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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1898
Page
7
A readable fragment presents a 1595 letter from a young woman in a waiting room with a ragk lady, detailing daily tasks music practice and writing. She addresses her mother Mrs Parke at Broomfield, notes tutors, and asks for guidance while seeking to please her mistress. The tone is formal, self disciplined, and reflective of domestic duties and hopes.
An experienced housekeeper recommends using cucumber peels or trimmings to kill roaches. Scatter them where roaches are seen. if ineffective first night, add fresh cucumber scraps next morning and again next night. The green color is said to be what lures and kills the insects.
Cecil Rhodes loves wild animals and keeps an immense park at his Cape Town home. The estate houses nearly every known South African carnivore, with a wire fence the only barrier and lions housed on a separate tract. He has invested over $500,000 in this unusual hobby.
A timid young woman seeks a servant and faces confusion over a book name. Susie Stokes is identified as Bridget Latterly in the ledger, revealing a mix up and a tense moment as a companion hints at a hidden past. A separate note describes a rash break in at the ton office, with safebox loot valued at 1,000 dollars.
Practical nursing advice warns about babies born in fall or winter not going out before five months old unless the temperature is above twenty degrees and the wind is mild. Prepare the baby last to avoid long wraps, use sufficient clothing, and avoid overburdening the child.
A London Punch excerpt recalls a British Association talk praising corsets for “reasonably tight” lacing. It claims the practice boosts mental and physical activity by driving a larger blood flow to the brain and nerves, a view to be weighed by readers.
Chicago police court justices may form a trust. A sensational note touts Salzer’s two new potato marvels and a price war on yields, promising gold rewards for top outputs. The piece also mentions a cryptic ad and ends with a suicide report concerning Thomas L. Thompson, ex-minister to Brazil.
Fire destroyed the clothing house at Jugersoll & Brothers in New York, causing an estimated loss of $50,000. The readable text notes the blaze and the significant financial impact, with the incident framed as a major local loss.
The Le Roy College at Columbus was destroyed by fire causing an estimated $40,000 loss. The incident occurred while the building housed Mother Gray’s sweet Sowers for Chitren and a children's health program. No injuries are reported.
A Michigan silver men will test in treports the constitutionality of the Uland-Allison act of 1878. Three blizards prevailed one in New England, another in the west and the third in Canada. The ad notes reward and legal wording, with scattered readable fragments about law, dates, and places.
Disjointed OCR fragment mentions St Jacobs Oil as a cure, a Memphis political nomination to fill a senate term, a powder for frost and corns, and a suicide of Theodora Nichols in Indianapolis. Mixed-era ads and oblique references create a chaotic, collage-like news snippet.
Fragmentary items report deaths in Wisconsin and Indiana. Charles Rollin Braingrd, age 58, dies at Wacpaca Wisconsin. Ex congressman C A O McClellan is dead at Anbuen Indiana. James Meliusery, former Mattoon Illinois resident, suffers a paralytic stroke. TVA, national financial figures, and scattered names appear in garbled form.
A damaged OCR note describes a bicycle offer from Nineata Harness Factory in New York and a fire at Reingporg and Goldner in Quincy that burned out their pawnbroking business, causing nearly $10,000 in losses. The fragment mentions air advice, volumes, and a spent in ut ehnsiderithim, but the readable facts focus on the fire damage and financial loss to the pawnbrokers.
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Sailors face strict limits on liquor at sea with rumoured allowances only from the aft, scarce traps and curbed supply. If whisky is found it is usually discarded or handled by the captain, keeping crew abstinent once at port.
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