18 Oct 1876
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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1876
Page
1
A narrative fragment recounts a young girl lost in a grim port alley. She clings to Jim, struggles with danger and hunger, and wanders from shipyards to a bleak street. A Quaker woman intervenes, guiding her to a new life with a kindly patroness away from the harbor’s toll and decay.
In a coastal New England setting a young woman recalls a sunlit courtship with Louis and a pivotal life choice. A near drowning while sailing off the shore leads to Jim, a cherished friend and protector, saving her from death, revealing loyalties between love and old obligations, with family pressuring a return to city life.
A discussion cites Dr Ogle on how pigment in the nostril region relates to smell and taste, noting white animals often lack strong senses. It extends to human races, arguing skin tint could influence cognitive and sensory development, with caveats about species differences and evolution. A bride from Dry Creek mounts a curious wedding tale, one groom about 19 or 20, leaving for Texas with a jostling reception and a Warwickshire women’s contest on unexpected whiteness.
Max Muller offers character sketches of Goethe and Schiller, noting Goethe's cold hours and triumphs in language, while Schiller faces attacks of narrow-mindedness and bodily weakness. The piece reflects on their inner struggles, moral burdens, and the tension between genius and suffering. A returned pilgrim detects health improvements among Americans, with Dickens remarking on the era's note.
D S Thomas, an aeronaut, recounts a perilous ascent from Bridgeport Connecticut. After laboring to save his balloon he leaped from the basket near Rockland in Plymouth County Massachusetts. He describes landing with minor injuries after breaking branches and tearing through timber as a gale worsened and the balloon threatened to wreck over the Atlantic.
A Chicago clergyman teased a fellow divine by inviting him to preach that night. The friend refused, feigning illness, and the jokey reply suggested the preacher would preach better if he kept his head. Both men laughed and ribbed each other like old sinners.
The diamond drill, praised as clever yet limited, is blamed for turning mining into gambling. Directors and superintendents allegedly use delayed test results to profit while shore owners lose. A journal urges law requiring instant public disclosure of drill results to curb abuse.
A Burlington Hawk-Eye style reader recounts a long domestic passage detailing traditional butter production from churning to market. The piece outlines milk handling, cream separation, skimming, salting, and aging, culminating in two dollar per pound sale and a cedar‑smoked shelf.
A strange fatal disease strikes horses near the foothills above Rockville with about ten deaths in ten days. Post-mortem shows the bowels’ supporting membrane pale and rotten, and the abdomen filled with water. Local residents, including Alex Blake and several neighbors, report losses and lack of remedies.
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