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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1901
Page
3
A damaged line of poetry laments evolution and decapitation with dramatic imagery. An earthquake shock lasting three seconds rattled Aber deen Inverness and northern Scotland, halting clockwork and unsettling readers in scattered districts.
An unclear ad-like fragment praises Devoe paint products, urging readers to choose Davue or related outlets for ready pad paints and oil. Mentions Chicago and local suppliers, with emphasis on quality and savings.
Poem from the fallen, urging acceptance of death as a passage to divine love. The speaker says tears are wasted, the soul has left the body, and true value lies in faith in Allah. He bids friends endure, recall the life and charity, and seek reunion in the afterlife.
Snow blanketed Mount Washington in New Hampshire with two inches reported overnight. The piece hints at broader civic concerns about Spotless Town and local guidance, mentioning public notices and citizen participation as part of daily life.
An old advertisement text touts Sapolio for cleaning babies and clothing, claiming pure white gowns stay spotless and free from dirt. It notes modern life makes people overlook travel hygiene while praising the product’s cleansing power and cheerful effect on children.
New Jersey leads in road building with varied costs per mile influenced by materials labor machinery and construction width. Early stone and gravel roads near Canandaigua cost 200 to 1,000 dollars per mile while New Jersey gravel roads ran 1,000 to 1,200 dollars. Macadam roads range 2,000 to 5,000 dollars per mile. Telford roads 4,000 to 6,000. Bridgeport and Fairfield tadjacent macadam 2,000 to 25,000. A Fanwood Telford road priced 3,500 dollars per mile.
The piece catalogs a parade of visitors and residents arriving for a Spotless Town celebration. Names from Brooklyn Chicago St Louis Minneapolis Cincinnati and more appear as participants. It highlights a comic, self-promoting campaign praising Spotless Law and SAPOLIO while noting broad national reach and civic pride.
An eclectic article blends Sapolio advertising imagery with a discussion of road construction costs in Massachusetts and New Jersey. It contrasts prices per mile for gravel, broken stone, and blacktop roads, noting Massachusetts higher costs due to topography and walls, while New Jersey achieves cheaper rates with robust construction methods. It evaluates single and double track road layouts, and argues for well-made roads as essential for farmers and local economies.
A lyric poem by Louis Ostenson describes break of day with birds singing and frost on vines and trees. The sunlit dawn reveals a rainbow on the grass and a sense of wondrous, fleeting beauty as day evolves toward night.
A St Paul post cat once slayed 125 rats and mice in a month prompting a salary increase to $1040 a year. later she sent five kittens to the United States service when old enough. The item blends other stray notes about Russia, a breakfast offer, and a gas mine explosion in Colorado with various unrelated snippets.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall arrived in Quebec to a royal reception marking their formal entry into the Dominion of Canada. Reports mention a defeated Colombian insurgent group at Bocas del Toro and an arrest in Montreal tied to a suspected anarchist, J. A. Valenti.
A garbled OCR fragment references Aguinaldo sending a message to Governor Taft expressing sorrow for a president's death. It also contains scattered names and places such as Norwich Maple and Nebraska Democrats, plus vague mentions of a united expansion state ticket.
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