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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1888
Page
3
A garbled, ad laden snippet touts Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption, Electric Bitters, Arnica Salve, and Ayer’s Cathartic Pills. It cites testimonials, trial bottle offers, and local druggists like F. G. Seaman. Also mentions Kellogg’s Columbian Oil and Bigelow’s Positive Care with claims of cures and health benefits.
Forty lines halt as engineers and firemen quit over wage advances. About 25,000 men are affected across Chicago and suburbs as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy shuts down most operations. The strike follows a formal employer notification that workers must not expect higher pay.
Buffaloing crowds at Burlington depot as locomotives hustle under strike pressure. Engineers and firemen from the Brotherhood resist orders, delaying trains to Chicago, Denver, and beyond while officials, masters and yardmasters scramble to keep cars moving and passengers served.
The Evening Journal reports from Gulasburg and Lincoln and Philadelphia on a widening engineers strike. Bustling rail activity declines as about eighty Burlington trains operate daily from Lincoln amid halted business. In Philadelphia, 216 Reading engineers abandoned city for Chicago, prompting broader labor tension. Mount Vernon endures severe cold with destitute relief efforts expanding to provide clothing and furniture. Union League Club House in Minneapol is damaged by fire, 25 800 loss, 12 400 insured.
The death of William Wilson Corcoran at 6:80 p m in Washington prompts deep public sadness. Banks and many institutions close or drape in mourning as flags fly at half mast. Corcoran, near 90, built a vast fortune as a dry goods merchant and banker and dedicated large gifts to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Oak Hill Cemetery, the Louise Home, and numerous charities, with endowments totaling several million dollars.
A mixed set of notes reports and rumors from a 19th or early 20th century newspaper. Items include a GAR encampment in Syracuse voting for a pension bill, the death of Bridget Ward in Elgin Illinois, a Cleveland bartender Janie Copley dying from heavy cigarette smoking, a Central Illinois teachers meeting in Galesburg with speakers, Albany antiprohibition stir by Farnlow, a beer war in Guttenberg Iowa, Carding Gibbons debated for church leadership, and Kansas Chinese immigrant Les Bing denied citizenship along with local election canvass results in Eleventh Yobi gen district. The fragmentary text also mentions deer adulteration, panicked brewers, and Pope Leo.
Five men attacked Bert Adauireod and L J Kenworthy near Boriegfield Wisconsin whipping them after tying to a tree. Jacob Loewenstein of Detroit disappeared after sending a troubling letter. Jefferson Stearns sentenced to hang in Kansas City for murder. Ixiah Williams killed John Cul Pepper near Wicons Georgia over a marriage dispute. Widespread lynching threats surface as other killings are reported in Ohio and Missouri.
United States and Canada record 270 failures for the week as rail and iron works face strikes and shutouts. Fire devastates multiple Buffalo buildings, casualties reported. Minneapolis Paper Co files for dissolution amid ongoing labor strife. Detroit auctions firm fails. coal and dam disruptions threaten supply. weathered markets show mixed grain and livestock quotes across New York and Chicago.
The text extols Dr Mites Re atorative Nervive as the best remedy for nervous exhaustion and related ailments. It markets Ayer s Sarsaparilla as a highly esteemed blood medicine, claiming universal efficacy and widespread use. Advertises availability at local druggists and stores.
Littell s Living Age enters its forty fifth year with fifty two numbers of forty four pages each and a wide range of reading matter. It features reviews poetry travel sketches biographical and political content from European and British literature. Published weekly at eight dollars per year with club offers including The Living Age plus American monthlies or Harper s Weekly and other combinations.
The January issue of Woman debuts with a stated circulation of 85,000 and a wide array of features. It showcases renowned contributors, including Edgar Fawcett and Nellie Bly, with departments on literature, travel, fashion, motherhood, Christian society, women’s suffrage, and temperance, promising substantial contemporary content for women and families.
Harper's Bazar Illustrated presents a home journal blend of fashion plates serials short stories essays poems humorous sketches and practical content. It highlights decorative art cookery and household topics while promoting subscriptions and varied formats across volumes with cloth binding and mailing options.
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