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Newspaper
Marshall News
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1901
Page
5
The News records unsigned communiqués warning reporters and notes a busy social week. Charley Pierce fractured an ankle at Harvey's mill. many residents, including Shutters in Kalamazoo and Weeks from Rockford, MI, visit relatives. A farm sale, moves, and gatherings fill the lake area reports with weather affecting attendance.
CERESUO reports numerous farm moves and births, including an 11 pound boy born April 19 to Mr and Mrs Kline. Gale brothers shipped hogs and cattle decks. Charles Mott chains summer job with Frank Reid driving a grocery wagon. Local visits, illness, and social events noted along with school closures due to scarlet fever and upcoming entertainments at the ME church.
Marshall market report lists prices paid by merchants for wheat, oats, corn, beans, butter, hay, hogs, beef, chickens, turkeys, apples, timothy seed and other staples. Notable figures include corn at 18 to 20 cents per bushel, hogs at 0.4 to 0.5 per hundred pounds, and beef on foot around 98 dollars per hundred.
Commodity pages show flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye and soy prices firm or higher in Chicago with bid ranges and delivery months. Hogs, cattle, and veal at Detroit market rise or hold steady with prime and common lots listed, plus currency of futures for May and July contracts. Also note local pension business event in Marshall with Newton T. Kirk’s visit.
Notice warns patrons that Eckford store owners cannot grant possession and will continue selling from Cenvis this summer with wagons. It invites old patrons to stay loyal. Also touts Knox Stomach Tablets as blood purifiers addressing skin blemishes with a claims pitch and price per fifty doses.
Aguinaldo proclaims acceptance of American sovereignty and calls for an end to hostilities amid a peace push. Gen MacArthur orders 1,000 insurgents released after swearing allegiance as Washington notes the manifesto may sway Filipino factions toward peace and aid the Am n policy in the Philippines.
A large turnout at the Lee township Sunday School convention, held with Carverville, marks the first such meeting in the district. Forty three men and boys attended, with strong participation from five township schools. Revivals led by Rev Miller and Rev Bury enhanced the event as Lee aims to win the county convention banner in Albion in October. The county association invites broad support for May “pioneering day” and a state-wide pledge of fifty dollars.
Dr. W. G. Sperry of Olivet College will give the commencement address on Friday evening June 21.
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