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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1885
Page
2
Poem extols the better angel as a guiding, comforting force amid life’s trials and storms. It speaks of faith, patient trust, and divine aid guiding the speaker toward eventual victory. The refrain affirms that the better angel wins and shields the weary heart.
A compact history tracing Thespis as the first traveling stage innovator in Athens, then Anchl us and Sophocles shaping tragedy with expanded casts and stagecraft, and Euripides offering refined language and personal retreat. The piece notes shifts in performance and societal satire amid evolving dramatic standards.
A compact history of actors and dramatists from Athens to Shakespeare, noting actors who starred in their own plays and the dangers faced by satirists. It contrasts ancient lavish spending with modern celebrity pay, citing Peri the Odeum and a prodigiously indulgent ancient actor who drank diamonds. The piece ends by asking if Patti or Materna could afford such opulence.
Readable excerpt lists practical recipes for preserves, pickles, pies, and corn canning. Includes Service Berry Pm To one half gallon Service berries with gooseberries, Green Tomato Pickle, Wine Pie, Cuc umber Pickles, Currant Pie, Goow Cows For Loompalte UsE, Pickle Prackes ox Prats, To Can Green Corn. Recipes credited to Mary T Gartland and T Gartland.
A farmer column offers guidance on buckwheat as a profitable honey plant with caveats about honey yield timing and clover competition, then shifts to winter wheat soil prep, early sowing in the Hessian fly era, and the value of soil underlay. It covers manure use, early Sept sowing, and potential impacts of pests. It also discusses feeding pigs on skim milk and bran, stressing clean feeding and avoiding sour waste, then transplanting trees in spring vs fall, watering, and pruning to aid health.
In Newport Sept 4 a ceremony laid the corner stone of the Perry statue memory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Lake Erie fame. The 25 foot bronze statue and base stand opposite the Perry mansion. The base bears Perry and the line We have met the enemy and they are ours. A Pass For Life recounts how O Hoever warned of washed away track on the Pittsburgh road prompting a life pass from the Pennsylvania Railroad.
A verse from Elizabeth Coe in St Nicholas autumn scene describes September days from frosty mornings to warm noons and chilly evenings. It evokes fields, birds, crickets, and family at home with lantern light and kettle singing as leaves fall and robins sing.
A fragment from a Wisconsin page hints at a quirky feature titled Br Zoriana Feathers balancing mystery with local flair. The text is garbled, offering little concrete detail beyond a folkloric tone and a carded newspaper vibe.
Lucky Jack the famed fisherman fails to deliver a giant fish to the jealous King of Abi. A white foam mass, born from his failed catch, grows in the nets and slips through the court like mist. The King’s sword is thwarted as the foam swallows him, leaving a wall of nettles and a rejoicing realm.
A gas powered oven explosion at Marvin & Co. steam bakery on Liberty Street in PrrrsBuRG today injured five workers. Engineer Samuel Stafford and foreman J.T. Hugeing were severely burned and feared dead. W. B. Krebs John Clark and Mary Charles also burned but not fatally. Gas had been turned off about an hour earlier and reignited, triggering the blast as Stafford relit the oven.
In Wilkes-Barre Pa a fatal mining accident occurred at the Oakwood shaft run by Lehigh Valley Coal. Nine miners were lowered when loose coal and rock fell from the shaft wall demolishing the cage. Three died instantly two were wounded and three seriously injured. The cage was timber and ironwork and the incident halted operations as authorities investigated.
In Newcastles Pa a severe storm toppled a chimney injuring five, with 17 year old Joe Carver fatally hurt and Timothy Mack severely shocked. Nearby Wasurcetos Pa sees William Miller and his wife killed instantly as a thunderbolt hits their porch. Separately, Waterloo Iowa files incorporation papers for the Waterloo Decorah Wisconsin Railway with $10 million capital to run Waterloo to Decorah and on to La Crosse. A Milladore Wis boy, George Heidecke, dies after being crushed by a log railroad car. Spencerian Business College in Mis. announces instruction and principal EB Spencer.
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