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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
3
Practical, inexpensive methods for home gardeners to protect squash vines from borers. Describes 12 by 12 inch box style and circular wire screen protectors, costs, nesting when not in use, and maintenance tips. Includes timing for destroying vines by Aug 1 and kerosene emulsion spray guidance.
Mrs Mary L Gilman is elected national president of the Woman's Relief corps, an auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, guiding 163000 women across the states. Since 1883 the corps has spent 3500000 on relief, aided veterans families, and promoted Memorial Day observances and patriotic teaching in schools.
The article warns that without major cultural shifts in apple farming, the United States and Canada may face rising imports. It notes last year’s large Pacific and northwestern crops averted famine, while mid and eastern states faced small yields in 1908 due to pests, neglect, and tree losses. Government data show 1908 output at about 25 million barrels or 62 million bushels, far below earlier totals.
A health column offers tips on scar treatment using castor oil and egg white cream, talcum for irritated skin, pimples remedies with sarsaparilla and carbolic acid rosewater mix, and a rum sulphur patch. It also suggests neck black velvet bands to alter appearance and DIY skin whitening washes with oatmeal borax rose water and alcohol for smoother skin.
A young couple, just moved in, receive a morning call from a baker offering daily deliveries. The wife agrees to a trial order after he asks how many loaves they want, noting there are only two people at home. The judge remarks on the cautious exchange.
Readers with narrow heels suffer discomfort from ready made footwear as the heel bites and causes painful blisters. The remedy suggests placing a piece of velvet between heel and shoe, tucked or pasted, to ease fit without reducing shoe size.
The United States Forestry Service with the University of Minnesota completes a study on creosoting native woods for durable fenceposts. It finds creosoting feasible for willow and cottonwood posts, spurring farmer groups to form associations to share equipment and reduce costs.
Onions should be planted as soon as frost ends with rows spaced for hand or horse cultivation. Use rich soil, manure, and phosphate. White Portugal and Silver Skin for family use, Yellow Strassburg and Red Danvers for market. A homemade ditch digger design saves effort in hard soils. Diarrhea in fowls remedies include castor oil rhubarb soda and opium, with soft feeding during illness.
Employment ad from a Chicago wholesale house seeks an assistant manager for the local county and adjoining territory. Offers a weekly salary plus expenses, expense money advanced, permanent position, no investment or experience required, spare time valued. Send self addressed envelope to Superintendent, 182 Lake St, Chicago, IL.
Humor and Philosophy satirizes certainty as it parodies a self assured movement that proclaims a final truth only to discard it for the next fad. The speaker mocks believers who cling to a “light” then switch to a new dogma. The verse ends with quick pivots from diet fads to breakfast foods.
A terse exchange questions if a man is drinking and who calls him out. The dialogue hints a possible motive to borrow money, suggesting a tension around judgment and personal leverage in a tense situation.
A hunter boasts of his knowledge of African lions saying he can read them like a book. His friend quizzes him, then jokes that one lion once ate the hunter, illustrating the peril of the hunt.
A father and son discuss England building dreadnought battleships, one calling them monstrous warships and the other joking they sound like a dime novel. The exchange captures wartime naval awe and public imagination about modern fleets.
A fragmented poem moves from May’s gentle arrival with blossoms and birds to scenes of spring fragrance and soft healing, then shifts to a discordant aside about a photograph and a tense line where a sultan surveys a throne in a looming threat. The piece juxtaposes calm nature imagery with suspicion and political unease.
A reflective piece contrasts ignorance and effort, noting friction between comfort and virtue. It muses on how occupation and wages shape life, urging practicality over pretension, and hints at how marriage and reform appear in social judgments.
State of Wisconsin in Bayfield County per Washburn Loan and Building Association civil action heard May 20 to June 24 with wm H. Irish serving as County Judge. Plaintiff seeks loan and building matter adjudication in Bayfield County Circuit Court.
May 20 to June 10 1909 the State of Wisconsin in Municipal Court Bayfield County notifies Duluth Log Company that a warrant of attachment has been issued and property attached to satisfy a $300 claim of D M Maxey as assignee of Jacobs McDonnell Co. If the company fails to appear in Washburn Municipal Court on June 11 1909 at 9 o clock in the forenoon judgment will be rendered and property sold to pay the debt.
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