke.
The state reports over 50000 dollars worth of grain in stacks destroyed by threshing engine fires last year. Farmers are urged to separate stacks, clear dry debris, guard fire guards, and equip engines with spark arresters. Industrial Commission urges precautions to protect grain and buildings.
Forty two states are actively cooperating with the Department of Agriculture in the fight against animal tuberculosis. The drive is building steam as it progresses, and officials expect it to eventually rid the nation of the disease. Demand from livestock owners for official tuberculin testing is increasing.
A Wisconsin campaign against potato wart illness will run in August and September led by R. E. Vaughan of the College of Agriculture. The effort targets city youth to prevent spread from shipped in geod tubers. The disease causes outgrowths on potatoes and sprouts, first light then darken and loosen. look for warty potatoes while digging the crop.
The Department of the Interior restored over 740,000 acres of withdrawn lands in Colorado North Dakota and Utah for coal classification and added about 4000 acres to public water reserves. This brings total public range stock watering areas to 225,681 acres.
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