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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1897
Page
5
Travel offers from Lewisville Cincinnati and connections via Queen & Crescent routes with schedules and contact details. Also includes medical patent remedies and advertised tonics for kidney relief and liver pills with local druggist listings.
Poultry Raisers Atwullont announces opening November 1 1897 with a poultry house on exchange opposite Marshall Fur Company works in Marshall Michigan. Will purchase all kinds of poultry and seed in season. A fair square deal with highest market prices urged. Call for repelling your poultry. October 24 to November 1. F Bronson.
Uncle Tom's Cabin and new events alarm Albion as Hon. W. B. Sprague dies at Coldwater in his first year. A suicide case involving Tekonsha with 3400 life insurance. Butter theft of 300 pounds from Worthingtop's creamery. Editorials mock wheat fears before Ohio election. Labor Commissioner Cox probes boiler explosions and drafts a bill for inspection. Pioneer Charles Reed dies of heart trouble. funeral Tuesday. Work begins on Charlotte and Albion railroad. 500 men at Duck Lake with Italian laborers. Mrs. S. Haines obituary disputed. possible fraud via life insurance security. Lima Northern freight collision near Britton. no injuries. D T M crews cause switching delays. Lima Northern engine damaged.
The piece discusses two possible origins of a device called the Blacher as a receptacle for urine. It cites the first path as arising from imperfectation of the kidney and the second from careless medical treatment of other diseases.
A local column humorously describes two girls raising an awning with comic, jolting motions and a later note about pressed beef in a small town. A schoolteacher rider shares a lengthy tale of a beef lunch turning into a missionary episode, causing chaos along the railroad right of way.
Miss Eva Grace Clute and Mr. Fred P. Wilber wed in Clute residence with Rev. A M Smith officiating. Concluding reception featured a pink and white conservatory backdrop and a wedding march by Mrs Minnie Wilber-Arthur. The couple departed for Ypsilanti on the 8:19 train. Includes aside about tax land redemption rules.
A string of social and travel notes lists residents visiting Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Albion, Detroit, Chicago, and other locales. It notes plans, visits, and movements of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Sheridan, Miss Julian Brown, Mrs. P. A. Rhodes, and others, along with telegraph school promotions and a court ruling on a criminal case in War, Brown.
In reply to numerous Uptinics, we regret to say that we cannot give evening instruction to any but our regular students for want of room.
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