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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1894
Page
5
July 12 dispatches detail local travel, visits, and social events across Ceresco Cenesvo and Tekonsha. Activities include church society entertainments, farm market updates, a skiing wheel ride plan, and near term plans for Lyon Lake picnics with M L S members.
North Marengo reports Professor Pixley entertainment had few attendees due to farming duties. A quiet wedding united William E. Rupp and Miss Lottie Kryo at the bride's home in Nashton with Rev. J. H. Watson officiating. Residents discuss harvest, local insurance efforts, and scattered social visits across town.
George Hennessy, long submerged in water for six weeks, is now a hospital patient recovering from a virulent back abscess. Dr. Heine Marks conducted a continuous bath treatment to keep the sore cool and fever down, with the water temperature matched to his blood heat. Hennessy grew comfortable, reports enjoying the rippling water, and he walked again, though he feared drowning at times. The experiment, deemed gently successful, may inspire new abscess therapies, though Bicetre surgeons have pursued similar ideas.
Walter Besant reports an American conspiracy led by F Holland Day of Norwood to fund a marble bust for Keats. The piece notes Day arranged with Lowell and Longfellow’s memory, sending the gift to Hampstead church for a shared English speaking world tribute. The centenary of Keats’ birth is Oct 29, 1895.
A Rome letter reports that organized gangs of railroad workers are resuming systematic baggage theft on Italian trains, with trunks opened en route and valuable contents relocked. Major targets include luggage and, more recently, registered mail, prompting foreign complaints and likely government action.
A new machine at the Philadelphia mint counts 2000 silver dollars per minute, devised by Sebastian Heines and a chief carpenter. It sorts coins into tubes and grooves, counting 1000 per bag, enabling rapid coin handling and reducing manual effort. The device impressed Mint Director Presunsofilea and was put into regular use yesterday.
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