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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1890
Page
3
A collection of scattered 19th century anecdotes and miscellany. It mentions misdeeds and debates in Europe, folk letters and a Gulf route postal curiosity. It cites Oklahoma settlers and a famous stamp collection, plus railroads and coal use statistics.
A collage of anecdotes and notes recounts travels of a blind House chaplain born in Philadelphia in 1882, a ticket fraud tale, imperial banter between Dom Pedro and Victor Hugo, and curious India Indian railway curiosities. It ends with a long treatise on football positions and drills, including field layout, player roles, and game rules.
The text explains kicking, scoring, and gameplay rules including touch-downs, field goals, and safeties. It describes ball handling, player fouls, offside penalties, scrimmage play, time rules, and equipment limits, followed by a mythic insertion about an angel and a white flower.
A Pall Mall Gazette clipping notes harsh gender rules where a man who beats his wife faces light action unless injuries are severe, while a wife beating her husband could incur a hundred blows and separation from her spouse. It also mentions famine era sales of wives and mild punishment for impoverished men selling wives, with a grim reference to restitution.
Fragmentary OCR shows an old lady speaking to a boy about a dog and a joking remark about sending someone to Israel. The text is garbled and unclear but indicates a family dialogue with taunting language.
Reports from Mount Vernon in Michigan recount a horrific family tragedy. William Major, about 50, killed his wife, daughter, and granddaughter with a revolver and ax, then died by hanging in a barn. The surviving son and others alerted neighbors who found the mother gravely injured. The killer’s actions followed a visit from family and a final, fatal act by the father.
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