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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
8
Advertises burdock blood bitters claimed to tone liver and stomach and purify blood. Seeks sales agents with $36 weekly or high profit, offering free samples and catalogues. Notes opportunity with Frank W. Williams Company in Chicago Illinois.
The Skater steamer departs Bayfield at 11.05 am and La Pointe at 11.25 am with returns from Ashland at 1.00 pm and 6.00 pm. Regular Thursday trips from Ashland begin June 20 leaving 9.00 am and back 6.00 pm. Sunday evening excursions depart 8.00 pm from Ashland via Washburn to Ashland arriving 10.30 pm. Lunch is served aboard.
Captain John B. Doherty announces new phone numbers and contact at Ashland Wisconsin berth as the steamer Mary Scott resumes service under manager Neeks-No.7 Fifield Place.
The Nile is described as a river of silence and mystery. Camels are given haunting, beautiful eyes that evoke sympathy and reflection. The piece notes the gaze as touching raw nerves in one’s life and even prompts apology when a camel looks your way.
The piece discusses the relativity of knowledge, claiming that true reality beyond appearances is unknowable. It argues we know only phantasmagoria and that appearances may be live or false. The excerpt illustrates how perception shapes understanding and distinguishes appearance from substance.
Town visitors and residents travel reports include Mr. Fleith of Thompson and Fleith, Mrs. Bachand visiting Duluth, and Rev. McKane taking charge in Arbor Vitae. Announcements cover a Red Cliff marriage, renovations on Theo Ernst property, Odd Fellows remodeling, and scales sale. Municipal Court actions include two civil cases with mixed verdicts. Sealshipt Oysters and medical ads conclude.
Subscribers of the Bayfield Co Telephone may obtain daily weather forecasts and 36 hour warnings from the Weather Bureau after 11 am. An ad for Green's August Flower promotes liver health to improve complexion and claims cures for constipation biliousness nervousness and insomnia with trial and regular bottle prices listed. Frost and Spies sell the product.
Washburn residents report energy loss and pains from failing kidneys and warn of diabetes dropsy and Bright's disease. An unnamed Washburn woman endorses Doan's Kidney Pills, citing back pain relief after using a prior brand. Sold by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The article explains a seven day post wedding period where the Arab bride remains secluded in her room with only her husband’s female kin attending her and she wears wedding attire while doing nothing. The groom often slips out at night to visit friends but avoids his wife’s family and hides from his father-in-law to avoid discovery during the week.
Brussels sprouts are a cabbage relative producing multiple small edible heads along the leaf axils. Sow seeds in open ground early, transplant at 3 inches, space 24 to 30 inches between rows, water well, and trim excess leaves as heads form. In mild climates keep in ground. in cold areas lift before frost and store in a cold frame or cellar for winter use. They are delicious boiled or stewed with cream.
An extensible guide extols Rhubarb Linnaeus roots as an early tender sturdy crop. Plant rows six feet apart four feet in row cultivate twice early season hoe once mulch with strawy manure in fall. Harvest by tying leaves and packing in quart crates yielding about 35 to 40 dollars per acre per month.
W J Green notes spraying potatoes depends on season and rain. Begin when vines reach six inches and spray every ten days to two weeks to control disease. Damp weather accelerates disease and wash off spray material, dry spells reduce frequency.
W Bourke Cochran praised Taft in Boston saying he will support Bryan but that Taft is the greatest and best qualified nominee ever offered in any republic. He called Taft a wonderful administrator and worker, greater than Roosevelt.
In 15th century Rome, two German printers Bweynheym and Pannartz used fine paper and ink to print many works. They petitioned the pope, saying their house was full of proof sheets but they had nothing to eat.
In Greensboro North Carolina President Taft criticizes Democratic leaders for years of loud anti corporate and anti railroad rhetoric while taking no legal steps to curb abuses. He says Democrats now feign indignation as Republicans live up to their platform promises.
A playful exchange quoted from the Philadelphia Press where Miss Diggs praises Miss Passay for concealing age. The dialogue features humor about age and impudence.
State of Wisconsin in Bayfield County summons defendants Susanna Herried and Contauice Olson infants and Emandus Olson to appear within twenty days. Plaintiff Washburn Loan and Building Association sues for relief, with John Walsh as attorney, P O address Washburn Wisconsin.
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