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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
6
J R Stevenson notes spring urge to outdoors including bicycles as healthy sport for all ages. He warns against overdoing rides and stresses gradual effort, proper diet, and post ride care. The piece also praises bicycles for women and urges readers to join the seasonal activity. The Chicago Record-Herald’s household editor announces a meals contest with cash prizes.
Mme. Qui Vive is renowned for her Woman Beautiful column in The Chicago Record-Herald. The daily feature offers practical tips on complexion, breathing, diet, and bathing to help women become healthy wholesome individuals without artificial methods.
The Chicago Record-Herald presents a daily department titled Meals for a Day offering menus for breakfast luncheon and dinner with accompanying recipes to provide agreeable variety at moderate cost for the family.
The town of Washburn passes an ordinance prohibiting cattle horses and swine from running at large in the unincorporated village. Offenders face fines from one to five dollars per animal. Officials are empowered to impound and care for impounded animals and to auction unclaimed animals after 15 days with notices posted in six public places. The ordinance takes effect June 24 1901.
The Washburn Board of Supervisors will meet June 29 1901 at 2 pm at the southeast corner of section 23 township 47 north range 6 west to award a highway construction contract. The project runs from the corner of sections 23 24 25 26 west to the quarter post between 22 and 27 then south to the one eighth line and west half a mile along the eighth line. C O Lowper town clerk.
Miss Maude Dickens of Parsons Kansas says eight years of asthma ceased after using Foley's Honey and Tar. She reports several attacks last year and being told she might not survive, but the remedy provided immediate relief. Owen Frost & Co sells the product.
Forty acres of land six miles from town offered for sale. Six acres cleared and seeded to hay with good well and hay barn. Between fifteen and twenty thousand of live white pine and Norway and considerable hardwood. Inquiries at this office.
A Chicago area ad promotes Geneva Improved Tablets from The Kidd Drug in Egin Illinois claiming to cure all urinary diseases and discharges. It offers free medicine until cured and lists multiple wholesale and retail druggists across Wisconsin Minnesota and Illinois plus rubber goods.
Public health advisory warns against using harsh minerals for bowel regulation and notes they damage the stomach and bowels. Emphasizes safer approaches and urges readers to consider gentler remedies and medical guidance.
Edward Huss of Salisbury Missouri states that after suffering lumbago and kidney trouble with no relief from other remedies he tried Foley's Kidney Cure. He credits three bottles with his cure and notes it was sold by Owen Frost & Co.
A local druggist ad promotes Edgar's Cathartic Confections described as a harmless vegetable bowel regulator and liver vitalizer sold by Owen, Frost & Co. dispensing druggists in Washburn, Wisconsin with price references of 25 and 56 cents.
An advertising blurb promotes nightly head movement to shape the neck and pitches Rocky Mountain Tea. It notes a 35 cent price and is sold by Owen, Frost & Co.
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