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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1915
Page
3
An editorial mocks Gen. Carranza for printing more money to feed the poor as Mexico faces inflation. It notes that workers will be paid in new currency for public works while bread and milk costs rise steeply. The piece argues the government has effectively cut the Gordian knot but questions feasibility.
An Oshkosh driver argues for drivers to switch from glare lamps to side or dim lights when passing on country roads. The Antigo Journal urges wider adoption of this safety rule to prevent nighttime accidents and promote courtesy.
Citizens urge release of the city treasury report detailing money received and spent before tax time. The Ripon Press also notes a similar requested report from the board of education for taxpayers.
A special Northwestern road train runs Thursday August 19 from Vesper at 9 15 and Arpin at 9 37 to Marshfield and back leaving Marshfield at ten o clock. The trip offers a chance to see an aeroplane flight and other attractions.
A woman searches novels and dictionaries for a name for her baby. She compiles many historic and grand names but the father and peers settle on simple, humorous labels. The child is christened with a long formal name, yet he becomes known as Fatty, or Jake, by family and classmates.
In 1840s Wisconsin politics Doty clashes with hostile territorial legislature. He withholds recognition over funds and funds issues claiming treasury shortage. After two memorials to President Tyler the legislature adjourns repeatedly until Doty is removed in 1844.
A compilation of remarks from several papers notes jokes about baseball, hunger for reform, and public figures. It cites opinions on Mexico, Germany, the Eastland disaster, insanity in crime, a con man joke, and dairy supply politics with local dealer contrasts.
The Milwaukee Free Press touts itself as different and claims eighty prominent men behind its change. The piece mocks traditional daily papers and ridicules rival Evening Old Maid style, arguing the state lacks a worthy daily paper and asserting eight country editors could run Wisconsin papers better.
Frank H. Simonds argues in The American Review of Reviews that Germany has achieved a vast first-year victory across Europe. He notes gains in Belgium and France and advances into Poland, with strong naval successes but real losses at sea. he calls the outcome a major yet not decisive victory for the Kaiser's realm.
A young man in a small town boasts of future fame after time in Chicago and spurns offers from merchants and captains of industry. Only his father sees the difficulty the son hides behind bravado as the moral hints a deeper reason for missed opportunities.
A collection of pithy musings and social observations. The piece contemplates self sufficiency, voter participation, conduct around relationships and money, citizenship duties, honesty, and the occasional legal oddity. It references a New York printer and a breach of promise case within a mosaic of provocative reflections.
An Oshkosh woman reports using cayenne pepper to banish Buffalo moths in her home. She advises sprinkling a thin ridge along baseboards around each room and treating closets halls and trunks, placing pepper under carpets and wardrobes while keeping it away from children and clothing.
Thousands of letters from across the United States to Germany and Belgium are intercepted by British authorities and never reach their destinations. Many contain no sender address and are burned as dead letters. Some items like banknotes and social notices are returned or blocked to safeguard England, with only postcards able to pass into Belgium via neutral handling.
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