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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1909
Page
3
The Billiken Charm Fails Jinx in Office Mishap
In a humorous 1909 scene, Jinx tries to keep a Billiken on his desk to avert bad luck. A kiss misfires as his wife’s momentary glance causes a cheek mark, and a chain of clumsy events ensues when the Billiken is dropped from Jinx’s window. The office accident tally grows as a typewriter is toppled and rumors of a concealed attack spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billiken
Jinx
Cleneos
Bhey
Tlm
Fuege
W. G. Chapman
Immortal Dreams and a Food Store Vision in Athens
A monologue from 1908 reveals imagined futures in a Greek setting and Urban visions. The speaker foresees autocratic rulers, wealth disparities, and societal shifts while recalling a grocery store in Miltiades Street. The piece blends satire with prophetic fantasy and ends with a personal wish to remarry.
Kansas crops prove mighty, pumpkins blame the track
The piece recalls a Kansas rail journey where squash seed poultice incidents surface. A conductor warns a traveler about a penitentiary offense for dumping such material on railroad rights of way. The narrator notes wild tales of pumpkins and crops, ending with a self reproof from the drummer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
California
Kansas
Juenteal
Powpow Jusetion
Tennessee
Sizher Sode
Gostee
Bulldog Fights Wolves to Save Master in Michigan
Frank Trathin of Emerson, Michigan, loses his bulldog defending him from four wolves near a sawmill camp. The dog dies saving its master after a brutal fight. Trathin then buys a Winchester and hunts wolves seeking vengeance, while quitting timbering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Trathin
Ride
Starte
Animal
Traverse City
Mich
Emerson
Newberry
Trathlh
Trathin
Japanese youth buried alive attempts death in coffin
A Kobe youth paid 25 cents to dig a burial coffin and attempted to starve himself to death by lying in it after burying himself with a bamboo pipe leading to the box. A Kobe policeman discovered the coffin, freed the man Yamada Kaigutare and he vowed not to repeat the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Kobe
Osity
Yamada Kaigutare
Tald
Fand
Yamada
Towle
Egeyama
New Sect Shuns Clothing In German Colonies
Curiosity spreads about a German sect advocating complete clothing abstinence for sanitary and moral reasons. Followers organize a Berlin nearby colony in a forest clearing, with education deemed unusually good and a Swiss lake branch reported. Police refrain from interference within the colony area. Oil jug drinker drives man to insanity in Painesville. Theodore Redler sent to Newbury state hospital after a clash with deputies. He tore his clothes and assaulted family, burning currency in the cell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Berlin
Painesville
Rose County
Like County
Theodore Redler
Kirtland
Newbury State Hospital
Denis
Oldest Man in America Praises Peruna Remedy
Isaac Brock of McLennan County Texas extols Dr Yarkman’s Peruna as the best medicine for coughs colds catarrh and diarrhea. He credits the remedy with his long life and good hearth and says it meets all his needs and is valuable to old people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennyson
Jesus
Miltiades
W. G. Chapman
Kansas
W. G. Chapline
Isaac Brock
McLennan County
Tex
Peruna
Yarkman
Isaac
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