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Newspaper
Marshall News
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1899
Page
8
An advertisement promotes Dr Miles' Dropsy Treatment claiming cure for dropsy with a $10,000 giveaway and testimonials. It lists patients cured in Chicago and elsewhere, urging readers to request the treatment and noting $3.75 value sent free upon request.
The notice lists numerous couples from Athens Sheridan Iredonia Burlington Parma Marshall Battle Creek and Albion among others granted marriage licenses. It includes names like William G Henry Mitel Gross Walter Adams May O Dell Erwin McCormick Muriel Howe Estella Laber Case Ray Henderson Homer Vandegrift Mary Reeves Chas Pike Madeline Starr and many more with their respective home towns. The remainder references a cereal product and a drink unrelated to the licenses.
Local items note Anna Marshall returning home for Thanksgiving, Mrs Mable Salting to clerk at White & Co., and dancing and church events. Henry Wessel dies in Ellis. circle of notices includes agricultural society meeting, new business openings, weddings, and legal notices. A wide mix of social, religious, and civic happenings fills the page.
Mrs Canell returns from Chicago. A H Wilder called to Colon due to his father illness who was killed by a horse. Misses Jonnie Smith Nina Lake and Elleworth Soules of Galesburg visited Mr and Mrs Mark Woolsey for Thanksgiving. Rev and Mrs A H Bailey spent Thanksgiving in Allegan. Bailey officiates at Lieut Padghan's wedding to Miss Bartie Davia. Mrs Charles Gardner, visiting her mother Mrs Brown, returns to Battle Creek. Lawrence Page dined at Napoleon and may hunt. Maud Wiseman will spend Thanksgiving at home after attending Detroit school.
The piece urges W C T U members to persist in temperance work, praising their purpose and urging bold action against alcohol evil. It cites Mrs Louise Rounds and Habakkuk, calling churches to join the cause, and to equip with faith and resolve to win victory against the liquor traffic. It ends with a call to save boys and girls and to work without delay.
The War Department seeks two additional army secretaries from the Young Men's Christian Association to accompany troops to Manila. Winfred S. Chamberlain, broker of 11 Broadway New York, filed for bankruptcy with liabilities of 326 000 and little assets. The Methodist Church congress opens in St Louis at the Li rdell Avenue M E church on November 24 and runs through December. Count Mouravieff suggests revising the 1912 treaty of commerce between Russia and the United States. A Rome cable dispatch denies Barry Faya retirement and replacement by Admiral Canegaro. Secretary Gage reports many bond extension requests. action deferred until November. A San Antonio special reports Cotulla Texas washed away by a cloudburst, a merchant Walker and wife drowned. Stahl & Straub bankers Philadelphia suspend after demand for a small loan. Granville Neil and John Sprouls cremated after jail fire at Jellico Kentucky following drunkenness arrest. Watson of Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern learns he inherits $75,000 from a New York beneficiary and will travel to claim it.
Daniel Grenier praises Dr Brown's Rheumatic Cure for relief from sciatic rheumatism after nine days, saying pain vanished in three weeks. The letter promotes the product as a blood purifier curing rheumatic diseases and related inflammation, advertised by GC H Thompson, Jeweler and Optician, 114 State St Marshall Mich.
The United States declined to accept the British German plan for the Samoan islands. State department objections were minor formal issues. Paris London Berlin await final approval with expected unanimity in principle.
Sioux City, Iowa November 24 General Manager J C Hills of the Sioux City O Neil and Western railroad died from arsenic poisoning. He ate breakfast food mixed with poison by mistake intended to kill rats. Hills was a veteran railroad man and former soldier with ties to western lines since the 1860s.
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