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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
8
The writer questions why Mr. Breau omits key facts about free silver and the gold standard. The piece lists numerous questions about currency, prosperity under protection, silver purchases, and political stances, urging Breau to address public concerns and defend his positions.
This reading notes marriage patterns: Wednesdays and Thursdays host most weddings while Fridays are least popular, widowers favor remarriage over bachelors, and widows over spinsters. It also mentions a plot to raise 100,000 for a Methodist University at Appleton with donors in Oshkosh and Ashland totaling 88,000 plus 25,000 and 10,000 from others. If effort matched trouble avoidance, the world would be at peace.
A New York Journal report describes a France bank burglary where experts used a sled saw and Bundy line gag to override a safe. The intruders swiftly gained 8,000 worth of bonds and money, then escaped before authorities could react. The piece blends sensational crime with later ad blurbs for cough cures and salves from Henry Horn.
Wood County Wisconsin notices for the general election on November 3, 1806 list elected officers including president and vice president, governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general, superintendent, railroad commissioner, judges, and U.S. representatives. It covers districts for congress, state senate, state assembly, and amendments to the Wisconsin constitution, with terms expiring January 1892 to 1907 and various county offices.
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