News of the Week Social and Local Notes
George Francis becomes bill clerk at Bayfield depot. Many local visits, deaths, weather, events, and society notes from Bayfield and surrounding towns. K P Carnation Ball planned for February 14. Hercules Club dances on Easter Monday.
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George Francis
Bayfield
George Tracy
Duluth
Hercules Club
Fritz Carlson
Port Wing
Carlson
Eben Olson and Company
Ladies Aid Society
The
Methodist Church
Bert Robinson
Harry Wieman
Free home study course on Highway Construction offered
The State University of Madison provides a free home study course of 16 lessons for state road officials. It covers road location, foundations, drainage, surfaces, maintenance, machinery, bridges, culverts, and cost estimation. The program aims to improve public road quality and reduce waste of funds through up-to-date knowledge.
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Friends of Good Roads
State University of Madison
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted as Blood Remedy
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal treatment that acts on blood and mucous surfaces. It claims to be prescribed by top physicians, not a quack medicine, with testimonials available. Available through Druggists for 75 cents. includes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
Ohio
Buried in Cement The Arab Boy Geronimo’s Martyrdom Tale
In 16th century Algiers Geronimo, an Arab youth captured by Spaniards and later a Christian convert, refused Islam after joining a Moorish raid. He was executed by casting into fresh concrete at Fort des Vingt Quatre Heures, later exhumed in 1853 when his bones were buried in a cathedral sarcophagus. a plaster cast and photos document the find.
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Geronimo
Uran
Oran
Algiers
Fort Des Vingt Quatre Heures
Haido
Haide
Unconquered Peak Lizardhead Also Dominates San Juans
In northwestern Colorado the San Juan peaks outshine the northern Rockies with multiple 14 000 foot summits led by Mount Wilson at 14 250 feet. Lizardhead rises 290 feet from a 60 foot base to 14 160 feet but its sheer shaft has defeated climbers for now. Trains pass near Telluride and Rico on the line noted by the New York Post.
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Sana Juan
Colorado
Rockies
Elbert
Blanca
San Juan
Mount Wilson
Rocky Mountain Range
Telluride
Rico
New York Post
Ancient Lakes Desert Burial Ground of the Great Basin
The Great Basin between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas holds the buried remains of countless ancient lakes and their inhabitants. Rivers still reach the former shores, but evaporation and chinook winds erase most water. Only Great Salt Lake Lake Tahoe and Bear Lake remain, as the Southern Pacific traverses 165 miles across Lahontan’s ancient bed.
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Great Basin
Rocky Mountains
Sierra Nevadas
Great Salt Lake
Lake Tahoe
Bear Lake
Lake Lahontan
Digestive aid claims ease and tone stomachs
An unnamed product promotion asserts that Dean's Regulats ease bowels and cure constipation by toning the stomach. It touts gentle action and simple use as a remedy for chronic constipation.
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Dean
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Gust Lund
West’ Fourth Street
Delbert G. Lean
M. E. Church
Meehan
Elizabeth Flett
Racine
University of Wisconsin
Congdon
Miss Flett
John Anderson
Flynn
Third Street
Henry Pada
N. P. Roundhouse
Oscar
W. F. Tomlinson
Ashland
Our City
O. A. Lamoreaux
Miss Anderson
Andrew Johnson
Squaw Bay
Lacy Maccabees
Opera House
the Congregational Church
E. G. Moore
E. C. Alvord
Clarence Dennis
U. S. Land Office
Wausau
Bayfield County
William Goedeke
Flinch
Pedro
Ed. Stevens
Abe. Lord
Lon Shafer
Minneapolis
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lon
Rock J. Flint
Menomonie Times
United States Marshall
Wisconsin
Ed. Williams
George F. Morgan
Northern Pacific
Maher
Mason
Martin Sundeen
Sadie Cavanaugh
Head of the Lakes
John Walsh
Iron River
Sauve
John W. Gibson
Yates
Fourth Street
Mr. Gibson
John Page
Wm. Olson
Louis Borouso
Barksdale
McKinley
Wso
Chr. Christianson
Mr. Christianson
Coda
Gus Bowers
Cleveland
Mr. Bowers
Michigan
Bessie Cramer
Anton Stafney
Batavia
Schweisthal
Goedeke
Frank Meehan
Lincoln
Xziven
Congregational
E.C. Alvord
S. A. Oscar
Women’s Missionary Society
Alvord
Wm. Landriant
State Tax Commission
Victor Pratt
Grandview
G. A. Hering
Bayfield St
Lizard Head
Calumi Baking
Pioneer Store
D. W. Corning, Prop
H.J. Finstad
City of
Washburn
D. M. Maxcy
Walker School
Swanby
Washburn, Wis
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