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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1914
Page
5
Local residents announce plans for the July 4 parade and festivities in Washburn. Readers learn of decorations, entry for all cars, and parade coordination, with updates on visitors, births, injuries, and community happenings across the week.
A baby boy arrived Sunday evening to Mr and Mrs T H Robinson. The item notes a local birth amid a day of town news and community updates.
Special Bridge Committee of Bayfield County invites sealed bids for riprapping with stone the two abutments of the twenty foot span bridge at Chequamegon Bay head known as Long Bridge Road. Plans are with County Clerk Nels M Oscar Washburn and Pat Galligan chair. A $100 bid bond is required. Bids due to Nels M Oscar. Committee to meet July 17 1914 at 11 a m to consider bids and award contract. Right to reject bids reserved.
John Butler Yeats recalls a boastful Scot he met in New York a tale of Scotland flowing with milk and honey. The Scot claims he was in Scotland as a child of ten months and defends the boast with that memory. The anecdote appears in The Scrap Book section citing the New York Sun.
A call for shared humanity and labor’s dignity. The speaker urges brothers to treat all people as equals before God, regardless of toil or birth, condemning mockery of the lowly and urging earnest effort to better the suffering earth.
A Times column warns that saloons use bar boosters to draw in strangers and young men. The tactic creates a false sense of “being one of the boys” while boosting the bar’s daily income through rebates to the booster. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised.
Willis Whitford of Washburn Wisconsin extols the trio Mother Home and Heaven as the three magic words. He argues mother’s voice shapes virtue and forgives, home provides lasting peace, and heaven promises reunion beyond sorrow.
In Headland's China’s New Day a Chinese general Mu asks an American missionary whether in the United States the woman leads the home. The missionary replies that leadership follows strength. The general responds that in his country the situation is the same, revealing a universal human pattern.
A Yellowstone Park stage driver ribbed a curious tourist asking if hot springs freeze in winter. He quipped a tale of a woman skating there last winter and breaking through, ending with a humorous warning about scalded feet.
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