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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1903
Page
9
The piece details winter canning methods for marmalade orange jelly jam and KeeLe jelly, plus preserved figs spiced cranberries and cranberry catsup. It also offers cider keeping, dried fruit cooking tips, and an anecdote about a subway train passenger negotiating change with a conductor.
Lela Fisher Woodward surveys the Mexican kitchen in a Southerner feature. Walls are thick adobes plastered and frescoed interiors. large braseros dominate, with shelves of utensils crafted by native artisans. Kitchens include sinks, draining boards, and a vast array of highly used vessels, many now prized in American homes.
A woman boarded an uptown Third Avenue surface car and offered a five dollar bill to pay a five cent fare. The conductor gave her four silver dollars and a handful of small change in return. She...
A fragmentary report notes Berlin's reputation as one of Europe’s cleanest cities with smokeless coke and briquettes reducing chimney emissions. It describes strict fireman training for economical firing and the use of Silesian coal in large steam plants to minimize smoke compared with U.S. coal practices.
The veteran officer Captain Fran Wildes, famed for serving in three wars, refused orders to abandon the cruiser Boston before the Manila campaign. He protested to the squadron commodore, insisting he would stay aboard until the battle concluded, a clash that ended with a navy department reevaluation and Wildes’ detachment.
The Brooklyn Eagle cites Admiral Wildes and other officers who defied orders as a cautionary example. It notes Wildes rose to rear admiral by resisting giving up his ship, while suggesting disobedience is not a good model for successors or naval discipline.
The poem laments Confederate memory and Civil War figures arguing for reverence of Lee and Jefferson Davis while contrasting bronze graves with looming questions of liberty. It invokes Washington, Mount Vernon, and Arlington, urging reverence for fallen heroes and the ideals they represented amid a changing America.
Poem narrates that there is no death but transformation as nature’s elements persist. Leaves fall and flowers fade yet pass through winter into May, and souls of loved ones travel to an immortal realm. Birds sing anew in the tree of life, and those bereaved feel no true sorrow as gentle angels guide the departed to eternal light.
Noted as a genial figure, Bigga Windig is described as prone to exaggeration. Digger counters that flaw with a general public reluctance to believe him, while Biggs questions what balances that tendency in society. Chicago News.
A poem told in first person as a ghostly banshee pursues Pat Murphy through a long night. The speaker recalls past eras, laments her fading power, and longs to haunt his grave when she can no longer endure the lonely chase. The tale ends with the castle and witches fading away.
A historical note recounts William Thompson, an English railroad worker for the Union Pacific, who was scalped during a 1837 AP incident with Cheyenne fighters. His hair ended up partly at the public library in Omaha, with a fringe still around his head as locals recall a perilous spike car mission near Central City. Thompson survived and feigned death after a tomahawk blow, while Indians severed his scalp and left the evidence as a grim relic of frontier danger.
A freight train carrying government supplies crashed after Indians obstructed the track. Local survivor Thompson escaped, witnessed the assault on crew, and later reached a rescue party at Willow Creek before being taken to Omaha. The attackers stripped and murdered the engineer and fireman, tossing them into the engine furnace. Thompson noticed a scalp lock from the victim's belt.
A debate on marriage and longevity cites various studies and experts. French and Scottish authorities claim marriage is healthier, while some doctors disagree. Frederick L Homman analyzes British reports, finding married people tend to live longer than singles or widows across ages, with widowers showing higher mortality than widows. Overall, the trend favors married life as protective, though evidence varies by age and gender.
A fragment describes authorities debating wartime pension payments and opting to teach patriotism at public schools only twice a week instead of daily. It notes public concern over funding and civic duties as the immediate exigency.
An old-fashioned heroine bids farewell with a friendly hand shake as social customs shift from intimate handshakes to modern forms. The piece notes that hand shaking among girls was crude in earlier days and contrasts it with today’s greeting via wireless telegraphy.
Professor Dewey of the Boston Institute of Technology and Miss Hopkins addressed an Ann Arbor convention of educators and hosiress en at Michigan deploring the insufficient fitness of college graduates for hard realities of life. Professor Ripley of Harvard urged enforcing business methods and exacting study through a university student’s course.
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