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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1889
Page
7
A fragmented reminiscence describes a family gathering with children and relatives, scenes of Christmas prep, gifts, and shared activities. The passage recalls a lively domestic aftermath, with cousins, aunts, and siblings interacting, storytelling, and playful chores as they await Christmas morning.
A small steam launch touring the Gran Chaco encounters a nocturnal water boa aboard its deck on Christmas Eve. The creature slithers through bunks, attacks with jaws and tail, is shot, hauled out, and removed after a fiery effort by Marin Luth Sackett and the crew.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway leads in steam heating and electric lighting on trains. A central plant in each car powers heat and light with safety devices, batteries for emergencies, and regulated illumination. Sleeping cars feature patent reading lamps directing light for comfort, while vestibule cars avoid heat and odor. A bishop-like quote closes the piece.
A devotional piece urges readers to embrace Christmas as a time to honor home and family. It contrasts pagan lodgings with Christian homes and urges open doors, hospitality, and shared joy. The piece invites children to play with the Bethlehem babe and calls all ages to pause from worldly cares to be fed by Christ.
Mr Hendricks discusses gift plans for his sons after breakfast. He approves practical presents and notes the need for a new parlor rug and eight dozen tumblers, with a joking suggestion to give George a gift and Jobuy the tumblers.
A whimsical Victorian style verse sketches seasonable signs and home scenes around Christmas. A narrator notes laughter in the home, a wife intones the constraint of income, and a tale unfolds of holiday purchases and gifts among family, revealing festive cheer mixed with practical frugality.
Mrs H Ford wife of Gen Ford endured two years of bedridden suffering with swollen limbs in Corunod Michigan. She credits Hibberds Rheumatic Syrup with relief after two bottles and full recovery after a third. The notice offers to send by mail if local druggists do not stock it.
A doctored exchange on sleep habits ends with a suggestion to share a room plus a nightly onion remedy. An ad-like note warns of grave kidney disease and touts a diuretic tonic named Hysteller's Stomach Bitters. A grim Irish-English joke concludes with Pat misinterpreting a rescued patient as his own leg.
An old time health ad warns discouraged women of disease peculiar to their sex. It touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Pills as cures, claims guaranteed satisfaction or money back, and ends with an endorsement of Scott’s Emulsion for general health with a Halifax, N S physician praising its stomach tolerance and results.
Humble town column relays chatter about a “cubncrption paper” Smith started to reach the East. It mentions Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs with free trial bottles, and Hibbard's Rheumatic and Liver Pills marketed as safe for all ages. A joke about a burglar and a soap factory label appears amid ad-like notices for Brown's Bronchial Troches and Oregon Immigration.
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