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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1901
Page
3
A fragmented historic piece blends scientific musings on lightning with a folkloric verse about a princess who longs for freedom. It describes how initial electric charge in clouds forms through evaporation and condensation, then shifts to a poetic scene of a princess desiring to roam free at night, imagining fairy company.
A recipe for pumpkin custard batter with pumpkin, milk, eggs and spices baked in puff paste. The text also cites Venice as the bride of the sea with a doge ceremony, the ring ritual, and a note on sunflower cultivation in Europe.
A fragment from a letter to a friend in Kansas recounts the siege by Boxers in Peking. The writer notes bicycles burned, sandbagging windows to stop bullets, and ongoing attempts to save reading books while staying safe.
The account recalls brutal corporal punishment used on boys by shipboard overseers and the claimed reformers who justify blows as training. It also details a New York pawn ticket swindle where con artists exploit pawned valuables to extract $85 from victims, leaving buyers overpaying while the pawnbroker reclaims the loan.
A late 19th century summary discusses life expectancy across nations, noting American, British, German and French trends and suggesting climate, feeding, and class factors influence longevity. It also reports on U S Navy gunnery training to save firing costs using dummy cartridges and a Remington blank in the breech. Additional brief items touch on name pronunciation as advertising, a legal quibble over post facto law, and a stray anecdote about a woman asking what she wanted to know.
A fragment recalls an actor at Brighton Beach who joins a stage company with a $500 weekly contract after a devil Faust role and a later casting in The Foundry. A second vignette follows Mary, a stout deaf maid in an East Park household, critiquing Bouguereau and Psyche art as her mistress dismissively comments Moody and Sankey.
A garbled reader input touts discovery for cures and stomach relief. It cites Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, One Minute Cough Cure, and DeWitt’s Liver Pills promoted by unnamed endorsements, with scattered names and vague trials, aiming to sell tonics and remedies through sensational claims.
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