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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1907
Page
3
A New York church vestry placed a memorial tablet for a beloved former pastor in the vestibule, sparking smiles as the inscription ends with Now the people of God have rest. Other notes touch on home laundering starches and a Kingston notice banning grandchildren or cats on premises.
A gunny of health advice touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic to restore impure blood and prevent nerve breakdown. Personal anecdote from A R Bradley of Rochester New York cites recovery from nervous shock, fatigue, headaches, sleep loss, and back pain after using the pills. Sold by druggists or by mail at 50 cents a box, six for $2.50 from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
A New York home feature explains a fully equipped playroom called the Do Do Room. It features ventilated sunny space with barred windows and safe walls, a rug secured to floor, caged lights, rounded furniture, and a built in bookcase without glass doors to keep children safe while they play and read.
Practical household instructions describe cleaning window curtains with dried bran and indigo blue, refreshing spinaches by steaming, and making rhubarb orange jam. Steps include drying bran, brushing fabrics, boiling spinach leaves, and preserving jam in jars cooled and covered for storage.
The process describes cutting asparagus stalks to two inches from tins, discarding woody parts, packing the abbreviated stems tightly in a boiler with salted cold water, bringing to a gentle boil for ten minutes, then draining with a wooden spoon, placing the tips up in jars, covering with salted water, and sealing. The steps emphasize avoiding violent bubbles and ensuring orderly jar filling.
Peel Spanish onions and hollow centers fill with butter salt and pepper bake until brown. Cool slice and lay on watercress bed topped with sardines. Dress with curry flavored mayonnaise, pour over, and garnish with hard boiled eggs parsley and chervil. Curry may be omitted.
A camp tale opens with a first sergeant reporting Private Be- has a chill. The captain asks if it is serious, and the sergeant says it is big, affecting the whole man who weighs 200 pounds. The captain finds him blue and sends him to the surgeon via the corporal, who later jokes that the medicine made him sick too.
Mrs Zana afer of Union City Michigan recounts using Cuticura Remedies to treat a three month old with Cuban itch. After three applications the sores dried and two weeks later the baby was well. She notes the treatment cost ten cents and saved his life. May 17 1906.
Alfred H. Love of the Universal Peace Union warns that many who mock the peace movement today will claim later to be lifelong champions. He warns against ridiculing a movement at its start and praises timely support once it succeeds. An anecdote about a poor suitor in South America underscores commitment.
The wife of a naval officer at Annapolis employs a Tish servant named Bridget who, despite good wages kind treatment and friends, reveals that homesickness stems from longing for a past rather than present surroundings.
The passing pastor is remembered with a tablet honoring his memory. In due time the remains are laid to rest. The obituary notes his virtues and labors, ending with a quotation that the people of God now have rest.
A Massachusetts physician extols personal control over health through diet. He touts Grape-Nuts as highly digestible and nourishing, claims four heaping teaspoons satisfy a meal, and notes the cereal suits all ages. He encourages reading The Road to Wellville and assures versatility in preparation.
The piece highlights Defiance Starch as a safe option for fine fabrics, noting its strength reduces usage while delivering a finish like new. It also reports on German efforts in Pennsylvania to produce giant sausages, citing Jacob Ackerman of Limeport with a 64 feet eight inch specimen.
A garbled, ad-like snippet recalls castor oil for children and a London Mail report about German warships visible to the Kaiser. It includes brief drug ads for Mynuse’s Headache Capsules and Lewis’ Single Binder cigars, with fragmented references to teething syrup and a German phrase about scattering and gathering.
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