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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1899
Page
6
Charien Eugene Banks laments confinement of thought amid a pastoral night scene. The speaker pleads for guiding souls to lift an idle pen, warning that commerce crushes dreaming minds without them. Set within a Chicago Inter Ocean poem fragment.
In a Civil War flashback, a young woman Margaret Beach is accused of carrying secret Knoxville defenses plans to the Confederates. A tense trial follows, with the narrator’s loyalty tested as he aids a risky mission to reach the railroad and potentially save Margaret. The general contemplates mercy if she aids a covert route, while the narrator prepares an expedition with diverse comrades under night cover.
Dr Ogilvie's report on training colleges in Scotland yields humorous student misinterpretations. Pupils call mother duck a drake and claim ducks exist to make chicken broth for invalids, while some equate Ruskin and Shakespeare to odd, fanciful meanings. The piece lampoons exam strain and the misreadings of classic texts.
A Buenos Aires Odeon becomes the first theater heated by electricity. An American electrical engineer was hired by the local firm and, despite initial doubts, devised and implemented a practical system. The article also mentions George St. Sims and a London reading theater anecdote, and notes Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup claims to cure colds and prevent consumption.
In Japan pharmacists must be over 20, pass the pharmacy exam, and pay a $147 license fee. They may prepare medicines only on physician prescriptions that name patient, age, directions, and quantity. Prescriptions require the druggist's signature and must be kept for ten years.
Advertisement asserts doctors harm with mercury and potash for blood poison and promotes a private home treatment from Swift Specific Co in Atlanta. Claims the home method cures, offers free medical advice, and avoids public disclosure while inviting readers to write for information.
Cincinnati Northern and Michigan Central lines announce daily westbound trains with an 8pm schedule limit and a 2 minute slower standard time. Passengers advised of stricter timing and to expect limited service on certain days in September and October 1909.
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