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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1910
Page
4
The March 3 1910 Marshfield Times column riffs on autos comets aviation and demand shocks from dairy pricing while musing on eggs quail hunting and Edison forecasts a future Utopia. It weaves pop culture quips with social trends, noting Greece Russia and American food costs, ending with reflections on drudgery versus play in sports like baseball and hay pitching.
Philadelphia endures what may be the nation’s largest general strike as 75 000 workers walk out. Streetcar service stalls, factories close, and rioting erupts from Kennington to across town with clashes, injuries, and police response as officials predict either a fizzle or worsening unrest. The U S Army is sent to guard government property amid mounting tension.
New York March 7 Dr Louis Klopsch editor of the Christian Herald has died at the German hospital at Park Avenue and Seventy seventh Street after an operation for stomach trouble. His death comes after a period of illness that began earlier this month. Seven hundred miners at the American Zinc Lead and Smelting Co plants in Juption Missouri struck for higher wages on March 7.
Kansas City March 7 Dr B C Hyde of ties to Col Thomas H Swope family faced 13 counts across 11 indictments after a three week grand jury probe into the Swope family deaths With eight indictments alleging typhoid poisoning of relatives visitors and attendants Hyde already faces a murder charge for Col Swope by strychnine and is held on a $50 000 bond.
The sixteenth annual session of the Rebekah state assembly of Texas opened today in Austin with strong statewide attendance. Delegates from all parts of Texas gathered for the meeting of the female auxiliary to the Odd Fellows fraternal group.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine men across 32 eastern railroads formally demand higher wages from the General Managers' association. Erie General Manager J C Stuart rejects central negotiation, saying wages must be settled individually with each railroad rather than through a unified body.
Berlin reports hundreds injured as clashes erupt between police and Socialists protesting suffrage measures. In the capital 120,000 joined demonstrations. 30,000 in Trapton Park clashed with authorities. Naples reports Vesuvius erupting violently for a day, with interior explosions and lava pouring from the crater.
A quirky tale recalls a giraffe who fancied wearing human garb. He weighs each purchase, calculating costs, and finally concludes the plan is too costly to pursue.
Farmers are urged to increase their intake of Quaker Oats following scientific demonstrations that oats boost physical endurance and mental vigor. The advice applies to farmers, their children, and farm hands to improve health and strength amid greater food variety.
A traveling man visits a large New York firm and is refused entry. After a gateyard exchange, the manager tears up the card but sends a nickel. The traveler then offers a second card and a counter offer, leaving the manager rushing out as the man departs with the payment.
Richard Le Gallienne, at a St Regia dinner, pondered President Taft's whisky decision. He recalled living in Liverpool where chemists tested every whisky, joking that a Liverpudlian claimed a pub’s whisky was pure yet said pub was paralyzed by three anarchists.
A reprinted cure-alls pitch advocates a mixture of ayrup of Sarsaparilla, Toris Compound, and whiskey. The formula claims rapid relief when taken as a tablespoonful before meals and at bedtime, with druggists able to supply the ingredients.
A Cleveland Leader Sunday Magazine excerpt recounts Senator Beveridge answering a sugar trust defender with a morbid funeral joke about a coffin. It also cites a proverb from George Washington on bearing burdens and a tonic advertisement touting a cold remedy.
A New York woman argues over work hours with an 18 year old colored housemaid she has hired. The girl demands more time off, insisting Monday and Thursday nights are insufficient for her debutante status. The exchange reveals tensions over privilege and labor.
A man quits meat, potatoes, coffee and adopts fruit, Grape Nuts with cream, toast and Postum. Health improves quickly as high nutritive value foods aid blood and tissue. Grape Nuts offers natural phosphate of potash aiding brain and nerves. A few days’ use can boost nervous strength. Look for the Road to Wellville and the famous slogan There’s a Reason.
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