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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1911
Page
8
Laborer John Lee was accused in Rostce Street Conning Tows of stealing by a trick called ringing the changes from tobacconist Clara Eliza Cannon. He entered her shop multiple nights, paid with coins, and swapped coins to extract extra change, culminating in his capture after a chase.
The French journalist Rochefort notes love drives men to fatal acts in modern France. He cites cases of youths aged nineteen and thirteen with a girl, a dragoon in Paris, Suzanne, and a baker who killed two women and then himself. The pattern shows lethal reactions to affection and jealousy.
Seattle correspondence notes St Lawrence and White from Kynquot station report a lively two week period with seven sperm, thirty-one humpbacks, two finbacks, and one sulphur bottom whale taken in the last ten Mays. Tees added eleven more whales during its run Quataino to Kyoguot, Sechart tally reaches twenty five, for a total of seventy five whales off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
The Rev. I H Wicketeed, vicar of Bexley, Kent, gave a sapling oak tree from his garden to the Wesleyan Methodists at Gravesend and Dartford Circuit. The oak shade saw John and Charles Wesley and Whitefield meet for conference, with Charles possibly composing hymns there and John noting visits in September 1740 and December 1749.
A dialogue fragment shows a character chiding another about retirement and wealth. Mr Dustin Stax resists quitting, insisting he cannot risk exposure or capture, revealing tension around fortune and fate.
A quoted excerpt from Brooklyn Life shows a heated exchange with Ibe and Henry Biltos. The fragment highlights a dispute over responsiveness and accusation of contradiction, reflecting tense social friction in a Brooklyn setting.
A reprinted call from Popular Mechanics argues that careless excretion and expectoration spread tuberculosis more deadly than violent crime. It urges stringent laws to curb public hygiene violations and stop the spread of the disease through science and stricter sanitation measures.
The text defines Chiropractic as a Greek derived system discovered by Dr. D. D. Palmer in 1895. It argues disease results from pressure on nerves at intervertebral openings, calls these subluxations, and claims nerves transmit life currents from the brain through the spinal cord. It likens the body to a dynamo powered machine and asserts chiropractors locate pressure points and restore health by realigning vertebrae, removing the cause rather than symptoms.
Notice of foreclosure sale for Aug 3 to Sept 20. Property in Marshfield, Wood County, will be auctioned Sept 25, 1911 at 2 PM at the north front door of the Court House in Grand Rapids. Describes Lot 5, Block A in Lemmon's Home Addition to Marshfield. Sheriff and attorney names listed.
Frank H. Browning of Detroit credits Tona Vita with rapid relief from nervous debility and poor digestion after years of ill health. Advertisers claim many in cities suffer low mood, lack of energy, and weak appetite, promising recovery or money back. Lee's Rhubarb Laxative is offered as a complementary remedy. D. L. Potter Drug Co. holds the Marshfield agency.
The recent pension law, passed by the last legislature, now requires school boards to withhold one percent of each teacher’s monthly salary for a state pension fund. It covers city, village, and rural schools, and applies to all teachers. Critics say most teachers will not benefit, noting many leave before twenty years to earn a pension. The plan is said to favor lifelong educators, while others claim shorter-service teachers may pay in without gain. Taxpayers will contribute $78,000 annually to the fund.
Rev. P. Petersen, superintendent of the Orphans Homes Finding Association of Wisconsin, visited Marshfield this week on his annual tour. He stated he would be glad to place a baby in a good home and urged interested families to write to the association at 819 Corn Street, Sta. A., Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Chiropractors adjust the spine to relieve pressure from nerves and restore health. The ad claims thousands cured including infantile paralysis epilepsy rheumatism and heart diseases. Free consultation and spinal analysis offered by E T Hoff, chiropractor, office over Daly's Drag Grand Pike Wisconsin.
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