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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1915
Page
2
Classified ad offers a 40 acre parcel four miles from Marshfield, well improved and priced cheap. Inquiries to Box M7 care of The Marshfield Times. Mentions contact by Mrs. Joe Millstead at address 621, notes unusual travel fragment about a railroad journey and overland route to Colorado.
Marshfield Water Electric Light and Power Co invites sealed bids from the high est bidder for ice formed on the artificial pond at the pumping station. Bids due by 5 pm Saturday December 4, addressed Bid for Ice on Artificial Pond and opened by Board of Public Works and E B Wayts superintendent.
A letter from the editor urges readers to share any news from friends families and society events. It invites reports of births deaths parties and gossip for the Great Family Paper and notes fur coats may be long but usually flare.
Sealed bids due by 10 a m on November 26 1915 for compiling and printing the revised ordinances of Marshfield in a substantial pamphlet form. Bids cover all clerical work and printing. By order of the Judiciary Committee John Seubert City Clerk.
Greenwich, Genn Clifford Schnell, 20, loved Florence Jones. He placed a ladder to her window and she climbed down in a nightgown. They were escorted to a nearby car and rushed to the town clerk’s home where the clerk appeared in pajamas and performed the marriage.
Washington dispatch notes widespread advocacy for Representative James A. Frear of Wisconsin to join the house committee on rivers and harbors after his 1913 and 1914 efforts against pork barrel spending. Frear exposed costly projects, helped reduce river and harbor appropriations by 42 000 and uncovered the Mussel Shoals water power plan later vetoed by the House. The piece also contains an unrelated advertisement for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Hall’s Family Pills.
A humorous verse urges readers to choose America over foreign locales, praising Broadway and local American sights while poking fun at distant travel. It contrasts destinations like Norwey and Russia with American wonders and mocks exoticism, ending with a pitch to explore domestic wonders.
Mrs Thomas Casey of Geneva writes that her husband suffered for years with indigestion causing stomach pains and distress after meals. After taking Chamberlains Tablets he found relief immediately. Obtainable everywhere.
New York nov 8 Marine Corps will be absent from this year’s military show at Madison Square Garden due to manpower needs at home and abroad. Army and navy will be represented. Marines 9924 strong by law are needed for national mobile defense, with navy yards stripped to provide landing forces and expeditionary troops for Haiti and guards at Peking.
Congress will be asked to increase the Marine corps by 1500 officers and men. The move is supported by security leagues seeking a stronger first line of defense to ensure sufficient marines at home in case of necessity. Vailormade skirts are very simple spring, gored or circular cut.
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