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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1901
Page
3
Mrs. Annas Aston of Troy testifies that after suffering ovarian pain a physician considered surgery. She used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and reports cure after several bottles. The ad claims the remedy toning the system and ending ovarian symptoms without operation.
The government will take over the Philadelphia mint project weeks after completion of contracts, costing about 2 million dollars for the granite building and 200 thousand dollars for equipment. The facility will house twenty four coin presses and signal a premier money making plant, while a patent cure advert relates to dyspepsia relief and a Kentucky mail carrier of 63 years on government service is noted. Bombay's city population is reported at 770000 with declines due to plague and famine impacting rural districts like Makentha and Poona City.
James J. HM, president of the Great Northern railroad, defends the legality and ethics of resisting Union Pacific attempts to seize the Northern Pacific. He recalls Morgan's lead in the Northern Pacific reorganization, asserts that money cannot justify taking control, and emphasizes self defense and lawful restraint to protect investors. He notes stock holdings, the raid’s impact on prices, and calls for limits on money’s power while supporting large, lawful wealth partnerships.
The article recounts the Northfield bank raid by Cole and Jim Younger, Jesse and Frank James, Clell Miller, Charlie Pitts, and Bob Chadwell, detailing known robberies, pursuit, and deaths. It notes the gang’s breakup after the siege, the deaths of Chadwell and Miller, Jim Younger’s wounding, and the capture and life sentences of the Younger brothers. It highlights Cole Younger’s long imprisonment, Jim Younger’s role as prison librarian, and Jesse James’s disputed role in Haywood’s death.
Harvard plans a commemorative wall with two gilt busts of Washington and John Harvard and space for 200 names. The initial list of 22 honorees includes John Adams James Russell Lowell Lauba Agassiz Ralph Waldo Emerson Joseph Warren Cotton Mather Joseph Brury Benjamin Peirce Edward Everett Asa Gray Henry Dunster Charles Bummer John Quincy Adams Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Oliver Wendell Holmes John Winthrop James Otis William Ellery Channing Nathaniel Bowditch George Bancroft Samuel Adams Washington Allston Charles Bulfinch Francis James Child and Jefferies Wyman. Names may be added over time to honor Harvard’s most esteemed sons.
Tufts College in the Boston area plans to revive John Milton’s masque Comus. Students in the Hoglish department will stage the original Ludlow castle production with authentic scene details, period costumes copied from Blake watercolors, and music by Henry Lawes.
Postmaster Van Cott of New York seeks bids for 23 four wheel wagons to replace two wheeled carts used in mail collection from substations and package boxes. The enclosed wagons will reduce climber burden for the collector, who now must mount a four foot ascent to the front of the cart.
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