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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
5
Edna Hovind came back Friday after a short visit to Hayward. The item notes various local social visits, business transacts, and community updates including haying preparations, roadwork, and a Labor Day celebration discussion. Local residents featured include the Chauvin, Jensen, Reyburn, O Sullivan, Maitland, and Kinney families.
Water rent is due at Bayfield County Bank with evenings hours until eight. If unpaid by the 15th water will be shut off and cannot be turned on without a $2 fine. Washburn Water Works Company.
Rev I W Williams of Huntington West Virginia testifies that Foley's Kidney Remedy relieved his nervous exhaustion and kidney trouble and that it performs as claimed. Q W Frost reports the endorsement as evidence of the remedy's effectiveness.
A civil service examination for Bookkeeper in the State Treasurer’s office saw C. O. Sowder and O. M. Axness excel from this city and Mason respectively. Sowder placed fourth, Axness fifth, among many statewide entrants, giving local residents reason to feel proud of the county’s showing.
Subscribers may obtain the daily forecasts and special warnings from the Weather Bureau after 11 am, covering the 36 hour period to 8 pm next day. After meals, take Dean's Regulets to aid digestion and bowel movements.
The State Board of Immigration lacks multilingual home seeker literature and will soon publish Bohemian language material. The piece urges real estate agents, merchants, and professionals to distribute news on settlement, improvements, crops, timber income, and success stories through local papers, with publisher involvement and multiple print runs.
Commissioner A. D. Campbell urges readers to send lists of potential homemaking prospects to Wisconsin newspapers. He notes farmers, merchants, professionals all benefit from growth and asks counties to fund development literature and county booklets to attract settlers and boost local opportunities.
A West India ship tale explains how landlubber terms confuse sailors. A new boy lets go the painter’s rope staging under the stern while the captain, in a boat, asks him to let go the painter. The lad replies the painter is gone with pots and brushes.
A quotation themed note highlights价值 of gifts and heart, contrasting wealth with heartfelt giving. It credits Beecher as the source of the saying, illustrating human warmth over material riches.
The article lists social visits and travels including Miss Theodora Axelberg entertaining friends for Grace Yates of Minneapolis, Mable Peterson traveling to Chicago for vocal studies, Patric Macy and James Cavanaugh visiting Duluth, Sheriff Severson and wife returning from Duluth, Rev Hanson and family visiting the city, a pleasant dancing party at the Masonic hall, and Al Eggan and wife from Hayward visiting the Hovind home.
Q. W. Frost touts Voley's Orino Laxative as a new laxative that stimulates without irritation and claims it is the best. The advertisement guarantees a money back offer.
A joke story recounts a justice of the peace who sued a citizen using a writ he drafted himself. He faced opposition from counsel and argued the court, then resolved to render judgment against himself and appeal. The supreme court reaffirmed the judgment unanimously.
A London town near London tea shop offered a shilling check with every pound of tea to draw customers. When the check date arrived the shop was shuttered with a poster announcing they had gone to Hongkong for more tea.
In a brief exchange, Mr Dubley mockingly notes a woman is mannish, while Miss Smart defends her, and both observers conclude people mock her for the trait rather than admire it. The Philadelphia Press records the humorous street dialogue.
A London Tit-Bits example shows detailed burial entries by Manchester sextons. It includes precise phrasing like Died, John Green, male, aged three days, unmarried, reflecting explicit reporting style in local clerical records.
Governor James O. Davidson State Game Warden J W Stone and all State Fish Commission members traveled through the city this morning bound for the Salmo State Fish Hatchery. The state fish car Badger was attached to the regular train.
For County Treasurer. Republican nominee bid for the primary election in September. I solicit the support of all Republican voters. Charles O. Sowder.
The Norwegian Lutheran Church will hold its usual morning services, with evening services in English. Strawberries grown on sandy bogs by Thomas Francis were sold in the city during the week and described as fine. Francis notes the sandy soil now yields vegetables and grasses despite past low value.
A small woman with a hat and floral designs buys a ticket at the uptown Pennsylvania office for a point down state. She asks for a color picture folder and stores the ticket in a purse and satchel before carrying it in a shopping bag. City Agent Dillon says the train leaves Union station in about seventeen minutes.
A cynic mocks rich excess for pet dogs in New York noting canine surgery and wardrobes. He recalls a butler named Harrison told to walk Fido for two hours and then to follow Fido, highlighting social pretensions.
Frederic Shelford argues that men aged twenty five to thirty five gain invaluable growth by traveling to distant countries. He advocates learning new languages, seeing new places, and taking on work overseas to break free from home life restrictions and pursue adventure.
The Public Grounds and Buildings committee invites bids by July 14 for cement walks around the courthouse square. Walks on 1st Ave East and 2nd Ave East run about 300 feet each at five feet wide, and on 5th Street about 400 feet at six feet wide. Bond equal to contract price required. bids opened July 14 at 10:00 A M. June 29 1908.
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