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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1897
Page
2
Disturbing reports span Wilmington fire damage to city bonds, a New Mexico penitentiary plot, and floods in Kentucky. Notable notes include Mirthful and grim items: Rev Parkhurst collapse, Vaccination ruling, Hanna’s Senate plan, and Crete tensions with Greece and Turkey. Multiple deaths, marriages, and legal actions frame a busy page.
Washington reports from Feb 18 to Feb 25 detail Senate and House actions on treaties, Indian and naval appropriations, and civil service reform. Debates center on ratification timing, Cuban crisis measures, and the Allen resolution for battleships, with strident rhetoric from Grosvenor and reactions across party lines.
Wisconsin lawmakers met in formal sessions as the senate and assembly debated taxation powers for counties and towns and a proposed semi centennial measure. The bank examination fee repeal advanced 22 to 7 after a brief debate. A dispute over a minority report on a 3000 dollar grant to the State Agricultural Society arose, with a ruling to strike White’s name from the minority report. The treasurer’s power to appoint the bank examiner was upheld. An assembly bill limiting county judge and clerk compensation to statutory salaries failed. Adjournments came after a brief evening session. Further actions included guards legal defense, higher normal school funds, and May 29, 1895 as a statehood anniversary holiday. Rosenkrans pushed a university tax report.
Madison Feb 2 and Feb 25 summaries show senate bills on open polls times at elections and reductions in licenses. taxation and public building bonuses debated. Assembly actions include $8,000 to state Agricultural Society and town law revision. various criminal, probate, and public safety provisions, with belt-tightening on liquor and county governance.
In a fragmentary exchange, Wiggins discusses a March 15 incident with FDAR and Palliu Pear, speculating whether a desperate criminal hides in Brooklyn. Hoggs questions the claim while Wiggins expresses fear of a detective or a police car, uncertain of the danger.
In a conversation set in a prohibition town, a Native and a Stranger debate the law. The Native boasts about being the town's only drug store, while the Stranger questions how such a strict rule can be tolerated in a place with limited commerce.
A Washington Star report recounts a novel encounter in Farragut Square where a British traveler pleaded for aid under the line England expects every man to do her duty. He sought food and hospitality from an American reporter who contemplated aiding him before suggesting a visit to the Arlington embassy.
A scrambled column covers Professor Munk on brain rest between studies, a New York florist price roundup for roses, and a St Louis probate report detailing Joseph B. McCullagh’s estate. Also notes a court ruling favoring Gen Russell A. Alper in a mineral lands case and a North Carolina fowl anecdote.
A West Virginia court rules oleomargarine sold in the state must be pink, upholding a six year old law amid broader federal licensing conflicts. The piece also notes domestic birds caring for their young with calm maternal alike, plus brief columns on printing injuries and self examined vanity.
A fragment discusses spring fashion for women including hats with flowers, large sashes, and velvet bodices. It notes turquoise fading to pink coral, lizard skin desk accessories, satin trims, and the social habit of women in salons as audiences for beauty chatter.
A Santiago notice claims strong earthquakes on May 13 and 14 destroyed Juan Fernandez Island off Chile as the Salauds group disappears. A merchant says flames shot from the sea near the isles. Chilean authorities dispatched a vessel to verify whether the isles remain and inhabitants number about a hundred.
A large cache of about forty well preserved prehistoric skeletons was discovered on Beaver Creek in Yavapai County Arizona. The skeletons appear to be clay dwellers placed on natural rock shelves and laid out on matting. they are small in stature but seem to be full crowned in origin.
Office girls replace office boys in many firms. They take time to settle, but they do not read dime novels, smoke cigarettes, or whistle, notes theBoston Globe.
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