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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
5
A city crowd enjoyed a Steamer Skater excursion to nearby islands. Local updates include hunting license availability, real estate listings, property sales, and public notices. Social events at the Congregational Church and a charity apron shower capture community life.
All persons are urged to take Foley's Kidney Pills for back ache rheumatism and kidney and bladder trouble as they are healing and antiseptic and correct urinary irregularities which if neglected may develop into a serious illness They restore health and strength Q. W. Frost.
A mass meeting is planned at the Knights of Labor Hall on Saturday evening August 21 to discuss action on street lighting. The committee urges a strong turnout and active participation.
Shingies and lumber advertised by Wm Olson. Several local notes mention campers at Coburn resort and Houghton Park. Residents and visitors are reported at various homes and campuses including Mrs Doyle and son, Mr and Mrs Toepel, Mr Holmes, and Mr Fox. A steamer discharged 6000 tons of coal at Northwestern Fuel docks last week. The Bell Telephone crew repaired toll lines damaged by a wreck near Wisconsin Central, with Ashland service called Tuesday.
Certificate issued by the Department of the Interior Canada under the Volunteer Bounty Act 1908 good for 320 acres in Alberta Saskatchewan or Manitoba. Any person over 18 may acquire this land with the certificate for 800 dollars. Write or wire L. E. Telford 131 Shuter Street Toronto Canada.
Batesville Indiana resident A S Nusbaum reports lasting three months of summer cold symptoms hindering work. A doctor’s prescription failed to help, but Foley’s Honey and Tar quickly cured him. He notes his wife also found the remedy effective in repeated use. Q W Frost endorses the product.
A promotional note from Northern State Bank urges opening a savings account next pay-day to establish a save regularly habit. Readers are encouraged to watch an account grow as discipline builds toward a definite purpose. Deposit depository City-vttat and Ocate labeled banks referenced.
The Tripoli ostrich feather market offers whites and blacks in varied qualities sold by the roti, about eighteen ounces per unit. Feathers arrive unsorted, washed in soapy water, beaten while wet, and sorted but not dyed. Plumes are expanded by tapping to raise barbs, aiming for multi layer, flawless tips, and no vane cuts. Retail uses two plumes mounted together.
Lord Erskine recounts to American envoy Rush that Burke’s famed American conciliation speech was a delivery disaster. The eloquent text failed to hold the House, driving members away and leaving the audience scrambling toward exits.
A London Standard note discusses how Highland naming blends genders with male roots. It cites Barbac as a local name possibly tied to a cow, explains Wilhelmina paired with Andrewina, and notes widespread forms like Malcolmminas and Donaldinas. Ava emerges as a clipped form from Alexandrina Victoria Andrewina.
Suppe, composer of Fatinitza and the Poet and Peasant overture, faced repeated misfires with the latter. After attempts with different plays, the piece found success with a forgotten farce, leading to public performance and a piano arrangement. A music firm later paid Suppe $25 for the night and sold the score, netting about $40,000.
A London News item notes a master of a hunting pack died and his widow barred the hounds from the field. A former chief justice and huntsman suggested that even crepe around the hounds might be unnecessary and that they could run in full cry.
H M Barksdale his wife and two daughters of Wilmington Del visited the city for several days in the latter part of last week as guests at the home of Superioran Beers of the Dynan send and D M Maxcy.
An antiquated sketch catalogs a parade of quirky London clubs once known for peculiar rules and titles such as No Nose, Club of Beans, Surly, Man Hunting, Lying, Scatter Wit, Hum Dum, Taropenny, Everlasting, Kit Cat, Beef Stead, and others. It notes playful descriptions and the era's fondness for witty societies and toast traditions.
A reflective piece from Atchison Glébe on the social scorn for deadbeats. It argues most men sin, yet deadbeats face universal distrust and isolation as they exploit friendship. It asserts their life is unstable, dishonest, and harder than honest labor, ending with a bleak note on their fate.
A Pearsons Weekly note traces the French origin of rounded knife blades to Cardinal Richelieu. An unruly Chancellor Sequier used a knife as a toothpick after a meal, prompting Richelieu to demand the knife end be rounded, a fashion quickly adopted nationwide.
In Max Muller's Fragment the Duke of Wellington orders dinner at a remote hotel. The servant proclaims his many titles to impress the landlord who then believes the Duke is hosting friends named Duke of Vittoria, Prince of Waterloo, and Marquis of Torres Vedras. The landlord supplies a grand banquet to the reader's surprise.
A Ketchikan miner praises a Alaskan moonrise casting silver on rocks and mountains. He says true wealth lies in the mind and moonlight makes one a thrice hundred times a millionaire.
Mrs. Van Cerious was found awake at 3 a m sitting up in bed reading the encyclopedia. She explains she could not sleep and quote Learning could be acquired at odd times end quote prompting the curious remark from her husband Mr Van Cerious.
A brief quip from the Cleveland Leader notes a man optimistic about an offered marriage while a witty opponent remarks many women do not keep promises. The exchange captures a light civic tone on social expectations.
A street called Easy is described as at the far end of a long rough and hilly route named Hard Work street. Mr. Tucker explains the journey to Tommy-Paw, framing the contrast between effort and ease. The exchange hints at a moral about labor before reward.
Harry admits he proposed in haste as she looked charming and won his heart. Dick teases that he may have lost his head in a playful Boston transcript exchange.
A concise provincial proverb warns against working for nothing and finding the thread, attributed to Spinish.
An advertisement claims Dean's Ointment stops itching instantly and cures piles eczema salt rheum tetter hives herpes scabies. Sold at any drug store.
Butter per pound 0.25. creamery butter 0.25. Fresh eggs per dozen 0.22. New potatoes and onions per bushel 1.25 per 100 lb. Timothy hay per ton 12.00. Iron weed flax per ten 8. te 9.50.
The article portrays Lord Kelvin’s extreme faith in figures. He once tested a math problem by suspending a cannon ball over his lecturing platform to prove the wire’s strength, risking his life if the wire failed, and left the weight in place for weeks.
The text traces the dignified origin of die in the last ditch. It notes De Witt’s death elevating the Prince of Orange to head the Dutch republic and recounts Buckingham’s flawing question and William’s reply that one ensures not to see the country lost by dying in the last ditch.
Mrs L whiteacre of Buffalo touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as the best remedy for the fatal disease croup. The testimonial claims eight years of successful use in her family.
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