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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1884
Page
7
An 1880s advertisement touts Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as a remedy for throat and lung ailments. It cites dramatic recoveries from terrible coughs, croup, and long-standing lung issues, with testimonials from patients and mothers praising the product's supposed efficacy.
The article portrays Dakota’s shift from frontier chaos to reformist zeal, led by churches and prohibitionists. It recalls vigilante justice against alcohol fueled crime, praises Methodist church expansion and anti saloon efforts, and calls for courage from leaders like Lovejoy and Sumner. Rev. O. KE Murray notes the prohibition movement forming in Huron and predicts a decisive victory to close open saloons.
A village confrontation unfolds as Mrs Elton, a dainty reformer, debates with Willism Benson about temperance and biblical wine practice. The exchange touches on St Paul and differing views of wine, duty, and modern versus ancient spirits. The dialogue reveals social tensions around drinking and moral instruction.
Reading from a church discourse, Benson and Mrs Elton debate biblical wine a cupbearer scene in Exodus where Egyptians avoid fermented wine while the juice of the grape is praised A man in a stupor is taken to the station house and mockingly questioned about bail
A collection of opinion excerpts contrasts England's free trade with the US tilt toward protectionism. It argues tariff history, warns Democrats risk lumber workers, and notes Michigan's lumber and stone industries employing about 50,000 with high wages.
A fragment from a periodical blends Bulwer Lytton teaching on life with a metaphor of a bridge between youth and age. It argues faith alone cannot sustain the edifice of life, urging nature and human craft, and cites Parker's Tonic as a life invigorant amid common ailments.
In New York central village a doctor notes a traveler’s collapse from a mountain ride. He argues a simple Benson’s Capcine Plaster might have saved him, while criticizing slower learning, and promotes Capeine marked plasters from Seabury Johnson.
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