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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1903
Page
10
A sprawling cry of mixed dispatches mentions murders and accidents in Chicago and New York, political maneuvering in Chicago and Minnesota, rail and banking strains, and aRoosevelt era international notes. Names such as Uler Kilpatrick Moody and multiple courts appear amid disorderly tidbits.
Major Delmar trains for a record with a 2:00 mile at Readville amid a reversed form. New York athletes win the national amateur title in Milwaukee while the Milwaukee Athletic Club places second and First Regiment third. The Colorado Fuel & Iron Co reports net earnings of 2,057,342 dollars and Santa Fe Railroad shows earnings and a sizable surplus.
The report lists indictments and subpoenas for figures including Postmaster General Payne and others, notes on birth registration law drafted by the census bureau, and hints at Panama Canal affairs. It mentions the St Louis exposition with 45 countries represented and a 36,190,000 dollar appropriation, plus bank depository plans and postal fraud indictments.
A garbled digest reports tricninosis cases at Neustadt near Colours and a British admiralty denial of a U S squadron visit. It notes Goethe, opera projects, Beerbohm Tree, Tolstoi, and a Curacao arbitration on a Belgian water works claim.
Reports describe a gale off the English coast causing fifty shipping casualties and bodies washing ashore. War diplomacy flares in Europe with demands for an eight hour day, Manchuria talks, and tensions in Bulgaria Greece and Turkey. Venezuelan threats and Columbia frontier troop movements round out a volatile global picture.
William J. Dawson former member of Winds legislature died on the Rock Island train near Mankato Kansas from quick consumption while traveling for health. Georgia S. Hatchler of Wallyston died at 41 North State Chicago after four years illness on return from Angora. Hatchler born Lafayette Indiana in 1804 was married to Robert S. Hatcher fourteen years ago and active in the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The national bureau of forestry and the Massachusetts forestry association will jointly employ a forester for field work in this state for one year starting July 1. The move follows the state’s failure to institute a forestry bureau this year and is funded by association members with cooperation from Washington officials.
A prominent call to treat forestry as public work and within state action urges reorganizing the state board of agriculture into an effective executive department next winter. It supports creating a forestry bureau led by a scientific forester, noting Harvard's forestry course and R P Fisher as appointed chair, with strong ties to New England forest conditions.
Judge H H Wheeler of the Vermont District defines drunkenness for life insurance as complete loss of reason and senses, debunking accepted comfort for insurers. He says intoxicated individuals who retain some senses are not legally drunk for warranty purposes, leaving risk assessments unsettled.
The Boston Globe notes a clash between fashion chic and family physician advice over heavy dinners. It cites Morris Kretschner and a modern gourmet who favor long multi course feasts, while praising simple meals like steak or fresh fish.
A lively assessment of how hero figures like Deadwood Dick Sherlock Holmes and Nick Carter blur into one another. It praises versatility across authors and settings, noting heroes may be gallant, clever, or formidable while maintaining core heroic traits.
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