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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1889
Page
7
A traveler argues that most likes and dislikes lack natural basis. He challenges a man to explain why he loves gin, and the man replies because it does not compel him to drink. The exchange highlights a critique of perceived preferences.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls General William F. Thornton and Abraham Lincoln in Shelbyville Illinois. It details Thornton’s hospitality, Lincoln’s legal practice, and a wartime request to permit Thornton’s sons to visit cousins. The anecdote includes Secretary Usher and a Cabinet moment with Lincoln resolving a favor for the Thornton family. The piece then drifts to unrelated items on ants, butterflies, and transit behavior.
A country lawyer helps a Baltimorean avoid a costly court case after firing a shot at poultry on a Chestertown farm. The farmer turns the ten into legal advice, leaving the visitor puzzled by the sly switch. This anecdote appears alongside a promotional paragraph for a tonic claiming to cure various ailments.
The Great Fire of December 16 1835 began at 1 p m in a five story building on Merchant Street near the Merchants Exchange. It spread to Wall Street and the East River, lasting sixteen hours before being checked by explosions. The Merchants Exchange Dutch Reformed Church Franklin Market and 645 other structures were wiped out with losses around 20 million dollars.
A fragmentary, garbled page of text includes a traveling sales pitch for patent medicines, references to Lora and Empire House, mentions of Austrian Pompeii near Zara, and short anecdotes and quotes. The disjointed items mix health remedies with antiquarian notes and aphorisms from the era.
A French patent imitates a tambourine clock with two iron bees circling a parchment dial. Bees move under magnets as the larger takes twelve hours and the small one an hour. The item combines a curious clock device and stray ad copy for Cheney’s Cure. A stray joke about the moon follows, then a wedding quip about brides.
Kemp's Ballium for the Tiroat and Lungs is claimed to cure coughs sore throat asthma bronchitis and consumption with free trial bottles offered by druggists. A Portland doctor showcases a bamboo cane with within it a tube and small vials for ammonia morphine needles and thread. The report references various mentions including Brown's Beoxcoup Trocues and the Boston Gazette describing popular remedies for throat and chest troubles.
De Pink says the proposed husband comes from an old family with all brothers over eighty and the groom himself gray headed.
A reader asks editors to inform the public of a positive cure for Consumption claimed by T A Slocum of 141 Pearl Street New York. He offers free bottles to readers who send express and P. O. address. Also notes Tar photographs used for various purposes including stealthy score theft and acting training through mimicry.
A clergyman sick many years with athlame life and catarrh finds cure through remedies. He received relief that saved him from death after trying numerous treatments. Readers may send a self addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J A Lawrences in New York for a free review. A mention of Maora's Eurasios and Doctor Lungwr in Boston appears.
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