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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1901
Page
4
Readable fragments show a fatal incident at 6 to 6 thirty in the evening near Athens and Marshall township. Mentions a candidate for Cone School and state convents, with dates like February 53 and discussions of nominations for a supreme court seat and State University.
A satirical letter mocks political figures and events. It references Mrs Nation Carrie Chapman Catt and Henry Watterson Kentucky, criticizes brass bands of reform, notes Alaska temperatures and Manila dispatches, remarks on a possible no extra session, and salutes the army bill while lampooning press commentary on Philippines troops.
The upcoming session will see changes in both House and Senate leadership with vacancies and new members. Notables include Senator Moses Clapp of Minnesota, Senator Henry E. Burnham of New Hampshire replacing Chandler, and Senator Joseph Bailey moving from the House to lead the Democratic opposition. Renata State’s seat and other posts will open with retirements and resignations, signaling a shift in party dynamics and parliamentary power.
The piece notes Robert Gamble of New York born lawyer and educator, James Carmack journalist from Tennessee, Joseph Burton of Indiana lawyer and minor official, and Donelson Caffery succeeding Foster in Louisiana. It highlights Gamble’s Republican status, Carmack’s Nashville and Memphis papers influence, Burton’s Indiana birth, and Foster’s Louisiana governorship and anti lottery stance.
Inventor Professor Michael I. Pupin, aged about 40, adjunct professor of mechanics at Columbia University, offers a relay induction coil system to boost signal strength on transoceanic telegraph cables. Leading U S. telephone and telegraph firms reportedly agreed to pay about 500000 dollars upfront plus 15000 dollars annually for 17 years, with tests applauding the device though requiring costly new cable installations.
Reports diverge on King Alexander of Servia and his 24 year old marriage to 42 year old widow Mme Drags Maschin. The wedding occurred in August and has sparked differing accounts of royal union and public reaction influencing court life and diplomacy.
A Montana 18-year-old, Miss Billings of Bilinga, leaves home to study art in New York after rising to fame at the Art League. She paints flora and fauna with exactness, keeps pets, exchanges pigeons with a New York banker, and wowed connoisseurs with cow and horse portraits.
A vintage patent medicine pitch from Scott and Bowne claims the product is the easiest food, satisfying hunger with flexible quantities. It promises renewed strength as it asserts germs are killed and invites readers to obtain a tree sample to be surprised by its agreeable taste.
Notice calls the annual convention of the State League of Republican Clubs of Michigan for February 27, 1901 at 3 p m at the Lincoln Club rooms Grand Rapids to elect officers report and transact business. Each club represented by president and secretary plus one delegate per fifty members. dues of fifty cents per fifty members due before convention. Any organized club may enroll by meeting conditions before the convention. By order of the advisory council Hay H Swift president F E Fenton secretary Detroit January 26 1901.
A bust of Laurea M. Olcott, the gift of sculptor Frank Edwin Elwell, was unveiled at the University of Kansas. Elwell studied Olcott’s sister at Concord Massachusetts and Olcott was known as a writer of popular tales.
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