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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1891
Page
2
In a postwar Marshfield Times report, Yale graduates, Turkish decorum, and a broad health science discussion appear alongside a global cold wave warning. The piece mentions tuberculous research, lymph treatments, and public health cautions, with implications for urban life and disease prevention.
The document discusses extreme wealth concentration with 122 citizens owning vast sums and outlines estimates of national wealth. It then shifts to colonial expansion, harbor construction, and canal projects, noting expenditures, bonds, and stock issued. A critical tone addresses English conduct in Africa and North America, highlighting imperial critique and calls for inquiry into governance and race relations.
A garbled late dispatch reports on cancer cases in Jacksonville and a large rise in claims for insolvency funds and oil discoveries near Monticello. It notes the Pine Ridge Agency in conflict with hostiles and captures of a chief Biaboor. Mentions a death in New York and missing persons in Haw Claire. References to military activity in the northwest and various economic concerns including currency and debt.
Fragmented OCR text reports deaths, political moves, stock figures, a divorce, ship sinkings, and weather effects across multiple places including Dublin Antwerp Dungeness and Bologna. Several proper names appear tangled with no coherent narrative or clear dates.
A vast blaze causes deaths and extensive damage across several states and cities. Reports cite a man killed by a live wire during a collapse, factory and warehouse fires destroying buildings, and insurance estimates ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Witnesses and officials describe scattered incidents along roads, yards, and theatres with government offices unaffected.
A flurry of incidents reports thefts of thousands, bank robberies, a jail escape, a fatal shooting, and a fatal poisoning case. Suspects linked to the South Chicago bank raid and a Chicago poison murder face life imprisonment. Local police pursue suspects across Milwaukee, Detroit, Columbus, and Avon.
A disturbing Willon County incident reports Carl Rober, a German farmer, shooting his wife, son, and daughter before killing himself. The story shifts to a street scene where a noble woman calms a suffering dog, tending its injured leg with a handkerchief and seeking medical aid, highlighting compassion amid tragedy.
A whimsical historic chronicle credits Dom Perignon with inventing corks and first blending wines to create a refined champagne. It notes his experiments with vineyard mixtures, the role of the cellarer in abbey revenues, and the accidental birth of effervescence that gave rise to sparkling wine.
A Century tale recounts 1819 maritime peril when the whale ship Syren faced armed islanders off Pelew, crew repelling them by showering tacks from the deck. It warns travelers against malaria and urges use of Stomach Bitters as a preventive remedy for travel and exposure.
The article recounts the Mai Mai uprising in the North Island, its religious basis, and British military response. It compares the Maori revolt to other indigenous fanatical movements, notes the role of missionaries, and describes Maori physique, settlement, and the eventual suppression by 1860s forces.
In a winter narrative, Little Beaver and others recount Osage origins and legends. The tale describes a Great Spirit transformation linking a warlike man to beaver people and a royal beaver lineage, with rival accounts from early French voyageurs and a distant memory of Osages known as Wa-sdw-sees.
A fragment recalls a young Daniel Webster in a schoolroom incident when he was caught violating rules. The teacher disciplined him by inspecting his dirty hand and offering stern admonition. Webster, to argue or deflect, showed his left hand as a reply and was allowed to sit.
A prisoner faces death but is saved from capital punishment and given transportation. His wife, after forming a bond with the savior, asks for a pardon for her husband. The husband, after learning the truth, disappears and later urges a divorce so his wife may marry the other man and be happy. Sublime note by M. De Blowitz.
Stavsvoy December 27. At Loble's military academy A IX Hathe way 15 of Jenkinson Texas was struck and killed by James Whitworth 17 of Sulphur Springs Texas during a play with an old pistol.
A large Philadelphia delegation of about sixty manufacturers and capitalists travels from Broad Street Station at 9 20 pm in three parlor cars to Florence Alabama to inspect iron cotton and timber ventures. Participants include James Pollock W T Gibbons Parker Dougherty John A Dougherty and many others. Florence hosts major mills like the Philadelphia furnace and Florence Cotton and Iron Company. The trip aims to view investments and plant at the Florence county seat on the Tennessee river with plans to return by Sunday.
The article details traditional Lapland dress for men and women, noting minimal change over centuries. It describes coarse wool garments, undyed and dyed fabrics, layered shirts, leggings, and shoes with grass-tied tips, plus gendered head coverings and locally varying accessories.
The Blade of Cloud County notes the beet sugar industry expanding under tariff provisions. It cites Grand Island Nebraska where 500 000 invested in beet sugar operations boosted local wages land values and mortgage payoffs. Farmers expect rich sugar content similar to France and other regions.
A fragmented editorial piece discusses Santa Claus as a symbol of protection for families and the working class during Christmas. It questions moral progress, public virtue, and the self discipline of leaders while weaving in economic concerns and references to McKinley era themes. It notes wages, leisure, and household savings as indicators of societal direction. It also cites a miscellany of political and social observations and two sugar beet samples from Perry, Iowa.
A essay argues protection raises domestic industry and omits foreign demand, contending home production lets the U S buy more from tropical and colonial markets. It warns free trade drains Europe and stresses patents and American prestige as advantages, while warning against economic dependence on England.
A new mill project commenced on October 7 with capital of £100,000 and J. C. Alien of Belfast elected managing director. He advocates mills in the states and expects duties to offset higher wages. The plan starts with coarse goods and aims to introduce finer grades soon. Spinning machinery must be imported as flux spinners are not yet made in America.
Pittsburg dispatch reports Chicago Tin Plate company forms a new venture to produce tin plate with 2600? weekly capacity. The plant comprises four mills, cold rolls and latest machinery. The president acts as general manager of a western system. Two railroad men back the venture, names not published. The works general manager will be Mr Parker, ex-Illinois Steel.
A long tale describes Betty Benton's life as a 16 year old in Eurex Afton Mills where her father Elias Henton arranged a marriage to an older landowner. She endured four husbands, survived three losses, and faced a final betrothal as she moved to Ohio with a child and new plans in Covington Kentucky. A moral on courtesy and cleanliness follows, urging home virtue and sanitation as lifelong guides.
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