Michigan State News Roundup of Odd Local News
East Saginaw man touts a peck per potato at 25 dollars each as a quirky winter crop experiment. Imlay City youths learn deception dies hard after a theft ride gone wrong. Jackson Water Gas plans 250000 dollar upgrades amid rising demand. Detroit Medical College ships thirty doctors to aid farming states. Gen George W Camp, builder of Grand Rapids & Indiana, dies in New York. Typhoid cases rise from impure Lansing well. Adrian bank offers about 15 percent dividends. Foremost local misadventures include an Escanaba man’s fatal railway layover, a Port Huron man’s legacy trip, and bold burglars targeting a township treasurer. Measles hit Chase and Lake counties. a Litchfield couple’s church squabble ends with sheriffs and doctors. Real estate registry exposes Michigan capital for mortgages outside Wayne county. A Grand Rapids reporter visits Salt Lake and is briefly detained by a Mormon official. Portage Entry quarries to be linked by Duluth South Shore & Atlantic railway. A Port Huron citizen returns to Scotland for a legacy. Various oddities include spring signs, a Paw Paw street vendor, a Muskegon husband returning after winter, and a Lookin-Glass river rabbit hunt misadventure. A 100k East Saginaw dry goods house opens, while Brighton trappers claim woodchuck bounties amid municipal politics.
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East Saginaw
Imlay City
Jackson's Water Gas and Fuel Company
Michigan
Detroit Medical College
George W. Camn
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway
New York City
Chicago, Pittsburg
Fort Wayne
Lewis Cap
Lansing
Adrian
C. B. Smith
Grand Rapids
Waite
Escanaba
Tin
Flint
Adackson
Albion
Tonia County
A. Browne & Co
Kalamazoo
Stanford
California
Monroe Lniy
Portage Entry
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway
Salt Lake
Big Tabernacle
Lim
Grinrod
Port Huron
Chase
Lake County
Litchfield
Detroit
Wayne County
Merrick
Ogeman Township
Mills tariff bill amended by committee on ways and means
The committee on ways and means met Monday and passed the Mills tariff bill with three amendments. The first tweaks the sugar schedule to reduce duties by about 20 percent and removes the no-drawback clause on sugar exports. The second allows classification of woolen cloth imports as worsted or diagonals until Oct 31 1883. The third inserts a provision preserving treaty effects for Internal Revenue actions, delaying full force until treaties expire.
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Waya and
Menin
Wasninatoy City
Waya
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Internal Revenue
Women Council closes with broad faith in equal opportunity
The international women’s council meeting in Senatons closed after representations by eighty seven speakers from England France Norway Denmark Finland India Canada and the United States. It endorsed opening all learned and professional schools to women and demanded equal wages for equal work in all occupations. It called for equal standards of personal purity and morality for men and women and urged industrial training for both sexes.
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Senatons Fant
Wantmnorox Crry
inter+ national council of women
Mankes
England
France
Norway
Denmark
Finland
India
Canada
United States
Tale of Davis Killings and Court Delays in Litchfield
A five year old tale of Thomas Davis who killed constable Waldrop after vowing to, the pursuit and capture spreading through Litchfield. Also notes on Jake Sharp’s serious illness and a venue change decision, plus a bizarre old junk notice in Cerex and a Brighton Beach hotel matter.
Clarkson Sells to Boston Club for Ten Thousand
Chicago president of the Cubs sells pitcher John G. Clarkson to the Boston club for 10000 after lengthy talks between Spalding and Boden. Clarkson signs with Boston for 4000. the deal closes April 4 amid earlier offers and revised limits. In another note, Gov Lounsbury defuses a panic as floor settles at the G A R fair in Barpaemont causing some attendees to flee.
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Chicagoas
Clarkson
Kelly Club
Cateano
John G. Clarkson
Chicago
Boston Club
Soalding
Chicagos
Boden
Bostons
Spalding
Boston
Barpaemont
Conn
Lounsbury
G. A. FL
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Michigan Central
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Booth Lyon
Alfred Dove
Muskegon
Portland
Looking-Glass
Tonia
Berrien
Torial Ig
Brooklyn
South Lyon
Brighton
Straightway
Carlton Charcoal
Omaha
Neb
East Jordan
MILLS
the Women's Council
Tim
Lrrenrigo
Thomas Davis
Lin
Samuel Waldrop
Davis
Waldrop
Chester
Aoe Waldrop
Tom Davis
Ged
Posse
Jake Sharp
New York
Justice Patterson
Mpreme
Alfred L. Loomis
Jacob Sharp
Bee Cerex
Mich
Waensas
Arnold
bin Manls
Maga C. Amgorp
Wo Arnold
Brighton Beach Hotel
W. Kisbler
A. Blakeslee
Marengo I
Gratiot Co
Maraball
Od Wen
Taleda
Obi
Romeo
John & A. Helmich
Gee Jiehe
Toy
Llevear
W. M
Gises
Joo
Amith
C. Ron
Chas
S. Tnegar
Goo
A. Gatreil
N. Glynn
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M. Lester
C. Bower
KR. Donaldson
B.A. Folkerton
Eeceveie
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L. Cue
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Alt
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M.C. Welch
F.R. Amlam
C. Crniz
Os Va Ig
Fir Sa
M. Graham
Yokoown
Lusk
Baterr
J. R
J. Row Joknow
Mary Lesley
Florence Lesley
Emma Lontey
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Mery
Mary Lucy
McClure
A. Usabrouck
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Ati
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Durham
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North Britwin
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Lincoln
Florence
Wiles
Emma Lesley
Hiorenva
Hannah More Guldfinder
Young Mary
Mary Saladio
Lucy
Meeka
Mareball
A. Miller
Sox
Marshall
Lowcat Hatel
Marshall Light Coo
State
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Oitt
Akridge
Hopkins
Inkerles
J. R. Allen
Ercasnie Sereses
Baker
J. W. Baker
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Venus
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Nas
Ming
Beiatic Ajam & M. If
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Cancer
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Gao
H. Goodwin
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Onondaan
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Adaline A. Edgerton
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Mar Hs
Arshal
L. Townsend
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Theodore Craig
Gault
Exre Lark
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Alice Holmen
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VanBron
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Ayeter O'Brien
Mrpenter
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J. Ral
Ary Steen
Lottie
Alfred Carsondin
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Loar
Maraleh
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Ruelan Maine
Corns Troian
Batavia
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Rendalph
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Oliver
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Jewel
Monarch
P. A. Spicer
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Aw, H, Elston
Laut
Calhoun
Marebull
Egni
George Bundigate
James C. Bharidan
Eierdaa Breyten
Pandency
Stey
Sid Potinn
Prabste
Dred
Ug Freent
Georgs Ingersoll
Mary Furlong
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