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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1901
Page
3
The item proclaims J. E. Jones as editor and publisher of the only all home print weekly in Bayfield County. It notes publication every Thursday and a yearly rate of two dollars. It also designates official papers for Bayfield County, the City of Washburn, and the Board of School Directors.
A valedictorian youth seeks work and wins a steel magnate’s trust after a brief exchange. The magnate, noting the youth's rough appearance, grants the job, while a wink at self reflection follows. In other fragments, engagements and parrots spark local gossip, and a parable with a boy and a tree offers a moral.
Anadvertised treatment claims Drunkards can cure themselves at home without publicity or time off work using the Home Gold Cure. It asserts the cure is safe, pleasant, and inexpensive, with full directions and physician advice on request. Sold by Edwin B. Giles & Company, Philadelphia, sent prepaid worldwide.
An advertisement promises Virtuma Improved Tablets to cure nervous diseases and run down vitality. It claims to restore vim and youth, priced at $2 per package or 3 for $5, mailed anywhere. Free medicine is offered until cured if guaranteed results fail.
A snippet from Brooklyn Life shows Bessie claiming an angel image on her card has feathers and asks how wings attach to a soul. The dialogue shifts to a hostess in Harlem Life about dinner service and pronunciation debates, reflecting social humor.
Allen Halversen of West Prairie Wisconsin and J A Spero of Helmer Indiana praise Foley's Kidney Cure as a medical wonder. A O Blanchard of West Bangor New York reports relief after five years of kidney trouble using two bottles. Sold by Owen Frost & Co. The ad links lack of energy backache and run down feeling to kidney disorder and claims Foley's Kidney Cure restores strength.
The text promotes a kidney restoration product claimed to restore kidney function and strengthen shrinking kidney walls. It asserts a universal cure for urinary troubles and notes sales by Owen, Frost & Co. Dispensing Druggists in Washburn, Wisconsin, priced at 10, 25, and 50 cents.
Listings show daily Bayfield to La Pointe trips on the YACHT EVA with departures at 7 30 a m 11 30 a m 5 15 p m and 8 00 a m 12 00 noon 5 50 p m plus connections to trains on the C St P M O Ry. Trains arrive at and depart from Bayfield at 11 05 a m 2 30 p m 5 05 p m and 10 45 p m with the northbound schedule indicating 8 50 a m 11 20 a m 3 00 p m and 6 15 p m. Boats will not stop at mill docks on Sundays.
Train leaving Washburn at 7 15 a m connects at Iron River with the Northern Pacific for Superior and Duluth. Arrival and departure times are listed for Washburn and Iron River stations, showing a morning 7 15 a m departure and evening arrivals.
Readable fragments list prices for canned tomatoes sugar soda crackers ginger snaps and peanut butter. mentions good potatoes delivered in Washburn per bushel with several cryptic figures and weights. The text appears as a market barter style inventory with no clear article context or date.
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