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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1865
Page
3
Our newspaper will charge twenty five cents for each marriage and death notice and all obituaries except those of soldiers due to high composition costs and crowded columns. This fee is necessary because of the large volume of notices and limited time and space.
The note reports Hon F W Shear plans a statewide lecture on Michigan with Judge Shearman praised as a skilled writer and speaker. It mentions Shearman’s past as Superintendent of Public Instruction and his reference work on school day. It asks why the Young Men's Association does not engage Shear and notes a committee meeting at Henderson Hall on Friday evening.
A damaged 1865 proclamation from Marshall appoints a Thanksgiving Day to celebrate deliverance from an unnamed system. It includes butcher guild endorsements and guidance on market meat deliveries tied to a new system, with confusing names and garbled text. The message also records a separate report of a train mishap near Francisco, plus scattered settlement notices and a burial claim.
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