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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
2
A whirlwind mix of political moves and scandal. Tom Watson seeks a House seat while South Dakota bankers push taxation debates. Chicago charity ball draws 3500 attendees as national figures including Postmaster Wilson and Governor Rogers appear in coverage of taxes, elections, and policy shifts nationwide.
Princeton professor Charles E. Hinton displayed a public pitching cannon in the college gymnasium. Balls were discharged to show curves and speed. He said the invention aims to save pitchers in practice. The national irrigation congress draws about 4,000 visitors to Phoenix from twenty states. Judge Emery spoke for arid lands ownership by states. Germany's sugar industry could form a syndicate if relief from the Reichstag fails, per U S Consul Mason in Frankfurt.
Reports from Moscow Rome and Madrid detail arrests and seizures at student lodgings in Moscow and political papers in Rome and Havana. Cuban general Huí z Rivera slated to succeed Antonia Maceo as lieutenant general. Spain recalls a diplomat from Crete amid tensions with the United States. Political turbulence, famine coverage in Russia, and early tariff debates fill the day.
Washington reports a House vote to bar liquor sales in the Capitol and several payments approved for wartime supplies and seizures. Senator Teller appears publicly. appointments for McKinney’s inauguration are announced. a new monetary commission proposal is introduced amid immigration and constitutional debates. A proposal to extend presidential and Senate terms is offered while votes are scheduled. Cleveland
Henry Watterson in the Courier-Journal notes European gambling survives mainly in clubs with games like petit chevaux and rouge et noir. The piece describes mechanical horse races, numbered betting, and annexed gambling setups behind machines, with French stakes from one to five francs and claims of non gambling guise.
A scattered OCR passage mentions gambling and teaching a child, with references to a thoroughbred love of gambling and an imagined scene of planting tenderness on a young person’s breast, reflecting unclear historical diction and disrupted syntax. The readable elements point to themes of gambling and instruction without a clear event or date.
The cannibal king Chopamuppe hosts a night of mock ritual as Chewomo praises a new dish called a new yar an and jokes about the desert feast cycle. Lively dialogue centers on cannibal bragging and cultural parody in a dark comic tone.
Judge recounts a rowdy Dead Gulch Christmas pageant where Brenda Pale and Ike stage a spoof of Santa Claus. The village gathers in the chapel as hats come off and tears flow, with tells of mischief, candy, oranges, and a grave marker plan for Tke.
A verse contrasts a perfect baby with a bookish child praised and criticized by critics. Mr George Archibald is noted in a Christmas Eve piece as a quirk of commentary, reflecting on beauty, temper, and public opinion.
The text describes Santa Claus and Kris Kringle as German Christmas symbols. It mentions Christkindl as the Christ child with a shepherding role, delivering gifts to good children while stockings of the bad are punished. It references Palanichol and fear of punishment, with Cardinal Gibbone noted in Baltimore.
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