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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1912
Page
9
Two men walking in eun Kkished California are rained on and miles from a car line. One laughs about meter rates on water while the other paying $10 a day for climate laments the cost. Heard on the Waterfront features foggy seafaring humor from a San Francisco Chronicle bit.
A quirky exchange showcases a would be storyteller seeking first steps to selling a short story. An experienced advice giver suggests buying ten dollars in stamps as the practical start. The piece mixes comic asides about old tea blends and health products with social satire and light mockery of self absorbed behavior.
A period advertisement presents a humorous exchange about a fancy dress ball and promotes Paxtine Antiseptic as a remedy for a pelvic condition. It claims hot douches as effective and notes a price of 25 cents per box, with postpaid mailing from The Paxton Toilet Co in Boston.
An advertisement offers Superior Pite Cure by 25 and Mecvtn druggists J. W. Cole Co. Black River Falls, Wis, claiming relief for itching and mucosal skin conditions with a free sample.
Washington report notes a push to internationally ban otter trawls blamed for depleting fish stocks as a looming global famine threat. Congress has passed a bill to parole life-sentenced U S prisoners after 15 years, with states adopting similar measures, while a tale unfolds of Char les H Mann and a Titanic memorial drive in Washington led by women.
A noisy West Side residential election scene provokes a sharp encounter as an old man, nearly blind, scolds a child amid bedlam. He warns of arrest and jail, asking if the girl knows she can never be president, prompting a defiant reply about being Werle girl.
An advertisement-style plea warns neglecting skin and hair harms health and happiness. It touts Cuthurn Soap and Ointment for poor complexions rough hands and hair loss, claims cost makes neglect criminal, and offers a postal sample of Cuticura products with a 32 page booklet.
A fragmentary item notes Rastua Skinnah has been talking about allegedly lifting chickens, with a humorous aside about aging women and a tease about Garfield Tew. It reads as a clipped humor piece or column remark from a Catholic periodical.
Rochester mother cites Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound easing monthly dizziness and cramps in her 18 year old daughter after two bottles. A Stoutville Ohio woman reports relief from headaches and backache and better health after taking the same compound. The Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company in Lynn Mass. has received hundreds of letters from grateful mothers praising the remedy's effects on daughters.
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