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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
2
A travel excerpt describes the extreme fatigue of desert night travel across the Gobi. The author details waking on the ground with a horse nearby, trying to stay alert amid the monotony, cold, and sleep pressure. Camel drivers also struggle to stay awake as wolves lurk beyond. The narrative ends with arrival at a halting place for the Right North China News.
Corsican funerals feature new burial gowns funded by the family, rapid interment within 24 hours, and mourners who improvise prose poetry. Death hunters challenge mourners, hair is torn onto coffins, and paid women mourners inflict facial injuries. Widows wear blindfolds, households avoid fires, and cemeteries hold ornate tombs with rich hangings and lamps.
A Totnes market tradition has each stall posting its price for butter and eggs and all dealers follow the same. An earlier effort to break the system by encouraging producers to push higher prices failed, and the old practice remains in place despite limited friction.
A dialogue features a stern Congressman's reminder that obedience exists in a marriage contract and his wife quips about jokers. The exchange includes the Skinflint and a line about turning kindness into butter and Bell. A Greek proverb on precaution versus repentance concludes.
Proceedings from Washburn Wisconsin record the Public grounds and buildings committee recommending bill allowances and authorizing the County Clerk to issue payment orders. Dated January 13 and 18 1908 the resolution shows a list of voting members and abstentions concluding with a note of continuation on page 5.
Dr. Shoop of Racine Wisconsin introduces Health Coffee Imitation made from toasted cereals with malt and nuts. It claims no real coffee content and that experts could be fooled by taste. Also notices on advertising, drug law notice for Foley’s Honey and Tar, liver health with Green's August Flower, and local job printing at The Times.
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