Office Hours and Post Office Schedule Note
Post office hours run from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily except Sundays with a midday break from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Money order and registers office operates from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1884
Page
4
Post office hours run from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily except Sundays with a midday break from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Money order and registers office operates from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
A busy Marshall report lists house framing, a 4600 population estimate, local weddings and church news, weather effects, a July Fourth band engagement, civic meetings, and incidents from July to June. It notes tornado-like electrical activity, telegraph and telephone improvements, school board actions, court cases, and local commerce updates.
Readable notes describe an educational Island Park assembly near Rome City Indiana in July 1884 led by Rev A H Gillett, with other items including a local crime brief about a mistaken arrest for larceny, a horse theft case involving Frank Williams, and a Universalist church Children's Day program featuring a floral canopy, cross design, and a band of child performers.
The snippet lists numerous residents and visitors from various towns. It notes Miss Belle Watson planning summer visits to Chicago, A. O. Hyde as Albion July 4th vice president, Mrs. Hattie Ivee returning to Tonia, and many others visiting relatives or traveling to Detroit Chicago Bay City Jackson Marshall and Kalamazoo area. It references local church events including a funeral for Martin Heydenburk and remarks by pastors, with scattered notes on demonstrations and political activity nearby.
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