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Newspaper
Marshall News
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1899
Page
7
Fragmented column notes various beliefs about liberty gender equality and moral living, mentions a New York brewer congress meeting criticizing wartime beer taxes, and cites figures showing profits from beer taxation. The text emphasizes social and political opinions, prohibition, wages, and arbitration alongside economic debate on beer taxation.
We offer all Minds of Job Printing at reasonable rates with a fine assortment of type. Cahoun county customers are invited to give us a trial and we will aim to please.
A historic necklace set of buttons from Confederate generals Morgan Johnston Hill Beauregard and others is to be worn by Miss Lucy Hill, daughter of the late General A. L. Wyeth and niece of General Robert E. Lee, at Confederate reunions. The 21 buttons form a pendant cross with a purple stone locket, symbolizing soldiers who fell in the Civil War. The owner plans to present the heirloom at the next reunion in Richmond and future gatherings, honoring the memory of Winnie Davis and the Confederate cause.
Great interest surrounds a thirteenth century sounding medical feat where De Nobier performs rabbit eye transplants into a 20 year old North Dakota woman blinded for years. Early results show natural appearance and tissue union, with a second eye undergoing a deeper graft from a healthy rabbit eye. The outcome hinges on further observation but optimism is high for regained sight.
Young New Yorker Maury Sufton, son of Thomas and Mrs Sufton of 500 South Carlton avenue, enlisted in the Sixteenth United States Infantry and served at Santiago and Monsauk Point. Ill with typhoid, he was moved to Woody Crest hospital by Miss Helen Gould who later arranged a law scholarship at the University of New York via the chancellor, fulfilling a wish.
In Scotland, authorities prohibited a popular past time that involved a public figure playing golf. The edict sparked debate as officials argued it threatened the integrity of sport and social order, while supporters claimed it was an overreach harming local culture.
Eccentric physician described through anecdotes from Youth's Companion, noting his fascination with local graveyards in Rosin for historical proof. He traced three brothers buried together, solving their deaths on September 11, 1753, and pursued genealogies, including a tale of a Cambridge Perry. He valued clues to ancestry and shared his findings with wit.
A tale from Des Moines shows G. G. Blank, a little known local, bluffing his way onto a train by sending a message claiming to hold the 2:59 departure. The ruse prompted a courteous greeting as he arrived to bless his daughter and her husband.
Fragmented OCR text discusses celebrated local figures dubbed heroes. It mentions Dewey and Manila, praise for their courage, and a note about photographers and fees. The piece mixes quotes and garbled names, reflecting a casual editorial tone.
Investigation traced a vanished load from the steamship Chals bound Dulthmoya to Savannah to a Philadelphia test. Phosphate goods hidden between inner lining and outer planking, requiring weeks to remove, revealed the missing merchandise after the vessel endured stern‑facing repairs.
The text describes a transition away from chimneys toward new, airless factory designs as experiments test a wheel driven by a cheaper grade of fuel. It notes draft improvements and speculative forays into novel production setups, highlighting the era’s push for innovation despite garbled reporting.
The text references a theft case in York and a city law restricting tobacco sales to youths under 16 with signed parental consent. It mentions fines and enforcement, plus a Bavarian effort to industrialize a cold petroleum product for bricks. It also notes North German land reclamation projects by the Prussian government near Frisian islands, paralleling Dutch efforts.
An interesting calculation shows that a pound of food coal equates to one man's work for a day. One square otite of a seam of coal, four feet deep, would exceed the work of 2,600,000 men for twenty years.
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A damaged OCR fragment lists seas and salt references including the Dead Sea, Red Sea, Atlantic, English Channel, Baltic, Caspian, with odd figures and a Berlin watchmaker claiming a perfected a medient a cepabia of mestwitring and tracarying. The garbled text suggests a glossed list rather than a cohesive article.
A young woman named Berry, once employed by Dr. Hugens Oo Bachman at 312 West Thirty-fourth Street New York, was discharged two months earlier. Patterson stalked her nightly, casting glances from the house windows, and learned of the discharge. The affair provoked public anger as the doctor’s premises deteriorated with nightly decays. The police van arrived and the unit was red, but the suspect was detained and the previous workers were questioned.
A fragmented 19th century clipping ties Boston to Keely motor lore and other scattered notes. It mentions John W. Keely of Philadelphia, rumored devices, and personalities like Rinraide, plus odds and ends on indium, Russian population growth, and odd household science tidbits.
A dramatic notice on banns reveals public hopes and alleged engagements as a man’s credit and social life rise then fall after a woman denies engagement. The piece discusses the church’s role in exposing poor parish charges and the true purpose behind banns, plus a social note on fashion riding trends in England and Mrs Dudley Smith’s debut riding feats.
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