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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1875
Page
2
A bustling ad filled page notes spring and summer boot and shoe stock at Ale L. Booth & Co. junto with sales on linens and apparel. It mentions a Brooklyn crowd, fashionably dressed women, and a closing up of business with the Jolantary Gest event and details about coal and other goods.
I M and John R Archer purchase Rufus Neal’s interest and will run Quaker City Mills as Archer and Co. They advertise a top Southern Illinois mill, guaranteed satisfaction, and high wheat prices. The firm emphasizes cash terms and advance payment for delivery. 62-tf
Spiketown reports school closed last Friday farm activity begins corn gathering and demand for corn hushers. Friday night storm caused damage while James Tierney suffers two weeks from inflammatory rheumatism. A Marshall visitor couple faced local backbiting recently. Health improves though some chills persist. Dewdrop departed to the woodbine twineth. Oxp Cons. Spiketown November 1 1875.
A garbled OCR fragment references a felon and a dissecting action. Voices hint at urgency and confusion with scattered phrases about a finger and a clock. No clear identities or locations are readable.
Mr Wilson of Marshall visits town. Samuel Walker resides at Wm Bodine’s winter home. LB Anderson teaches at the railroad school house. Our public school opens Nov 1 with Ed Pierce directing and Miss Sheapley assisting. W T Figg returns to dry goods, stocking from Francis. to begin casting soon, same shop. Dr Yeley now in Prairieton Ind. Health improving though ague remains common. Jesse Lathrop moved to Texas after buying property. crops sound and health improving. Rev Pue preached Sunday. will return in three weeks. Yellow Eye Old Page Sandy and Pauch head north for an extended stay. Three deaths occur Mrs Bues Owen Sanford’s child and Hashel Hall’s child. may they rest in peace.
A Sherman Texas visitor with a wart on his nose visits a photo gallery to have his portrait taken. The photographer refuses bust format and finally retouches the image to remove the wart or replace it with bacon, so the man can charm his Indiana fiancée. He leaves chuckling that the bacon idea will impress.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports Robert Christie of the Protestant faith suggesting a home remedy for scarlet fever. The method uses an onion with saffron juice baked and given to the patient, plus chest and throat rubbing with goose grease, claiming fever eruption and recovery with proper warmth and care.
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