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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1896
Page
11
A Pall Mall Gazette item questions poets of the era about innovation versus tradition in verse. It laments worn loves and stale conventions while urging a bolder, brighter song and a shift from old, tame forms to vibrant new expression.
In a late nineteenth century tone Susanna Morton a long hesitant spinster initiates marriage by proposing to Mr Culver after toying with the leap year custom. He balks then confesses his own feelings and they confess mutual love sealing a match.
A humorous New York Journal excerpt shows Sheriff Tamsell dealing with a waggish visitor proposing to stay in Ludlow Street jail to finish a novel. The exchange highlights the sheriff’s calm wit amid a swirl of newspapers and lawyers.
A New York Home Journal note reports shoe firms in downtown streets offering free polishing to attract customers. The gimmick lures riders and locals, cutting into professional bootblacks who lament declining earnings as shops block routes and out-of-town customers ride ferries for the service.
A Washington Times column cites odd editorials and grave inscriptions from across the nation. An Oklahoma editor thanks a friend Gus Bradley for oranges with a quip about their diameter. A Maine coroner's jury links a death to excessive drinking and apoplexy. A Michigan editor recalls verses written half a century ago by a poet now buried for pastime.
The article argues Porfirio Diaz, aged 66, seeks a fifth consecutive term as Mexico's president, highlighting his long rule, stability, and modernization. It notes his mixed heritage, early poverty, rise from clerk to general, and his role in ending revolutions while pursuing education, industry growth, and public works. It discusses the electoral process and the likelihood of his election before November of the year indicated.
A contemporary reports Parisian ladies use starch in bath water to soften it, claiming it preserves youth and brightness. The practice is described as cheaper than borax or toilet vinegar and more trustworthy than ammonia, with maids skilled in preparing the mixture.
A curious passage describes luxury baths with themes of weed meal baths starch bathe and sea baths. It details preparing a tub with a fried sheet, almond meal or oatmeal, and various ingredients to create a scented bath that perfumes the bather as the water fills to the brim.
In Graville near Vincennes Paris a seventeen year old Eugene Vasseur is killed by his father a well to do tradesman who confesses to the crime says he killed to prevent his son from disgracing the family fellow confederate Boucher and his wife are arrested and testify Bocher denounces his wife who leads to a full confession motive debts and mill business led to the plan father strangled his son and then hanged him with a rope to fake an execution the father dies in hospital after a fall while guarded London Standard reports the event.
Friends seek the missing Mrs Jacob H Vander bilt a young wife of a Vanderbilt line descendant The rumor says she went to South Dakota to obtain an absolute divorce from her husband a son of Jacob brother of the Commodore Heir to a Cazenovia New York family she wed in New York City in 1886 He was a widower with two children before their marriage and later faced disinheritance as the father feared She sued for damages to force settlement and received payments including 100 a month alimony and 1000 counsel fee before a will dispute
A dramatic exchange unfolds as a white robed woman on a staircase gasps for breath and demands truth from a man entering, blocking him with an icy command before he can finish his plea. The scene centers on a tense, breathless confrontation between two unnamed figures in a staged journal entry.
A new umbrella invented in England uses a transparent covering that allows a person to see where they are going when held in front of the face. The innovation promises safer navigation for cautious travelers and could influence future rain gear design in urban areas.
A collage of brief notes profiles Pierpont Morgan preferring yachting to world affairs, Yvette Gulbert’s travel plans, German hostility comments, and officials like James H. Bekele and General Balfour. Also mentions a royal commission on horse breeding, the death of Herr Allert Joly, and a London seer’s tale of bones and bells found after a digging mystery.
In Billville a comical column mocks wartime injury politics and local affairs. The writer jokes about losing a leg in the war and one running for congress, a one galdbag in a dime museum, a coroner race, and money scarcity forcing instalment candidates. The piece reflects satirical village life and political theater.
Grandm s hearing not of the nest but Thomp son proclaims at the dinner table a bug inside his sleeve while being soothed by grandma. He fears the insect, while a hot tea remedy is suggested and the moment passes with gentle maternal reassurance.
A city teacher, before school, received an apologetic note from a worried mother. She explains Willy stayed home to wash pants after his clothes were damaged by a neighbor’s goat. The humorous spelling reflects a sympathetic plea for excusal.
In a playful exchange a sister jokes about a Yale football player described as a drawback rather than a standout. Ciara and May tease Bob about his role, with Charlie Priyenne weighing in on the team’s biggest drawback.
A frank exchange quotes a man advising Senator Sorghum to branch out of routine governance duties and aim for lasting fame by getting his name on the payrolls, while the senator notes his busy schedule prevents such attention. Washington Star reports.
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