21 Apr 1881
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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1881
Page
1
A fragmentary note recalls a demand for a special copy of a Burnand play as the Princess of Wales seeks reading material amid a craze. The Rochester Herald urges more sleep fresh air and exercise for children noting long school hours and carbonic acid air concerns.
A fragmented tale of Myra Everdean’s youthful heartbreak, hidden marriage rumors, and later reunion with her former lover John Everdean the preacher. After trials, he reveals their shared past and he becomes a clergyman’s husband, blessed by a child Stella and renewed faith.
Col Robert G Inglersoll condemns alcohol as demoralizing from distillery to death. He calls it the root of poverty crime and ruin, wrecking families, igniting riots and violence, and corrupting government and justice. The impassioned speech warns of alcoholism as the devil’s ally and society’s deepest vice.
Instructions describe extracting fruit essences from juicy and nonjuicy fruits, including raspberries cherries and currants, with boiling and sieving steps to obtain clear flavors. For syrups cordials and beverages keep the liquid clear, while for ice creams and bonbons use pulp too. Also mentions using cordials for sick or faverish households and notes a Jewish Messenger call for mission work on education.
Mrs Spoopendyke quotes a newspaper report about a senate deadlock. The dialogue riffs on Conkling Mahone Matthews Robertson and Garfield, mixing satire with comic misunderstanding about who is a senator or collector. The piece lampoons political maneuvering and press coverage in a humorous domestic frame.
Verbeck, famed prestidigitator, feigned wealth with gratuities in a shabby Paris barber shop prompting cheers from staff. On day four the box yielded no silver, sparking accusations until Verbeck revealed a sleight of hand and settled the matter with gifts. He later pranked a cafe waiter by swapping drinks with hidden flasks, exposing the waiter’s confusion before the mentor intervened.
A column of wry quips and jokes recounts letters to dead relatives, animal headlines, and social observations. It notes a Philadelphia Chronicle joke about married men in hot water, a tailor shop gossip quip, and a New York widow seeking an agent. It also mentions a wife collaring her husband, a New York dress expense, a mule owning father running for legislature, and fashion window designs with linen and potato bags.
An extract covers farming tips on feed efficiency and racks, lime use, salt, and stock mixes with cotton seed and linseed oil cake. It discusses fattening beef, selecting animals, and the value of careful livestock breeding. plus guidance on improving conversation skills and social discourse in American life. It notes American children’s independence vs English paternalism and ends with a Troy man finding a $50 pearl in oysters and oyster trade impact.
Maryland and Delaware fruit growers report troubling signs for peach orchards as buds fail to show life. A Delaware farmer with 10,000 trees near Bridgeville finds no live peach buds, fearing entire orchards dead. State Senator Rust predicts no peaches this season and possible blackberry and raspberry crop failures across Sussex county. Reports come from Caroline and Worcester counties as canning firms doubt budded trees will fruit this year. Some orchards are being sold cheaply amid uncertain bloom prospects, with temperatures hitting record lows last winter and damaging leaf buds.
A jagged, historically flavored reminiscence contrasts accusations of hypocrisy with notes on party bargaining across states and centuries. It mentions labor reformers, Greenbackers, and Nationals, plus debts and bond redemptions dated in 1881. A tangential transit of political satire and financial detail threads through the passage.
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