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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1892
Page
2
A long garbled dispatch lists varied items from Mar sho field Wisconsin to the Malay Peninsula. It mentions a world’s fair plan, British and American locomotives, Bodie California’s rise and fall, cattle disease lumpy jaw, and a proposed potassium treatment to help stock raisers. It reflects a miscellany of international curios and early 20th century concerns.
A garbled 19th century bulletin lists diverse items from finance to politics. It mentions a New York bankers' reserve changes, a Newfoundland dominion move, a gubernatorial nomination in the People's Party, several obituaries, and global incidents including strikes, arrests, and maritime affairs. Names, places, dates, and figures appear inconsistently.
Reports describe a tax eruption on Mount Htua easing as lava flow declines Tau fow. meanwhile Danish policy shifts cut eigar duty by ten ore per kilo. Paris hosts a plan to push the Panjma canal to completion amid a cholera outbreak in Russia kills sixty and wounds hundreds. Two dynamite incidents in transit from Marseilles to Sk Enonne are noted as well.
A chaotic summary from Chicago and surrounding areas cites a bank defrauding conspiracy, a Pennsylvania murderer’s suicide, murders, assaults, and various arrests. Names include Arthur Lang, Lathorn Melly, Thome Welch, and Cora, with locations in Scranton, N J, New York, Michigan, and Visalia. Reports mention a Jersey train hold up, a Kansas City holdup shooting, and a Pacific railway robbery case involving John Sontag and Herve Evans.
A flood of early 20th century disaster notes records accidents and fires in Illinois Wisconsin Missouri Nebraska Texas Indiana Pennsylvania and Iowa. Warnings of forest fires near River City and a Verona powder magazine blast accompany a fatal horse collision and several drownings and injuries.
Prominent fire and accident reports describe a forest blaze on the north side of the American River near Seercemento California destroying Ember and pagarure with thousands of acres burned. Additional incidents include a wreck at lake Sare Usnad, fatalities including Engineer Horkner and Fireman Webb, and several missing or buried workers. A clay bank collapse near Camden New Jersey claims multiple buried victims with one recovered dead. A tar oil explosion at Jayne chemical works Frankford Philadelphia injures five. An airborne parachute incident near Lever Grove Missouri results in a fatal plunge for one individual.
Long session records in the Pennsylvania house and Senate unfold over sundry civil and world’s fair funding. Key actions include the world’s fair bill advancing in the house, the Senate approving investigations into the Pinkerton force, and Vice President Morton giving a farewell amid adjournment. The Senate carries a $2,507,000 direct gift with Sunday closing clause, while foreign exhibitors measures pass as part of the world’s fair package.
William J. Smith of Orange Township was duped by three strangers who posed as buyers seeking farms. They proposed a $10 commission and then borrowed $3000 to seal a farm deal, escaping with the money.
Frightfat and Novhlug Loan are ailments described as ravages from kidney and bladder issues. The text urges early regulation of the kidneys with Tyavoltine's Stainech Bitters as a tonic to restore activity, aid elimination of impurities, and combat malaria, bilovansis, liver trouble, and nervous dyspasias.
The long session ends with debates over free coinage of silver, tariff bills, and appropriations. The House passed 691 bills, 284 to the Senate, while the Senate moved slowly on tariff reform and several measures. Key topics included silver coinage, McKinley tariff revisions, and limited personal baggage allowances for travelers.
A blood curdling account details a man-eating leopard in Bengal's Baj skabi district. It killed 154 people before a British-led hunt with twenty elephants cornered and killed the beast, which preyed on children and old women and terrorized villages by entering homes at night.
A fragment describes mixing two pounds of white sugar in a quart of water with citric acid and lemon essence to create a pleasant drink. The faded text mentions stirring and serving after combining, noting the mixture keeps well. The passage resembles a household beverage instruction from an old newspaper page.
A recipe fragment lists ingredients and steps for a salad dressing or sauce. It mentions yolk of four eggs, four teaspoons of oil or fat, mustard, salt, milk, vinegar, cayenne, sugar, butter, and a stir until it boils. The text is garbled but centers on mixing and heating the dressing.
A fragmented recipe describes Newmarkat Pudding using grated bread one pint milk one cup sugar and four eggs. It instructs soaking bread, baking with a jelly layer, and topping with a merengue cradle made from tar white sugar.
A garbled recipe fragment describes making a chopped cauliflower salad with salt pepper parsley and vinegar. It mentions a predium sized head of cauliflower and adding three tablespoonfuls of vinegar and two of oil, then mixing well.
The article describes a lamb stew with neck and breast pieces simmered with water and peas, then seasoning with pepper and salt and butter. It also details a potato bake with paste balls layered with potatoes, onion, and water, seasoned and baked. A separate report covers rusting rails in the Albenberg tunnel, noting iron galling, coating, and maintenance with tar protection.
In Cowes on August 4 Emperor Williams's Meteor lost to the Giren Mal in a race for the Cowes cup. The event featured the beatings and setbacks of the William fleet as Aquila by the Quoay Bubs failed to prevail.
At Lavon Lake on August 6 Gen Baker withdraws as Milake candidate and the alliance shifts. No more actions will be taken to support the ticket as the candidate withdraws and the slate changes.
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