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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1907
Page
4
The fragment notes a publication credit for William and Bailey and a garbled date line from the 1900s era newspaper page. It preserves the readable entity William and Bailey and the odd date fragment without adding new facts.
A Milwaukee party including mining engineer Thomas Cornis joined a Death Valley automobile tour. In Nevada, Cornis fell ill with pneumonia as gasoline leaks slowed a rescue run. A cowhand rode 22 miles to fetch fuel, but despite urgent efforts and medical aid, Cornis died before reaching Goldfield.
Copenhagen authorities offer a bounty for rat tails to curb vermin. Fraud risk rises as tail collections may not prove a rat’s demise. Capt Joshua Slocum, famed solo circumnavigator, has sailed the Spray to Nantucket from the West Indies and eyes the Panama Canal completion.
Dr William I Mass of the City of Mexico travels for eleven months to gather signatures from prominent figures across the republic. He has visited important sites in a dozen states covering 11900 miles, aiming to present autographs on President Diav’s next birthday, and anticipates albums and a vast autograph collection following the journey. Meanwhile Maz Dought plans a Paris skyscraper on a block it bought, drawing protests from French residents who lament the loss of Parisian architectural harmony and the long cherished beauty of uniform city streets.
Baltimoryu a horse owned by a local brewing company is said to rival the fabled Baron Munchausen horse. For a decade he has learned to drink beer from a glass and never spill a drop, earning daily beer after work and prompting stable routines.
A horse named Bull refused to move until a driver gave him beer. Several men passed him glasses of beer at night, and after enough were emptied Bull began to work. The horse balked before morning, but once offered a drink he resumed pulling the wagon and worked all day, now seeking a drink to start work.
Miss Mary Channing of Pisburg, Dubuque to Se-Miss, became the Bret woman to reach a monastery of til Trap pist monks twelve miles from the city. She defied rule by asking entry, was refused, then donned male clothes and entered with a monk as guide. Her disguise was a bold, curious act.
Ligé Huffman, returning home with an ax on his shoulder, was struck by lightning in Shelbyville Kentucky. The bolt shredded his beard and hair, leaving him dazed and bleeding from mouth and nose. He walked in circles, bareheaded with his hat torn, and evidence showed he rolled repeatedly after the strike.
In Steubenville Ralph Liliatt has been jailed for 20 days after stealing a mother hen from a brood of 16 chicks. He cooked and ate the hen. The 15 orphan chicks were adopted by a female water spaniel who now cares for them. At night the chicks huddle close to her.
The Propriety Association of America reports two year deaths from medicines show only three percent linked to proprietary products. Most poisonings stem from children accessing drugs or overdoses. no patent medicine in prescribed doses was shown injurious. The investigation, led from Chicago, cites 4,255 poisonings with 1,753 deaths, and notes possible unpublicized cases.
A Belgian engineer reportedly patented a process that heats steel with oxyhydrogen fumes and then uses a small oxygen jet to form a fusible oxide that flows from the cut, yielding a smooth finish as fine as a saw cut and about one one hundredth inch wide. A 71 year old woman in Feltham England faced intoxication and disorderly conduct charges claiming she was “keeping up” her mother’s birthday. her mother was 92.
In Fond du Lac a humorous wedding shower for Miss Stella Simmons featured a skeleton dressed as the groom to entertain guests. Attendees, curious about a groom, watched as the “bride” in wedding attire presided over a meal, marking the latest in a string of recent wedding celebrations in town.
The West Wisconsin conference approved a resolution urging an increase in representation in the general conference. The current rule requires at least one delegate for every 46 in the annual conference. The proposal would rise the ratio to 60, lowering general conference delegates from about 51 to slightly over 500.
A youth named Xavier Bons of Manitowoc was crushed between a thrashing machine and its tender when the heavy unit collapsed a bridge at Strew Mile Creek. He was wedged under wreckage for 20 minutes as the engine fire lapped at him. crew freed him and he survived with one crushed leg while the machine burned.
Luellie Campbell daughter of a prominent physician is the victim of a remarkable accident in a local graveyard. A 400-pound gravestone toppled as she tenderly placed flowers, crushing her jaw and leaving onlookers unable to hear her pleas. Attendants rushed to assist as she suffered a slow, fatal harm.
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