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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1907
Page
8
A 1907 Marshfield Times page includes an advertisement promising $100 for deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Care and notes druggists sell for 75c plus a health product plug. It also features a light joke about postage stamps and mail, reflecting a mix of medical claims and humor.
Mr W C Bott of Star City Indiana praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy for ten years of safe relief from croup and whooping cough in his children. He reports speedy cures in severe attacks and recommends it to friends and neighbors. Sexton Bros. offer it for sale.
Corbyn Magazine reports that giant turtles once inhabited the Himalaya foothills. Shells and bones, exhumed from ravines, indicate they were more than twice the size of modern tortoises, evidencing a vastly larger prehistoric turtle.
W B Brunson of Dublin Georgia praises Electric Bitters saying his eighty three year old mother has shown strong appetite, good sleep, and vigor after about two years of use. He notes benefits for female weakness general debility and even weak children. Guaranteed for stomach liver and kidney issues at 59 cents by Sexton Druggist.
The account describes Bedouin slave captors in Africa using brutal methods to cure fever from wounds. Ice baths are impossible, so patients are buried up to their decks in cool sand to ease fever. Burials last several days. outcome ranges from death to cure, with about eighty percent killed.
Cadell resident Earl Schamberg recalls severe illness during hard times when grasshoppers and drought were common. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery with a quick, complete recovery after coughing night and day, noting the product is guaranteed by Sexton Bros drug store with a $1 bottle offer.
A Timmins resident bending for a pin in the street caused his hat to fall, glasses break, braces fail, a shirt button tore, and his teeth nearly came loose, yet he still picked up the pin despite the mishaps.
Athens Record recounts a shooting near Milan on Oct 8 in which Rich Beyreiss and Mike Zaborka captured an unknown man after a chase along the Abbotsford Northwestern tracks. Beyreiss fired, killing the stranger, later found to wear Beyreiss’s pants and carry stolen items including Beyreiss’s razor. The coroner ruled self defense. Beyreiss and Zaborka were detained and released after inquiry. Separately Deputy Bossard tied the slain man to an escaped jail inmate from Medford, later identified as Martin Kennedy or Sidney Hume with a long criminal record.
County Clerk reports Wood County valuation at 14,887,884 with real estate 13,384,340 and personal property 1,893,544. Detailed town by town figures listed for Arpin Anburndale Cary Cameron Cranmoor Dexter Grand Rapids Transen Hiles Lincoln Marshfield Milladore Port Edwards Rimington Richfield Seneca Sherry Sigel and Wand to Grand Rapids Marshfield Pittsville Auburndale Nekonsa Port Edwards. Total figures appear in local tally.
An advertisement touts Dr Turbin offering free consultations for rheumatism enlarged veins fistula piles and other rectal diseases along with kidney and bladder issues. He claims safe quick and permanent cures at modest charges and invites dissatisfied patients from other treatments to visit. Ladies with headaches back pain and social burdens are urged to call for treatment.
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