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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1888
Page
7
An extensive discussion on keeping skin in good condition through cleanliness and routine. It covers historical views on bathing habits across nations, various soaps and additives, and how proper digestion and diet influence complexion, with emphasis on facial care using bran or bean flours, creams, and cologne for daily cleansing.
The piece discusses social mobility in a free country where fortune, not birth alone, shapes status. It contrasts genuine gentility with flashy imitation, noting metropolitan second-generation shifts from humble trades to ostentatious displays and the hollow thrift of some new elites. It references figures and trends cited by Joe Howard in the Boston Globe.
The Lay of the Dead in Mexico describes funeral cars and cadaver displays. The English Soldier column praises Maj. Clark and discusses British troops, uniforms, and defense contrasts with the US National Guard. A humorous tale about Maj. Haggerty and Tom O'Reilly notes a Scotsman accusation and a Wellington denial.
A Dakota settler recounts railroad surveyors pushing to move his house four rods to clear a new line. Workers, jackscrews, and chains fail to budge him as officials condemn the home for the Great Dakota and North Pole route, while stock sales and town rumors swirl.
Excerpted anecdotes recount O M Mitchell leading a Citizens guard to defend Cincinnati banks during the 1837 riot, a fatal shot during street clashes, and his retreat from the mayor's office. It closes with alpaca facts and a Vienna medical society legacy joke about 9.5 million Portuguese reis yielding about 4600 dollars.
Two rural men visiting town mistook a steam fire engine for a blaze. One exclaimed at the gleaming wagon and its driver, while Danish explained the scene was merely a lamplighter at work in the streets.
In Thers exe $e te more millionaires Beenoe Ayres than ip any othnity of ita rang meer st fhe private houses. The fragment hints at Ayres reshaping wealth in private residences amid a period of growing affluence.
An advertisement extols Ayer's Sarsaparilla as an American remedy for lung disease catarrh and liver kidney ailments. It claims broad benefits, including relief from suffering and renewed health, urging use to purify blood and improve the system.
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