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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1885
Page
7
A weary woman with a pale, pinched baby sits in a suburban railroad depot on a late Saturday night. Coughs rack the infant as bundles pile around them, and hope drifts away with each train that passes. The mother waits for George, fearing drink, while bystanders wonder at the tragedy unfolding in the dim, damp depot.
In St Louis a railway veteran recalls Granada on the Santa Fe line when robbers seized a train ahead of its arrival. A dramatic emergency unfolded as the passengers hid, a lantern flashed, and the train sped through, leaving the bandits to vanish after the express passed. Nearby a NY Academy of Medicine note urges hot water as a nervous disease remedy.
A scrambled column reports diverse items from across the country. It notes a local Ohio town compelled to enforce school attendance via an Evangelical baseball club pressure, plus scattered curiosities on beans in Indian Territory, Bishop Taylor remarks on Africa, a Nevada tragedy, wheat yields in Kansas, Russian bristle quality, Spanish hog hair, a California melon shrub, and a butter-filled well discovery in New York.
An aged observer recalls how New York charms now surpass the bayfront grandeur he described in the forties. He paints a lively scene of ferries, masts, and ships, the Battery and skyline, the Mills and Produce Exchange, and shimmering electric lights and a moonlit bridge in a city transformed yet echoing its early majesty.
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