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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1893
Page
5
A Newton area column lists arrests and quarrels involving Homer Calhoun and Hannah Pronela in a disorderly scene with driving and assault charges. It notes residents traveling to Chicago and the World’s Fair preparations, along with local business activity, church notices, deaths, health updates, and upcoming community meetings across Calhoun County in early October 1893.
Tatkosu visitors Mra M Peck and Mrs Miller visited Mins Janie Stofiald and Ly Leathens from Sturgeon Bay returned after five weeks. District notes include open meeting of Good Templars and preparations for pumpkin pie social at Chan Michel school. Several locals attend the world fair, with trips by Gov Tappandon and others.
Burlington and Ahacota Wm. Sidley dies after long illness. Funeral to be held Friday in Goring. Norton convalescent. Lizzie Barrington visiting Jackson. Wm. Lucas buys Bat Sees property and plans move. Ora Price infant son of Mr and Mrs Bor Price died Sept 2 buried Sunday Union City. Curren verse and Miss may have married recently. One hundred dollars reward offered for cure of catarrh by Paige Co. Dated signatures.
Observers describe Japanese post offices with crowded 12 by 12 window spaces, stamping rooms, and clerks in European dress. The process moves from posting to sorting to distribution, with baskets, carts, and uniformed staff handling mail. Home delivery uses hand carts and roadside boxes for daily collection.
Royal Baking Powder costs more to produce than others due to refined ingredients. It is purer with higher leavening strength and greater value to the consumer. Cheaper powders do not equal its performance or safety, as official analyses show other brands contain impurities like time, ammonia or alum.
A reflective piece on types of guests and social grace, contrasting intrusive helpers with reserved companions. It then shifts to a long block of midwestern-era pharmaceutical ads promising cures for piles, skin diseases, and various ailments, naming Pyramid Pile Cure, Castoria, Carter's Kidney and Backache Tea, Swayne's Ointment, and Kellogg's Columbian Oil, reflecting pervasive patent medicine marketing.
The text notes that species and individuals lose unused traits over generations due to environment. It cites dogs and human jaws as examples, with domestication and diet reducing certain muscles and teeth. It argues mental and physical faculties require regular exercise to remain fit.
The passage explains flies as natural scavengers consuming subtle bodily and organic substances from food and other sources during decay. It notes flies' persistence on the face and their role in handling fine particles, causing annoyance and affecting pores and complexion.
Freeman Biggs of Hutton Township near Charleston Illinois, wielding a rifle, claims a thirty five year war on bushtally, slaying over twenty one thousand squirrels to buy a farm. He is age seven and known as Freem to locals, with alleged counts of deer, wild turkeys, and prairie chickens also noted.
The latest Swatow consular report notes towel imports rising among cotton goods but says towels are used for clothing not cleanliness. A towel’s width allows two to form a coat without sleeves, leaving armholes as the only opening. A historical aside mentions English forks first made in 1608 and mocked then by contemporaries.
A Chinaman buys his coffin years before death and keeps it at home as a valuable article of furniture. The most thoughtful gift a son can give to his father is hinted in this curious practice, presented as a striking domestic anecdote.
A damaged tale recounts Lord Southey erecting a grand guillotine in his Davee Rua du Luxembourg home. The device featured ebony uprights, ornate carving, and a heavy ornamental blade controlled by a spring. The machine failed to work, leading to Southey abandoning the plan and donating the guillotine to Glasgow museum.
The Charleston News and Courier reports that in 1402 South Carolina had 21,409 savings bank depositors totaling 4,225,463 dollars, leading all Southern states. The state’s average account balance was 107 dollars, higher than North Carolina and Georgia, and only Louisiana exceeded SC per‑person averages despite far fewer depositors.
A widow faces a solicitor over damages after a railway collision killed eight onlookers. She values her loss at 5000 pounds but the solicitor argues a fair sum is four to five hundred, noting the husband’s age health and the protracted pursuit that followed the incident.
A fragment commentary on flirtation and marriage tensions. It argues flirting harms natural mutual esteem, distinguishes lovemaking from flirtation, and stresses the nobility of genuine passion over playful indecisiveness. The piece notes flirting as a social art that can undermine serious commitment.
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