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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1895
Page
5
A speaker touts an investment scheme promising guaranteed profits and identical returns for all investors. He claims to need money to stock spring inventory and offers drastic discounts on any item in his shop to entice purchase, while admitting his own gain is from securing funds.
Readable items from Marshfield section include social updates on Mrs. Gilbert and sons visiting Stevens Point, Mrs. Derby extending furniture and undertaking business, and local church events. Community notices mention a chicken pie supper, a Presbyterian lecture, and a city paper shift to lady editors on Washington’s birthday.
Fragmented notes recount local fires and odd events across Marshfield and nearby towns. Mentions of forest fires, a plough—horse surface, Methodist gatherings seeking spring chickens for church supper, violinist Jim Brammeyer, and various peculiar items from thermometer readings to valentines. Details are garbled and partly unreadable.
A cryptic ad offers woad and wand supplies with dry and green varieties for farmers. It promises delivery to any part of the city and mentions prices and a “Paw Writs Hang Go” phrase as a calling card.
Foreclosure notice from Pate ow Wisconsin in Wood County details sale to satisfy a debt. Sheriff to sell at the Wood County Post Office on the specified February date to the highest bidder for parcel fourteen in block three hundred seven in the City of Marshfield Wisconsin. Dated January. Michael Vincent, Sheriff, Wood County. By Peter M. Kraus, Deputy Sheriff. A Williams, Plaintiff.
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