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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1912
Page
11
A compact timetable lists multiple routes and departures. Omaha and Milwaukee bound services join daily trains with connections to Fond du Lac and Manitowoc, Wausau, Blandine, and Chicago. Limited Sunday service noted with special train numbers and made up here.
The notice outlines daily except Sunday mail trains including 240 NW No 438 from Fond du Lac to Omaha with Sunday exception, 992 NW for Wasey Bland Jo with Sunday exception, 4:10 NW from Bland Jo, and 155 Omaha to Morrillan and Minneapolis with Sunday exception. Also mentions trains 418 and 905 from Chicago, Milwaukee routes over Fond du Lac, and connections to Oshkosh Fond du Lac lines with several Sunday exclusions.
Daily schedules show Velvet Special trains running Duluth to Chicago and Chicago to Duluth on main line No 4 and No 8. Mail trains operate on the Green Wood and Nekosa branches with exceptions on Sundays. Additional services include the Eau Claire to Chicago line and branch trains toward Grand Rapids and Nukoped with daily mail runs and Sunday exceptions.
A wife and husband argue over leaving, divorce, and who will keep the housekeeper room. He rents a house, she tours it, and they agree to remain together for now, planning to dine at their own roof in the future.
A London Telegraph report outlines how traders in France age and refresh turkeys with varnish and other tricks to boost prices. The method can alter perceived age and freshness, with skilled fakers applying varnish to legs and beaks and even treating dead birds to renew their look before sale. Pere Chapellier, credited with the varnish discovery, is noted as a curious figure who amassed wealth from such schemes.
A Munlch paper traces early mountain ascent, crediting Moses for Sinai, dismissing Noah’s Ark ascent, and noting ancient views of climbing as madness. It traces fashion to a seventh century Chinese emperor and identifies Dante, Petrarch, and Leonardo as Europe’s early tourists, then Masimillan I and explorers in the Swiss Alps, before modern climbing for pleasure.
A Cleveland man cites a Plain Dealer item noting a dollar at the usual interest rate earns a dime in over two years. He laments how every spent dime costs years of work and urges readers to consider the value of small coins. The quote reflects financial concern and self restraint.
The statement argues the Bermuda Islands are the remaining top of a larger island once 300 to 400 square miles, now about twenty square miles. It claims subsidence of 80 to 100 feet in recent times, with a base on an ancient volcano and a surface of shells drifted into hills by wind and consolidated by infiltration, per Verrill via Harper's.
A listing of world records notes the Bank of England as the largest bank, the National Library in Paris with about 3 million volumes, the Paris Opera House as the largest theater, St Petersburg's Peter the Great statue at 1 100 tons, a huge bronze statue in Japan at forty four feet, Cairo’s college with over 10 030 students and 310 teachers.
In a terse exchange the spouses discuss their longtime pet names calling each other birdie and parrot god magpie while the wife uses jay for her husband. The brief dialogue hints at strain in the relationship.
A quotation on the value of a cheerful disposition learned early in life and the measure of real influence by how one treats oneself. The motivator notes that choosing happiness is a success in its truest sense and personal conduct reflects inner character.
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