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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1876
Page
1
Melrose Grange met last Saturday and renewed its covenant after paying delinquent dues. They elected Si Las Criggler as master for the ensuing year, pledging renewed effort and commitment to the lodge amid a note of skepticism from critics.
Centreville notes good health and industrious residents near Marshall. Stores closed. Sylvin's mill idle. H Wallace seen en route to buy cattle. a load of ties passing through with C Craig aboard. Plans include preaching at Centenary Chapel on Sunday the 20th and a forthcoming shoe shop by Routt of Marshall. A baseball club is being formed and W Wallace builds a stable south of Main Street.
A fragmentary moral verse admonishes wives to honor and obey husbands. It bans photographs or likenesses of the husband, warns against levity in his name, and urges keeping his commandments, clothing, and finances in order while avoiding neglect.
A frantic messenger bursts into a Pennsylvania Avenue office claiming his sister lies sick with cholera morbus. The exchange devolves into farce as the caller struggles to convey the emergency amid garbled speech and confused directions.
A Lehigh Valley Railroad conductor halts a passenger with a dog on a Easton bound train. After the dog is placed in a baggage car due to rules, the young woman protests while the conductor, feeling remorse, recites a hymn tune in the cold.
A section of traveling sidewalk, or endless railway train, will be exhibited as a novel rapid transit device. The half mile line will operate by stationary engines at 15 to 20 mph with safe transfer points. A New York company with a $100,000 capital plans to display the machine, costing about $75,000, charging riders during exhibition. Corporators include Peter Cooper and others. approval has failed in New York Legislature twice, governors vetoed. Plans after the exhibition include transporting and exhibiting in London and Paris.
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