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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1897
Page
14
Mosaic of items from The Marshfield Times reports Bourke Cochran visiting Mark Hanna in Cleveland amid a flood of gossip. It notes Yale Harvard disputes, legal actions, political maneuvering, and various sensational wrongdoings, offering a broad snapshot of late 19th century American intrigue and public life.
Dispatches report Greece Turkey threaten Crete with war as Greek claims inland unites with Greece and Crete seeks annexation. Provisional Crete government forms amid efforts to gain foreign support while Spain’s Cuba reforms are rejected by insurgents now stronger in Pinar del Rio.
A Collier's Weekly humor piece notes a wife angry with a servant girl. The husband parries with cross puns about being cross at the servant girl and at his wife, and the wife being cross at herself.
An explorer in Winona Minnesota reports finding a cave at Lamoilie sixteen miles south of Winona. The cave is semicircular fifty feet wide twenty feet high with a chamber about one hundred feet long and seventy feet wide. Roof reaches roughly twenty five feet and walls show Indian picture writings. London faces a heavy debt burden with a 180 million pound metropolis debt and 12.5 million raised by taxes and 6 million for interest and 6.4 million for repayment.
The Senate admitted Richard R. Kenney to the Delaware seat vacated for months, lifting the chamber to its full 90 members. Contention centers on Kenney credentials and the Dupont case. Addicks remains rival claimant while the Nicaragua canal debate continues with no final conclusion. Pension bills advancing in both houses include widows of Generals Rice Nichols and Stoneman among others. House actions cover district and immigration matters as well.
Washington Feb 11 The house passed the diplomatic and consular bill with a slight increase in minor items on the house bill totaling 1 045 340 while making headway on fortifications and post office appropriations. Most of the day was spent in a political debate over the financial question sparked by the provision funding debt of a territory.
The Wisconsin Legislature reports in Madison on February 8 and February 1. Senate figures compare teacher–student ratios across states, noting Wisconsin lags behind most states except Michigan. Proposals include telephone long distance sharing, vaccine regulation, public accounts officer, liquor licensing terms, antitoxin, and voter eligibility. Assembly considers highway improvements, recall provisions, and memorials for Pere Marquette statue relocation.
Madison reports a flood of introduced measures covering taxes pensions education and infrastructure. Bills aim to regulate theaters firearms public finance and university affairs while pledging roadwork, drainage and county officer salaries amid a tight session with key votes and a governor’s financial appeal.
A playful verse recalls Arthur and Mabel discussing a legendary table older than Egypt. The dialogue weaves myth, tower of Babel, and hints at ancient mathematics as a joke about a table that “could use” before Egypt’s day. It blends wordplay on age and shape with references to Hindu lore and creation.
A poetic exchange asks what love is and from where it comes. The response favors selfless vows, pure devotion, and deep, quiet streams of giving, concluding love is measured by deeds rather than words.
Fragment from a poem attributed to Robert Underwon Joboron in the Century. The speaker ponders what gives a flower its hue and charm whether sunshine or dew. dawn rises on night as life unfolds through petals and light.
An armor cruiser named Brooklyn lay in drydock at Philadelphia Tuesday with extensive damage. The port side hull is braised and torn for about 175 feet while starboard plates show denting but remain intact. A large port-side hole could admit three men.
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