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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1911
Page
9
A fragment notes that constipation causes discomfort and praises Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a remedy. The brief text references a popular family laxative and its asserted efficacy without listing other details or contexts.
A playful chat features a shopkeeper asking a customer for her husband’s shirt size. The dialogue shifts to a joking claim the husband wears a size sixteen collar but would perhaps prefer eighteen or twenty for a cup, fitting a humorous, old fashioned tone.
A reflective exhortation urges fearless happiness rooted in faith. It emphasizes God’s goodness and invites gratitude, sacrifice, and spiritual detachment. The speaker encourages accepting joy as a gift from God, while acknowledging humans as stewards, not creators, of happiness.
A colonial-era piece explores Indian railway travel focusing on caste practices affecting on board life water handling and meal etiquette. It notes caste rules limit food and contact with lower castes, describes water carriers, station platform guards, and the awkward verification of a carrier’s purity before serving passengers.
Seventy five years ago the first railway was introduced in Germany with a modest line from Ludwigsbahn to Nuremberg and Furth later. The six kilometer line has grown to about 60,000 kilometers, with Germany claiming the finest railway systems in Europe. The first locomotive in Old Nuremberg was the Adher, built under Stephenson in England at a cost of 28h.
An effort to run locomotives on peat in Sweden has been abandoned as coal remains more economical. Coal is still reported for use where fuel costs are weighed against efficiency, preserving locomotive performance and reliability.
The fourteen Weetst railroads in Britain burned coal totaling 28 009 000 dollars in 1900.
A Manufacturers' Record analysis explains why railroad workers may ignore signals. Familiarity breeds contempt as enginemen rely on visual signals that can mislead when trains crowd the block. Errors arise when towers fail to display danger signals and brakemen neglect rearward warnings, creating dangerous conditions.
A woman rode a Pennsylvania line train with a ticket dated 1883 claiming passage from Wallacetown to Pittsburg. The conductor questioned its age, but she explained it had been saved for 25 years after plans were halted by a friend's visit. She then used the ticket to take the long planned journey.
A reform in Germany plans safes aboard long distance trains made of steel with guard and passenger custody. Each safe will fit in the guard’s van and hold a grip or jewel case. A small fee will cover use while the state bears theft and accident risks via insurance. The idea follows a rise in robberies on some lines, may also suit Italian railways.
Mrs Freeland Young of Nanny owns a small gold plated tin type in a rounded frame bearing the inscription For President 1844. The keepsake was given to her when she was a girl and dates from before Lincoln’s second presidential term. The piece is described as very fine and now rare.
The dollar bill is described as built from yar ta gathered from oil over the earth with power fibers of linen from the Orient. Silk is said to come from Italy and China. The base is from German or Canadian sources. The ink is said to use Niagara Falls acetylene smoke and green pigments from Germany. The treasury seal is printed in red with color from Central America.
Engineers describe a method to transport a heavy 77 ton casting using a 50 ton car as the base, with five tons of packing and counterbalance weights. Oak beams attach to each end of the load car and extend over adjoining cars, enabling leverage for movement.
A report describes a heavy casting weighing 77 tons transported from Manchester to Middleton docks for shipment to Ignan in iron cars. Excess weight was distributed over two other cars using cantilever weights. The oak beams were 2 feet square with three lengths on each side, and the weights swung over small well-carriages without attachment.
A Chicago woman Rosa Weinmann credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with curing her intense backache and rheumatic pains that spread through her body. She says the remedy relieved the pain and helped her sleep after initial nonresponse. The ad notes Foster-Milburn Co. sells them for 50 cents.
A grave New Yorker, famed for his dignified outlook, trusted his twelve year old son to a stern New England boarding school. Last week he climbed four flights to the boy’s room and entered. A large placard bearing a Washington and Generals engraving, a Christmas gift to the pupil, read Dont spit on the ceiling We baya lost or ladder, in a troubling display of mischief.
A five story New York tenement fire started in the cellar where onions were stored. As flames grew, 18 families and all firefighters shed tears from inflamed eyes due to smoke and onion vapors. Authorities allowed tenants to stay, but they fled once air exposure worsened.
Anoptic tube applications promote infection prevention while Murine eye salves are advertised in varying sizes. The fragment mentions a request for a good anecdote about a statesman and asks if he was reelected, implying a historical or humorous aside within a medical ad.
The notice touts Theodore Co. of Wash and Lewi Balzer’s Rejuvenated White Bonanza oats with yields up to 141 bushels per acre and lists Salers Pedigree Barley Flax Corn Oats Wheat Potatoes Grass and Clover as famed world class seeds. It promotes free seed truths and a big seed catalog with stamps requests to 182 South 8th St esse Wis.
A humorous sketch notes Uncle Pinchpenny spending long hours at George Washington’s home as he scours the property for a dollar Washington allegedly tossed across the Potomac. The tale frames a chase for money amid a lighthearted historical nod.
An early promotional note touts Garfield Tea as a nature born purifier that eases constipation and related ailments. It suggests the product helps those afflicted by adversity, implying prosperity could prompt use.
A husband dislikes listening to a one sided romantic phone call. The fragment hints at domestic tension and listening discomfort but offers no concrete outcome or names. The item reads like a light local humor note about marital life and phone etiquette.
A fragmented note promotes a spring cleanse and blood purification using Garfield Tea and laxatives. It mentions a man who repeats his children's words as if hereditary and mixes unclear phrases about a cure for gold in an obscure bay setting.
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