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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1901
Page
3
Bayfield County and Washburn official weekly paper advertises itself as Bayfield County official publication. Published every Thursday with local government notices and school board information.
Wisconsin Labor Commissioner Halford Erickson proposes accredited servant schools to improve the status and appeal of household work. He will survey reasons for girls preferring factory or store jobs and plan a data driven remedy, led by Miss Ida May Jackson in Milwaukee, aiming to ease the hired girl problem.
Washington Aug 6 Rear Admiral Henry L Howison retired Oct 10 1899 has been chosen to fill the vacancy on the Schley court of inquiry caused by Rear Admiral Kimberly's inability to serve Howison a young retired officer served on blockade duty and fought at Mobile Bay aboard the Bienville He later led the Boston Navy Yard during the Spanish American War and commanded the South Atlantic Station He declined to supersede Admiral Sampson at a key moment and preliminary witness lists are being prepared for the court with some officers still on foreign stations.
The court will require key witnesses to return home soon to arrive in time. Admiral Schley has submitted a list of witnesses, including those stationed abroad, who will also be ordered home.
Rice Lake friends and supporters say Sewell A. Peterson is attending strictly to business and not pursuing a congressional candidacy. Critics in Chippewa Falls are blamed for spreading unconfirmed reports and fellow townsmen deny any political engagement at this time.
Friends of the Governor urge the President to curb federal appointees traveling the state to oppose Senator Spooner. The Rice Lake Leader calls this move a bid for party harmony that current critics accuse as hypocritical and disruptive.
In Burnett County wit and quips from Washburn Times and Washington Star collide with a sharp Chicago Post punchline. A clerk bargained with a clergyman over payment for a job seen as speculative, ending with a modest $2 payoff.
The Washburn Board of Review announces daily sessions from nine to noon and two to five, with extra evenings July 27, 29, and 31, and a final meeting on August 1. Notices include unrelated ad copy offering Virtuma Improved Tablets for nerve and vitality, with pricing and mail order terms.
Tickets for the Chetek Lake Assembly are sold from July 18 to 28 via Omaha with July 19 as a travel day at one round trip fare. Tickets available at the depot in this city.
A St Louis Republic retells a Macon trial moment featuring Patrick Cane, an Irish witness known for clever retorts. He deflected entrapment with practical humor, noting that the defendants’ backs faced west while the train arrived from the east, much to the amusement of lawyers and spectators.
Local ad itemizes low prices for flour 50 lb sack at 1.00, canned corn 12 for 0.85, tomatoes, leaf lard, coffee, prunes, various starches, tea, soap bars, soda crackers, ginger snaps, and potatoes. The ad offers freight paid to Washburn on every barrel of flour and promotes cash purchases for all other goods at bottom prices.
In Buffalo from May 1 to November 1 the Omaha will sell tickets from Wash burn to Buffalo and return for 26.75 good for one week. On May 7 14 21 and 28 tickets will be sold daily until September 3 at 34.35 for the round trip good for sixteen days from sale date.
President Patton of Princeton delivered a sermon at Fifth Avenue Collegiate church on faith. He compared the blind faith of clients trusting lawyers to the public’s trust in physicians, noting the doctor’s unreadable prescriptions and urging action without question. The remark provoked a ripple of reaction among the congregation.
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