Bayfield County News Highlights Trolling and Tourism
Harbor city residents praise trolling in the Apostle Islands with excellent season fishing. P H Finley of Beavers Reserve Fund Fraternity visits Bayfield to offer insurance. meeting at police station Wednesday night. Beavers from Washburn convention in city admire Bayfield’s activity and hospitality. Tourists flock to Lake Superior breeze as hotel rooms fill. For sale two pianos cheap after buyers returned them. contact Times office for details.
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Harbor City
Apostle Islands
P. H. Finley
Beaver’s Reserve Fund Fraternity
Davis House
Beaver
Beavers
Washburn
Bayfield
Lake Superior
Times Office
L. Matson
Revelation on Foley's Honey and Tar Cures Lung Trouble
A reader from Reasner Iowa reports severe lung trouble described as consumption improving after using Foley's Honey and Tar. The product stopped coughing bleeding and lung pain and is said to have strengthened the lungs. another customer from Iowa endorses the remedy.
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Foley
L. M. Ruggles
Reasner
Iowa
Q W. Frost
A Deman's Complexion and Liver Health Claim
An advertisement promotes Green's August Flower as the safe path to clear skin by purifying and enriching the blood through a healthy liver. It claims cures for constipation biliousness nervousness and insomnia, touting a trial bottle for 25 cents and a regular bottle for 75 cents sold at Frost and Spies.
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Frost & Spies
Steamer Mary Scott Summer Months 1908 Week Days
A brief item notes the steamer Mary Scott operating through the summer months of 1908 with schedules tied to the weekdays. The notice highlights voyage times and possible accommodations for passengers during the warm season.
New Phone Ne Mi No 7 Fifield Place Ashland Wisconsin
Gapt Joen B Domerty listed as manager at New Phone Ne Mi No 7 Fifield Place in Ashland Wisconsin with unclear formatting and garbled details. Original OCR fragment indicates a business contact role.
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Joen B. Domerty
New PhoneNe Mi - No
Fifield Place
Ashland
Wisconsin
Prominent Northlander Jim Agen Visits Iron River
Prominent booster Col James H Agen known as Hustling Jim was in Iron River last Monday meeting old friends and renewing acquaintances. Agen, now in Texas real estate, has prospered there yet still keeps northern Wisconsin ties. Next Sunday marks the pastorate end for Mr Gibson after seven years in Iron River and twelve in the country. He thanks his people and the public for kindness, hopes Iron River prospers, and may return here. Improvements during his tenure include church and parsonage upgrades and Brule church organization. Over 120 joined Iron River church. many moved away. A farewell service and baptism may be held, with a final evening service and a townwide invitation to all.
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James H. Agen
Jim
Iron River
Gibson
Brule
Mr. Gibson
Fish Creek Settlement News and Local Goings On
The church faces a lumber shortfall with about four thousand feet needed for interior work and a midsummer project. a June 24 entertainment occurred at Ole Holmgrens in Mason. Families Ledin, Olander, Kallgren visited, Liden sisters returned from Cornucopia for the Fourth, Ellen Erickson from Brule stayed with the Olanders, and Pete Wickstrom began building a new residence between Benoit and Fish Creek Settlement.
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Ole
My Wife's Courage
Eugene Holmes Burt recalls a perilous wedding trip to Moscow during a revolution. A Russian diplomat, Ozenhoff, and the narrator brave barricades and gunfire to reach his wife safe in a central street, aided by a signaling tactic that tests fear and loyalty. The tale ends with a shaken but steadfast reunion and a wife credited for signaling aid.
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When Roscoe Met an American on Vesuvius
Sir Henry Roscoe recalled a European tour encounter with an American who dismissed Vesuvius as mere spectacle. The American countered that America lacks volcanoes yet boasts a river that could extinguish the eruption in five minutes, highlighting regional bragging and curiosity.
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Europe
Sir Henry Roscoe
Vesuvius
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Punny Latin joke from Harper's Weekly
A Victorian humorous exchange where Mrs X questions the fate of stray pins on a dressing table and her son, newly studying Latin, quips that they fall to the earth and become ter rapins, a playful malapropism.
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Harper’s Weekly
The Sun as Spotlight in Local Debate
A Louisville Courier-Journal style exchange features a kind citizen praising the sun for all, contrasted with a caustic observer who warns some wish to treat the sun as a spotlight. The note mentions a historical curiosity that the first mail steamer from England arrived in New South Wales in 327 percent.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
England
New South Wales
Foley's Kidney Remedy Promises Healthier Kidneys
The text claims the kidneys strain impurities from blood and that Foley's Widney Remedy makes kidneys healthy. It asserts the remedy will remove waste and make you well, mentioning Q, W, Frost in the promotional line.
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Foley
Wealth Coffee Imitation Sold By Ges W Posey
A Ridiculous ad claims Wealth Coffee is a near perfect coffee substitute made of malt and nuts, produced to Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin. It boasts no real coffee content and promises brewing in a minute. Sold by Ges W Posey.
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Racine
Wis
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Ges
W. Posey
Pronunciation Puzzle Ends With Asylum Verdict
In a court of oyer and terminer an episode describes a public pageant incident where a demented laundress threw a pestle at a girl on a float. A lithographer and tribune intervened, and the attacker was confined as a victim of homicidal mania after an alias defense and an asylum commitment.
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Court of Oyer and Terminer
Thalia
Pompeii
Pleiades
Virago
Salty Sea Captain Seeks Family Comfort in New York
A hale English captain of a long voyage sailing vessel anchored in New York harbor recently and went ashore to seek friends. An uptown family invite was declined as he admitted discomfort in social circles, fearing to misstep after months alone at sea aboard a disciplined ship.
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New York Harbor
New York Globe
Large and Small Matters
A quirky dialogue features Mr Nocash and neighbor Slimpurse quarrel over fence lines. A lawyer calls it a small matter to settle amicably with a temporary fix and a $5 fee. Another exchange notes Mr Golden Bullion and Fatpurse dispute four inches over the property line with insistence on pursuing the case to the supreme court.
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Slimpurse
Golden Bullion
Fatpurse
Supreme Court
Youthful counsel seeks fame as judge orders acquittal
A murder case collapsed when a weak case led the judge to direct a not guilty verdict and halt the trial. The defense attorney, Cantspout, requested to speak, and the judge replied that they would hear him but first would acquit the prisoner for safety.
Downward course of kidney ills warned in Washburn notice
Mrs M Taberman of Third St Washburn Wis describes her kidney trouble and rheumatism worsening from backache to urinary disorders and diabetes. She credits Doan's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY for steady improvement after using the remedy sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
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M. Taberman
Third St
Washburn Wis
Dean
Sweet’s
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doans
Foley’s Orino Laxative Promises Gentle Stimulation
An advertisement for Foley's Orino Laxative proclaims it stimulates without irritation and claims to be the best laxative with a money back guarantee, attributed to Q. W. Frost.
Delay in commencing treatment with Foley's Kidney Remedy
An appeal urges immediate use of Foley's Kidney Remedy for a slight irregularity that could be cured quickly, claiming it strengthens worn tissues and organs. The testimonial is signed by Q. W. Frost and encourages starting the remedy today.
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Foley
Q. W. Frost
Skater Excursions From Ashland To Apostle Islands
The Skater makes regular trips among the Apostle Islands every Thursday starting June 20, leaving Ashland at 9.00 a.m. and returning at 6.00 p.m. Lunch is served on board. Sunday evenings offer popular excursions with an 8.00 p.m. departure from Ashland, stopping at Washburn and returning at 10.30 p.m.
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Apostle Islands
Ashland
Washburn
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