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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1885
Page
5
April report notes Peters’ Hardware Store window screens while May items promote Betern’s hardware and Werden tools. Butler touts Paixbanks day scale with correct weight every time. Local merchants advertise hogs, rakes, and shoars among tools.
Grand Rapids leader reports ex-city resident J C Fitzgerald’s survey of England, Ireland, and continental Europe. He cites wages from $2.50 to $5 weekly, harsh living in Sheffield and Birmingham, ten hour workdays, poor housing, and widespread poverty. He contrasts English contentment with continental hardship and notes political shifts and tax burdens.
Sheriff Galligan and Deputy Foster of Spatta arrested Lafayette Clark of LeRoy after a daylong search. Officers found stolen goods concealed under a floor and in an outside cellar including shears, skates, a bridle, mittens, robes, blankets, razors, gloves, boots, shoes, a wagon harness, a rescue hammer and more. Willard Clark, brother of Lafayette, was jailed later that night. The Kalamazoo Telegraph notes the gang allegedly stole wheat, sheep, hogs and poultry over the years.
A citizen reviews the mind cure movement, noting that mind influence on the body is established but criticizing Swartz for distortion and mysticism. The piece warns that exaggerated claims and anti medicine rhetoric risk harm, arguing for adherence to reason and proven medical practice.
Albion district camp meeting opened August 11 and lasted until the 19th with about fifty tents and twentyfive ministers in attendance. Rev A A Kouppen led the sessions and praised for wise management and profitable meetings. Rev W Harrison attended throughout and delivered strong exhortations. Four services daily followed by prayer and conference. many conversions recorded and a rising influence foreseen. hymns drew some criticism as outdated. Grounds to be improved with several thousand dollars next year and free lots offered for cottages. Harrison to return for next year’s gathering.
The school board secured Prof Geo FE Cutler as high school principal and top graduate in Ann Arbor for scholarship. Miss Harriet E Ailes joins as teacher and both German French Latin and higher mathematics are taught. The district anticipates the Marshall school matching or surpassing any state graded school with Superintendent Glenn and staff aiding teachers and pupils.
An extract from the Battle Creek Journal details farmer complaints about consistently low wheat prices in Battle Creek compared with Albion Kalamazoo and other Michigan markets. The writer argues buyers collude to suppress prices, urging farmers to unite, seek fair profits, and invest in local mills. Also notes the death of Luther Willson a Calhoun pioneer, aging about 70s, with a brief obituary.
Chicago markets report mixed signals with wheat conditions improving but foreign demand weak. Corn exports exceed prior weeks while old crop tightens. Cattle receipts rise. prime cattle steady but feeder stock soft. Hog and pork markets softer amid poor export demand and disease impacts. Sheep prices fall in a weak market.
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