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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1919
Page
5
A family recounts a child’s spinal hunchback linked to tuberculosis. The doctor explains the spine disease stems from tuberculosis germs, likely contracted from a consumptive relative. He urges earlier medical care and notes possible relief and longer life with treatment.
A reflective note on the dollar’s sacred status and dignity as a coin bearing the US seal and the president, contrasting the era’s slang terms like beans and simpleams with respect for Philadelphia minted dollars. The piece laments changing attitudes as economic pressures rise.
Miss Emma Verbryke of Lima Ohio recounts two years ago suffering frequent stomach trouble and biliousness. She sought relief after seeing Chamberlain's Tablets advertised and experienced rapid improvement.
The piece argues the dollar is not dear but cheap, worth barely half its former value. It notes ordinary folks would feel degraded at market shifts, feeling like thirty or fifteen cents in the face of a drop, reflecting economic sentiment from Cartoons Magazine.
A Kenosha wife is saved when Jack the airedale dog lunges at a robber, taking a bullet aimed at his master William Canavan. The heroic dog dies from the wound, illustrating unwavering devotion and the bond between humans and animals. The Milwaukee Journal reflects on loyalty, condemns animal abuse, and praises dogs as true friends.
In South Dakota a patch clubs movement aims to cut clothing costs by extending wear. Citizens with money can set a fashion of getting more value from purchases while others faced by high prices may embrace frugal, durable style to weather postwar stringency.
A satirical look at future classified ads imagines absurd barter offers like trading shoes for a car, a suit for a farm, or a bag of flour for a top auction on the public square. It lampoons high prices and the impracticalities of daily life under rising costs.
The National Merchant Marine association recommends a staged approach to selling the government merchant fleet. It favors private ownership and operation for growth of a merchant marine but opposes immediate full sale. It proposes selling steel vessels to American individuals or firms, and selling smaller vessels more freely, with interim charters to American private concerns and an option to purchase later.
President Wilson sent a formal message to President Carranza dated September 16 offering cordial felicitations and best wishes for peace prosperity and progress of the Mexican people on the anniversary of Mexico's independence. state department released the text on September 22.
Washington dispatch reports the Leviathan, formerly the German liner, is to be converted into a first class oil burning carrier at a cost of 2,500,000. The International Mercantile Marine asks that the ship be allocated for service between New York and Southampton England and Cherbourg France.
Geneva Sept 22 Roumania plans to gather volunteer troops from southern Russia for concentration along the Dniester river to counter Bolshevist disorders. The Roumanian bulletin says 50 000 Romanian soldiers from Transylvania and other regions are also being repatriated to reinforce border defenses.
Munich reports Fritz Seidl and five associates were executed at 4 pm after being found guilty of murdering hostages during the Soviet regime. Other condemned included Herren Sickerhofer Wildl Purzel and Fehmer.
Paris reports that French military units will be sent to Bulgaria to supervise the treaty provisions. Belgium approves France's plan for a French general to hold supreme command of allied forces on the line, per official sources.
Announcement from New York on September 22 states the former Hamburg American liner Imperator, among the world’s largest ships, has been requisitioned by Cunard Line from the British ministry of shipping, marking a major transfer in wartime maritime power.
Paris Sept 22 The Lithuanian delegation here denied its government agreed to discuss peace with the Soviet Union after a wireless message from Bolshevik foreign minister M Teditcherio. The denial emphasizes no talks were arranged.
A 1918 Wisconsin fire report summary warns heating plant and chimney hazards as the state's leading cause of fires and fire waste. It urges citizen cooperation, property owners, fire inspectors, and departments to study the statistics and adopt remedies to reduce waste and destruction.
The article urges fire safety after noting 1918 Wisconsin fire deaths and injuries and calls for inspections of heating plants and chimneys. It then discusses Wood County dairy farmers raising pure bred hogs and cattle, proposing a hog breeders association and a county treed of hogs, with County Agent Ww. W. Clark seeking ideas and a meeting to organize.
A university piece argues the sow of commerce drives cities like Chicago Kansas City and Omaha and asks if Wood County shares the same fate. It contends the old brood sow sustains wheels of commerce and questions what would happen if removed.
Cartoonist weighs in on choosing a national flower suggesting the carnation as a fitting symbol. The piece playfully argues the carnation suits national identity given widespread cultivation and recognition.
About 20 750 carloads of potatoes are expected to ship from Wisconsin stations this year per Joseph A Becker of the Wisconsin Cooperative Crop Reporting Service. The estimate rests on September 1 conditions, with 95 percent of normal commercial acreage and a yield at 66 14 percent of normal. Last year 25 510 cars shipped. full production could reach 31 200 cars. August brought a slight decline. rain was ample but insect injury and blight reduced production by about 21 percent.
A note from Certeons Magazine presents the antique line The saddest words of tongue or pen Alas, they'll never come again Old man say when as a nostalgic quotation.
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