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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1908
Page
7
Amusing verse from The Chaparral of Stanford mocks love, delays, and campus wit. It features a maiden bidding farewell to her mother’s lodger and a returning sweetheart, with playful quips about fate and lightning bugs.
The text notes a four year old boy slow to talk and the aunt laments the speaking delay. Elizabeth listens with anxiety and asks if the child will grow up English, worrying about understanding him if he becomes French.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure offering a one hundred dollar reward for any deafness case caused by catarrh cured by the medicine. Mentions J Cheney & Co Toledo and Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Also notes Duchess of Portland opening a church hall near Hucknall Torkard for Canon Godber memorial near Nottingham with partial funding.
Minneapolis firm N.W. Hide and Fur advertises paying high prices for furs and hides and tanning them for robes rugs or coats. The notice also notes pitch pine once considered worthless now in demand for cranberry barrels.
Sallie French of Pancannla Indiana Territory writes that after seven years of female troubles she was run-down and nervous. Doctors offered no relief until she used Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and regained strength and health.
An old advertisement promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a long standing remedy for female ailments including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and period pains. It invites letters to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential free advice.
A dapper man in a flashy waistcoat and diamond shirt stud bursts into a New York hotel public stenographer’s office asking for a letter to his girl. After dictating details of wealth from ponies and a trip to Narragansett Pier, the stenographer struggles with the spelling of Narragansett and the man abruptly corrects himself, deciding to Newport instead.
Mrs. Mary E. H. Rouse of Cambridge New York recounts five years of back and hip pains kidney trouble and weakness from a fall. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with swift relief and a full recovery and notes the product is sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The Paris based French Automobile Club, under the prefect of police, formed a special bicycle police unit with three small flags labeled Smoke Too fast Smell. The signals alert drivers violating municipal rules, initially on the Champs Elysees. If successful, more routes will be covered and the cost borne by the Automobile Club.
A home remedy combines glycerine whiskey and Concentrated Oil of Pine with dosing every four hours. The true Concentrated Oil of Pine is sold in half ounce air tight vials by Globe Pharmaceutical Co. in Dayton Ohio and available at drug stores.
A dialogue snippet from the Baltimore American features a child asking about a voyage on the water and whether a sea animal known as an ocean greyhound chases a sea pass, reflecting maritime imagery.
W H Pawson Jr reports 349 acres of grain in 1907 with 197 acres spring wheat and 152 oats. Wheat at 38 bushels per acre and oats 74. Prices: $1.00 per bushel wheat and 50 cents oats. Hay 50 tons at $13 per ton and 500 bushels potatoes at 60 cents. Best block: 107 acres wheat at 41 bu per acre ($41). 47 acres oats at 95 bu/ac sold at 50c. Sixteen-page note on farming work and team use in 1906 and 1907.
A letter from Warner Alto dated January 9 1908 details farm results in the new settlement. A L Warner produced 2515 bushels of winter wheat on 100 acres. Tenny Brothers grew 60 acres at 30 bushels per acre. Spring wheat reached 30 bushels per acre and oats 50 to 80. Barley 50 and flax 10 to 15 on sod. Settlers praise the country and note cattle fat on grass with no feed required. Fr S Leffingwell signs the report.
The feature outlines winter wardrobe accessories including fur and lace hoods, Dutch snug hoods, lace and fur head coverings, and perfumed cotton linings. It notes evening wear details, striped flannels and delaines for day waists, and modish mauve, leaf green, and violet shades. Matching blouse color to skirt is urged with bone, enamel, or silk crochet buttons and coordinated belts.
The season features colored linen collars in light blue green pink and gray with white cotton edging and embroidery. Frills edge the front and cuffs to match, while the Empire frock draws attention to the decolletage with tulle finishes, crystal bead outlines, and crystal embroidered sleeves.
