Michigan State News Roundup of Local Incidents and Prohibition Tale
A chaotic mix of Michigan state items features a Potter lawsuit against J. & M. Railway for 610,000 due to fall injuries, a jury awarding 5,595 to settle a dispute, plus multiple cases from Ravenna, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and Isabella County. Reports cover a boy’s gunpowder accident, diseased pork concerns, a Grand Rapids furniture claim, dry and wet majorities, veterans’ tales, and local crime, economy, and weather notes across counties including Mason, Oceana, and Kent with political leanings toward prohibition shaping local outcomes.
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Potter Ruad
CG. J. & M. Railway Company
Becauss
Charles Brough
Ravenna
Serrots
Kalamiazoo County
Grand Rapids
Tia
D. R. Sutton
Oakland
Cal
Michigan
M. T
Isabella County
Lombard
Aildizon
Nathan Lewis
Goodland
Wearyor
Butler
Paw Paw
Mich
Mackinaw City
Mason County
Huron County
Jackson Post Office
Watford County
Escounte
Mixy Hattie Colton
Constantine
Emmet
Berrien
Martin Krause
Haa Lowt
Collow
Pao P
Alma
Jackson
Port Huron
Genesis County
Harmony
Masonic Kilgen
The
Soo
Worford County
Lawes
Masked Stranger Kills Self After Bank Shooting
A masked man attempted a bank robbery at a National Bank on Tuesday morning. He shot cashier Tomlinson in the groin, then wounded butcher Dischla before turning the pistol on himself and dying instantly. The crowd, furious, nearly lynched him. Kimball, said to be crazy, is named as the shooter and is said to have been in a recent railroad wreck. Tomlinson and Dischla are in critical condition.
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Porroed
Kilie Himeoll
Braprono
National Bank
Alut
Tomlinson
Ant
Blisch
Kimudl
Kimball
Steel rail trust revived amid production limits
March 5. In Prrrserre a conference among steel rail makers outlined a revived trust to limit output to about 50 percent of last year and depress prices. Representatives from Joliet Union Iron and Steel Chicago and others met with Andrew Carnegie, who seeks broader control of steel rail plants to harmonize the industry.
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Andrew Carnagh
Prrrserre
Steel Rail Trust
Atlantic City
Joliet
Union Lron and Steel Company
Chicago
Steel Mil Wull
Cleveland
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carmsgie
Michigan Supreme Court upholds most Liquor Law provisions
Michigan Supreme Court Friday ruled most new Liquor Law provisions constitutional. It struck down several clauses including arrest without due process, arbitrary license fit determinations by the common council, county bond checks, forfeiture of unearned license portions, post conviction business bans, and Detroit suburbs enforcement limits. A second item reports a Pullman conductor band bagging and assault on a passenger during a March 5 incident in Mountieroun.
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Supreme Court
Lansing
Mich
Miprane Court
Common Council
Metropolitan Police
Detroit
Women of Progress and the Washington Council 1883
The piece reviews a planned international council in Washington beginning March 24 to mark forty years of women’s organizing, led by figures like Mary A. Livermore and Julia Ward Howe with delegates from the U S and Europe. It traces early suffrage efforts, regional gains in Wyoming Indiana and Kansas, and the slow global pace toward voting rights, noting mixed outcomes and ongoing activism.
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Washington City
Mary A. Livermore
Lucy Stons
Julia Ward Howe
Caroline Duell
Francis Willard
Mary F. Eastman
Clara Barton
Susia B. Anthony
United States
Helen Taylor
John Stuart Mill
Misa Heurietta Muller
London School Board
Alice Scatcherd
England
Mme
Isabella Bagelot
Paris
Pundita
Professorera) Ramabal
India
Helen Campbell
Frances Willard
Julia Ward Towr
Clara Dantor
Rolanch
Anthony
Erty
Fanny Zampini Salazaro
Review of Women's Interesta
Rome
Germany
Seneca Fells
N. Y
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Amelia Bloomer
Brebbina
Frederick Douglass
Douglass
Indiana
Robert Dale Owen
Lucretia Brett
Paulina Wright Davis
Ernceline L. Rose
Francea D. Gage
Sarah Tyndall
Susan B. Anthony
Syracuse
Whso
Loyal Woman's League
National Woman Suffrage Association
Laura Curtis Bullard
Lillis Devereaux Blake
Ellen C. Sargent
Jane Graham Jones
Far West
Wyoming Territory
Agia Ledare
Govargor
Wyoming
Utah
Washington Territory
House
Treasury Department
Frances
Russia
Switzerland
Italy
Europe
Mary Wollstonecraft
Frances Wright
Washington
St. Paul's
Tacitus
Notable quotes from rival papers on single lung shot
In a humorous exchange, William N. Riddle of New York, famed for close range shooting, boasts one lung while a Norristown Herald remark notes the desire for two lungs. The dialogue shifts to Ireland with Miss Breezy admitting a kiss at the blarney stone, as referenced by Mr. Wabash and the New York Bulletin.
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William N. Riddle
New York
Norristown Herald
Bearcely
Mr. Wabash
Ireland
Tuklogeo Fresh Start and a Floor Staircase Query
An exchange at a stairhead questions a young man’s absence while a daughter is reportedly in the kitchen below. The old man asks Clara about the missing youth as the scene hints at familial tension and a domestic setting.
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Tuklogeo
New York Sun
Wit Fetch Em Avwiss Man Predicts Ad-Free Paper
Avwiss, who has given the matter earnest thought, predicts the coming newspaper will receive no advertisements. Burdette in Brooklyn notes that this claim reflects a broader joke about the publishing trade and modern papers.
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Burdette
Brooklyn
A Gentle Hint in a Bustling Card Game
The fragment shows a card room scene with dialog about a hand and humor. Wagetaf declares an unbeatable hand while a porter and the word sap appear amid garbled text. It hints at a transit or station implied by vestibule cars and possible confusion in narration.
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George
Wagetaf
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