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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
6
A district visitor visits an old Scotchwoman who is dying and notes her talk centers on herself and the minister. She replies with a wary tone that she is not sure about the minister being in heaven.
The poem recalls a Civil War orderly calling Corporal Green then Cyrus Drew, with only one man answering in the fading light. The scene reveals a unit reduced by battle, ending with a somber note that a hundred men went into the fight and only twenty answered “Here.”
A Civil War era anecdote recounts Andrew J. Dam of New Bedford being asked to name a colored military company. He proposed naming them the Dam Black guards if he funded equipment, while a white unit would be the Eliot Light guards. No record shows such a company was formed.
A humorous and perilous travel tale recounts a Washington couple visiting Moscow amid revolution. The narrator's wife bravely signals a plan to reach her family, while he braves a barricaded street, bullets, and wounded allies to bring her to safety across backyards and a house, ending with her tearful reunion and a reflection on courage and misread judgments.
A fragment notes that someone objects to knee breeches and a queue for his grandfather, suggesting an issue of dress or period accuracy without further context or details.
A New York clubman recounts finding a pin in his ice cream in an upscale tea room. The waiter returns, noting the pin led to a man losing his job, while the patron jokes about the danger and the menu’s habit of sipping instead of chewing.
The passage reflects on past punishments once viewed without pity, noting wheels, burning, torture, and brutal punishments. It contrasts earlier society’s lack of compassion with a present that is more tender and concerned with human suffering.
A Washington Star item describes a feminine society meeting where members discuss a debate topic. One member forgets the exact topic but recalls voting either positive or negative. The anecdote highlights uncertainty over the motion and the act of voting itself.
A quip about theft at home ends with a wife taking money from pockets while asleep. The husband says he prevents it by spending every cent before returning home. The joke reflects marital finance humor from the Chicago News.
A minister tells a woman that deeds count more than words. She questions the idea and asks if she ever sent a telegram, illustrating a moral about action versus talk in a dated Detroit Free Press snippet.
Mrs. Goitt planned to scrub her rear porch during a rainstorm hoping the dripping water would appear rain caused. The neighbors on the lower porch witnessed the hot water and soap spraying through the open air, prompting a startled comment about hot rain and murder fears, seen as the Lord's doings.
A man keeps a glass paperweight with wine tubes showing through as a desk keepsake. He recounts how a bottle from a Hungarian estate traveled across Europe, was delivered to a friend in Vienna, and finally landed in his library. A dinner gift ended when the bottle was dropped, staining the label under the glass.
Brussels sprouts are a cabbage relative producing multiple small edible heads in leaf axils. Sow seed in open ground early, transplant at three inches high, space rows 24 to 30 inches apart, water well, and trim excess leaves as sprouts form. In cold climates store plants in pits, cold frames, or cellars to harvest through winter.
A short guide reviews growing rhubarb as a profitable preplant crop with Linnaeus variety roots, leaf preservation tips, spacing, and mulching. It notes yield of 35 to 40 dollars per acre per month and outlines simple weekly cultivation and harvesting steps. It also covers spraying potato vines, advising more sprays in wet seasons and starting when vines reach six inches, with a ten to fourteen day schedule. The section ends with a humorous two-liner about luck and speech.
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