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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
2
The readable portion lists locations including Duluth Minneapolis and Madison plus scattered names and times, but most content is garbled. It appears to reference schedules or stations and possible arrivals with a 35 a CHM time, yet details are too damaged to confirm event, people, or entities.
Partial OCR fragment references departs and routes in the Astilind division including Wausau Oshkosh and Rhinelander areas, with mentions of Metasha Oshkosh and Ironwood. Also cites a grand report or bond in Ripon with amounts around 4400 and 5,904, plus stock and dividend style notes. The overall legibility is low and entities are incomplete.
Chicago reports three financial institutions controlled by John R. Walsh fail. Depositors are assured full recoveries as a new organization forms to pay out millions. Aims include taking over Walsh properties and bidding on oil and railroad assets amid anticipated bids and future railway plans.
A Chicago banking crisis is described as creditable in its handling. Ex Comptroller Bickley and local officials defend rapid measures to protect depositors across three institutions. The dispute centers on bond valuations of the Southern Indiana railroad and alleged fund transfers during examinations, with financiers blaming Walsh and the Southern Railway for the downturn.
The piece outlines 19th and early 20th century bank formations in Chicago, noting capitalization figures and later consolidations. It details the Chicago National Banks role in canal funding deposits, outlines Walsh’s stake in Beaton Quarries, Southern Indiana Rail Road, Akron Gas, and other firms, and cites Comptroller Ridgely’s investigation into loans. Final notes claim Walsh sought railroad access to Chicago but failed.
Former banker E S Dreyer, convicted of withholding park funds from the West Park board, is ordered paroled by the state board of pardons. Most funds have been repaid by the bank receiver. Dreyer retains property to cover the rest. Bandits Hold Up a Train in St. Paul report notes limited loot, with estimates around 300 to 400 dollars. The case of Tuhunn Loch, convicted of murder, upheld by the supreme court. Loch faces execution February 2.
In a winter trench amid chaos two wounded officers, Captain Eliot Noble and Lieutenant Mark Preston, cling to life as snow falls. Noble saves Preston with a whiskey-soaked rescue, then awakens to a civilian life with a happy wife and child. Preston, believed dead, pretends to be among the fallen, later learning of his savior while nursing his own broken heart.
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