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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1896
Page
2
Poetic verse describes a beloved girl named Tam Tsou and a loving speaker who admires her sweetness, mood, and temper. The speaker likens her to spring flowers, a rosebud, and a delicate charm, calling her caquette and darling in a tender, lyrical portrait.
A milliner drops a potato from a fifth story window in Rue Lepic. It clatters onto a gentleman below, triggering a comic chain: two old college friends reunite, a magician performs, a bassoon solo intervenes, and a milk-filled chase ends with a breakfast wedding pact among Edgar Anatole Aglae and Molesquin.
A collage of humorous snippets and misspelled dialect from American papers, including Uncle Eben on happiness and trust, a brief note on Maude-Young engagement, quick gags about broken proposals, art critiques, carpet holes, and schoolroom anecdotes. Notable lines reference Washington Star and Detroit Free Press style quips.
A dialogue among three men debates electricity and the millennium. One reads aloud then argues that electricity could do nearly all work, while another notes the need to monitor the dynamo. they acknowledge humanity has not yet reached the millennium.
The report blends playful theater anecdote with a grim Lakota camp scene near Wounded Knee. Mme Brohan jokes with Marshal Canrobert amid a farce, while a Sioux gathering at Red Dog camp near Pine Ridge recounts grievances and delegates bound for Washington. Indian leaders claim natural lordship, cite government handouts totaling tens of millions since 1868, and emphasize fierce honor.
The piece portrays the Ogallala Sioux preparing for a delegation to Washington led by Hoke Smith to seek harsher terms and new annuities. It details grievances over law enforcement, government funds, and farming aid, and describes the tribe’s culture, gambling, and the sun dance as notable but prohibited practices.
A lyric about a lovers journey home through hardship toward a promised land of rest. The speaker urges patience as the beloved travels the rough path, guided by faith, toward a future filled with light, feast, and reunion. References to the Great Father and a land of bloom frame the hopeful ending.
A Saringer asks directions in a Connecticut town to a yarn mill. He is guided to a drinking fountain near a wooden block with three doors, where the middle door leads to the newspaper office. The other yarn factory is located about a half mile beyond Youth's Companion.
A historic house that housed Andrew Jackson during the period around the New Orleans campaign was burned to the ground recently. The incident destroys a key link to early American military history and communal memory of Jackson's leadership.
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