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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
3
A locally produced weekly newspaper serves Bayfield County with home print editions for local readers. The paper markets itself as the sole weekly offering printed entirely in Bayfield, highlighting community news and local pages dedicated to residents.
The piece recounts derelict ships like the Fanny E Wolston and W L White, detailing their long drifts of thousands of miles, paths along the Gulf Stream and great circle routes, and misadventures such as collisions with liners and grounding near Wells Beach, with notes from Theodore Waters in Ainslee's.
Special meeting of the Board of Supervisors hears bids to purchase 500000 ft of hemlock lumber for sidewalks and discharges police chief. Subsequent sessions list staff appointments including Chief of Police O Wescott, Overseer of Highways John Bergstrom, Janitor Tim Manning, and Sewer Inspector Nels Palm with formal ballots and effective April 15 1902.
The hill on lake Geneva site of Byron's Prisoner of Chillon is to become a historical museum. Swiss authorities have preserved the castle near Montreux, showing thirteenth to seventeenth century features, including the famous hall of justice and the dungeon where writers Byron, George Sand and Victor Hugo left their names.
A Baltimore Sun correspondent reports a ruse where a party posing as nuns and a priest boarded a Montreal train bound for Johnsbury Vermont. A US customs officer investigated and, after a signal, the group was arrested near Troy Vermont. Chinese laundries near the Maine Vermont line are seen as suspected depots for smugglers.
The article advises using solvents such as turpentine or kerosene to soften paint on glass. Gently scrub with a wool cloth, repeat as needed, and use a sharp brass edge if necessary. To remove dull stains, apply putty powder with water on cotton flannel for a bright, polished surface.
Practical household hints cover sandwich assembly avoid buttering to edges to spare gloves, cloth fabric fashion uses green and black calico revived as cotton print for portieres, and corduroy linings. Also advised to discard fresh meat in paper, peel onions in a draft or with cold water, vinegar wash to remove paper from whitewashed walls, and beating yolk before white when partially freezing an egg.
غیر معیاری OCR متن میں غذائی سپلیمنٹ کی ممکنہ تشہیر دکھائی دیتی ہے جس میں کیمیائی ناموں اور دعووں کی جھول واضح ہیں۔ مؤخر الذکر دعویٰ کرتا ہے کہ Candy Cathartic کیاشینوں کی مکمل صفائی سے ہاضمہ، جگر اور آنتیں درست ہو سکتی ہیں۔
Robt. J. Miller of Chattanooga Tenn says Foley's Honey and Tar has greater merit than any other cough syrup. He notes a strong call for it and that his store sells more of it than all other cough syrups combined. Sold by Frost and Spies.
A compiled slate of county officials includes Judge W. H. Irish presiding, Sheriff L. H. Lien, Clerk Wintereloo, Treasurer A. H. Wilkinson, Register of Deeds Geo. A. Calder, Clerk of Circuit Court FF A. Bell, District Attorney A. W. McLeod, Superintendent of Schools Miss J. Smith, Coroner Dr. H. G. Lampson, and Surveyor D. F. Glover.
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