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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1893
Page
7
A garbled OCR fragment references multiple locales and topics including Detroit, St. Louis, and Aspen. It mentions a scandal in St. Louis linked to a likely fatal shooting, various figures, prices, and a chemical or production output figure. The stream is largely incoherent with broken names and numbers.
In a dark night near Dallas, a lone rider follows a silent man who vanishes. He discovers a deserted house with a pale inhabitant, a child named Nellie, and a dead man, Frederick Baronstaple, owner of an Englishman’s estate. The rider tends Nellie and reports the death to local authorities, revealing a tale of loneliness, hunger, and a distant past.
A historical note recalls a cloud burst on June 12, 1800 near Sibley Iowa that dropped millions of fish into the region. Surviving specimens lived in an alcohol bath for weeks, with two remaining dying by August and July, while the first died soon after. The piece questions how fish could travel 2,000 to 2,500 miles in a storm cloud.
Representative Townsend of Colorado presented the minority report of the banking and currency committee to the House. He opposed the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase act, arguing the bill aims to set an absolute gold standard and suppress bi metallic efforts.
Ashland Wisconsin news item reports attorney L. M. Powers arrested in Seattle on bigamy charges and possibly facing embezzlement accusations, with $7,000 of his wife’s money and jewelry involved. Bank embezzlement claims and several indictments linked to Powers appear, alongside local political and social notes from the era.
The text records scattered items including mention of 44 congress members traveling to the Sandyiob Islands in May, a morphine overdose ending in self harm, a failed throat slash, an attempted shooting, and a fire at Bayleas Paper company with insurance loss. It lacks coherent narrative and specifics.
A fragmented OCR text presents a jumble of names, places, and numbers about historical figures and entities including Jay Gould and various corporate and public notices. The legible bits reference mortgages, a transit company, notaries, and auditors, but the overall content is garbled and lacks a coherent narrative or clear events.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a Milwaukee dye works at 246 W Water St with odd references to cloth finishing and feather gloves. It also alludes to congratulatory messages for Mr Gladstone on his birthday, with scattered names and phrases.
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