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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1897
Page
6
The article describes a London import becoming popular in New York as nine a side bicycle polo evolves. Gorham introduced the game to women who learned it in spring and now play on lawns at country clubs. Games range from two to sixteen players and use wheel propulsion rather than mallets.
A brief scene depicts the royal game newly played, highlighting actions, positions, and reactions. Observers note the unfolding strategy and the ceremonial atmosphere around the event.
A chaotic account describes a game with ten points and a hundred possible, noting an average of twelve apills per goal and a lively pace. Fouls deduct five points, and contact with a player or wheel is a foul, though experts rarely err in this regard.
In a farmyard tale Uncle Hiram jokes about traps and misread signs, bragging that locals think a country man could fool them. He recalls a barbed tale about hotel scribbles and a strange facial massage sequence described as a con or ruse, ending with commentary on the face and fat under the eye.
An article extols Royal a new wheeling game using a court divided into right and left fields with alleys and a central playwheel. It notes swift riding skills, mixed teams of men and women, and a range of specialized shots, promising wide appeal if popularized locally.
An old guide touts facial massage as vital for beauty, urging postwash care and a soft thin skin. It instructs a self administered routine using vaseline and finger strokes behind the ears to stimulate the jawline and cheeks, repeated fifteen to twenty times daily.
An interview recounts H Juneau, founder of Alaska, living in Kansas, and describes a 2500 mile Yulon route to Klondike fields with a shorter 400 mile Chilkont pass. It portrays harsh terrain with prickly moss, dangerous devil's loom moss, and entangling vegetation making travel torturous.
The speaker laments fatigue with fashionable mantras and rivalries in leadership and art, mocking the Beardsley craze and knickenbocker bloomers. The verse rails at faddish trends pushing titles and leaders in the four hundred and similar social obsessions.
A new tariff clause targets goods imported through contiguous countries like Canada and Mexico, imposing 10 percent duties on all such imports. The rule could harm the Canadian Pacific and British steamers while boosting Great Northern and Northern Pacific revenue, with Special Agent C. H. Crane seeking guidance from Washington as the issue climbs to the attorney general.
The famed plunger Lucky Bald refutes bankruptcy claims and asserts vast wealth from property in California and Nevada, detailing hotels, ranches, and stock deals. He cites a $5,000,000 value for Baldwin hotel property and notes mortgages, rents, and past poker winnings that shaped his fortune.
The speaker details a long past scheme from 1875 involving delayed injunctions, a disputed meeting, and a dramatic takedown of rivals. He claims to have secured control, earned 5 million dollars, exposed a California bank’s failure for 14.0 million, and later recouped 2.56 million from the bank while its stock rose above par, with associates named as Jim Keene and others.
In Lock Springs Missouri farmers faced weeks of depredations on poultry and swine. Newton McCrary tracked a two mile trail to Grain River where the enormous reptile disappeared into water. After a local hunt the monster Python, about sixteen feet long with a body as thick as a stove pipe, lay dead. Neighbors aided in guarding the scene as fear spread among onlookers.
M Shaw a former resident of Vanceburg now in Indianapolis faced a bigamy charge after returning wife Bertha Dunham claimed divorce. Shaw, a popular young man, had married Bertha and left for Indianapolis. she later wed Oscar Ivey of West Union. The case began with an affidavit against the wife on Sept. 7, 1895.
A Huey Detroit Journal snippet notes a woman planning to ride a wheel to reduce weight and mentions a pink chiffon sweater in progress. The dialogue contrasts a previous handsaw remark with the current fashion and fitness idea.
In Cleveland Plain Dealer prose, Robson’s chatter about a tariff centers on catnip tea. He asked whether the duty had been raised as colleagues debated policy at the office last Saturday.
A gloomy man mocks the idea that all men and women are players. He argues that about 99 out of every 100 are ordinary, not counted among the company supporting the star, calling them plain Bupea. Chicago Post
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