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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1891
Page
2
A garbled Marshfield Times fragment discusses Minnesota juror rules and constitutional changes, mentions Secretary Proctor and diplomat roles, then veers into medical and travel notes about Europe and Africa. The text cites Berlin phrenology claims, the New York physicians, and a voyage toward Valparaiso with royal connections.
Disjointed clippings recount figures named Squireot Washington and Russel Young, with references to a New York editor, a senator candidate in Kansas, and a duchess buried in Westminster. A patient list of diverse items follows, including hints of conspiracies, medical terms, and a cavalry veteran’s brief mention, all framed as scattered notes from a tumultuous era.
A broad late 1800s dispatch reports political rumors, financial failures, and natural disasters. It notes Denial of retirement by a public figure, state liabilities, Indian population counts, lectures offered, monument subscriptions, and agricultural formations. It lists river blockades, a whiskey tax raid, desertions, and several mine and railway accidents with fatalities and injuries.
A chaotic digest reports a saloonkeeper assaulted in Milwaukee, a Chicago railway conductor killed in Texas, a murderer appealing a sentence in Indiana, embezzlement allegations near Meadville, a Memphis man found guilty of wife murder, a San Francisco double murder suicide, Chicago bank robbery pleas, a poison gram threatening Hastings school, a true masked robbery near Castambus, a 87 year old shooting in San Thuessea, Baltimore real estate scams, a Columbus prison escape, and a Milwaukee robbery fraud confession, reflecting a surge of violence and crime across multiple states.
A flood of reports from Chili to England, Italy, and Berlin details political upheaval, epidemics, fires, and shipwrecks. Notable items include a dissolution of authority in Ireland, a dangerous explosion near Hypatty, and a revolt in Yemen against Ottoman taxes. European finance and aristocratic bequests surface amid a broad array of global incidents.
A guard armory in Eau Claire burned causing extensive damage. A collision on the St Paul road wrecked four freight cars and an angina. A fire at Augusta Georgia destroyed property worth about 100000 dollars early Wednesday. In Tennessee near Sheroan Louzes, four adults were injured but no infants were killed.
The piece discusses the use of temperature lowering drugs in fevers, noting concerns about overuse and abuse by both doctors and the public. It cites Up. Seondhurst of London and urges physicians to maintain secrecy about prescriptions to prevent misuse and protect patients from risky self-medication.
An account by Prof. Austin on Torres Strait peoples, detailing western and eastern island tribes, their distinct languages and totem systems, marriage customs, initiation rites, and clan laws. The piece describes taboos on killing totems, rules of behavior, initiation at Tud on Warrior Island, and the ritual objects marking chief and youth status.
A collage of excerpts argues over whether students must accept professor led free trade doctrine. The piece quotes dialogues on marriage and maturity, then shifts to ethnographic descriptions of initiation rites among Murray Islanders, canoe trade networks, and ceremonial masks. It notes Buckinghams and Buffalo Bill in Europe, plus a Wisconsin charity diary and U S tariff history discussions.
Washington, Jan. 9 The general war office issued instructions to restore lands withdrawn and not needed to satisfy the grant to the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Red Owughiy railroad company. The land embraces 100000 acres spread across the northern part of Wisconsin.
Jan. 7 Appleton Wis. fire alarm at 12 o clock saved Afr W Gurdis home but damage exceed $200. Cause undetermined though electric light wires suspected. Also Jan 7 Appleton reports a terrible sight a child’s head found among rage at Fox River Paper mill with 6 months since death noted from B Felsenthal & Bro of Chicago.
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