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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1892
Page
3
The article attacks the Democratic majority in Congress for alleged inaction and wasteful spending under the McKinley tariff era. It cites tariff fights, free silver debates, and appropriations while praising Republican efforts and critiquing Democratic obstruction. It also covers internal party tensions over leadership and campaign organization amid the 1900 political climate.
Yo Tamblex won the Tryin City Gaks etakes race at St Patl on Thursday covering one mile and an eighth.
A Boston era device promises to dispense postage stamps via a public machine, replacing post office agents. Col. Whitefield and partners claim lower costs, immediate cash coupons, and a one cent coupon as payment, with cartridges and magazines designed for easy replacement. The system targets subway and street locations, cutting agent labor and claiming high profits per seller.
The London News reports rapid advances in instant photography and telephoto methods. Experiments claim to capture cannonball images through the air and even under clothing. A French chemist M. Henel Courtonne is noted for a new discovery, while sound transmission by telephony raises dreams of transmitting images. Early devices prove imperfect, yet promises of telephotography foretell remarkable capabilities, including images of a man smoking in Paris and St. Petersburg.
The passage argues that true achievement requires sustained effort not comfort. It critiques self indulgence and vanity, noting that those who abandon chances for an easier path fail to prove themselves. It cites Owen Meredith on a character who knocks at life’s doors yet succeeds at none, regressing with each step.
An anti cancer league is organized in Darts to seek means to relieve humanity of the scourge. It invites patologists clinicians histologists microbiologists and veterinarians to cooperate. The plan includes periodic congresses a journal and prizes for progress in the subject.
Oddball tale of Hasse Madome aka wheelbarrow man who vowed a 10000 mile trek in 43 days to Cincinnati by May 14 1893 wagering 5000 and facing limits and rich travel route from Ginginuaus through St Louis Indiana Kentucky Mississippi to New Orleans west to Lenston Dallas El Paso to San Francisco Philadelphia Washington and New York finally to Cincinnati. He travels with a wheelbarrow fixed to run on mail routes and claims 50000 in property and funds in a German National Bank backing the wager with several marriage proposals and aid offers noted along the way.
A collage of quoted lines and fragments from various publications remarks on women work, marriage, and public life. It cites studies of advertising, education, and class, noting how opinions of women and labor shift with context. Through snatches from Life and other papers, it highlights dated stereotypes and social friction.
The New York Herald notes Paris contains an abundance of trees with famed chestnuts acacias and limes along Champs Elysees and Bois de Boulogne. Parks and gardens total about 200,204 shrubs and 22,088 large trees, with street trees exceeding 100,000. Passy district near the old exposition site is especially lush.
A St Louis Republic anecdote recounts a macaque confrontation where a key monkey lured crows with feigned death and attacked a crow, plucking feathers from the victim. The piece then notes Santa Fe as New Mexico’s oldest capital, dating government to 1640, with a population figure cited from Porter’s circa.
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