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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1902
Page
3
The piece critiques gambling and moral laxity in modern cities, laments Sunday decadence, and argues for renewed discipline. It references public health topics including diabetes, infections, and the limits of medical diagnosis, noting President McKinler’s gangrene as an example of diagnostic limits and societal burdens.
A garbled but motivational piece urges young men to seek opportunities. It stresses early self discovery of a specialty, persistent effort, and avoiding laziness. The message promotes hard work, focus, and steady advancement across directions and fields.
Fragment from a medical commentary discussing enduring human diseases and the limits of medical knowledge. It highlights heredity as a key problem, noting Friedreich's ataxia and questions of heredity in inheritance, then moves to nutrition and digestion and the liver's role, signaling broader unknowns in disease and treatment.
Elizabeth Caay Stanton contends that rising divorce rates reflect not moral decline but progress toward ideal marriage conditions. She argues women seek greater freedom and insist on changes in married life while maintaining moral standards, citing anecdotal portrayals of divorced and remarried individuals and the value of steadfast motherhood.
By Wa Ting Fang, Chinese Minister at Washington, urges admittance of women on juries. He cites a trial where a young and beautiful woman received a lenient verdict due to counsel and looks, arguing juries should be wholly female. He warns women not to abandon gentleness or risk becoming unsexed in professions.
A garbled Patterson-era clipping describes an automobile harvester that threshes 100 acres and notes three California-made units sent to Russia. It shifts to a Persian traveler and then cautions about plague in Bombay, India, citing population declines and medical efforts amid local prejudice.
A 60 foot long threshing machine of American make, weighing over 100 tons, runs on four horses and feeds a moving belt that sweeps barley heads into its threshing department. It can thresh and shell grain at three and a half miles per hour under favorable conditions, with grain transferred to sacks and sewn. The scene includes a green turbaned man and notes on local farming and a Bombay medical sanitation remark.
Albert Nodon reports to the French Academy of Silende his discovery of a hitherto unknown form of radiation akin to X rays and tactal radium rays but with striking differences. When light falls on a thin aperture plate the new invisible rays emanate from the back of the plate as if the plate sifted out part of the rays. In Sweden inns and restaurants women are charged less than men. Some hotels charge a husband and wife as one and a half persons for travel and lodging by rail or post routes.
A fragment notes that kites are praised as a method to deter partridges from cover to prevent shooting. It suggests birds avoid rising when kites fly above, a tactic attributed to Meads. The text shifts to stray lines about finances, marriage, and a Philadelphia Press quote, ending with a moral proverb.
In St. Paul Minnesota on October 20 Jim Younger a member of the James gang reportedly killed himself in a Reardon Hotel room. He and his brothers Cole and Bob Younger had been imprisoned for the Northfield bank raid and the murder of cashier Hayward. The body was found with a revolver in his right hand amid despondency and illness.
The article recounts Jim Younger and Cole Younger being paroled from a Missouri prison in July 1901 following a state board of pardons decision. It details their Civil War service, bank robberies with the Youngers and James, pursuit near Northfield Minnesota, and later life notes including attempts to marry a woman connected to a pardon effort.
Miss Mackenzie daughter of Dr A C Mackenzie was held up by highwaymen Saturday afternoon as she drove to Esh Noming. They opened her gloves with knives and took a small amount of money from her purse. Local crime report from Negaunee confirms the incident.
Calumet Michigan reports that enough snow fell this morning to cover the ground. The brief dispatch notes a light dusting, with no further details on extent or impact.
Hazel De Groat 19 used 1% of Ford du Lac Wisconsin died of typhoid fever at 430 am. She was a room student at Grafton hall and had been ill several weeks at her grandparents home. Her mother Adeline M De Groat arrived from Madison and was at her bedside. Funeral plans not set. She had many friends in the city and Milwaukee.
A messy clipping reports suspected tax evasion tied to Tan Crosse Wisconsin and a large estate in Sawyer County. Bonds listed in probate records appear unrecorded, with a Chicago firm named to avoid taxes. Local inquiries reveal Mosher may hold substantial wealth and bonds tied to a Masher tract, prompting an investigation into asset concealment and probate disclosures.
Milwaukee youths faced multiple delinquency outcomes. Earl Nerloy pleaded guilty to burglary of slaves of A. Vundusen and I. A. Moseley and was sentenced to two years in the state reformatory at Green Bay. James Manning received seven and a half years in Wisconsin prison. C. West got one to two years in the reformatory. William Mute and Robert Driscoll, graduates of Waupun prison, were sent to the workhouse for fifteen days for drunkenness.
In Antigo Wisconsin Thomas Weeks a conductor on the Agh land division was seriously injured when a surrey wagon toppled about four miles north of town last evening. He was thrown and the horses turned the wagon over. His wife and children were in the wagon but not seriously hurt.
Twelve society women in Beaver Dam become ill from suspected poisoning after eating ice cream at a reception hosted by Mrs. B A Scheimel. Four are in a serious condition as health authorities investigate the Food contamination.
Rufus Clark of Hudson died last night in Eau Claire He leaves a widow and two sons Wrank and Frederick, prominent Eau Claire citizens, and brothers at Burlington Wisconsin and Webster City Louisiana Born in Vermont in 1823 he came to Wisconsin in 1879 He conducted Chaplu Hudson hotel for many years.
Edmond Eblinger from Janesville was accidentally shot on Lake Keshkonong while hunting with companions from Janesville. A bullet entered his shoulder. he is not expected to die.
In Corliss Wisconsin on October 20 Peter Peterson a 35 year old laborer died by suicide by leaping in front of a Milwaukee Road freight train. He was despondent and unmarried with no known relatives.
Oscar Anderson of La Crosse has sued William A Edwards for 20000 alleging alienation of his wife Mrs Maude Melville. The couple married during a Baldwin Stelville company performance in Detroit and returned to La Crosse where a seven year old daughter was born. Edwards, a former La Crosse mail clerk turned optician, is alleged to have used his friendship with the wife to win her favor amid the couple's estrangement.
Mrs Hattie Dauer Barton aged 15 was granted a divorce from Tobias Barton her 23 year old husband whose whereabouts are unknown. She said she was induced to marry to escape farm monotony and deeply regretted the step after their quarrels. The marriage was begun in 1900 when she was only 13 and the judge annulled it after Barton left her last February.
Whitewater Wisconsin Oct 20 Special The W C A state convention closed with a farewell meeting led by State Secretary Mary E Moxley. About 150 delegates formed a circle in the church for the final session. Addresses were given by Miss Maria Hilieson of Chicago Mrs Samuel Plants of Appleton and Miss Agnes Radford of Jewankee. Delegates pledged 3535 for association work this year.
A list of three fatal railway incidents from Wisconsin towns Oct 20 reports Ole Christofferson Norwegian worker killed by coal wheel at North-Western Railway Co. in Exauerville Evensville area his body left near the tracks wife and three children. Peter Peterson found badly cut after being struck by a freight train near Corliss and Louis Fauvie of Oakdale killed by being struck by something near the Milwaukee Road line.
Place for Mary A Sabin Madison Vic Oct 20 Miss Mary A Babin formerly holder of Rockford College fellowship in economics at the University of Wisconsin in 1907 has been appointed professor of domestic economy at Iowa State College Ames.
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