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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
7
Mrs Sallie French of Pancannla Indian Territory writes that after seven years of female troubles she was run-down and nervous. Doctors offered no help. She sent for advice and took Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and is now strong and well.
A historical advertisement promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a long standing cure for female ailments. It claims the remedy addresses displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and various pains and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
The London Tatler recalls Justice Maule’s wit in testing a young witness. He asked if a little girl knew the nature of an oath and she said she would go to heaven for truth and to hell for lies. He then ordered her sworn, remarking she knew more than he did.
The Cherryfield Baptist church uses an old smooth bore cannon as its clock weight. Brought from Boston by Gleason Campbell to fire salutes during Civil War days, it fired a final salute after Lee’s surrender in 1865. Soldier Robert L. Willey was injured in a mishap during a discharge. The cannon served as the clock weight of the Second Baptist church tower from 1878 to 1903 and again after 1906 in the new building.
The Westminter Gazette notes King Edward’s farming success at Sandringham, highlighting high bred stock and a string of prizes. Since starting in the farm nearly forty years ago the lands have transformed from barren to productive with many first prizes and cups won at major exhibitions including Sandringham displays and Smithfield shows.
A mother fears etiquette breaches after her son Harold attends a dinner hosted by a distinguished professor in Princeton. He recounts a mishap with tough meat and his quick quip about it slipping to the floor, ending the tale with a chuckle.
The mean land height above sea level is about 1000 feet while the ocean depth exceeds 12,000 feet. The ocean would cover the land thirty times over if all land were placed in ocean areas, due to broader deep areas and the land’s rare extreme heights.
An artist finishes a woodland roadside sketch and asks an Irishman digging a trench to recreate it. The man, sweating and weary, replies with a resigned slogan that a person can do anything if driven.
Mandy, a young colored girl from the south, brings a visiting card to her northern mistress. The mistress asks why only one is admitted and Mandy explains the other woman on the doorstep forgot her ticket. Brooklyn Life.
A suburban clerk avoids quitting his job to start poultry on a small scale. He begins with a dozen hens and a rooster, raises chicks, keeps twenty five pullets for breeders, expands his house, and later buys a small farm becoming a full poultryman. Profits rise over years as he gains practical knowledge.
Two men posed as a state dairy inspector and a helper to victimized dairy farmers. The impostor condemned cows as tuberculosis infected and urged quick sale abroad. Farmers later learned the scam, paying $20 per cow for supposedly diseased stock. Caution urged to verify identities before trusting such inspectors.
The squash bug lays eggs on the underside of leaves in dark chestnut clusters that can be crushed when leaves are lifted. The borer attaches to the stem and larvae bore inside, hard to remove. A key remedy is a saltpeter solution made by dissolving a teaspoonful in a quart of water and sprinkling over the plant, with sawdust saturated in turpentine used around each plant as an alternative.
The article reports on a washable sanitary nest for poultry, shown with an illustration, and describes removal for cleaning in boiling water. It notes farmer groups in Milan Tennessee, a Colorado railroad offering potato specials, U.S. honey production, milk can hygiene, dairy heifer feeding, value of a 1300 pound draft horse, and a 고rom tip about using flour of sulphur to deter cutworms in seed corn.
A St Louis man recounts a tale attributed to Bishop Fitzgerald about nurses in a Spanish American War hospital. Beautiful nurses allegedly flirted with wounded soldiers and faked care by placing notes like Too ill to be nursed today on soldiers' beds, a ruse reported by the Brooklyn Citizen.
Rear Admiral Mason warns at a Washington dinner that martial inventions like automatic torpedoes and new explosives risk users' safety. He compares careless inventors to a farmer with a dangerous bull, noting moral hazards and potential harm to the public.
In a debate on modern philanthropy Prof. Charles Zeublin of the University of Chicago argued with a charity expert who cited a case where financial aid saved an entire family. Zeublin retorted that philanthropy can do good, likening it to Mrs Malaprop on the West Side who felt rain without an umbrella was irrigating.
Matthias Campbell, Civil War and two Indian wars veteran living in Blair Nebraska, recalls long back pain and urinary trouble. He and his wife used Deans Kidney Pills for advanced kidney trouble as diagnosed by doctors and both were completely cured. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A West Philadelphia woman found Sunday afternoon clock silent and sent her five year old downstairs to check. The child described the pendulum swinging but concluded the clock was not running, calling it standin still and waggin its tail.
A mother reports her infant sick with Cuban Itch was soothed by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After three applications the sores dried and two weeks later the child was fully well, with the treatment costing only 75 cents. May 17, 1906.
A disgruntled old woman complains a thermometer fails to show room cold. A sly dealer explains that thermometer derives from Greek words meaning a measure of heat, implying it measures warmth, not cold.
Pettit's Eye Salve advertised by Howard Bros. Buffalo New York relieves tired eyes stops eye aches and congestion quickly. Available at all druggists.
Manufacturers using under fifty gallons of completely denatured alcohol monthly are not required to secure a permit. Those exceeding fifty gallons monthly must obtain a permit from the collector of internal revenue of the district where the business operates.
A discussion about whether American girls are suitable brides for foreign nobles. The Count dismisses the idea, quipping that the beggar cannot be the chooser, reflecting a tone of aristocratic snobbery in a Sunday Magazine feature.
An Iowa man seeks to import eggs from England under the label livestock but customs officials dispute the designation. The eggs shipped from Iowa to Chicago are often sold to consumers as live poultry, a practice noted by the Houston Post.
An advertising blurb from D-Zerta Food Co at Rochester N Y promotes easy lemon chocolate and custard pies using OUR PII ready mix. It encourages readers to ask their grocer to supply the product and to switch if unavailable.
One large German electrical company awards yearly bonuses of four to seven dollars to workers with over a year of service. The total annual expenditure on these bonuses exceeds 110000 dollars.
In this ad a foot powder relieves corns bunions swelling and soreness. It soothes hot feet and prevents ingrown nails and sweating. It promises easier fit for new or tight shoes. Sample offered free and sells at 25 cents from Allen Olmsted Le Roy New York.
Barker and his wife are about to be divorced. The Town Topics column asks which of them will have custody of their dogs, framing a domestic dispute over pet guardianship.
An advertisement from Edw Schuster & Company of Milwaukee urges readers to try their Standard Safety Razor priced at 10 cents, noting the offer to read the ad if not yet seen.
Amid 1,125,000 Berlin residents who support themselves or families, only 55,611, or under 5 percent, earn $714 or more annually. About 1,066,000 fall below that threshold, with over half earning less than $214 a year.
Mrs. Pinkham of the Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass sails for Naples on May 20 with her son Arthur W. Pinkham and younger family members for a three months European tour and vacation.
The campaign in southwest Africa has cost Germany 50 million, with heavy losses among officers and troops. Eighty six officers killed, 229 noncoms, 1167 rank and file, totaling 1482, plus 16 officers and 195 colonial troops dead. Also notes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children priced at 25 cents.
The government commits 20000 dollars to begin hemp cultivation on St Helena island, aiming to cultivate crops sourced from New Zealand. The plan outlines development of agricultural activity and potential economic benefits for the island community.
An advertisement promises cure for St Vitus dance and nervous diseases by Dr K H Kline of 931 Arch Street Philadelphia inviting readers to request a free trial treatise. A separate note mentions a Norwegian motor exposition planned for this coming summer in Trondheim.
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