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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1900
Page
8
Town residents attend lectures, visits, and church events while noting illnesses, job moves, and mobile gatherings. Mentions include Miss Stella Murdock’s Dundee trip, Mrs. Smyth improving, and Ghastly weather delaying plans. Also lists church notices, fund-raising, and community ads for remedies and tools.
Homer brief notes Anson Shupe returns to Charles R. Mains street Battle. Elbert Andrews recovers from pneumonia. Washington birthday preparations rise in schools. Herlow Wait, a Homer business figure since 1885 later sold Wait & Co to Hunter & Co, dies at 44, services held with Knights of Pythias. F. E. Strong hosts thirty friends. Ida Benfy illness delays Les Miserables reading event. KF Strong & Bro install acetylene lighting in basement hardware store. local industry advances noted amid uncertain garble.
A stream of short items reports on social visits and illnesses. Mrs Rabb of Albian cared for her sister Mrs Frank Reid who is ill but improving. Mr and Mrs Hutchinson hosted dinner with several couples. Mrs Ray had a serious back injury from a fall. Pearl Jandes visited from Newton. A Rothrock of Wheatfield ill with rush of blood to the head affecting speech. Jackson Mack planned a visit to Vicksburg. John Ulrich bought eighty acres near Newton and will move in March. John Hough ill. Frank Bell attended a Lincoln club banquet at Marabol. Tilman Young sold his house to Charles Mickell. Robert Hall’s youngest child died from bowel inflammation. Rev. L. D. Palmer conducted a funeral at Battle Creek. local notices urge the One Minute Cough Cure. former Tekonsha resident Holly Bush mentioned. J M Falling celebrated his 67th birthday. J A Harsh and wife visited Buffalo. John Blodgett to build a barn this spring. seventeen baptism applicants at Baptist church. Surnames include Jandes, Rothrock, Hough, Bell, Hyde.
Miss Minnis Houston hosted a sleigh load of Marsh residents Tuesday evening. A number of prominent Dist. No. 1 Republicans attended the opera house banquet. Miss Anoy Waltz visits, with Miss Carrie Lederer and Miss Mamie Baker from Jackson expected at H. J. Dey's social and literary exercises. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark hosted several guests Friday night. Miss Myrta Katy visits grandmother Mrs. Kieferang, while Miss Maria Root of Marshell visited Fredonia friends last week. A stranger called at Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Dobbins home Sunday afternoon February 11.
Fragments recount social gatherings and greetings for George with guests returning home. Mentions Mrs. Frank Cooley ill, visits by P. Diwoed and wife from Battle Creek. Real estate: 240 acres for rent south of Hills Corners with 100 plow land. Classifieds praise Dr. A W Chase tonic for women. Anecdotes about a pin habit and early risers pills, plus financial anecdotes about Alfred Sutro and a livery fee dispute. Also notes subscription drive for Statesman.
A health notice explains that consumption germs are ubiquitous but can be resisted by strong throats and lungs. It stresses that fat-rich bodies resist infection, that weak blood and thin bodies invite illness, and urges prompt action if coughs persist and the throat remains sore.
The text lists catalog-like newspaper subscription offers from titles such as New York World, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Inter Ocean, and Michigan Farmer, with varying yearly prices. It pivots to a claim about Washington DC housing the largest black population among U.S. cities, asserting numbers to compare with St. Louis, Baltimore, and New Orleans, and noting Washington’s higher black population than New York.
Tom and Den and Keen botter shears are cited as examples of ancient tools. Prof H B Tylor notes that Faamania natives remained within the Paleolithic frame into recent times. Studies of Taamgpians show rudimentary implements echoing Paleolithic drift and workshop origins.
The Calhoun County Sheep and Wool Growers association met in Battle Creek on Saturday Feb 3. Officers elected included President O Z Fredenburg Battle Creek Vice President A D Briggs Assyria and Secretary Perry Pearce Climax. A speaker Robert Gibbons Detroit discussed sheep breeding and wool growing. Resolutions protested a proposed reciprocity treaty with Argentina and called for fair wool duties.
Instructions suggest mixing washing soda with wet coal dust to improve burning for slow fires. The notice also mentions a seller of Lisketa to New Orleans, travel tickets, and early February sales details. Additional items discuss relief photography, city merchants, and various market prices for wheat, corn, butter, hides, beef, poultry, and seeds.
Latest reports indicate an era of unprecedented building activity has begun in about forty cities and towns despite rising costs for iron steel lumber glass paint and other materials.
Michigan Central Stock Yards Detroit reports quiet cattle trade with moderate activity recently. Prices listed for prime calves heifers and cattle, stockers and feeders, canners, and butcher stock, with varied bids and regional receipts noted.
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