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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1896
Page
10
The Statesman lists subscription rates for one year and one year in advance and one year not paid in advance. It promotes its printing facilities and urges timely communications from the county with author name and Wednesday noon deadline for insertion. Publication office is 225 State Street.
Marshall Michigan November 27 18% faces a claim that over 84 percent of 70 million Americans cannot speak English. The piece cites Pennsylvania Dutch in Pennsylvania and Creoles in Louisiana as examples, with remarks on Spaniards Moors Indians and Cuban atrocities and a Bible trade sweatshop critique plus a labor reform observation.
The year 1896 saw Nansen drift a polar ship and reach near the pole by trekking ice. Peary and others clarified Greenland landmasses, while Eldridge discovered a prehistoric Alaskan city ruins 400 miles up the Kawalik. New Zealand reforms abolish personal property tax and grant land leases, while woman suffrage and arbitration laws pass. America enjoys record corn and apple crops. Spain taxes draft dodgers to fund war. The Chinese treaty case and Chinas royal welcome also surface in brief notes.
Washington reports the completion of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga national park dedication proceedings. Detroit notes a $160,000 chattel mortgage by Mably & Co to Union Trust for creditors. Verre Haute covers miners strike tensions as operators demand vacating company houses. London reports the death of famed tenor Campanini at Parma.
London Truth ponders the nature of Martian irrigation beings with speculative questions. It asks if they possess senses and forms beyond human imagination, whether they surpass us in intelligence, use nature’s forces creatively, and share human vices like stealth, misery, war, monarchy, worship, overindulgence, or gluttony.
The reply of Julien Favre to Bismarck is described as the best Bismarckian vein with a sharp retort about counting milliards since before the birth of Christ. The piece alludes to Jewish bankers Bleichroder and Erlanger and imagines Bismarck growling at his physician and retorting by asking for consultation.
A Roxbury Gazette item comments on Bragley and the restaurant staff as potential political candidates. The piece suggests the waiters are capable, noting their influence and possible public appeal amid debates on leadership and public service. It also promotes Horms's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and remedy for rheumatic pains.
A compact digest of diverse items: fund totals from a Republican campaign cited as 1462,000 by the New York World. Boston library trustees to accept MacMonnies Bacchante statue. legal and political notes from Chicago to Paris. train, mining, and fire news. plus political shifts, arrests, and weather reports across the United States and Europe.
A Chicago Chronicle feature touts Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a remedy for long standing womb troubles. Mrs Argile recounts relief after six months of use benefiting her health and energy and her daughter Emily who recovered from diphtheria related weakness after taking the pills. The letter claims improved strength appetite and nervous stability with Emily now lively and well. The advert asserts nationwide availability and urges orders to Dr Williams Medicine Co in Schenectady New York.
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