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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
5
Mary Scot steamer makes an evening voyage to Chequangon Point Light House. Local notes include church group meetings, social visits, minor civic happenings and scattered travel plans across Bayfield, Ashland, Iron River, Superior and Duluth areas with several named residents and businesses.
An advertisement boasts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive remedy for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers $100 to prove any failure to cure. Includes instruction to send for testimonials and mentions availability from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Odd entries from insurance forms amuse clerks including a widow answering husband’s occupation as an angel and lines about deaths in infancy, elders and gunshot wounds from an arrow in Indian lore. Local items note weather reports, church notices, visits, births, funerals, and lodge activities with community chatter.
Flag Day 1908 anniversary remarks celebrate Our Flag as emblem of liberty while noting battles and dates across history. Local notices report Henry Oscar injured at DuPont plant, Knights of Pythias meeting, restaurant renovations, charity meals, visitors, auctions, and staff vacations.
Advertisement asserts Foley's Kidney Cure makes sound kidneys and will positively cure all forms of kidney and bladder disease. It claims the remedy strengthens the whole system and is endorsed by Q. W. Frost.
An article argues that beautifying creams fail to improve skin tone and urges blood purification through a healthy liver. Green's August Flower is claimed to cleanse the blood, purify the complexion, and cure constipation biliousness and nervousness. A trial bottle sells for 95 cents and a regular bottle for 75 cents from Af Frost Spies.
Chicago’s Lyon and Healy proclaims a triple clearing sale of nearly a thousand pianos with no reserve until sold. Includes Mehlin, Hardman, Ivers and Pond, Smith and Nixon, Steinway, Weber, upright models from $100 upward. Cash bought out Thompson, Healy Music, and F G Theatre Piano Co. Credit risk minimized with 44 year record. return any unsatisfactory piano at seller’s expense.
D M Maxey conducted business in Duluth last week. Ex Mayor O'Hare from Superior and a noted democrat called on friends Sunday. Harry Walters and wife from Ashland with their baby visited. Aug Clifton of Evelinh Minnesota visits Beaulieu residence this week.
A college student with little money aids a mother on a Liverpool ship by caring for her baby. He offers to pay his passage home in exchange if she funds his ride to America. The plan succeeds and he preserves his promise, later becoming a prominent lawyer and recalling the episode with amusement.
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