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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1909
Page
8
An obituary fragment notes Mrs Wan Deanet of Mien Wi died recently and was buried yesterday after a funeral. The record mentions her husband and son as survivors and that the burial traveled from the railroad station to the cemetery. James Syms traveled to Bridgeport on Tuesday on business for the Ohia Oil Company.
H D Bullard resigns as rural mail carrier on route No 1 and is replaced by Oscar Ditzenberger. The piece notes expanded service and increased business at the aid stand run by Marshall Hakery and Wron Potter, Proprietor, following a fire.
Cleone J E Hall made a business trip to Martinsville Thursday. Many residents and visitors are listed with weekend and weekday visits, church notices, and local plans. The piece mentions a planned wedding, a football diamond on a Gilbert farm, a state teaching certificate for S C Morrill, and Republican election optimism in the township.
A collection of probate real estate transfers shows numerous individuals and buyers across townships and counties. Names include Wansanty Desrg Dye, Sarah E. Reed, Elizabeth Cole, Allie Riggins, Nelia Low, Henry O. Athey, and Martha McHen, with parcels described in sections and townships and values ranging from $600 to $2,200.
Fragments show a birth notice for two individuals born in 1900 to George and Nettie Lele. Names appear as Meech Cn Janoen and Mery Miller with unclear spellings and missing dates or locations. Further readable details are limited due to garbled OCR.
John Hollingshead used electro lights at the old Gaiety theater in 1878 startling Strand crowds. The lamps cost $200 weekly for nine months, with an attempted indoor installation at the grand staircase failing as women objected to the intensity. Professor Erae mus Wilson predicted the electric light would gain fame after the Paris exhibition.
The text outlines two astrological archetypes for older Olympia marriages. Ninerva values Vulcan partners, while Venus seeks many partners or none. It asserts many elderly women remain single, especially Puritan descendants, and praises Vulcan men as scarce.
The piece narrates Julia Bryant, daughter of William Cullen Bryant, meeting an artist rather than the author as a child and asking if poetry is written by “pretty” people. It then quotes a beauty doctor asserting beauty as a major feminine attribute and ends with a man demanding the editor justify calling his daughter Fatty.
A Chicago News item and a London school anecdote feature a spinster and hobo exchange about romance and marriage a dead heat gag and a dictation joke. The hobo jokes about a wife and eloping while a schoolmaster relays a misread “dead beat” as a pun about the dead.
In a living advice vignette a professor asks what is the matter with Mr and a learned student replies he is seriously afflicted with two paroxysmal inflammations of the vermiform appendix. A voice from the rear says cut it out.
The fragmentary text shows caustic wit on representation and entertainment from a Washington Bar and a New York Times style mockup. Questions about interior decorators evoke playful mishearings and linguistic slips among unnamed speakers.
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