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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1899
Page
3
An abstract playful verse recounts a soap bubble tale. A bright bubble meets its double and tastes a kiss, sparking trouble as joy dissolves. The whimsical dialogue ponders whether a kiss or sigh can bring happiness, ending with a moral about fragile delight.
Mare Cecil Hay recounts a London to Brighton style late journey on the Night Express. A bold trio of thieves manipulates a misdirected alarm and a blind elderly woman to cover their escape as a guard and London detective scrutinize passengers.
The New York Journal reports two native ex soldiers guard the king of Spain at night. They patrol the palace with strict midnight rituals, locking doors and maintaining vigilant watch around Abdul Hamid’s rooms. The palace contains multiple bedrooms, iron doors, and two large guard dogs outside the sleeping chamber.
Mrs. Scatlea of Chilton Wisconsin claims direct descent from King Philip and asserts an American Indian lineage. The article notes her potential $100,000 share if an Indian alarm against the U S government is viewed as favorable. Stanton helped Chilton become a county seat and donated land for public buildings and churches. She reportedly adopted a5 & Son and educated Steve Nichols, a noted Civil War scout.
The article surveys extraordinarily old trees worldwide. It cites a Chapultepec taxodium around 110 feet in circumference, claims Senegals’ date at about 5 150 years, a Lombardy cypress planted before Christ, and Palenque ruins vicinity trees aged 4 000 to 6 000 years, with the giant California tree estimated at 4 000 years.
Retired Topeka soldier Jack Carroll recounts how he arrested General Shafter after a dispute. He describes striking the officer during a confrontation, being chained in the guardhouse for five weeks, then being released by General Miles. Years later Carroll hunted Shafter, arrested him for deer law violations, and marched him 14 miles to the town jail in a dramatic reassertion of the old grievance.
Ancient China issued paper money as early as 800 A.D. A specimen in the Bank of England dates from the fourteenth century. Europe followed, with the Bank of Stockholm and later the Bank of England issuing notes such as the early £20 notes around 1626.
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