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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1886
Page
2
A poetic piece threads sorrow toward renewal, envisioning a soft dawn of the new year. It blends images of light, blossoms, and love with reflections on hardship, urging resilience and a shared, hopeful journey into the coming year. Editorial notes follow, wishing readers a happy new year and touching on duties, debts, and civic matters from 1886 to 1887.
Fragmentary verse laments war and asks divine grace for the king as drums fade and a new day dawns. The speaker counsels restraint, cherishes past loss, and hopes for steadier leadership as the realm advances into uncertain times.
Exalted lines urge contentment under God’s will and endurance through hardship. A reflective verse praises rest after struggle, predicts richer harvest after floods, and invites keeping faith warm in the heart as a yearly spiritual renewal. The piece names Bent & Parken Naveatres, Indiana, dated December 24.
A local editor lingers over Manning’s yearly budget critique as a peaceable financial steward. The piece blasts temperance and reform rhetoric, laments tax policy, and defends protective duties while warning families about volatile public conduct. It contrasts newspaper stances on tariffs with historical debates and cautions youth about dubious gatherings. It cites the Expounder and Albion Recorder in a broader political economy discussion.
The passage argues the tariff remains unchanged yet the Evening Nowa paper price has fallen five or six cents per pound. It claims mills and many workers were created, boosting demand for farm products and national prosperity. It condemns tariff critics and urges capital confidence for quicker revival, noting paper mirrors other tariff-affected goods.
Health reports from Michigan show rheumatism, neuralgia, bronchitis, tonsillitis, intermittent fever, lung consumption, and influenza as leading sickness causes during the week ending December 26, 1885. For the 1895 week, rheumatism, intermittent fever, and diarrhea rise in prevalence with diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid, and measles noted in multiple towns including Detroit Grand Rapids Jackson and Battle Creek.
In January 1884 the issue presents a Christmas number with W D Howells leading a long promised story Christmas Every Day. Frances Hodgson Burnett and others contribute tales, sketches, and illustrations including Little Lord Fauntleroy and Santa Claus on Snow Shoes. Ads note remedies for catarrh and coughs, with testimonials and medical notices.
A garbled older text advertises Dr R V Pieres's Favorite Prescription for female ailments. It touts a reduced price and druggists selling various tonics and remedies amid misspellings and sensational casual language.
Harper’s Weekly proclaims its status as the nation’s leading illustrated weekly with a new volume featuring two partially illustrated aerial stories by Tho Hardy and Walter Besant, plus illustrated short stories and authoritative papers. It invites readers to subscribe for trustworthy political guidance and entertaining family content free from objectionable features.
A vintage advertisement lists Harper's Periodicals including Harper's Weekly Harper's Magazine Harper's Bazar and Harper's Young in a Franklin Square Library bundle. Details claim one year access with 52 issues and free postage to U.S. residents.
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