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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1897
Page
2
State labor data for Michigan from December reports indicate stronger factory activity, with 3,494 factories in operation and 117,081 workers. The average monthly payroll reached 3,025,029 dollars, while safety measures reduced fatal accidents to five and total accidents to 178, an 80 percent drop from the prior year.
In Detroit on Dec 18 the coroner ruled the Detroit & Oakland Railway caused a fatal accident near Pontiac and Birmingham two weeks earlier. It faulted the company for no dispatching or danger signals, no inter car communication, and brakes too weak for heavy grades, predicting heavy damages. Other items note a mining company organized in Michigan, an heir to a Liverpool property, orchard destruction plans, a murder suicide, and a skin ointment advertisement.
Detroit reports arraignments for Clinton D. Butterfield and De Vere Miller accused of stealing 12 600 from Lansing agricultural college safe on April 6. Judges Swan and Cadillac attorneys urged mercy. sentence suspended. Other notices cover drug firm consolidation, Michigan Commercial Travelers meeting in Kalamazoo, Mormon fundraising in Grand Rapids, higher lumber wages in Manistee, Hamilton King named minister to Siam, and local incidents from Petoskey to Niles.
Reported items list financial, legal, and civic happenings across northern Michigan. Grand Rapids dredging costs 19875 for the Grand river. Muskegon arrests for attempted train wreck. Saginaw YWCA sixth anniversary with 590 members and sound finances. Houghton copper vein discovery. state homestead activity. stamp collection valued at 340 by Holland manager A J Lewis. pardon board elects Beck as president and Turner as vice president with Saxton and Smith as other members.
Lansing reports the annual session of the Michigan State Grange adopted resolutions opposing pooling in interstate commerce law amendments and supporting repealing the penal clause of the antitrust law. They urged equal taxes on railroad property, two cent a mile passenger fare, freight table rates, free textbooks, equal suffrage, and a national pure food law.
Lansing reports hundreds of tax titles in Michigan rendered worthless by a Supreme Court ruling in the Connecticut Mutual Fire Insurance case against Wood. Lands bid to the state for one year taxes cannot be sold for delinquent taxes in subsequent years, upending the auditor general’s procedures and risking many thousands in lost state revenue. A rehearing will be sought.
A Louisville style testimonial promotes Brown's Cure as a grand remedy for liver kidney and bowel ills. Mrs Je Ne Craig of Indianapolis Testifies to renewed vitality after use and urges others to try the medicine sold by A O Hyde for 76 cents.
An advertisement claims one in four suffer rectal disease with itching piles. It promotes Pyramid Pile Cure as a permanent remedy for itching piles and other forms, promising instant relief and long term removal of tumors or parasites, while denying cocaine or opium in the formula.
A laboring man credits Zoa Phora with transforming his sick home into a prosperous one. He recalls months of hospital visits and debt, then notes his wife and daughter healed by the product. The ad promises a free book from the Zoa Phora Medicine Co. in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Free mailed booklet argues the value of rheumatic cure, claiming evidence supports remedy by Specife Remedy Co of Kalamazoo Michigan.
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