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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1890
Page
3
A marbled passage recounts an eccentric author and a chaotic print shop on Monroe Street. The piece blends surreal dialogue with garbled names, lurid meals, and a confession of blood poisoning risk from unsafe printing.
Aldrich Cone hosts a crowded country home with a literary guest list and escalating plans for a quiet retreat. Tensions rise as relatives clash over space, ghosts, and room assignments while Aunt Effingham resists disturbances and a tombstone scare looms in Maple Hill.
The text surveys diverse topics from Napthuline wood preservative use and glow worm illumination to iron casting, cement setting, and horse storage costs. It notes a Q L McClellan invention, ore extraction by electric drills, and lung cell counts, then shifts to prehistoric life estimates and weather prediction myths. It also highlights Adrian Hill's gas condensation device and Standard Oil interest, claiming a horse power engine could generate gas for city fuel.
The article warns blizzards devastate plains and treeless regions in the west and push cattlemen southward. It argues forests and windbreaks of trees like cottonwood elm and other varieties reduce storm damage, protect land value, and justify planting belts to shield farms from winter gales. Captain Trivier notes Central Arctic natives remain uncivilized for centuries.
A fragmentary elegy recalling a memorial oak tree and the departed, with mournful reflections on friendship and memory. It laments the loss of companionship and honors the dead as voices fade into the green earth. The verse speaks of remembrance and shared joy now past.
A devastating explosion ripped through a Monmouthshire mine on Thursday trapping around 300 miners. By afternoon 60 bodies were recovered and 50 remained imprisoned as rescuers faced toxic smoke. The official death toll hovered near 150 with efforts ongoing to reach survivors and recover more victims.
The Nottingham shaft disaster near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, yielded gruesome findings as entombed bodies were recovered burned. miner Joseph Jones died from injuries, the seventh victim. The text also touts questionable patent medicines and warnings about unsafe tonics, then shifts to a Dickinson Seminary student’s nerves amid a church incident and a bail ruling in a local case.
An old faded newspaper fragment touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for female complaints and Dr. Pierce's Valetta as a remedy for dizziness headache and constipation. It also mentions K. S. Hamp’s Balsam for coughs and a farmer's hen laying eggs in a kitchen cradle. A physiologist cites stomach glands totaling about 5 000 000.
An 19th century column extols Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, for a cure for consumption and phthisis. It praises his Golden Medical Discovery as the sole remedy offered by druggists with a positive guarantee. The piece urges readers to seek the remedy early to halt lung disease progression.
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