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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1907
Page
4
A chaotic collection of misquotes and musings on politics science and society. The rambling mosaic touches on tyranny sabre rattling and despotism along with technology disasters and daring feats. It includes references to Mary age Russia Britain Paris Edison Girard College and a mountain quake, all presented in a jittery, opinionated tone.
The United States champion Dennis Morgan suffered a skull fracture from a shovel blow by an Italian fruit vender who was not an athlete. The incident reveals a strike of fate affecting a noted track and field figure.
A Warwickshire Manor House drama unfolds as thick walls hide a chapel past. A nurse awakens to midnight procession of cowled monks, chanting while parading with books, unsettling a sick infant and leaving the household terrified and speechless. The father and stepmother recall the music but cannot solve the mystery.
Two Vancouver divers Llewellyn and McHardy battled a large octopus near a pipe on the Clyde’s bottom in the Narrows. After a tense struggle, Llewellyn severed a tentacle with a crowbar and McHardy’s leg was seized by a tentacle. They covered the creature with rocks, returned later, and displayed the live octopus in the city aboard the boat.
Mrs Nanny Heaston aged 60 years and weighing over 200 pounds was given a bath on admission to the county infirmary in Bellefontaine Ohio. She recalled that it was the first bath since girlhood when she bathed in a creek in Auglaize county.
Miss Theodora Shonts of Washington and her family reveal the engagement to Duc de Chaulnes et De Plequiny of France. The wedding is planned for January at the Shonts residence in New York. The match faced long delay amid parental opposition seeking an American husband but now proceeds with involvement from French nobility and relatives. The bride elect, 20, is a former Iowa governor’s granddaughter and fluent in several languages.
Washington reports cold coins now issued by the United States with the Augustus St Gaudens heads. Mary Cunningham, who waited tables for the sculptor at his Vermont home, posed for the Indian head on the coin. The article notes his search for a model and the moment he exclaimed that Cunningham was his model. It also mentions French poster laws and strict control over posters in France, with boards and licenses, revenue stamps and restrictions on public notices.
London reports the sixth in line Duke of Portland William Cavendish is challenged over the title in the Druce mystery case. George Druce accuses the duke's uncle of perjury claiming he saw the merchant Druce buried in a coffin of lead. The case could settle or expose a vast aristocratic imposture.
About fifty years after Trinh A. Boyden deposited $1,000 for a prize from the Franklin Institute the award goes to Dr. Paul R. Heyl of Philadelphia for proving visible and ultraviolet light travel at the same speed. The prize fund remains to support further tests on infrared rays.
A fragmentary missive from a child visiting grandparents in the country shows Johnnie writing to his mother with affection and questions about food. The odd phrasing hints at a regional dialect and a simple domestic scene.
The body of 64 year old Eugene Courtney, longtime Washington county sheriff and local notable, was found in a barn on his Mukwonago road farm south of Waukesha. He had a fatal skull wound from a spade and money he carried was missing. A former farm hand is suspected.
Superior mayor Lintey issues sweeping order to close all saloons in the ten derloin district of Superior. The strict and enforced decree threatens inmates with a trip to Waupun if they fail to comply, taking effect January 2.
Soley, a local meat market man, praises the U S post office as efficient after a misaddressed letter from Norway arrived with odd insertions. The missive, intended for M. Soley at 110 N Horst on Street, appeared with Norways Ab Bergen initials U S A and Wisconsin Milwaukee in the envelope, prompting wonder at delivery accuracy.
A Hungarian entrusted with nearly 700 dollars disappeared after cashing checks drawn on the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric railway pay. About 200 laborers were paid by these checks and many of them, duped, have fled the city bound for their homelands. The conman vanished with cash he could extract from the checks, leaving workers stranded.
Appleton will acquire four city lots totaling a plot of land 600 602 feet. The Third district and Fifth ward schools will share the field soon large enough for three baseball diamonds two football fields and a quarter mile track. In Sigel Andrew Carlson a young farmer hanged himself at home after morning chores. He had been married two months.
Judge Parish denied a new trial for John Specht convicted of second degree murder in the killing of Boney Lombard. Specht received a 20 year term and will likely appeal to the supreme court. Pioneer Church Dissolved La Crosse Methodist church West Salem dissolved after more than a half century. property sold to the Evangelical Lutheran society due to lack of membership.
The Kenosha council of the Knights of Columbus will own its own lodge after closing a $25,000 purchase of the Masonic hall formerly owned by the Robins of Racine. In Merasha a family cat was accidentally shot when a shotgun discharged near Mrs Knages, the cat's head blown off while the chair it occupied moments earlier had been used by Mrs Knaggs.
Fond du Lac reports about 20 smallpox cases with steady daily improvement and no epidemic feared. authorities monitor spread and emphasize containment efforts.
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