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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1901
Page
3
A writer in Shanghai surveys urban and rural contrasts, detailing foreign influence, mission activity, and Chinese traditions. He observes architecture, commerce, religion, language complexity, foot binding, cosmetic practices, and social codes, connecting these to broader attitudes toward foreigners and change.
A discussion of belief in ghosts among eminent figures. The text notes that superstition affects happiness and appears in both common people and celebrated individuals, citing Dr Samuel Johnson as an example of a person who believed in ghosts.
May 15 President governor vetoed four measures including compulsory vaccination tax equity exemptions and tax payment timing for Milwaukee. Senate 14 members present. Assembly lists 19 names. May 16 governor approves twelve bills left after adjournment including Overbeck ice tax and Gates county measure.
A visitor addressing the Sunday school tells children that riches do not bring happiness and emphasizes being good, obedient, and faithful to learned lessons. The class responds with comic mishearing as an older child shouts a misquote about health, wealth, and wisdom, highlighting the pupils’ uneven grounding.
A poetic excerpt from Carolyn Wells in Smart Set presents three women who love the speaker in different ways. The first is sweet and shy, the second overtly passionate, and the third calm and self sacrificing, each willing to sin for him. The piece contrasts desire, restraint, and renunciation across the three character sketches.
A Woman's Home Companion excerpt describes an inexpensive style of travel and leisure. It portrays a small party building a makeshift mobile shelter on a car, using rails and horses to roll the vehicle along, and enjoying cross-country scenery, old walls, roadside shadows, and cottage sights. The piece extols a cool, dry, comfortable summer retreat with adjustable shutters and a canvas-covered kitchen platform for wet weather.
In July a distant wild honey bee colony found the narrator’s hive and stole honey bags. Forest bees returned with force, the defender narrowed the hive entrance and fought off attackers into darkness. By dawn the invaders were defeated with heavy losses and survivors scattered to the woods as the hive lay silent and deserted. The queen presumably died during the siege.
A fragment reports a company engaging with enemy prisoners, two individuals killed in open combat, one believed dead among the fallen, and a body dropped into the river or area described as the Aras. The text is incomplete but conveys deadly fighting and loss among captives.
A traveler recalls a northern India visit to cashmere workers whose shawls are woven while singing. Each loom has a color and pattern described in musical notation, linking color to sound. Women reportedly soothe babies with drip hydropathy during field work, keeping them quiet under falling water and swaddling bands.
Charles Johnston in the Atlantic praises the enduring charm of Bret Harte Twain and their Miliss Captain Ned Blakely Huck Fanshaw Scotty Briggs sketches. He notes these early local journal pieces outlived their era, spreading worldwide as lasting wealth of man. The humor shows free, generous, sunlit spontaneity without ego or traps.
A young man named Mr. Boadieng asks for the banker’s daughter. He pledges a good salary, life insurance, and to furnish a modest home. The elderly banker, after a quick assessment, approves the match and agrees to the union.
A Milwaukee Sentinel reader from Irving writes to the Sentiel suggesting she could source items for the Sunday Sentinel. She notes a busy scene at the central state penitentiary often yields items of statewide interest.
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