Marshfield News Highlights From 1883 End and Local Notes
Marshfield items recap local happenings. Rev F B Baker's one-year service is honored and plans to extend another twelfth month. John Habig sells his house and blacksmith shop for 2400 dollars to a newcomer. Wrestlers Kid Paine and C E Whitman meet in a friendly bout. Whitman wins. A young woman at Ingalls House attempts suicide with laudanum but survives after medical aid. The paper describes a 1884 business outreach plan and explains the origin of the term greenhorn and a Pepys anecdote about a servant incident.
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F. PB. Baker
John Habig
Habig
Marshfield
Kid
Paine
Holt
Wisconsin
C. E. Whitman
Whitman
Ingalls House
Brothers fall in love with same sisters and reveal a secret
Howard Corwith and Henry Corwith, devoted brothers, fall for sisters Belle and Delia Martin while separated by study abroad. Henry, injured in childhood, supports Howard who hides a forbidden love for Delia. A planned reunion ends in tension as truth nears exposure.
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Howard Corwith
Henry
Howard
Llenry
Lis
Ienry
Leary
Sud Pula
Wbe
Vella Maria
Henry Corwith
Belle Martin
Germany
Ulen- Ty
Faria
Belle
Berlin
Tloward Corwith
Delia
Southampton
Della Martin
New York
Port
Staton
Bill
Fletcher
Pletcher
Switzerland
Poward
Stoward
Yi Menon
Toma Dog
Delta
Helary
Stready
Drotharda
Mabel Vanwagener
Dark Ages Question From Aes and Jester Probe
The dialogue riffs on why the early medieval period is called the Dark Ages. Answers touch on women keeping ages secret and a joking reference to a savior from ruin. The exchange blends playful banter with imagined explanations.
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Columbia Jester
Unclaimed Letters in Marshfield Post Office List
Unclaimed letters remain at the Marshfield post office up to Oct. 17, 1903. Names include Frank David, Mrs Blanche Fuller, E W Lampine, D M Reynolds, Joan Schuler, Albert Voltha. Persons calling for these letters should say advertised. John F. Coxe, P M.
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Marshfield
Frank David
Blanche Fuller
E W Lampine
D M Reynalds
Joan Schuler
Albert Voltha
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Sullivan
Upham Mig Co
Renne
Times & Gazette
West
Pepys
Pepys Recorda
Luce
Lori
Mercery
Barker
June
Jamaica Louse
Baker's
Dixie Flakes
Baker’s
D. M. Glassner
M. Glassner
the Sunshine Garment Talks
DeWit
B.C. Dewitt 4 Co
Chicago
Incorporated
Wood County
Taylor & Scott Co., Wood County Abstracts
Grand Rapids
Times
American National Bank
State Depository
W. D. Coxxor
Marshfield, Wis
E. E. Winco
The
United
State of
Calland
Connor
D.G. Lijspentann Cashier
Jacos
Leinwanper, Asst
B. B.winch
E.M. Deming
P. N. Christensen
WW. Dobge
GB. RE
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