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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
8
The Kenosha open air school just completed its first month with twelve pupils averaging a two pound weight gain and some gaining four pounds. Attendance is high at 18 as remains of illness lessen and total interest in academics grows, Superintendent Mary D. Bradford notes the program is a success and expects the five week closure.
Mrs. E. G. Whiting of Akron Ohio credits Foley Kidney Pills with quick relief from severe kidney trouble backaches dizzy headaches and tiredness. She says eyesight improved and she is now well. Advertisement notes sale by all druggists.
Local business in Superior Wisconsin promotes canvas products including tents awnings sails paulins horse covers storm blankets pack sacks and all canvas specialties from 1705 Winter avenue.
Harper's Weekly describes the Venus flytrap and related sarracenia as calculating killers. Insects are lured by nectar then trapped by sharp "stakes" and digesting fluids, ending in poisoned water and dead bodies. The piece portrays the plant as a cold blooded assassin.
In a biography of his grandfather Douglas Jerrold, Walter Jerrold recalls jokes about Thackerays broken nose. A letter to Dilke mentions a Lady persuading Thackeray toward Romanism and a quip about his nose. Another anecdote notes Albert Smith asking why Jerrold signs as A. 8. when two thirds of the truth is told.
The tale recalls Samuel Foote sending his play The Minor to the archbishop of Canterbury with a request to strike out anything objectionable. The archbishop returned it unsigned and later joked that Foote would have claimed it corrected and prepared for the stage by the archbishop. Foote's storied character suggests he likely would have gone along.
The article describes steam powered plowing outfits across Faulk County and Lyman County South Dakota as they turn virgin soil. It notes counts of rigs, rapid acre-per-day rates, and the economics of flax farming with steam plows. It also mentions a rotating workforce and the efficiency gains over horse power.
The text outlines poultry coop design with bottomless nets to allow scratching, recommends floorless coop interior for chicks, and advises on using poultry netting over window screening. It also discusses interplanting peach trees among apples, with strategies to manage space, spraying, and tree removal as space limits change.
Cultivation of the orchard aims to conserve soil moisture by early season work through midsummer to stimulate wood growth and fruit development. Less moisture in late summer and early autumn promotes hardening for winter. Plan early summer cultivation and fix soil for a cover crop like rye toward late summer to provide winter pasture and reduce soil erosion on hilly land.
A note on clover pasture as a valuable forage idea. It describes clover as a productive pasture crop that can be stored as hay if yields exceed immediate needs and promotes its use for feeding and fattening pigs.
A brief historical note explains a 1695 English tax on bachelors lasting to 1706. It required every bachelor aged twenty five and every childless widower of five years to pay at least one shilling annually for five years, with higher charges by social rank. Additional levies targeted births marriages and burials, scaled by status, and late eighteenth century reforms taxed unmarried men with servants and increased income tax contributions.
A timid man admits he struggles to speak well to women and narrates a social misstep. He tries a compliment about aging, provoking a chilly reaction and a hasty exit. He asks how to phrase such sentiments properly in society.
In a Chicago Tribune vignette a father asks about his son's placement and the employer bluntly replies no. The employer explains the problem lies with the others rather than the boy, highlighting workplace tension.
An old man tells a clerk he will give his daughter a hundred thousand dollar wedding present rather than risk a breach of promise suit. The line appears in the Boston Transcript as a humorous exchange about generosity.
Washburn residents report quick relief and lasting cures for back and kidney complaints after using Dean's Kidney Pills. Mrs. Cousineau of Washburn Wisconsin recalls initial benefits and confirms her 1907 endorsement in 1910. Sold by Festern Milbury Co. Buffalo New York, sole US agents.
We the undersigned agree to refund the money on a 0 cent bottle of Green's warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure your cough or cold. We also guarantee a 25 cent bottle to prove satisfaction or money refunded. Fox Bros.
Legal notice dated May 17 1911 from Washburn Wisconsin detailing the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 23 township 49 north range 5 west containing about forty acres and listing Sheriff John A McDonald and attorneys Sanborn Lamoreaux Pray Ashland Wisconsin as parties in interest.
A Pasadena drug firm Foley and Co endorses Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as an efficient non narcotic expectorant for colds. The letter notes it relieves a cold without nausea and does not interfere with digestion and recommends the yellow package version.
Robert Steinert offers strawberry plants from Garfield Dunlap Aroma and Van DeMan. 1000 plants priced at $3.00 each and 100 at 40 cents. Also selling all kinds of tomato and cabbage plants.
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