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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1903
Page
12
A narrator recalls fear of left handed barbers and hairdressers noting their tendency to frighten him into anxious thoughts of mortality. He jokes that left handed workers in dressmaking and manicuring also cause unease, claiming such cuts and results provoke goose flesh and shivers.
In 1874 Tilden and Dorsheimer led a Republican ticket to a decisive win. A German vote bloc briefly backed Dorsheimer, giving him a large majority. At a Gramercy Park breakfast, Tilden joked that Dorsheimer’s extra majority came from him lending fifty thousand dollars.
A fragment from a Philadelphia paper features a boastful student and a surgeon professor with a comic misstep in surgery. It follows a firm lawyer’s junior clerk whose threatening letter yields payment, plus brief jokes on dress and daily life and a meditation on living one day at a time.
Carrie and Charles spar over Carrie taking her pug. Charles accuses her of using the dog to enhance her own appearance. Carrie retorts she will take the dog when she wants, dismissing his jealousy and defending the pet’s role.
Puere go the Spicer Wilcoxes and a teasing exchange about who should be told of their situation. The conversation hints at social vanity and the value of privacy versus curiosity in who deserves attention.
In a domestic scene Elsis and Mra Highblower-Elele spar over politeness and speaking out beyond a quarrel between father and mother. Elsis notes she never speaks outside the family quarrel, while the mother and daughter discuss civility and tension within the household.
A fractured text fragment discusses lovers and wit in silent settings. It states there is no room for both to draw swords at the edge and mentions a judge and a purchased futurity by the present. The sourcing is unclear and may be from a catalog or fiction excerpt.
Sheriff John J. Ebbe visited from the county seat on Saturday. Lubin Waggoner joins The Times staff from Medford. Grand Rapids visitors and Elks ball attendance feature among many brief notes on residents’ comings and goings, business trips, and relocations across several towns.
Marshfield news recounts a week of social calls and travels. Brill’s trio of road agents, local officials, professionals, and families are shown visiting, attending dedications, and planning trips from Madison to Oshkosh, with train incident details and a boy’s later arrest for track obstruction.
A millinery reinforcement highlights a new lot of three hundred trimmed hats in ready-to-wear street and dress styles. Brill emphasizes stylish hats with affordable prices and easy payment options, promising hats that suit without high costs.
A nobby new lot of men s fancy shirts has arrived featuring white Oxford styles described as beauties. The notice highlights fresh stock and stylish options for day wear.
The Monday Ladies Travel Class met as usual and heard a well covered paper by Mrs. Hinman on the Suez Canal. The talk traced early Ramesside times and the long history of attempts to build the canal, noting the 1869 completion under Ferdinand de Lesseps.
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