Community notes reflect Washburn events and growth
Miss Krumm joins Olson Millinery as milliner in Minneapolis. The Love Land Company buys part of section 31-494 to plot 5 and 10 acre farms. Blaine High School wins state basketball title at Appleton. Smallpox cases decline as Washburn nears stamp out. Town boosts spring cleaning drives, telephones, and shop closing efforts.
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Miss Krumm
Minneapolis
Olson Millinery
Love Land Company
Blaine High School of
Superior
Appleton
Civil Service Examinations Announced for May 16 1908 at Wisconsin Institutions
The State Civil Service Commission announces examinations for May 16 1908 for many posts including Family Officer and Matron at the Industrial School in Waukesha Firemen Guards at Waupun Prison Janitors at the State University and Normal Schools and more Salaries range up to 780 per year with maintenance and age and height requirements Apply to the State Civil Service Commission Madison Wis for blanks and information Also notes on local items and community notices follow.
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State Civil Service Commission
Waukesha
Waupun
State University
State Normal
Green Bay Reformatory
Madison, Wis
Millinery Opening and Local Notices in Bayfield
Ladies are invited to view the season's millinery at Mrs. Gilbert Olson's shop. Bayfield license results show 183 Bayfield, 100 Iron River, 5 Mason, 198 city votes in favor. city vote 277 to 179 for license. T. Erickson to occupy Robinson residence. M H Robinson to move to German Luthern Parsonage. Donald Bell of Bayfield Press visited. For sale cheap: Sharpless Tubular Cream Separator and Racine incubator via C. H. Flynn. Mrs. Charles Morrow died suddenly on Bayfield Street, leaving husband and three children.
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Bayfield
Iron River
Mason
M. H. Robinson
T. Erickson
Robinson
Donald Bell
Bayfield Press
C. H. Flynn
Charles Morrow
Insidious Kidney Trouble Warns of Silent Dangers
A warning about the gradual danger of kidney disease urges early treatment with Foley’s Kidney Cure to correct irregularities and prevent Bright’s disease and diabetes. Q. Frost stresses prompt action before fatal complications arise.
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Foley
Bright
Frost
Hines Lumber Mill Reopens for Summer Run
Iron River’s Hines Lumber mill restarted last week after a winter shutdown. It operates day shift now and will run day and night by early May as woods work and summer logging camps prepare, promising hundreds of jobs.
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Hines Lumber Company
Iron River
Methodist Church Easter Services Planned Next Week
Regular services occur next Sunday with an Easter Observance. Special services are set for Tuesday through Friday at 7 30 p m. Easter Sunday features the annual Easter Sermon and a Sunday School program in the evening. Ladies Aid Society meets at the parsonage Wednesday afternoon April 15 at 3 00. All ladies invited.
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Ladies Aid Society
Palm Sunday Services at St John s Episcopal Church
St John s Episcopal Church holds Palm Sunday events with services on Sunday April 12. Choir rehearsal at 6 45 p m followed by Evening Prayer and sermon at 7 30 p m. Strangers are cordially welcome.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church
Moving Pictures and the Early Visual Engine
Sir John Herschel in 1826 discussed showing both sides of a shilling at once with a mirror and a spinning coin. Babbage and Dr Fitson developed a working thaumotrope, bird in a cage, revealing persistence of vision. The zoetrope followed, and Muybridge produced first systematic photographs in 1877.
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Sir John Herschel
Charles Babbage
Babbage
Sir John
Fitson
Muybridge
Her Dear Friend Admits a Kiss in Defiant Exchange
A Louisville Courier Journal note recalls a scene where a woman answers “Yes” to kissing him and her best friend asks if he resisted much. The exchange captures a moment of social confrontation.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Return to Earth of Fallen Hero Sparks Masses
The Atchison Globe notes the impulse to speak the fallen hero’s name at memorials as crowds gather to honor duty and sacrifice. Citizens rally around the memory of a national figure, reflecting on service and the pull of national identity.
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Earth
Foi
Atchison Globe
No. 4 for women offer from Dr Shoop night care
An advertisement promoting Dr Shoop's night care suppositories claims to provide soothing antiseptic relief for women and offers a free book No. 4 for women with confidential medical advice. It instructs readers to write to Dr Shoop in Racinewis and notes the book is sold by all dealers.
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News OF the
H. O. Lien of
City
L. A. Simonson
Duluth
Good Templar
Pengelly
Gilbert Ungredt
Medford
Kenfield
Washburn Farms
Dennis Daly
Herbster
Mr. Daly
John Gibson
Johnson
Attorney Walsh
Ladies Aid Society of the Congregational Church
Nes M. Oscar
O. P. Swanby
John Walsh
Lampson
Gilbert Ungrodt
Ethel Thompson
Hochdannen
Mary and Bertha Cunsperson
Mary M Hochdaoner
Emma Blexrud
Ashland
R.T. Creigo
Monroe
James Higgins
John Peterson
Wm. Kelly
Belle H. Smith
Edgar L. Richter
Bayfield Co
H. Spalding & Sons
Washington, de
The
Congregational Church
John Zemer
Chicago
Washburn
H. P. Peterson
James Finck
Hayward
Jackson
Omaha
Wm. Olson
John B. Edwards
Spooner
August Geisert
George Souse
Canada
Lula Gasman
Ellsworth
H. Marion Juell
Bell
Tetzner
Max Cramer
F. J. Colignon
Fritz
Fisher
A. H. Wilkinson
Wis
Civil Service Examinations
Wavpun Prison
Green Big Reformatory
Walsh
Pratt
George DePew
Larson
DePew
O.l. Fish
Peterson
H. M. Jones
St. Joseph Hospital
JF. W. Down R
Aitkin, Minn
Mr. Jones
Doan
Gilbert Olson
WH. Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Outfit Fref
Thompson Pub
St Louis Mo
G. A. Hering
Meehan
Bayfield St
Hines
Methodist Church Notes
Ipl
DEBY
TRUST
Moving
H.J. Finstad
N. Clausen
Pioneer Store
D. W. Corning, Prop
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