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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1903
Page
3
The reader is treated to a composite of quirky dialogue and humorous lines about a perfume themed show. Witty exchanges about cars and sentiments mix with a senator’s offhand remark and a playful riddle about a ghost of a smile. A poem fragment about a Woolsocket man closes the piece with a rhymed couplet.
In the sixth ward a traveling peddler touts a catarrh remedy, pressuring a resident who refuses. He pushes samples and an order book, pitches the cure to all, but she questions him and says she cannot pay. The scene ends with the vendor leaving in frustration.
A Washington hotel table conversation frames Representative Foss of Chicago as a ponderous figure in the House Naval Affairs Committee. His Illinois colleague Joe Cannon is asked for an opinion, and the discussion hints Foss takes himself more seriously than necessary.
The Huoral arts building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition is a monumental ironstone structure costing 476,009 dollars. Its severe style blends Renaissance and Gothic elements with extensive sculpture and mural frescoes in loggias. The 700 foot main facade features a central pavilion and eleven entrances. The building, used for dedication on April 30, hosts events including a Saenger festival and an international press congress, and proves the era's advanced construction methods.
A Buffato News excerpt reflects on a sermon line praising an “Oh, thou mighty, all sufficient, self-sufficient, omnipotent God.” The passage connects the speaker’s praise to the preacher’s invocation and evokes a memorable phrasing.
In a tersely worded exchange Wyellington Star quotes a senator on friendship with trusts. A committeeman stresses action by saying to organize, while an elder bemusedly notes they have not yet been photographed. Judge voices the jarring remark.
A garbled dialogue from the Herald includes a doctor discussing a patient’s consumption and decline. Voices mention a dead man, spring neckties, and a missing assurance of illness. Other snippets reference Tompkins, a sideshow Barker, and Salvation Army work, ending with a remark on worldly luck.
A dialogue notes the centipede or thousand legged worm has allegedly lost thirty legs. The blase gentleman replies that the idea mirrors comic opera choruses, which show a similar shortage in stage previews versus performance.
A man with a subscription book asks Rivers for a donation but receives none and leaves. Brooks, feigning resentment, believes the donor assumes him rich yet stingy. Rivers judges the donor as thinking Brooks too poor to give. Brooks sighs with relief, concluding it’s all right.
The article reviews Russia s demands for Manchuria including trade posts consular limits and transport rights plus a timeline of Russian expansion from the 17th to 19th centuries. It notes past interventions by Britain the United States and Japan and observes ongoing tensions over Port Arthur and railway control.
A fragmentary poem in old verse speaks to Carette and a faithful horse. The speaker laments waiting in dawn light and questions if Carette still recalls their past blaze of play and companionship as fate and shadows close in.
An account related by Dr H Carrington Bolton notes Tycho Brahe wore a silver nose after losing his real one in a duck fight. He reportedly slept with it off, his dog chewed it, and to avoid further damage Brahe had ten silver noses made. One was kept in a German museum until recent loss.
Fragmentary excerpt presents a Kipling inspired vow to repair past wrongs through acts of planting trees sharing bread and water, rebuilding neighborly bonds, and redeeming a land scarred by war. It envisions uniting people to heal, sanctify fields, rivers, and skies, and restore life to the living and the dead.
In a hinged exchange Mn Highmore challenges a salesman, claiming no vision correction need while admitting the glasses are for better sight. The dialogue centers on whether the device serves his eyes or the seller’s claim of improvement.
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