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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1897
Page
7
Birmingham, Ala. rails push five year high as Louisville and Nashville move 33 freight trains through the city on Tuesday. Three trains carried pie iron for shipment to Europe. Pig iron demand grows prompting two more furnaces to begin producing oxidized iron.
The piece presents a Scots dialect quatrain about a blade of brass and a “drag o dew” as a metaphor for closeness and comfort. It features speaker Ike and a reply from Jeanie, urging endurance and warmth, with rural imagery and a lyrical, old-fashioned tone.
A Chicago Times-Herald analysis quotes Mormon women from Salt Lake City who lament the suppression of plural marriage. They argue polygamy balanced home life, fostered industry, and bound families in mutual care, while critics fear loss of utopian domestic harmony and spiritual rewards. Interviewed women recall shared duties and companionship among sister wives, asserting the practice as divine duty and communal strength.
A Texas letter to Congress requesting a baby’s name leads a House secretary to stage a mock designation ceremony. Using resolutions rooted in 1884 law, the mock Congress assigns the newborn the name Bailey Chilton Mills after three Lone Star figures, in a playful display reported by the Washington Post.
Editorial notes that the nation faces an overabundance of tools and supplies, likening the situation to past overproduction comparisons from the Washington Post. The piece argues for awareness of excessive stock and urges practical response.
A jumble of aphorisms and quips on money, manners, love, and virtue. The column offers pithy maxims about self control, ambition, humility, and social behavior, noting the paradoxes of happiness and success. It sketches a reflective, humorous moral guide in a dated voice.
Description from Caaster's Magazine detailing submarine procedures for harbor duty, including surface cruising with the turret exposed, rapid submersion, and torpedo attack. It explains when to dive, how to adjust depth, and the sequence of flooding ballast tanks, with a typical 20 second dive to 20 feet once the air is cut, smokestack lowered, and turret aperture sealed.
A collage of notices and anecdotes from England to New York. It mentions varied measures in England, a doctor and shoemaker home in Georgia, a late night pie shop in New York, and a parish burial quirk in France. In Philadelphia a surgeon, dining with guests, misinterprets the cafe task and theatrically exports a bundle of fantasy items. The Atlantic shoreline between Elberon and Deal Lake is sold to Atlantic Coach Realty for $5,000,000.
Dispatches note a Joliet tragedy where Rudolph Metzger was killed by a live electric wire. The item includes unrelated ads praising hair restorers and medicines, with references to Madison Avenue addresses and Afridi revolts in India.
The French government declined to cut the flour and wheat levy even as requests for relief from rising prices were pressed. The decision retains the existing tax structure while public concern over food costs continues.
An old style advertisement touts Grain-O as a safe tonic drink replacing cortex. It claims even children can drink with no injury and adults gain flavor with rich seal brown color. The copy promises low price and urges sending 2 cents per package via grocers. Commissioner David Starr Joscan notes seals have declined in Alaskan waters.
A 19th century advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Case powder to soothe painful swollen feet and ease tight shoes, stating quick relief from corns bunions and sweating. It also mentions a trial package offered by mail and lists Le Roy New York and Bayonne New Jersey as addresses. William A. Eddy of Bayonne, NJ is noted as inventor of a distant-object vision device.
A letter from Mrs. Louise Place of Brackton Massachusetts describes severe monthly pains headaches hysteria numb spells and weakness relief after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Broad Purifier and Sanitive Wash she reports being cured and urges others to try the products citing personal testimony from Lynn Mass for credibility
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