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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1890
Page
3
A narrator recounts a tense pursuit after a near murder in a town. A mysterious woman, her past, and a dangerous lover drive a nocturnal escape scene ending with police intervention and a hospital recovery. A Napoleon reference and a Pittsburgh nobility subplot appear as digressions.
The piece reviews Italian politics and the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, highlighting the assembly in Monte Citorio, deputy pay and travel rights, and electoral quirks. It contrasts Italian progress with British governance and notes cultural attractions for American tourists in Rome.
A Bourdeilles widow named Elie Bourivy reportedly fasts for sixty days under medical observation after her husband’s death, with Dr. Sinson and specialists monitoring. The piece links the case to broader questions of fraud, endurance, and medical skepticism, while also touching on unrelated notes about telecommunication trials, river phenomena, steam pipe safety, and aging ants in separate items.
A nostalgic poem laments the hard old farming ways. It recalls wooden oxen, the plow, broadcast seeding, hoeing weeds, haying by hand, and the laborious thrashing and threshing before modern machinery changed the fields. The piece contrasts past toil with present ease.
A collage of quotes on misspellings from Cambridge Tribune style pieces links humorous anecdotes with a medical ad mentioning Syrup of Figs and Dr. Suse’s Extract. The excerpt also notes theater society invitations in New York, a rumor on successful memory feats by James Norville, and a boastful look at public diction and spelling in historical letters.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Purgative Pellets for relieving stomach and bowel overload from rich meals. It touts Golden Medical Discovery to tone the stomach and liver, claim blood purification and universal digestion aid, and warns against substitutes. The pitch names Assomanion Roa 663 Main Street Buffalo NY as contact.
A garbled mix of product pitches and brief notices. Ads mention Brown’s Bronchial Tivebes, Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward offer, Cragin & Co. in Philadelphia promoting free novels with soap wrappers, and reports of German empires passport policy shifts. Also notes on postal, telegraph, and patent items alongside quirky anecdotes and stray biographical references.
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