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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1882
Page
3
A fragment from Etin Wheeler in the Boston Transcript urges making the most of fleeting years. It contrasts sorrow with sunny weather and suggests choosing joy over smoke and weed, praising truth, worth and light amid a world of toil and November winds.
In a Belknap household a girl named Bess helps her doll Lady Marion draft invitations for a kettledrum party. Tom persuades the doll to write them, but a mix up with Amy Belknap’s name sparks a chain of trouble. Bess’s scheme ends with a family reconciliation and Amy becoming her “pertikler friend.”
Captain reveals a nine month voyage from St. Marc to Philadelphia beset by plague on board the Danish bark Yellow Power. Eleven crew members fall ill and seven die including the captain’s wife. Crew nursing each other, limited medicines, and a perilous crossing past Cape Hatteras toward relief.
The article describes cheap Japanese transport options including pony and trap with a betto outrider. It notes ladies often drive without male companions and highlights jin-rikisha brigades as a low cost option. A complete rig with protection costs about $25 and a man for hire to propel the vehicle runs about $9 monthly.
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