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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1886
Page
3
A distressed voice describes a family during a season of ruin and illness. The speaker recalls a wife and child, labor loss, and poverty as crops fail and a sorrowful mood pervades. A plea for relief and steady work emerges amid memories of happier times. The narrative preserves personal names and a rural setting.
In a memoir style reminiscence a veteran railway worker recalls Steve Dalton a veteran engine driver whose whistle signals a safe arrival echoing a manly spirit. A moonlit September night on a remote run features a blue cross light signal appearing on the mountain and a whispered omen amid the crew.
A narrator recalls a fateful Christmas Eve seven years past when a haunted blue lantern signaled danger aboard a speeding train. Steve remains brave, aiding the crew as a woman dies on the trestle near Chester, while the spectral signal becomes a legend linked to Steve’s whistle and a lonely grave.
In Macon Telegraph notes a Black rider in bucking scene defeats a mule by driving it with a blade. The act symbolically marks a shift after Civil War era conflicts, with the text remarking on racial dynamics and a Black person’s control of the horse and situation.
When visiting or leaving New York City you can save baggage and carriage hire by staying at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. It boasts 613 rooms, cost about one million dollars to fit, daily rate from $1 and up, European plan with elevator and restaurant. The note mentions rail connections to depots and a critique of staying for lean money versus other hotels. It also references a foreign dispatch term reclusion and a Paris murder sentence involving solitary confinement.
A scattered page blends agricultural guidance with a sentimental poem. Topics include silage economics, drainage benefits, poultry house hygiene, and feeding variety, followed by a polemic on premature burial and a Teignmouth anecdote. The mix preserves period tone and includes named places and figures, with practical farm tips and cultural reflections.
A mixed clipping recounts a flirtatious incident with a “masher” at a church event, then shifts to Life of Longfellow anecdotes from Bowdoin College, including a teacher’s witty admonition. It continues with a boy’s baptism of fire tale about a father firing at a burglar who is his son, followed by brief quips and a note on a monument at Lowell Massachusetts.
Dr. Thornton of the Marine Hospital Service reports a hysterical condition among French Canadian lumbermen called mirachit. He details manifestations where a jumper imitates commands, leaps, shouts, and destroys objects at slight provocation. He cites inherited nervousness and early tickling as likely causes, noting the condition can persist into adulthood.
A theater incident at Nancy during a new piece provoked a spectator to hoot from a chair. The author rushed the heckler, and a Lycee student was later beaten when the crowd surged into the theater. The manager apologized before the performance could continue.
An aged Lancaster Wisconsin resident, Samuel Barstow, recalls early settlers and the hardships they faced. He credits perseverance and shared advice for successors, noting personal decline in health yet gratitude for improved vigor after using Athlophoros. Other local seniors, including Mrs. F. Bowers and John W. Neff, report relief from rheumatism after trying the remedy, while advertisements tout products and cures from various cities.
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