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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1897
Page
14
A jumble of 1900s items reports deaths in South Carolina and New York, legal hearings, fires, accidents, and political notes. Entries mention Judge McGowar’s death in Algbuville, New York actors, Klondyke plans, canal improvements, sugar imports, and a string of local calamities, arrests, and civic debates. The era’s tone remains brisk, with terse notices of crime, industry, and public affairs.
The report surveys global events including changes in ministries, fires in forests abroad, a London divorce decree, and an Anglo Egyptian Nile expedition. It notes updated coins in Osaka ahead of a gold currency shift, British relief of Fort Chaxharn in India, and European political moves.
Lord Salisbury in the House of Lords outlined the state of peace negotiations between Turkey and Greece. He expressed doubt Turkey had accepted terms and warned Crete faced danger from crowd divisions. Dispatches from Constantinople suggest the powers may issue one final ultimatum to Turkey.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recounts a man boasting of luck claims tied to a four leaf clover and his wife’s paradoxical fortune. He narrates failed ventures, real estate busts, and gambling misfires while praising his wife’s knack for luck, culminating in her lottery win and his vow to chase luck with all his money.
A Spanish illustrated tale recounts Dom Pedro the last emperor of Bra mio arranging a practical test for a new railway brake. An engineer accelerates toward a hidden street block placed on the rails, the rock dusts away as the engine stops just in time, revealing the street block’s fabrication.
A breakfast scene reveals a chill in the air as a wife criticizes politicians for their egotism and avoidance of home life, suggesting a trait common to “your kind.” The dialogue underscores a moral judgment about responsibility and infidelity to duties at home.
Expressions of heartfelt sympathy go to Mr Depew amid the heavy duty ahead of him to sign the New York Central bonds one hundred thousand times. Observers note others in the country face even greater duties in public service and finance.
Washington august 14 commissioner powderly of the firm immigration bureau sent instructions to New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore and Quebec urging careful inspection of Spanish anarchists believed en route to the United States Planas a leader of the movement expelled from France and Marmol likely headed here. The note clarifies that nothing in law excludes political offenses but admissions hinge on general immigration rules.
The Lordan Daily News notes unseen Napoleon L correspondence reveals a ruler who governs as general, suppresses dissent, controls theater, and punishes newspapers by imperial decree. It cites his post office surveillance, calls for interrogating anonymous letters, and harsh pressure on Louis Napoleon against Dutch subjects.
J H Nichole assistant engineer reports on oil spraying to lay dust on over four miles of track on the West Jersey and Seashore railroad. The special oil penetrates and binds ballast, leaves minimal odor, and can be applied at under 50 dollars per mile. The method plans one spray seasonally after renewals with possible re-sprays if tracks are disturbed.
The St Paul Pioneer Press humorously muses on a future state named after Lincoln. It contrasts naming choices that might have occurred if early American linguistic taste had differed, imagining variants like Virgin ia Georgia and two Carolinas instead of Virginia Georgia and the Carolinas.
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