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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1882
Page
3
A collage of humorous vignettes and wordplay unfolds with tales of misadventure, social banter, and eccentric characters. From a stubborn cashier to a theater of forgetful bachelorettes, the piece lampoons manners with wry asides and cartoonish quotes. It threads jokes about gambling, travel, and daily life through unlikely conversations and a parade of colorful figures.
Laurence Drew of Farming of Horses speaks at the Dassert Farmer's Society dinner in Raploch Inn Scotland. He argues shows unite stock, praise English stud books while defending Clyde stud lines and the value of English blood for improving Clydesdale horses. He notes his status as a leading breeder with over 100 brood mares and that his Stud of Wales cost $75.
A garbled passage mentions gossip about money and a woman, with a narrator defending against others spreading rumors. The text reads awkwardly and lacks clear names, places, or dates.
Two cowboys from Camas Praire recount a frightening encounter with a giant wild man on a lava field. He stood over 21 feet tall, covered in black hair, with bear like chest and wolfskin, and tusked mouth. He leaped between lava crags, cried out, then vanished after the men fired.
A fragment describes a recurring apparition blamed for livestock losses on Camas rents. It compares the man to an Indiana figure, suggesting the creature or person lives off the rents while cattle and yearlings vanish, leaving only skeletal remains behind.
A reader cites pink and blue water lilies thriving in Boston after originating from a secretive plant in a Barnstable lake, later transplanted to foreign waters and wildlife habitats. The note explains cold valley air and soil warmth differences with different orchard injuries on hillsides and suggests careful farming practices, not luck, lead to successful fruit trees and abundant harvests.
Letter from New York notes a rising trend among wealthy young women dressing dolls and children as miniatures for display and walks. They also craft feather decorations from birds and create feathered trims for collars, cuffs, and hats using plumage from ducks, pheasants, and peacocks.
Reports from Goncor and Maza state that Mr. Alcott is not improving and hopes for recovery are being entertained.
The Sioux leader Brave Bear alias Ma-to-o-hi-tike was executed at a jail in Davis at 12 39 PM after being found guilty of murder. He had earlier faced multiple reprieves and asked for a Sioux interpreter before his death. His execution followed a long narrative of captivity, confession, and legal appeals, with the body buried in a Catholic cemetery after a orderly ceremony.
Partial notes report the Duke of Newcastle visiting Boston Captain Eada arrives from Europe as Goager and West reach Washington Speaker Keifer returns to Ohio to resign in a fortnight Ex Senator Atchison of Missouri rumored to be failing rapids Jaco Forney’s will valued at 950000 a widow ill at Mauch Chunk Packer widow in poor health Adelbert Rich’s daughter linked to four grandparents six great grandparents and more Actor John McCollaugh complains of old roles Ex Governor Anthony of Kansas commands 3000 laborers building a railroad from El Paso to Chihuahua Mexico]]
January 1382 was resentenced to be hanged on July 20 but received a reprieve to November 15. Catholic Sisters urged the President for commutation but no mercy was granted. Bear faced a brutal end after a murder linked to the Custer massacre. He was described as bloodthirsty and savage and had prior killings of a white woman and her child before the Custer incident.
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