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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1892
Page
2
The item surveys diverse notes from a long-ago period, mentioning water craft, mills, and city plans, alongside scattered anecdotes about explorers, religious sites, legal counts, and engineering schemes. It sketches a world of curiosities, dates, names, and places, all in brisk, clipped prose.
A fragmented excerpt traces medical and paranormal ideas from hypoprodisma and mesmerism to witchcraft and therapeutic concepts. It notes a humorous link between words for mosquito and muskets through linguistic roots, referencing the Mosquito Coast and a misaligned sequence of terms.
Announcement of a new electro chemical method to extract caustic soda chlorine and other chemicals from sea water. Electro chemical Industries reports established branches and aims to cut costs in aluminum, alumina alloys, tanning, metal extraction, and ore processing. Sea water could become a wartime material source.
A wide range of brief items report disputes settled, violent incidents, crimes and trials across cities. Notable items include a settlement in Uuele Sun's dispute with Venesuela, a 15 year old boy assaulted in Georgia, a fatal boat explosion in De dui, a daring bank robbery in Allentown, and a shooting in Minneapolis. Other notes cover political conferences, court cases, and various criminal charges, with multiple mentions of murders, robberies, and legal actions across several states.
Fragmented OCR notes describe dangerous disdelock events and the alleged efficacy of Bright's Bitters in treating kidney, malaria, indigestion, constipation, rheumatism, and debility. Also mentions painters in 1720 wearing a creaker made of mace cloth that squeaked on movement.
Professor David Kinley of the Wisconsin University argues the government should place deposits in national banks rather than clearing houses, proposing reforms to currency and deposit safety. He contends reforms would preserve a stable currency, reduce dependence on independent Treasury power, and create a more uniform banking system nationwide.
Jay Gould died in New York this morning from stomach conscription and a bilious attack. Family members were at his bedside as doctors Munn and Janeway advised comfort in his final hours. Gould, born in West Settlement Roxbury New York on June 27 1836, built a vast fortune and left six surviving children, with immense wealth to be distributed among them.
A 15 year old recounts traveling with Abraham Lincoln on a dangerous voyage. Lincoln awoke a rowdy intruder, restrained him with a boot and a clothing collar hold, and later at the White House Lincoln gave the boy a captain’s commission remarking that the bull of the woods had broken loose again. The anecdote notes Stephens and Lincoln’s friendship and wartime consul.
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