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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
3
A collage of light humor and jokes from a bygone era features Crit Robinson and his famed black pointer at pigeon shoots with a calm, sleeping dog that springs to action on whistle. The piece weaves in quips about shows, ministers, and quick-minded mischief, plus a verse on literary business and travel notes.
Samuel Pepys, a renowned and industrious naval expert, dies after a long career as Clerk of the Admiralty and secretary to the Navy. He lived at Clapham with his partner Hewer, formed a vast library, and shaped naval history drafts. His heir, Jackson, educated by Pepys, now inherits his scholarly projects and undertakings.
At a London wedding a guest tried to save money by sending a broken earring to a famed Bond Street jeweler to be refashioned into a carpin for the groom. She sent it with a card, and the return package ended up in the bridal gift display marked From repairing department with the broken piece inside, prompting fits of amusement among guests.
A Medical Press note argues barbers should sterilize instruments by heat to prevent contagion during shaving. Razors must withstand heat and be sterilized between customers, with fresh lather pots for each shave to ensure truly clean service and reduce infectious skin disease transmission.
The Villa Medici, owned by France in Rome, houses four young Frenchmen yearly a painter sculptor architect and stone carver chosen by Paris Fine Arts exams. Winners receive residence meals studio and four years of government support. A Max O Re ll anecdote on translation illustrates playful language errors.
The piece notes only two European rulers who never relocate a court, the pope of Rome and the sultan of Turkey. The sultan has ruled Constantinople since his ascension in strange tragedy nineteen years ago, while the pope has remained within the Vatican since the triple crown was bestowed.
In Iron Mountain Michigan Oct 7 water redirected to a new channel for the Michigamme river to reclaim Mans field mine flooded years ago, drowning twenty seven men. A rich Ges semer iron ore body was found six inches below river sand, traced 860 feet, width thirty feet, later submerged by a sand bar at the channel mouth. Ore sample analyzed as very rich with high iron content. depth and full extent remain untested.
Detroit October 3 The Pingree potato commission reports its summer work began with 475 acres allocated to 1 700 families, 6 973 children totaling 7 673 people. Seed costs under 2200 produced over 45 000 bushels of potatoes plus beets cabbage corn pumpkins beans. At 55 cents per bushel the crop would be worth about 25 000 dollars, a profit over 900 percent on investment. Through August the yield remained abundant though rain reduced some. The commission foresees a 26 bushels per family average and says the potato patch plan greatly aids the poor, saving the city at least 25 000 dollars in relief costs.
Captain Charles Bennett of LaSalle township met his sister Mrs. Lucy Townsend of Clayton, whom he believed dead for eighty two years. Bennett sailed lakes for forty four years and once explored copper regions of Lake Superior earning a shaft valued at $100000. Townsend, who left at age seven, later married and settled in Clayton. Their reunion followed recollections by William Darken of New York and Townsend’s son. Separately, destructive forest fires threaten Marquette Michigan, endangering a lumber camp and railway lines.
Rain began yesterday morning near Marquette aiding suppression of forest fires that threatened Humboldt Nestoria and other towns in the northern peninsula. The mining village of 200 population lies thirty miles west of the city.
Detroit October report covers the second trial of John G. Bodewig and William H. Johnson, found guilty of conspiring to obstruct the U.S. mail. The piece also items accidents, fires, mine wage cuts, and local notices from Michigan towns, including Sturgis, Ishpeming, and Detroit, with multiple homicide and disaster notes and a market for baseball bats.
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