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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1893
Page
6
A fragmented reminiscence describes the fear and awe of near drowning and the afterlife visions, followed by a detailed report of a St Louis crime spree. The piece recounts escape, capture, and sentencing of thieves who robbed street letter boxes using forged checks and false keys, with arrests spread across Detroit and Nashville and multiple penitentiary terms.
The man known as Prentice Tiller, once missing from the Jackson Michigan prison, had previously robbed the Pacific Express company at St Louis in 1885 of over 100000. He had been serving a seven year term for mail robbery when he vanished, with the Globe Democrat noting his alias Ter prior to 1885.
Henry M. Vield argues in New York Hologelist that Europe and America have partitioned Africa, exporting intoxicating spirits despite native protests. He pleads for a Holy Alliance of Christian nations to defend Africa and build a genuine Christian civilization rather than continue imperial plunder.
An anecdotal New York Herald tale describes a man who borrows two dollars to tomorrow repeatedly, turning a quick income for lenders. The scheme relies on tiny loans, notes for larger sums, and the borrower returning nothing on time, with a revolving cast of a dozen lenders and constant pursuit by printing houses.
Jane Hobmay's night turns tragic as she witnesses a perilous descent from a rope tether while a crowd erupts in chaos. Her husband Marcus, intoxicated and unaware, ignores her pleas as a violent scene unfolds, leaving the tent deserted and the family shaken.
Jane pleads for children to glimpse a peep as pandemonium fades after a tent disaster. A driver denies, a white monkey silhouette appears, and the group heads home under dark skies. A symbol of lost hope lingers in Jane Shep’s final line.
A vivid 19th century travel vignette contrasts Paris lilac season with Hindu beauty ideals. It notes Parisian love of lilacs, their market crowds, perfumes, and spreads of blossoms, alongside striking descriptions of Hindu women, their features, attire, and jewelry, emphasizing cultural contrasts and impressions.
In a reminiscence by Matda J. McConel printed in the August Century a tale about Achille Murat in Florida. The prince tries a dye project, pours kettle incidents, and ends up dyeing linens and clothes pink, much to Mme. Murat’s dismay, though he remains a loving husband in memory.
A long, curious excerpt describes the season for sandwiches, detailing bread types, slicing thickness, and buttering steps. It includes various meats and fillings, notes on crust removal and even a recipe for a chicken mushroom paste. The piece reads like a period cooking column with mixed advice and quirky phrases.
A report discusses how beauty standards in India shape perceptions of women while noting Goo Points and tensions in the Far East context. The piece connects cultural beauty ideals to regional geopolitics and social optics.
The Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade in London reprints two Chinese cartoons echoing Cruikshank’s The Bottle. Images show a happy home, then a youth taking his first puff, parental reproach, relapse, and a distressed family scene with the smoking man. The series notes wife’s temper and domestic ruin, with remarks on wider Indian women.
A garbled account depicts a man beating a woman with a pipe and a recovering pipe scene. It shifts to a cliffside death involving a wife and child’s horror, betrayal, and a sold lodgings fate. The text references continuous violence across numbered scenes including skeletons, decay, and a doomed crawl into rocks.
Describes a protected cruiser with double bottom and water tight compartments. Details include triple shaft propulsion, triple expansion engines, eight large boilers, and a 140 psi steam system. Notes on engines, gearing, power distribution, coal supply, and hull protection against heat and damage.
The article offers step by step guidance to shape a lace yoke and finish with a bow and ribbon. It stresses using quality lace at the present season, detailing assembly by splitting lace, joining to the yoke edge, and forming an upper frill. It warns that cheap lace yields little satisfaction and encourages investing in a handsome garment addition for the wardrobe.
A guide describes making wax patches using shelly Boshsh wal nuts with metal wax, sealing halves, and a small opening for thread. It suggests adding a tablespoon of epsom salts dissolved in water, stiffening articles, removing scratches with a xycolen rag dipped in boiled linseed oil, and garnishing with abéllas dissolved in alcohol.
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