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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1864
Page
3
A transit notice states that starting Monday July 18 train services will operate three times per week in the spring and summer schedule. The brief adds no further details about routes or times.
The city votes a one hundred dollar bounty per enlisted man and seeks further funds to offer two hundred dollars locally. Subscriptions lag as Marshall trails neighbors and few volunteers sign up. Officials argue the nation needs men to sustain Grant Sherman and Charleston, urging citizens to answer the call and do their duty.
Active preparations at the Fair Grounds provide quarters for the 29th Regiment with lumber delivered and barracks contracts in place. Recruits numbered forty to sixty expected, with state bounty incentives offered to new enlistees.
The piece discusses quota increases to avert draft, with bounties and substitutes driving enlistment. Captains Lounsberry and Bagus are highlighted, praising the 20th Michigan and Ninth Regiment veterans, while Albion College promotes business and law programs to support enlistment and local enterprise amid war efforts.
In this city, by Rev L Willard, Htev. T. Dwight Hunt of Waterville NY marries Sarah O daughter of Tri Nasu Ey.
A lettered medical notice promotes Dr V Clarence Price offering treatment for chronic illnesses. It lists ailments such as throat kidney rheumatism dropsies and more and claims a non speculative method with no minerals or destructive agents. Consultations arranged in Marshall Kalamazoo Coldwater Morell and other towns with dates in September.
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