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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1911
Page
2
An advertisement begins a series promising cash value coupons for everyday goods. The I O U Company of New York partners with The Times to share manufacturers profits with consumers, allowing coupons to be redeemed for cash-like value on home purchases and subscriptions.
The domestic cat arrived in Japan from China with Buddhist missionaries. In the sixth century sacrifices honored the cat as the guardian of the manuscripts, keeping mice away from papyrus. Cats were once temple dwellers, later becoming companions to nobles and then to broader households.
Ad from Marshfield Times Co promotes wedding invitations and announcements engraved calling cards posters and business stationary with farm note heads and envelopes. Auction bills and posters produced promptly with affordable prices and guaranteed work.
A 1911 letter from the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture reports cutworms are damaging crops, especially old meadows. The recommended control mixes one pound Paris green with forty pounds bran and sweetened liquid, then distributes it over fields or near plants, with precautions for poultry and timing after rain.
Report from March describes a new steel bridge collapse injuring Wm McLaughlin and John Schiller. Investigators cite poor workmanship and a 15 foot drop as the cause after the rear engine and tender rested under the fallen structure. Schiller died two hours after the accident.
A promotional notice for the People’s Medical Adviser by R Fierce M D claiming the Home Doctor Book covers health and nature knowledge. It offers a free 1008 page cloth bound edition with engravings for 31 one cent stamps and warns readers not to confuse it with quack pamphlets from Buffalo New York.
Local notice seeks potators or potatos growers. Ebbe and Co offers four cents per bushel for delivery to their warehouse. No further details provided.
The Yankee Robinson Shows commissary, led by Mr. Davis, prepares over 2,000 meals daily for employees. Seven cooks make each meal and twenty five flunkies serve 630 people at breakfast dinner and supper. Daily consumption includes more than 1,400 pounds of meat and 700 loaves of bread. Meals run on a tight schedule from 9 a.m. breakfast to 11 p.m. supper before wagons depart for the first train.
An advertisement declares deafness cannot be cured by local applications and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as the remedy. It states nine of ten deafness cases arise from catarrh of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and offers a $100 reward for any incurable case, with a further pitch for Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A summer alert urges Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for family use. It costs a quarter and is sold by all dealers, with households in casual need urged to procure it.
Public notice touts Champlain's Cough Remedy as safe for whooping cough when cough is loose and expectoration easy. Claimed to have flawless success in many epidemics and offered for sale by all dealers.
An advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as nature’s gift and ultimate protection for families. It claims it is the best baby medicine in the world, offered as tea or tablets for 35 cents by Sexton Bros.
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