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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1883
Page
2
The piece notes the state’s lawmakers should finish legislative business and adjourn, calling for enactment of necessary appropriation bills and opposition to further amendments. It cites debt totals, treasury calls for bonds, and mentions South Carolina rail regulation proposals, temperance debates, and humorous anecdotes from a Beatonian Universalist meeting.
The article profiles Thomas W Palmer born Detroit January 25 1430 detailing his early schooling in Detroit St Clair and Ann Arbor and repeated eye problems. It covers his European and South American travel 1850 Wisconsin business real estate lumber wealth and long standing influence in Michigan politics including a 187s Senate win and 1880 governor bid with praise for his literary tastes and widespread public regard.
A fragmented critique of Victorian and Regency era British statesmen and nobles. It rails against shifting social morality, citing Wellington, Anglesea, Fox, Melbourne, and others as exemplars of public virtue or vice, with mentions of Sag Hagligh lgnyer, Cockburn, and Gr aville as context for private and court behavior.
The piece compares English and French high society's tolerance for scandal, noting Queen Victoria's prudish facade while private conduct differs. It highlights Sarah Bernhardt and Gladstone’s circle, then shifts to praise for the Negro singers from the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the emotional power of Nilsson. It recalls the Sea Islands and the legacy of slavery, liberty, and Remembrance.
Lansing reports several bills introduced in the Michigan legislature including provisions for probate courts duties ex ecutors guardians and administrators and the regulation of state building oversight. additional measures cover fish protection hunting wild waterfowl regulation game wardens and fencing laws.
A lengthy list of bills introduced in Michigan spans topics from railroads and licensing to taxation and decency laws. The article notes most bills die, while reform and local interests collide amid broad legislative activity. Thomas W. Palmer is elected U S senator after a March 1 joint convention, delivering a measured speech and vowing to serve all people of Michigan.
All corta and sizes were in attendance. Al Fred Wise of Lansing chaired the meeting. Nominations included D. P. Sagendorph and John H. Tatem for supreme court judges and Prof. T. W. Ewing and Rev. Geo. R. Hickey for regents. Finance reported about 60 dollars spent, 42 dollars short. State organization urged raising 12,000 dollars to promote prohibition. Ferry board bill at Lansing house paid 1,700 dollars. A Detroit paper notes Lansing house for sale furnished at 35,000 dollars, cost 128,000, with a rumor of a grand hotel to be built in the city.
At Mart Palmers farm near Napoleon a two foot diameter white oak fell and exposed a well preserved stump from a tree cut 108 years ago. The stump shows marks of a small hatchet used long ago, with the larger tree now to be cut near ground level to preserve the curiosity.
The March Century features a Gambetta frontispiece and related articles by a close writer, including anecdotes about Gambetta’s ambitious father and a portrait of the father. It also includes a biographical sketch of Dr. Leonard Bacon, notes on Lincoln’s indebtedness to Bacon, and critiques of Garrison. The issue surveys authors like Burroughs, Kinglsey, Cable, Eggleston, Miller, Howells, and Foote, with poems by several authors, and discussions on public questions, literature, and new inventions.
A fragmentary 19th century pamphlet rant references free bottles of a tonic for consumption offered by Drings on Discovery, plus a memo from Burns about prayer and a dealer J. O. Tichenor. Electric Bitters is praised as a cure all, while a civil service clerkship joke appears among cluttered notes.
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