New Plants For America From Eastern Seeds Report
Prof S A Knapp, appointed to study Eastern plants and seeds for general use, submits a preliminary report. Seeds and plants include persimmons, bamboo, Japanese plums, pears, camphor trees and mulberry bark. Persimmon varieties tested are limited but some selected. bamboo may thrive in southern states and serve as furnishing, fences and poles. Camphor trees endure Gulf conditions. Russian grains and other crops tested for rust and drought resistance. All items are experimental at agricultural stations before any distribution.
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S.A. Knapp
Wilson
Orient
Japan
Knapp
Pers Simman
Gulf States
Department of Agriculture
Queerly Worded Advertisements
A chaotic collection of old ads and notices includes a woman selling plans, requests for a two gentleman room, a lost dog named Jim, a woman seeking passage to New York, a tailor offering skins to make gowns, a man offering to open oysters, a bulldog with odd appetites, an organist job, a boy for counter work, a summer collage with drainage, and a lost umbrella near High Gate Archway.
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Rindy
Jim
N. Y
Mc. Brown
Bey
Did It Ever Occur to You Quote on Comfort and Winter
A fragmentary meditation discusses old beds as bug bears and the limits of what words can reveal. It likens cigar smoke to usefulness when puffed, and notes that harsher winters heighten appreciation for summer.
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Rce
Phau
Odd Paradoxes In Odd Sayings From Local Page
A string of quirky, misspelled lines humorously comments on everyday life. It notes that meeting a pretty milliner is nicer than paying her bill, mocks doctors who avoid their own remedies, and jests that ten is easier to guess than WOMAD’s age.
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Womad
Wisconsin Central Lines Advertises Discount Fares
Cheap rater promotes special fares on the Wisconsin Central Lines for an anniversary event in Stevens Point Wisconsin on April 20 1899 with one and one third fare from Marshfield and intermediate points. Tickets good until April 27 1899 and sales on April 25 20 with routes and times available at the depot. Also advertises low rates to Pacific Coast points including Los Angeles via Portland at 42 50 with intermediate points capped. Another notice offers excursion tickets from Milwaukee for the Grand Army of the Republic meeting May 16 17 18 1899 with round trip fares and return by May 19 1899. A brief weather line notes spring began on a cold day with six inches of snow.
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Stevens Point
Wis
Wisconsin Central Line
Marshfield
Wisconsin Central Lines
Los Angeles
Cal
Portland
West
Department of Wisconsin G. A. R
Milwaukee
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America
Wisconsin Central
Uepice
Justice of the Peace
Constable
Alderimaty Psu Eeceseeane
Democrat
Third Ward
Fourth Ward
Fifth Ward
Bart's
Central Avenue
Hartl's
Second Street
Third
J. E. Adler
Fourth
Weiland's
City Hall
Sixth Ward
Juno's Hall
John A. Thomas
Pommer’s
Peter Pommer
Smuckler’s
T.F. Roessler & 60
Louis C. Schmidt
The
Marshfield, Marble, Granita and Stone Works
Schmirler
Iron Works
A. Kleinheinz
State Board OF Examiners
Dr. Brewer & Son
Leo Marshfield
Nellisville
Thurs
Chicago
Sexton Bros
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
California
Cary
Cognell Dints
Omaha
Point
Oregon
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Marshfield Brewing Co
South Depot Street
AUO
Furstenberg, Prap
Rample
Louis Baumann
North Side
Pabst
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