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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1893
Page
6
In a N. S. Tribune piece on fashionable interiors the shift from gas to polished lamps is debated. It notes preferred shaded lighting in drawing rooms and dining rooms, the rise of pagoda shades, and the ban on chandeliers. It stresses careful shading, finish, and color coordination with silk, ribbons, and delicate fabrics.
A fragment advises washing hair with common kitchen hard soap to combat oiliness. It notes a woman who has used it and seen results, suggesting soap as a simple remedy. The text lacks broader context or steps beyond the basic suggestion.
Agricultural notes discuss basement and false sill methods to strengthen barns and foundations. It explains how false sills under lower side of main sills improve rigidity, suggests materials and spiking, and advises raising the structure when empty for durability. Separate piece on Grass for Dairy Cows links pasture quality to milk, meat, and animal growth with emphasis on grass as natural feed.
Instructions on long keeping butter, salt brines, sugar, saltpeter, and cream handling for preserving butter. Discusses jars versus barrels, brine composition, and avoiding bitter cream while noting temperature effects on milk and cream quality across winter and spring. Includes farmer observations and experimental notes from dairy practice.
The week’s brief notes summarize collapses of regional banks in Cortland Nebraska and Defiance Ohio, a wage of fire damage in St Louis, a fatal horse race in Sacramento, a railway collision near Poplar Bluff, and multiple corporate and legal disturbances. It notes a US Russia extradition treaty becoming law, various fatalities and disappearances, and a May public debt decline with cash reserves reported.
A fragmentary column notes the average height of an elephant as nine feet and jokes about will o the wisp from decaying vegetation. It mentions a Bussish immigrant arriving in New York in a long coat and outfits made from Bussish mice skins, followed by a cryptic remark about codfish contents.
The text notes the Ribbon Falls in Yosemite at 3300 feet as the highest falls, and the West India hummingbird as the smallest bird under an inch long. It cites a statue in an Egyptian village about six thousand years old and the Sun Temple’s Baash ee stones over fifty feet long. It mentions a Texan ranch in Welt an Dimmet holding 1.5 million sheep on 490000 acres, claimed as the largest in the world.
A collection of assorted notes reports 1990 towns with electric lights and a curious claim about geld powering lines to encircle the earth. It also notes Turenckoo nesting behavior, infant birth weights for sexes, and a home remedy for inflamed eyes using a mill, glum, and a gas jet.
An English note highlights the Westminster rite income rate of twelve and a half cents per second. Glapstone's name fills twenty two pages in the British Museum catalogue. Tennyson’s Fifty- Beve, a Liverpool bishop, and Deke Crances Tees of Iavario are mentioned as major figures in church, medicine, and athletic circles.
An OCR torn snippet shows garbled advert lines and misspellings about toning skin with sulphur bitters and a gossip of Miss Bell and Laura. It hints at a fashion or remedy column with several brand names and implausible promises, all in a parlour style tone of a bygone paper.
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