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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1894
Page
5
Inland notices from Marengo recount social gatherings, school activities, church events, and local woes. Reports include the Ladies Ald Society gathering, Epworth League plans, a Jap speaker at Hawitt schoolhouse, a fatality of Mrs Poppomdlek, and births, moves, and business shifts. Community elders, students, and farmers populate the ledger of small town rhythms with brief updates and upcoming meetings.
Derénco Nov 8 reports the death from heart failure at a Lawton home of Sunday morning. Mr Barker, once of Carésco, leaves a widow formerly Miss Nettle Graham. Funeral attendance included John Graham and son. Election passed quietly. Republicans win except Prohibitionists. Local notices cover church events, meetings, market prices, and community updates from Battle Creek to Mendon with several births, marriages, and relocations noted.
The School Column reports a low attendance at Moimer exams where eight of eleven candidates earned certificates. It notes Miss Helen Briggs reports a new flag purchase, funds raised for sundials, and Miss Anna Jinderer will attend Northern Indiana Normal. Tekonsha schools consider math changes using Davis and Peck methods. A large unaddressed flag was left at the county fair. The School Visitor journal will be mailed from Tekonsha, with sample copies to teachers. Nearby districts report winter teaching plans, association meetings, and reading circle questions for credit. The Lockwood School closes its exhibit with maps, essays, and other work to be judged for promotion. A county atlas surplus prize, won by a district, is noted, along with a misfire on a prize by M.S. O’Keefe. An advertisement for Dr. F J Cheney’s deafness cure is included.
A Gainesville Eagle report recounts a strange coffee ground image found on a saucer by Mrs. Timmerman of Piedmont, DC. The coffee pattern appeared as a human profile, said to resemble Jesus Christ, and believed by the mother to be an answer to prayer. The scene is photographed by M. E. Allen with Mrs. Timmerman confirmed as truthful.
Lieutenant Commander Sebrea explains how divers cleaned the Baltimore’s hull while in Chilean Peruvian waters. Five-hour shifts, a $1 hourly dive pay, and a two-month bottom cleaning yielded barrels of barnacles removed from the ship’s hull. He estimates annual maintenance could cost $1,200 for labor and pump, keeping speed steady.
English World's Fair exhibitors accuse Chicago authorities of neglect after a delayed medal list and lack of promised honors. They note costs for 179 British exhibitors exceed 1,000 pounds each, medals not designed, and months of silence from the commission as Carter Harrison’s assassination shadows the event.
Prophetic dreams haunt the mother of Drea John Morsu a First ward resident as he is crushed to death on the Erie railroad Friday. Police officers are seen in visions by the mother and later two policemen bring the mangled body to their home.
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