A semi Directoire violet outfit features a fitted coat with heliotrope brocade and amethyst buttons, matching hat with violet velvet and heliotrope taffeta. New materials arrive including checks in red blue and purple on white, mixed gray fabrics, cheviots, and silk mull. Sleeves vary with short puffs and long cuffs. Dresden ribbons and velvet embossed ribbons dominate trims with lilies of the valley motifs in white satin and pink velvet.
A gown described in Atlantic blue voile featured a surplice front over white lace, long wrinkled sleeves, and a matching Atlantic blue coat with Russian embroidery and blue silk trim. A blue felt hat with a large blue feather completed the toilette.
Buttons remain a popular trimming on dresses with silk and dressed garments. Linen dresses stay cool and easy to clean, favored under long caracal coats. A gray and white striped linen suit with box-plaiting and soutache braid showcases period styling and decorative finishes.
Mrs Lizzie Vincent Thomas of Fairfield Walden's Ridge Tennessee recounts using CuticuraSoap, CuticuraOintment, and CuticuraPills after her daughter suffered running sores from eczema. A boy with poison oak also recovered in about three weeks with the same remedies.
Three complete camel skeletons from prehistoric times have been revealed near the Wyoming Nebraska border. The fossils, dug from a sandstone ledge, show camels that lived long before humans.
An Iowa farmer on 100 acres sold 3800 dollars worth of seed and produced 300 tons of hay. The notice advertises seeds like Billion Dollar Grass and Macaroni Wheat from John A. Salzer Seed Co. of La Crosse Wisconsin.
The article notes a sharp rise in England egg prices in recent years. It cites that last year’s home product value exceeded the level from twelve years ago by £2 500 000, indicating sustained market growth.
Persuasive brief touts easy lemon pies with OUR-PIER reparation. Claims no fuss and low cost, priced at 10 cents at grocers. Promotes D-Zerta Food Co. Rochester New York.
Leonardo da Vinci reportedly favored oranges and neon glass in meals, blending cuisine with vivid lighting to create his distinctive dining moments.
The ad touts a BromO Quinine laxative with E W Grove signature and a one day cold cure claim. It markets World over remedies at 25c. Also notes the largest plow on a Texas ranch clears seven feet wide unexpectedly.
Hides and furs tanned for robes coats or rugs available from Taubert Tannery Minneapolis Minnesota. Send for price list.
A central clearing house handles lost packages on the British railways with about 1000 parcels identified daily. The operation coordinates recovery and return, aiming to reunite owners with their belongings efficiently.
A list details a pantry style meal plan with bread and butter, three slices of beef, twenty cups of beef tea, half a glass of milk, one and a half eggs, baked beans, sixteen oysters, and eleven cups of home-made beef tea, reflecting era dietary practices.
Guaranteed to cure itching, bleeding, or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. Safe for use, proven formula promises relief and restoration of comfort.
A wax from the rafia palm of Madagascar is tested as a substitute for beeswax. The material is evaluated for bottling applications and phonograph cylinders among other uses.
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by a nurse at a New York Children's Home, claim to cure constipation feverishness teething disorders stomach troubles and destroy worms. 30,000 testimonials of cures. All druggists 25 cents. Sample free. Address Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
Milan city government votes to allocate 1 150 000 for the construction of additional housing units for working men and their families.
An advertisement touts Garfield Tea as the best security against chronic ill health. It claims to ensure normal liver, kidney, stomach and bowel action, overcome constipation, and purify the blood.
In Paris a contest saw 17 000 words produced by typewriter and 9000 words written by hand within four hours. The event highlighted speed and technique in writing tasks and drew attention to both methods.
A White League has been organized in Johannesburg Transvaal to promote a boycott of Asians, signaling organized racial action in the city. The group aims to pressure nonwhite communities and influence local business and social interactions.
A vintage advertisement for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup aimed at children. It promises teething relief by softening gums reducing inflammation easing pain and curing wind colic priced at 23 cents per bottle. The copy reflects era marketing language and product claims.
Report notes that approximately 18,000 men work in the sulphur mines of Sicily, highlighting the scale of labor in the industry.
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