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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1907
Page
4
The item gathers a collage of short notes from 19th century life. A Cook memorial in New Zealand, debates on marriage penalties, wholesale diamonds, hair myths, and a Budapest schoolboy essay bureau. Reports include a Paris hair quality claim, Zanzibar trade notes, a $250,000 Ohio legacy, naval submarines, studies in Seville and Berlin, a torn Long Bridge in Washington, a Franklin miscaption rumor, and a York Library tobacco smell anecdote.
A Lincoln based club of psychical researchers investigated a farm house near Valparaiso and Sanders County reporting genuine disembodied spirit activity. Doors locked themselves, lights flashed, unseen horse sounds and phantom carriages appeared, with shadowy human forms seen briefly and then fading. The Van Sant family, former occupants, corroborated unusual events during the five year span.
In New York Jersey City a pajama wedding occurred at four am as Florey wed her stepfather Nelson Wheeler with a justice in pajamas presiding. The ceremony followed a legal quirk allowing a woman to wed her late mother’s second husband, prompting a tabloid retelling of the unusual nuptials in a sleepy city.
A description notes many married men living in a flat house entered the scene, arriving in their pajamas overcoats at the invitation of a magistrate. The event portrays a curious nocturnal assembly within the neighborhood, reflecting social norms and formal authority in a peculiar fashion.
A British household fears a prowling leopard discovered by Mr Sandiford’s daughter who warned her father. He enters the spire bedroom and encounters the animal three feet away. Captain Younghusband shoots the leopard through the head as neighbors crowd the window. The family cat had hidden in a boy’s room.
Dr Samuel J Mielzer tested bottles in a vibratory machine at a soda water plant and found microbes killed by motion. The apparatus created vibration and a strong centrifugal effect.
English actor George Trollope with notable stage presence ends his acting career to enter the Catholic priesthood. Remarkably his debut on stage was the play The Sign of the Cross.
New York Jan. 26 Fifty-one talesmen were examined for the Thaw White trial with seven jurors selected after two new additions to the panel. Most prospects cited firm opinions on guilt making service unlikely. Nesbit feared exclusion. Thaw watched reporters, while the court adjourned to Monday.
Ormond Daytona Beach Fla Jan 26 Fred Marriott driving a cigar shaped steam racer at two miles a minute struck hardened sand lifting the front wheels, losing steering, and flipping the car on its side. It rolled and splintered the frame while Marriott lay unconscious but alive. The boiler vented steam saving his life. injuries judged serious but not fatal.
Cairo Illinois reports Bird's Point Missouri flooded by rising river waters after a levee breach Friday. Severe wind and rainstorm worsen conditions as rail service ends and rolling stock is moved out. Flooded area includes lands not submerged for years, threatening local residents and infrastructure.
A government commission reports that Dr. Matias Duque, head of the hospital for contagious diseases, may have discovered a cure for leprosy. The finding comes from Havana on January 26.
Jan 26 report from Houston Maine details a head on collision in Presque Isle Yard of Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. One railroad worker was killed and another seriously injured in the two freight train crash.
Marshfield scholars H. C. Fish and George H. Reynolds of the Wisconsin Archaeological Society are compiling early Wisconsin history from Indian occupation eras. They use old settlers’ memories and relics to prepare a paper for the society’s next meeting.
Milwaukee health department proposes exterminating all rats and mice to curb disease spread. The plan cites a contagious pneumonia-like illness in infected rats and a chain reaction killing connected rodents, triggering culling measures across the city.
La Grosse Angs Robertson was awarded 1000 damages against Henry Sprain after a blow to the head with a hatchet. The verdict records the injury and the amount of damages in the civil action.
The piece describes Kabul's brutal winter from October to March with deep snow and freezing winds. Charcoal fuels, draughty homes, limited coal, and the need for thick clothing. Foodstuffs freeze, bread is chopped, water freezes, tea and cocoa must be drunk quickly, and condensation is scarce.
Invigorate digestion and relieve constipation or dyspepsia with Brandreth Pills. A long standing vegetable tonic used for over a century, cleansing the blood and imparting vigor. One or two nightly doses for a week usually suffice. Sold in drug stores in plain or sugar coated form.
A St Louis parvenue pays a waiter one dollar to the cook while another guest adds two dollars for the same favor. The piece notes tipping practices and compares scenes at adjacent tables. It also cites health statistics from New York showing a decline in general death rates except for acute respiratory diseases cancer heart disease and kidney disease.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale has attended White House receptions for forty years since 1802. At the latest occasion he presented one of his grandfatherly remarks and reflected on long service and tradition.
Hon G C Brooke mayor of Sunbury Ohio and attorney for Farmers Bank and Sunbury Building and Loan Co writes I have the utmost confidence in the virtue of Peruna It is a great medicine I have used it and know many friends who obtained beneficial results from its use I cannot praise Peruna too highly
Weather turns mucous membranes out of tune causing minor disorders across seasons. Cold or cough, catarrh, digestive upset, liver or kidney effects all stem from seasonal conditions. Peruna is advertised as a standby in thousands of homes and a free Perm Almanac for 1907 is offered by druggists.
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