Advertised Letters at Marshall Post Office
Aug 20 list shows unclaimed mail including Mrs J I Freeland Miss Morin Gregory Forest Jones M C Nelson Agnes Roberts Charlie. Call for above letters and say adver tied. One cent per piece. Postmaster C Fietener. Low rate excursion Aug 16 via Cincinnati Seckson Mackinaw Ry to Toledo and return leaves Marshall 7:37 am fare 1$ round trip tickets good next day. Casino attractions and area agent handbills available.
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Marshall Post-Office
J. I. Freeland
Morin. Gregory
Forest. Jones
M.C Nelson
Agnes. Roberts
Charlie
C. ‘T. Fietener
Cincinnati
Seckson & Mackinaw Ry
Toledo
Marshall
Casino
Grd
T. C
The States new subscribers to January first, 1897
The States added new subscribers with a rate of 23 cents, cited for January 1, 1897.
The Farle Cabby and the Insurance Scam
A Paris cabman story warns readers against sympathy with accident victims who exaggerate loss. It notes a sham operator once targeted English tourists, using melodrama to extract money for repairs while portraying himself as ruinously poor. The piece ends as a Paris Letter anecdote.
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Farle
Paris
Paria
Imperial board forbids hand kissing at Avatria and Hungary schools
An imperial education order bans children from kissing teachers on arrival or departure at Avatria and Hungary public schools. Officials cite sanitary findings that kissing is unhealthy and unnecessary, ending a long lived local custom.
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Avatria
Hungary
Imperial Board of Education
County and city notes mix in Aug issue of paper
Local items report social notices, marriages, and business updates. Calhoun County tax sales are listed, Lantern shows, and county fair plans with events at Lyon lake and Marshall. A republican McKinley club organizes rooms, while Moon eclipse on Aug 22 draws reader interest.
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Don L
Harry During
Marshall
Calhoun County
J. M. Ferguson
Battle Creek
Publisher’s Practice and the Cost of Delayed Payment
An exchange explains how a farmer or publisher who sells crops or goods on credit loses value when payments are delayed. The farmer receives promises of future payment, but the immediate crop vanishes and debtors pay in small installments. Repeatedly deferring payments leads to growing financial distress and eventual necessity for disciplined debt collection.
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Angone
Lynn Lake Notes Camp Highlights and Local Buzz
Camp Midway hosted over fifty on Tuesday and the German cafe drew crowds all day. More than 150 attended the Marshall farmers picnic on Tuesday while Miss Emma Brooks departed camp. The Vixen steamer cruises the lake as Tekonsha Old Maids cheer and teachers’ exams wrap in Marshall. M.C.R. line offers Petoskey round trips August 27 at 8:38 am for 5 dollars, tax notices urge timely payments.
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Lynn Lake
Lighting by electricity sparks farmer banter in Athens
The Athens Times quotes farmers at Burr Oak and Main street joking about electric power calling it candle power. Homer Index reports two young men hired a livery rig, started a makeshift bus line to Albion camp meeting, then faced possible damages as the team wore out on the return. On August 17, Mr and Mrs Wim Knickerbocker of South Albion marked sixty years married. he will turn 85 soon, and he is the sole surviving child of a twelve-child family.
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Messi
Flynn
French
Stuart's Hall
Jas
Hulep
Adé Chatapasisen
Burlington
William J. Thurlow
Helen L. Andrews
Battle Creek
Ben H
Glark
Nettis
Smith
Wm. Waite
Margaret Creddott
State Board of Equalization
Lansing
T. J. Shipp
Calhout County
A. J. Murray
Coldwater, Mich
F. Snyder
Detroit Journal
Pingree
R. Camp
West
Jackson
Fe Iver
Billiam House
J. Ran
Burr Oak
Main Street
Athens Times
Homer
Index
Chas. MacArdis
Albion
Max
Wim. M. Knickerbocker
South Albion
Mr. H
PERSONALS listing from Grand Rapids to Gull Lake visitors
A recap of local personal notices: Chas Cuzzins arrives from Grand Rapids. Lepper in New York buying goods. Eden Stuart at Gull Lake for a few days. Mrs Geo Smith visiting Waterloo Ohio. Rupert Bentley on North Dakota business. Dr Hunting and family on a Gull Lake outing. Mrs J C Beckwith hosting Miss Lotta Buck. George and Will Smith visiting friends in town. Also note B A Kelleher returned from New York with dress goods. David Cunningham recovered from illness. E F Tierney traveled to Kalamazoo for his brother-in-law Patrick O'Brien’s funeral. E J Piper to stay a few days. Razors Ground ad near Greene's drug store. tax collection duties by City Treasurer Geo Sxutu starting August 3 with 4 percent fee if unpaid.
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Chas, Cuzzins
Grand Rapids
Lepper
New York
Eden Stuart
Gull Lake
Geo. Smith
Waterloo
Ohio
Rupert Bentley
North Dakota
Dr. Hunting
J. C. Beckwith
Lotta Buck
George
Will Smith
van Wert, O
B. A. Kelleher
E. Cronin
David Cunningham
E. F. Tierney
Kalamazoo
Patrick O’brien
Round of Applause at the Gaiety Theater
An anecdote recalls Albert Chevalier on stage in London as the Kendals joined the cast. During a tense moment his cue failed and he searched for memory at the prompter’s entrance. Bancroft David James and Miss Terry watched, while Chevalier clung to a spoken line.
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Albert Chevalier
Gaiety Theater
London
Kendals
Bancroft
David- James
Miss. Terry
Alum in baking powder and costs warned
The article cites the famous Salem trial maxim murder will out to argue alum in baking powders betrays adulteration by bitterness in bread. It warns against cheap powders containing alum and praises pure cream of tartar powders like Dr Price’s for better economy and results.
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Daniel Webster
Salem
Masu
Dr. Price
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