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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1896
Page
6
In a rural scene a trapper named Tom entertains the Reverend Joshua Sims and Tempy with tale laden humor. A possum dinner follows their comic meeting, the preacher's antics at a baptizing tale drawing sustained laughter from all.
An advertisement claims Dr Miles Nervine cures headaches poor memory irritability and exhaustion. It lists risks of epilepsy heart disease apoplexy and insanity and promotes Dr Miles Medical Elkhart Indiana remedies as restoring health with book and testimonials.
An itinerant preacher delivers a harsh rebuke after a gathering under a china tree. Tom, Tempy, and others face judgment as the crowd endures a stern sermon about sin. The tale closes with a quiet, somber resolution and the preacher’s departing gaze.
In the Methodist Episcopal conference yesterday three bishops elect McCabe Cranston and Hartzell were installed in the forenoon while the afternoon discussed temperance and a committee report affirmed the churchs stand against the liquor traffic. The session approved a provision allowing pro tem presiding officers at general conference and the bishops board sought to modify revenue law provisions for temperate states. The day also covered constitution matters with no radical changes. Sugar bounty upheld by the US Supreme Court in Washington.
In Wassixeroy May 28 the solicitor general moved to dismiss the case D Long vs Wiley Lochren former commissioner of pepalous noting the realgnition of Judge Lochren abates the suit. Baker contends the lower court judgment was against Long personally and should proceed to final judgment. The motion was continued to the next term.
Washington May 26 Senator Tillman appeared with a silver pitchfork badge bearing three gold bags reading Cleveland Car-. Male and Sherman He toured Texas recently and said the Chicago convention will back free silver by a large margin He warned of a major bolt in the west and south if not.
An Atlanta Georgian style warning underscores how tiny sores can herald cancer. The piece recounts Mr. J. B. Arnold’s case from Greenwood, South Carolina, detailing a small spot under the eye that grew and caused pain. It credits S. S. S. as a cure, claiming hereditary cancer and other blood diseases can be treated, urging readers to try the tonic.
The Philadelphia Record recounts a tale from Edward V. Ecelea, a longtime musician, about a well dressed woman in a Chestnut Street music shop who claimed to have heard Jenny Lind. She asked him to accompany a song she chose, sang beautifully, and left him speechless with the remark that he could not claim never having heard Jenny Lind.
A dead Georgian mule in Perry street lane drew indignant crowds as a driver unloaded kindling and ignored the animal. Bystanders criticized the driver for not tending the mule’s life, then the horse revived with a shuddering jerk and stood, calm, as the scene quieted. The Savannah News notes Da Ther gas Electric Oil as a pain relief balm.
Edison George Thompson of the St Pawl Dispatch recalls a foot journey through England and Ireland with a friend to a sun inn and a counterfeit sign of two asses heads. The note ends with a Washington Post quip and varied 19th century curios including Tonics and a Major Macdonald anecdote at Toski.
Detroit reader describes severe spinal and kidney injury from a wartime accident. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills with stopping kidney bleeding and alleviating back pain after years of suffering. He urges others to try the remedy and reports no recurrence after taking them.
The Detroit Free Press parodies a poker scene with Dewberry Jones as a speaker and a nervous opponent, using exaggerated dialect about a high hand. The spoof piece features a teacher arguing money stakes and a cocked razor between pot and opponent, set in a humorous context.
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