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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1896
Page
8
Community notices from Albion and surrounding areas recount church gatherings school board actions and social visits. Events include a 6 pm supper for all, Mrs John Trotsler visiting Eaton Rapids, a W T U meeting October 8, and various local social and church activities with residents like Walter Snide and Miss Mary Snyder noted.
Local notices list special sales for Mason Fruit cans and pantry items at Washington Marner with dates June 25 and September 24. The A. and L. society plans a meeting with Mrs M H Coykendall on October 1 to elect officers. invitations extended to all members. Various social brief items mention visitors and move notices. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve advertised as a treatment for ulcers and sores by A O Hyde.
Mrs J Vincout and daughter Myrta have returned to Burton Mich from visits at Mr and Mrs C Walbeck's. U P S C E of Fredonia Congregational church will hold a campaign social at Mr M H Starr's Friday Oct 2, supper 10 cents. De Witt's Little Early Risers offered for sick headaches billiousness indigestion and constipation. Ladies Aid meets with Mrs Jas Saigh Oct 1. Sincere thanks to friends for help during sickness and funeral of Edna Mart. Funeral for Ethel Marble Sunday Sept 27 at 2 PM Austin schoolhouse. Some townsmen attended fusion senatorial convention at Battle Creek on the 22nd. Poison ivy and injuries cured by De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. A O Hyde. We offer apple butter apple jelly boiled cider and cane syrup. A E Scaisner, 4 miles southeast of Marshall.Septlite
The L. B. C. of North Marshall will hold its next meeting with Mrs. Willis Burlingame on October 3 at 10:30 a m the time moved from afternoon to forenoon. The passage notes sick headache from indigestion and endorses DeWitt's Early Risers as effective relief.
Sept 24 brief items report the McKinley club set to meet at the town house on Sept 26 and urges members to attend. The column notes an advertisement in The Statesman, then moves to social visits from Laura Fish and Grace Eyre to Susie Townsend, and Brace Fish’s trip to Ypsilanti for a business college. It mentions local mills making rover fir, and carries a public tax reminder about August taxes and 4 percent collection charges. An aside quotes a Brown family tale of medical costs for a sick son, touting Dr King’s Discovery with trial bottles offered at W. T. Drake’s drug store.
A fragment from Marshall Michigan notes Wind, Tornado Cyclone and Wind Storm Insurance, praising prompt loss payments after eleven years. It mentions an authorized agent Wat. Raprono and a judge Gary humor anecdote about courtroom thefts, including an overcoat joke. The piece, from Green Bag, blends insurance notice with a humor column.
City council hours with Aldermen present approve minutes new cemetery expansion plan and grading costs, authorize sidewalk and crosswalk projects, discuss street cleaning and child curfew, rescind and redraw cemetery fund order, extend tax collection period, order repairs to gutters sewers and railings, approve various bills and adjourn for two weeks.
A description of wicker piazzai chairs with side baskets for papers and sewing, plus a writing desk area and summer room or bedroom use. It notes tall dented candlesticks enameled in color with large shades, and Russian silver mantels, all in Dutch Delft blue and white or ornate decor themes.
Describes medieval household practices including use of rushes and fragrant leaves to refresh air in compact rooms. Notes sparse furnishings, wall hangings for protection from drafts, and inventories showing abundant tableware but few comforts. Mentions servants sweeping rooms and air circulation through doors to battlements.
A London French paper Nouvelles Ordinaires de Londy appears in 17th century records. French journalist Dagard allegedly published 200 numbers via Descombes, with copies reaching Paris libraries and foreign readers. The four page sheet mixed English news with continental notes and queries.
The article details the Balersville region in Western North Carolina as a major source of mica, a key North Carolina industry. It explains how mica occurs with feldspar, is blasted by dynamite, processed into thin sheets, and sold by size and color with typical sheets around 4 by 6 inches and occasional larger 24 by 18 inch sheets.
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