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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1907
Page
2
A 1907 Marshfield Times ad discusses deafness claiming local applications fail and constitutional remedies cure it. It quotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Dean's Kidney Pills with patient testimonials and offers $100 for catarrh deafness not cured. The piece promotes Doan’s Kidney Pills by Foster Milburn Co. as a nationwide remedy.
A Chicago News quip recounts a mail trick where a person affixed a five cent stamp and a two cent stamp with a minus sign to imply a three cent postage, prompting questions about the missing three cent stamps and the action taken.
W C Bott of Ster City Indiana praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy as a decade trusted cure for croup in his children. He notes its safety at night and failure to treat cr ony and whooping cough with the remedy. Sexton Bros. offers it for sale.
Corabill Magazine reports on massive prehistoric sea turtles that inhabited the foothills of the Ticalaya mountains. Fossil bones and occasional shell fragments washed from ravines show these extinct creatures exceeded modern tortoises by more than two times in size, indicating a species far larger than present.
W. B Bronson of Dublin Ga extols Electric Bitters for his eighty three year old mother who has used them for about two years and enjoys a strong appetite good sleep and overall health. The tonic is also claimed to aid female weakness general debility and to strengthen weak children with guarantees for stomach liver and kidney troubles from Sexton Druggist at 50 cents.
Aboriginal practices in Africa involve burying fever patients up to their necks in cool sand as a treatment for wounds inflicted during captivity for sale as aluves. Ice baths are impossible, and patients may remain buried for several days. Reports indicate a high fatality rate, with about eighty percent killed.
Cadell resident Bari Shamberg recalls a hard time with coughing and illness during tougher days. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery with quick relief after trying many remedies. The ad proclaims it the safest cough and cold cure and lung and throat healer, sold by Sexton Bros drug store with a 50 cent to 1 dollar price and a free trial bottle offer.
A London Telegraph item recounts Timmins who followed a superstition and found misfortune when bending to pick up a pin. His hat fell away, glasses broke, braces failed, a button hole tore, and his false teeth dropped, yet he kept smiling about luck.
A claim from a New York daily paper praises a home mixture of Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Kargan and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla. Shake and take a teaspoon after meals and at night to relieve backache kidney trouble and urinary difficulties with no stomach or organ injury. A local druggist confirms availability and harmlessness.
A small church in a mining town in Pennsylvania featured a pulpit mishap during a Sunday sermon when the pulpit broke as the preacher shouted a text about the righteous and the wicked. He recovered quickly and quipped that he hates the connection. The item blends into a broader vignette with medical and dramatic notes from period advertisements and commentary about Dr. Shoop remedies and classical theater history.
An Indiana farmer story says hogs in woods squeal and move between trees when a stranger discovers them. The tale explains hogs tapping trees to draw feeding by assumed noise, a prank-like scene linked to a lost voice. A court notice from Wood County Wisconsin appears amid OCR garble.
Notice of sale in the foreclosure action in Wood County Wisconsin. Sheriff of Wood County to sell the mortgaged premises at Marshfield City Hall on a specified day. Property includes Lot No Sixteen and other lots in the original subdivision. Sale authorized by judgment and directed to satisfy the amounts due.
A fragment describes an obscure spectacle where Korey avertitea transforms into a form seen through six lenses. The text hints at a gladiatorial setting and a dramatic entrance, with an emphasis on visionary observation and emergent spectacle.
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