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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1911
Page
8
In a dining room a burglar holds a family at gunpoint over silver. A pajama clad man argues for crime and for his children, then turns himself into the authorities. A judge frees the burglar, later offering an office to wield public funds. The tale ends with the burglar becoming a political boss, aided by the judge.
Schedule of passenger trains at Marshfield Wisconsin lists arrivals and departures for routes from Minneapolis Milwaukee Fond du Lac Wausau and Chicago with daily and Sunday exceptions and multiple train numbers. The document notes trains making up at Marshfield and connections to towns including Merrillan Elmdale Fond du Lac Janesville Sheboygan Oshkosh and Wausau.
An incoming liner passenger discovers a seed-pearl in an oyster and wonders at its origin while a steak is served with a hooked hook. The quirky scene underscores sea cook habits as the passenger queries the waiter about shooting oysters and catching steaks with hooks. The Marshield Times Co offers wedding invitations and engraved cards plus posters and business stationery at reasonable prices in the Armory building.
The Milwaukee health department advises dog owners to keep pets with fresh cold water and avoid overfeeding it. Provide a shaded, well drained earthen kennel to protect from heat. Read about dogs, monitor temper and health, and confine a sick or ill tempered dog for public safety.
Veterans of the Civil War are warned that nonmembers in good standing face fines for wearing GAR emblems including bronze lapel buttons badges and uniforms insignia. Wisconsin law references are noted and past members cannot loan badges on decoration day without proper credentials. Times office advertises good five year old driving mate, 1000 pounds, $150 for quick sale.
Farmers urged to buy the Talby silo from Colby Box and Silo Co of Colby Wisconsin. One piece stave silo 20 to 30 feet long built from Washington fir with ironed continuous door frame for a ladder. Claims superiority over Tamarack or yellow pine and promises value.
A fragmented timetable lists multiple Duluth to Chicago and Milwaukee routes with daily and limited services. It notes main line trains to Minneapolis, Eau Claire, Ashland, Grand Rapids, Nekoosa, and Greenwood branch connections, with varying Sunday restrictions and mail services.
Special invitations target young men and women and parents to correspond with Wisconsin Business University in La Crosse Wisconsin. The school markets twenty years of success as a state chartered institution and notes it publishes a sworn statement listing 8000 graduates placed in positions. It offers a free catalog with portraits and urges sending for it today.
A vintage ad offers one hundred dollars reward for incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. It includes firm endorsements by Wanninc Kinnan Margin and others, urges testimonials, lists price at 73 cents per bottle, and suggests Hall's Family Pills for constitution.
A brief inspirational line from R L Stevenson declaring any brave man can craft a personal happiness and through goodness help others around him. The note emphasizes self made contentment and beneficence as a life aim.
The advertisement touts Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets as a superior remedy for constipation sick headache biliousness jaundice and indigestion. It claims thousands praise the product and that it is sold by all dealers. A quoted exchange from the Chicago Record-Herald contrasts guilt and confession.
Pacific Coast excursion fares valid daily from June 1 to September 30 with liberal stopovers and return limits. Full details available from ticket agents of the North Western Line. Also features a brief, humorous vignette and a health note extolling Chamberlains Cough Remedy for children without narcotics and sold by all dealers.
Over half a century the Humphreys Specifics have been used with satisfaction by the people for more than 80 years. The ad lists remedies for worms, coughs, colds, bronchitis, toothache, dyspepsia, croup, fever, rheumatism, catarrh, whooping cough, asthma, kidney disease, nervous debility, urinary irregularity, diphtheria, grip, fever, and summer colds. Boldly offered by Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Co. New York.
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