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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1908
Page
3
Miss Rebbe a 30 year old St. Louis woman who begged and scavenged to live. She inherited savings and a habit of thrift from impoverished parents who saved thousands. Police found $5,607 in a dirty basket and her tale of dire poverty contrasted with her fortune.
Cincinnati reports a Covington Kentucky Newport Kentucky gathering where 25 Sioux Indians staged a dog feast as part of a tribal ceremony. The chief led the capture and the elder divested the pelt while the tribe danced and sang around a large caldron before the meat was shared. Chief Pumipkin noted the feast made up for days away from the government reservation where such dog banquets are forbidden.
Mrs. Pimblett and her husband battled a ferocious gray rat in their Green Polts home near Newton Creek. The rodent grievously bit the baby and the mother while the husband was wounded in the leg. After a ten minute struggle the rat escaped.
Mrs. Cora Kelley of Prankfort Indiana was found on her aunt Mrs. Moore’s porch in this city while asleep. She had risen at midnight and walked three miles to the aunt’s home. She was awakened and immediately suffered a nervous chill. a physician was summoned.
Col William C Gorgas, chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal Zone, elected president of the American Medical Association. He helped end Havana yellow fever and transform the Canal Zone into a healthier region, tracing his career from Sewanee to Bellevue and military service.
Major Ronald Ross linked mosquitos to yellow fever and malaria spread, while Col. Gorgas led a Cuba style sanitization in Panama. He reports reducing death rates among workers, mass house fumigation, and large scale insect control efforts to curb malaria and yellow fever.
A Seattle article notes a natural rock likeness of Washington at Waldron Island near Puget Sound. It describes battles, British-American border disputes, and a rocky landscape resembling ships and pagodas. The piece celebrates the San Juan islands as a growing summer resort destination drawing visitors and yachts.
A New York Times opinion notes ongoing scandals among the wealthiest society, arguing that arrogant conduct and lax public duty among the young elite threaten social order and moral standards despite prior remonstrances.
A brief reader query humorously questions the origin of asps and the meaning of the term Aspasia. The note mentions Cleopatra’s snake bite and a playful exchange about Asia as a source.
A collage of quips and snippets shows a speaker bragging on daily skills from clocks to lawns, then riffs on fashion and nightlife. It shifts to a candid church remark by Dr Goodman about rheumatism and golf, and ends with a poetic vignette about a pessimist wandering a primrose path, all attributed to Chicago Record-Herald writings.
A humorous dialogue about landscape improvement and hesitation over engagement to dine with a long list of German princes. The joke hinges on the worry of mayhem by hyphenation and the people of Genany puzzled by his absence.
A heated exchange unfolds as a former lady’s maid challenges a current employer. The unnamed mistress voices fury at being addressed, while the new maid asserts her prior standing and job role amid the clash.
A fragment from a satirical exchange features a husband claiming contentment while quipping about his wife’s “understudy” shadows and a playful reference to separation. The dialogue evokes comic tension through domestic irony and social banter.
The snippet mentions a cooking school and a nursery as upcoming Seattle innovations. It also alludes to a question about a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and cites Yonkers States man. The fragmentary text offers little context but notes planned ventures and a public inquiry into child welfare groups.
A quote recalls a trolley conductor husband who stayed thin after seven years on the job. A dark woman contrasts travel broadening a man with the Hecht woman’s remark about her husband’s slender appearance.
A domestic scene shows a mistress instructing Jane to dress by morning for visitors, and Jane asking whether to remove the bumbrellas. The dialogue hints at social etiquette and household routines.
A Yonkers Statesman item records a quarrel between a couple, Mrs Crimsonbeax and Mr Crimsonbear, over a dress and going outside. The argument humorously centers on arrest for wearing the same outfit in public.
A dialogue unfolds as an ordinary citizen questions a long-haired youth who has just sold a poem to a magazine. The youth ambiguously replies that the encounter may be familiar, hinting at prior meetings.
A Yonkers exchange notes delays as dangerous, with Greene agreeing and recounting a car breakdown. The speaker recalls offering a proposal to distract a companion, illustrating a tense moment amid travel hiccups.
The piece notes that about 700000 demi johns are produced annually in the country, but the largest sizes are imported. The tone hints at a preference for imported goods, with a humorous aside about Yonkers and the Statesman.
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