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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1907
Page
4
A collage of anecdotes and quips from The Marshfield Times touching on German ocean greys, a New Jersey man with a tobacco chewing horse, tax debates, coffeehouse politics, Shakespeare, Martian life, Japan’s war stance, divorce statistics in New Jersey, and a French cooking critique by Prof. Wiley.
Michael Cromister, a 70 plus farmer in the Bobst mountain district near Trout Run Pa, faced marauding black bears that ate his apples and corn. After learning he could lawfully kill bears on his premises while stealing, he armed himself, drove off the bears, and has not seen them since. His dog died in the confrontation, and he defends the law as essential to protect property.
John Hoffman 55 a bureau of sewers worker fell into a five foot sewer in Third Avenue near One Hundred Twenty Eighth Street as a rope broke during a heavy rain. He was carried by rising water to the Harlem River and surfaced near a boathouse float where police and coworkers pulled him to safety before he went home. He joked that he did not get a timely look at the scenery.
An incident at Kingan and Co meat packers ends with Willian Majn injuring a man in the cattle drive area. Main, hospitalized, mutters in disgust as a pigging disruption causes him to be pinned between a worker and the driving path. Dr. Splinter treats him. doctors report Main broke up.
In Centralia Pennsylvania a Bohemian woman Anna Ascavage sold a basket of huckleberries with a large rattlesnake hidden at the bottom. A woman picked up the basket and placed the snake inside her dress bosom after saying she had removed its tangs.
Green Bay faces a battle over city lighting as the council rejects bids from Minahan Building Co and Green Bay Gas & Electric Co as too high. Minahan offers 694 dollars per year, one dollar below the gas firm, with 64 dollars still deemed acceptable. Frustration grows over poor residence-district lighting and a pending appeal to the rate commission.
Mrs Evelyn Romadka of Milwaukee known as the noted thief Raffles confessed to police about burglaries including jewelry valued at 150 dollars from Mrs Grace Wilmarth at 1435 Wilson avenue and 500 dollars of jewelry and dress goods from Mrs H W Simons at 1429 Wilson avenue on September 14. She implicated Abraham Jones in other robberies at 4409 Wabash avenue where Jones followed FR J OConnor and stole 600 dollars worth of clothing and jewelry. A large stash of jewelry and silverware Jones had sold to pawnbroker H J Goldsmith at 311 Clark street was recovered. Goldsmith may face charges for receiving stolen property. Romadka had previously attempted suicide by gas at Nu gent Sanitarium. In Racine former mayor M M Secor offered to present a 450 pound bear to President Roosevelt.
In Boyd and nearby areas residents protest the sentence of Con stable John Peterschick to 45 dollars and costs and 69 days in the county jail after he shot a mink that had killed fifty chickens and nine geese in his coop without a license in his pocket. Meanwhile Milwaukee reports Cleveland will host the Evangelical association’s next general conference in 1911.
Levi P Brockway of Anoka Minnesota recounts five months in a hospital where doctors called his condition incurable yet after taking Dean's Kidney Pills he improved quickly, regained strength, and has felt well since. The ad notes 60 cent boxes sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York. Also contains a tablecloth anecdote and starching advice urging Defiance Starch, plus a New York jewelry ad offering free ring resizing and rubber ring suggestions.
Fragments describe Ben Cary near his house with a breeding ground for man eating mosquitoes and neighbors urging extermination while Cary jokes about screening his piazza. The text shifts to disjointed advertising copy for Bald’s Catarrh Cure, Dr. Hagen, and other products, with stray names, dates, and claims from a cluttered historical page.
A witty remark from Dr Haig Brown compares meanings to starch progress. The note recalls channels of education from Charterhouse to Peterhouse and a question on character in certificates. It praises Defiance Starch as a superior product with improved formula and strength. It ends with a reflection on individuals who wait for endorsement before acting.
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