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Newspaper
Redgranite Herald
Location
Redgranite, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
12
A sharp voiced wife recalls a past romance on a railway car and a pair of slippers tied to a Christmas pudding memory. A tale contrasts humor and misadventure with a jailed couple, a heavenward punchline about Brown and Jones, and a Philadelphia couple's odd separation over a $20 dress.
A business man explains how he improved health and work ability by analyzing his eating habits. He suffered desk discomfort after meals from indigestible food and over eating. Reflection led him to try Grape Nuts, and he reports positive effects after using it for some time.
Madison reports the joint committee will arrange Roosevelt visit on April 16 with senators Donald Sanborn Martin and assembly members including Plowman and Gettle. The body kills or advances measures on attorney general appointments, public utilities, and confederate veterans benefits, while pension grants to Wisconsin residents total over six hundred dollars monthly in various cases.
State railroad commission orders the Milwaukee road to lay a switch and spur track to the gravel and sand pit of N M Phelps between Portage and Wyoewa on the La Crease division. N M Phelps of Beaver Dam must file a bond of 2160 dollars to cover track detailing and block signal costs at the main line contact.
The state records about 8 300 typhoid cases annually with an associated cost near 5 000 dollars per case. On average ten percent prove fatal, translating to roughly 360 deaths each year in Wisconsin. The article notes shifting views from Providence to human responsibility in combating the disease.
A dense listing from Chicago and Minneapolis markets dated 1911 1912 detailing prices for dairy produce meats grains and livestock. Includes butter creamery dairy products fresh fowl turkey potatoes wheat corn oats rye barley and hogs cattle and sheep values with unit prices and range.
Fond du Lac and surrounding areas report notable events. Dunn, born in Taycheedah and later mayor of Nors, Alaghe, reflects a life spanning Civil War service and frontier ventures. Other items cover land patents, postmaster nominations, city finances, poultry show plans, and university professor Freeman’s death.
The article describes spring hat trends with varied shapes and colors, from high crowns to brims with green velvet and black horsehair bands. It notes lightweight arrow braids, turbans, and color blends, plus trims that echo winter styles. It highlights wool, poplin, serge options, and new tailor made frocks with wool-backed satins and silk blends.
A quirky collection of kitchen and home hacks covers using oxalic acid with water to remove stains, cooking vegetables for color, chilling sponge care, boiling water for fabrics, grinding tea leaves to save it, wrapping cheese in vinegar cloth, and a potato pancake dough recipe with mashed potatoes yeast and baking to a delicate brown.
The text describes a method to baste and cook flank or round steak in butter, browning, then simmering in water for one and a half to two hours. The steak is served on a hot platter, cut into portions, with gravy thickened by browned flour if needed.
Representatives from over thirty national and provincial associations will attend the International Congress on Tuberculosis in Rome next September. Nations and regions listed include the United States Canada Cuba Trinidad England Wales Ireland Norway Sweden Denmark Russia Germany Belgium Holland France Switzerland Portugal Italy Greece Bulgaria Hungary Austria New Zealand Japan Cape Colony Argentina Brazil Chile Newfoundland Romania Uruguay and Venezuela.
A humorous exchange shows Bir arguing with a religious opponent about sects. The banter pokes fun at bluster and misidentification, ending with a line about a hatpin lost by a suffragette and a policeman remembered in London slang.
An old classified style notice touts Spohns remedy for distemper pink eye and heaves in horses. It markets bottles priced 9.50 and 1.00 and offers a free book from Agenta manta and the Medical Co Spec. Contagious Discomm Goshen. The text includes stray humorous quotes and mentions various unrelated topics.
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