Graduation Exercises Reflect Marshfield High Class of 1902
Graduation exercises at Adler's Opera House featured a full program led by Prof. J. B. Borden and Rev. J. Frank Young. Orations by Miss Minnie Reidel and Miss Lilian Couture highlighted historical justice and reform, with musical selections and diplomas presented by Dr. K. W. Doege as graduates prepared for civic life.
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Marshfield High School
Adler’s
Opera House
J. B. Borden
J. Frank Young
Minnie Reidel
Bastile
France
Lilian Couture
Charles Whitney
Haseen
America
Mr. Whitney
Messry
Finney
Mason
Adams
Cole
Lydia Bokhoff
Shylock
Shakespeare
Eckholl
Mary Powers
John Quincy Adams
Miss Powers
Donhard
Prof
John Marshall
Ella Scheibe
Clifford Heath
Lavery Oistacle
Miss Donhard
R. S. Dele
Ethel Dunlap
Peter LeMahieu
Poland
Mist Arlie Hinman
Doege
Ringling Bros Excursions to Stevens Point Prize Rates
Ringling Bros World’s Greatest Shows offers special excursion rates on all travel to Stevens Point for Wednesday June 25. This is the only local show this season with a vast program including a triple ring exhibition by 500 artists, trained animals, a giraffe, grand horse spectacle, and a two mile street parade.
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Ringling Bros
Stevens Point
Ringling Bros. Circus
America
Si Perkins at the Opera House with Sam Burton
On June 27 at the opera house the celebrated rural comedy Si Perkins will be presented with Sam Burton and Miss Lillie Colemar in the title roles. Prices are 10, 20, 30 and 50 cents.
Bright Comedy Drama at Adler House Next Friday
Si Perkins a bright comedy drama opens at Adler Opera House on Friday June 27 with a street parade. Critics praise the company and Marshield playgoers expect a pleasant evening. Sam Burton and Lillie Coleman star as the title roles, hailed as top Yankee impersonators on the American stage. Prices range 10 20 30 and 56 cents. The Modern Woodmen of America marked memorial day with a fitting parade Sunday afternoon led by Forester tenants Second Regiment band and C S Vedder as marshal. At the cemetery graves were decorated and Attorney C B Edwards gave an address.
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Si Perkins
Adleropers House
Marshield
Rube
Sam Burton
Lillie Coleman
Woodmen of America
Lodge
Forester Tenan
Second’ Regiment
Hall J
C. S. Vedder
C. B. Edwards
Weekly Crop Bulletin Reports Mixed Rainfall and Progress
Rainfall was lighter overall though southern and central counties saw severe thunderstorms with heavy rains on Thursday. Northern areas had little rain allowing corn cultivation and potato planting to continue. Corn growth is hindered by excess moisture and cool nights, while oats, barley, and rye show strong growth. meadows and pastures look robust with a heavy hay outlook. Potatoes finished late planting in the north as early plantings emerge. potato bugs appear in usual numbers. Tobacco setting advances and fruit crops show mixed quality with strawberries ripening and apples variable.
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Timothy
Northwestern Excursion Rates and Travel Openings
Excursion rates on the Chicago & Northwestern routes offer low round trips to Fond du Lac and Wisconsin resorts with Sundays sailings through September. t ourist and home seekers tickets at reduced prices for summer travel to Wisconsin the Northwest and beyond. special Ottawa conventions and annual meetings plus a branch opening from Elmwood to Weston Wisconsin on May 1st. Apply to Chicago & Northwestern agents for details and copies of Hints to Tourists.
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Northwestern
Fond du Lac
Wood
Chicago & Northwestern R'y
Wisconsin
Northwest
Chicago & Northwestern
R’y
Minneapolis
Wisconsin Elks
Oshkosh
Chicago & Northwestern Ry
Denver
Cal
International S. A
Chicago & Northwestern R’y | Co
Elmwood
Weston
Wis
Dry Cleaner ad offers ladies gloves and millinery
Local advertisement promotes The Dry Cleaner with M C Lueckenbach as headquart ers for the latest novelties in fine millinery. Orders accepted for plain work and related services.
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M. C. Lueckenbach
Imillinery
Phair
Whence Comen Electricity in the Early Debate
A reflective note on the uncertain nature of electricity its true essence baffling both laypeople and even scientists. The author complains about the public misunderstanding and the lack of consensus among experts who deny electricity as a continuous matter or a form of heat energy.
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Ben
Tria— Academy
English post office anecdote in Naples paper
A Naples newspaper recounts a humorous scene at a post office where a young English lady, with her maid, stamps letters by moistened stamps pressed to the maid’s tongue. The incident ends with the mistress guiding the task and the maid obediently sticking out her tongue for each stamp.
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Naples
Paull
The Canon and the Lawyer in a Pool Hall Jest
In England a canon plays pool with Wigaby the barrister. After losing a small stake, the canon places a threepenny bit on the edge of the table. Wigaby remarks on the plate as the canon responds with a sharp rebuke about the barrister’s paltry contribution to the church plate.
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England
Canon Blank
Wigaby
Wigsby
Canon
Wigsler
Lamps Talk: Electric Light Voices Through Circuits
A fragment describes how electric arc lamps can be made to sing or speak. By wiring the arc in place of a telephone receiver or transmitter, the arc will articulate words clearly enough to be heard at a distance, suggesting use as both a microphone and loudspeaker in a telephone system.
The French Horn's History and Name Origins
The French horn or cor de chasse is praised as one of the wind instruments for sweetness. In Beethoven's era it was a bugle horn adapted for mounted hunters, wrapped in spiral curves to rest over the shoulder. The Germans still call it waldborn meaning forest horn.
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Waldborn
Forest
Actors Superstitions Tie Play Revival to Sunday Work
A garbled note cites superstitions about reversing a Sunday rehearsal presaging a failed show. It warns salaries may be lost for all who participate, suggesting disruptive behavior by a girl could strain friendships and draw management attention that week.
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Ln Agure
Merninger
Gaise Joss
Tough Flour Complaint Sparks Wife and Grocer Exchange
A Philadelphia Press item shows Mrs Youngbride accusing a grocer of sending tough flour. The grocer asks what was wrong, and the wife explains the flour was so hard that her husband struggled to cut it for a pie, illustrating a domestic grievance.
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Youngbride
Philadelphia Press
Mottoes and murder in a tasteless exchange
A prison visit prompts talk on mottos and deceit. The convicts discuss how a vow like We are here today and gone tomorrow may mask manipulation and crime. References to cooking wives, multiple husbands, and sly motives appear as drunken chatter among locals in Yonkera Statesman notes.
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Yonkera Statesman
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