Wisconsin Senator Spooner valued amid party unity report
A Trempeleau Herald summary notes strong Republican unity behind Wisconsin Senator John C Spooner and remarks on Gov La Follette. It cites Spooner’s Senate address on the Isthmian Canal, calls him a high authority on international law, and mentions presidential expectations for his Paris mission with the attorney general.
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John C. Spooner
Senate
United States
Spooner
Paris
Panama Canal Company
Appleton Post
La Follette’s Popular Measure and Stevens Law Clash
The piece argues La Follette’s favored policy is not his own invention but borrowed from western populists whose ideas proved worthless in trials. It warns Republicans that harmony requires abandoning plans for a life-long political machine via the Stevens law.
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la Follette
Stevens
Robespierre
West
Regular council meets but adjourns for school meeting
Local items note a one week adjournment of the common council after a Monday session to accommodate a school meeting. Community notices urge purchases from Henry Kamps and report on a child’s nail wound incident.
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Common Council
Henry Kamps
The Dos and the Jackdaw in Savernake Forest
A narrator recalls watching a doe in Savernake Forest while a jackdaw investigates the deer's face. The bird pecks at her eyes nostrils throat and ears then climbs to the shoulders head and bases of the ears before pausing to watch with a striking red head.
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Savernake Forest
Ant Gardens in the Amazon and Market fruit lore
Observations by Amazon Ant Garona and Dr. E Ule in Engler's Jahrbuch describe ant gardens in the Amazon where seeds are sowed within nests by several ant species. The epiphytes show foliage and roots adapted for their niche and many plants live only in these gardens. Separately, a New York shipper notes buyers often pick the poorest fruit at markets, overturning boxes to reach seemingly best specimens, a common but faulty market behavior.
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Amazon
Garona
E. Ule
Engler
New York
Sbkiploada
Two Dare Are Necessary in Sound Localization
Sound travels by waves radiating from the disturbance center. Each person hears along a direct line from source to ear, with strongest impact for the listener closest to the source. A person deaf in one ear cannot locate the direction of a sound, even when the source is nearby.
Literary Light and a Jocular Bibliophile
A London writer recalling he never read canonical works seeks a copy in bookshops. He finally visits a newspaper shop and asks for the Apocrypha, prompting the clerk to quip about weekly or monthly publication cadence.
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Aga
London
Ebop
Giao
Conjunctivitis Clues and Other Oddities in a Fractured Page
The fragment describes eye inflammation with red bloodshot vessels, a shopkeeper dialogue about cheese, a ship helm command noting Sweden’s different rule, a daughter’s fate hinted by letters, and Tyrolean parishes making rosaries in Mieming and Rietz. The text mixes medical curiosities with humor and local customs.
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Tyrolean
Mieming and
Rietz
Foundlings Reflect Seasonal Shifts in Abandonment
Ainslee's recounts police notes showing foundlings rise in summer and fall with winter. It cites a veteran captain who believed infants abandoned due to “too many mouths,” pushing for hospital care while others disagree with the harsh view.
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Foundling
Ainslee
Unclaimed Letters and Ninth Senatorial Convention Notice
Unclaimed letters listed for Marshfield post office up to July 3, 1902 include D Armstrong Annie Boson Hattie Eichhoest Bernard Drescher and others. Also dated July 1 1902 the Ninth Senatorial convention for Adams Marquette Waushara and Wood counties is called for August 6 1902 at 2 PM to nominate a senator. delegates allocated by county.
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Marshfield
D. Armstrong
Annie Boson
Hattie Eichhoest
Bernard Drescher
W. C. Dean
John Fitzgerald
Leo
W. Grignon
Clarey Kellner
Allen Long
A. H. Lewis
Mabeal Lindaw
Chas
Meisner
J. W. Moreland
John Rapp
Jessie Stevens
Hittier Kathrine Siegel
Adams
Marqnetss
Waushara
Eof
Wanushara
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the Marshfield Times
Williams & Bailey
Wisconsin
John C- Spooner
LaFollette
LasFollette
Supreme Court
Trempelean Herae
Merrill Star
Eau Claire
Appleton
Madison
C. S. Sheerin
Fuller & Hathaway
W. A. Sexton
Ladies' Aid Society
The
Presbyterian Church
Main County Raad
Fenwood
Edgar
Times Office
Jacob Sturm
Rembs & Sturm Furniture
Central Avenue
Third Street
John Brackendorf
International Correspondence School
Grand Rapids
Frank L. Zweck
J. H. Jeffers
Wausau
M. C. Lueckenbach
Charley
Jane
Strand Theatre
Kansas City
Wenzel
Dave Simons
Fred Beell
Neillsville
Stanley
Beell
Simons
Wormy
Sweden
Cink
Scientife School
Henry
Herty
First National Bank
Marehfield, Wis
Adam Harety
Uthmeier
Erésident
Bow
Recaz
Cashiel Joen Sxvbert
Aneistiat Caanlor
Adam Hater
Urbineser
J. W. Cameron
Leacher Choate
L. Th. Thom “Nos
Dnly
Dha
Just
Thera
Thin Bank
Wa Gutik Factory
American National Bank OF
D. Connor
KRAUS
Lindeman
W, D. Connor
Mich. Steinmetz
N. Christensen
E, Winch
BE. M. Deming
C. G. Lindemann
Cashier
Avery
Europe
India
Dimities
Batiste
Proprietors OF the
Star Meat Market
F. J. Deckrts
Brill’s Store
Geo. W. Clark
Wausau, Wis
John Brickler
Scheike’s
Eiche
Geo. W. Upham
Vedder
Chattel Mortgage
C. S. Vedder
City Clere
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