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Newspaper
Mineral Point Tribune
Location
Mineral Point, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
4
A compact grocery advertisement lists Fancy Peas at .25 cents per three cans a single price. One gallon can of New York Apples at 30 cents. Salmon sold at 10 cents per pound. The pitch emphasizes quality with guarantees and suitability for baking pies.
Local notes report Mrs. H Tredinnick returning to Milwaukee, townsfolk attend Quo Vadis in Dodgeville, and Linden hosts Cobb in a ballgame won by the home team amid strong batting. Also mentions Mr W H Baker improving, Mrs Fr Dolphin’s death, and new residence on Cowley place Bloomfield.
H R Phelps of Plymouth Oklahoma reports selling five bottles of Chamberlain's remedy to threshers exhausted from work. The product keeps them going and they continue their tasks. For sale at Vivian's Pharmacy.
The Review notes heavy rain last week turning hillsides green and boosting crop prospects. John Levitt returned from northern Wisconsin with a 200 acre land deal in Burnet county and a 10 acre lake, reflecting optimism from the bargain.
Land investment lures homeseekers as John Urben advances Hollandale creamery with a large butter and cheese plant. Moscow endures a bar‑barous charivari with bloodshed and fines. N J Wieffer anniversary is celebrated at Kieffer farm home. Prairie du Chien mining talk sparks optimism and mine options. Common School Examinations set for May 17 and 24 across arena Avoca Barneveld Dodgeville Elwood Mifflin Hollandale Mineral Point Highland Hillside and Hillside districts with strict age and course requirements.
Gratiot village suffered extensive damage from a Tuesday fire. Ganshert Brothers store and contents loss about 8000 with 5500 insured by German Insurance Company. Kate Tey millinery loss about 2100 insured 4900 by Northwestern of Milwaukee and Phoenix. Brannan Kirwan meat market loss 1000 insured 500 on stock only. John Marriott drug store loss 5000 insured 150. Masonic lodge in same building loss 1000 with no insurance. Col Ladd general store damaged about 240 fully insured by the Phoenix.
A Memorial note from Commander H. Senate Post 125 Wisconsin reports the death of Comrade Henry Sieger who served as a coldice for the onion Inite Wisconsin Infantry from 1886 and joined the Post in 1807. The tribute records his faithful service, expresses sympathy to widow AW. H. Besser, and directs a copy of the record to be given to the sorrowing widow.
One story cottage for sale just south of Moses M. Stroup’s property, convenient to town church and school. For price and terms see J B Reyroups.
Beginning Monday January 6 1902 the Illinois Central will run a through sleeping car between Chicago and Jacksonville via Nashville Chattanooga and Atlanta. It leaves Chicago daily at 6 10 p.m. and arrives in Jacksonville the second morning over the Dixie Flyer Scenic route. This extends the Chicago and Nashville sleeping car line year round.
Uncalled letters listed include W. B. Cousins Miss Sadie Dorney James Gallagher Mannie Stack. Postmaster warns callers to state advertised and give date May 8 1901. Also sale notices for windmills pumps and two Mineral Point properties offered by N T Martin J B Reynolds and Joseph Bray describe parcels near M Cothren property and city of Mineral Point with homes barns and outbuildings for sale.
A Springville Alabama mother recounts three children enduring whooping cough last summer with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. She claims her baby boy at three months stayed healthy and plump, unlike others whose parents did not use the remedy. The eldest child reportedly called for cough syrup between fits. Vivian's Pharmacy sells the remedy.
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