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Michigan news highlights from the 1882 state fair and beyond
The Marshall Statesman reports a mix of Michigan items including scarlet fever in Coldwater diphtheria in Nashville and a successful Cass County fair. It notes state fair receipts of 18 4 0 loa and 10 349 50 on Thursday. Other items include a Kalamazoo railroad velocipede company, an Adrian college spelling shift, a Grand Rapids abduction verdict, a Hastings stabbing, a Manistee fire, and a burn of a Detroit Kirkwood house mortgage. The piece mentions a Detroit boulevard right of way, a Burns township bull fatality, and various local incidents and notable deaths.
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Coldwater
Nashville
Three Rivers
Olio
Port Huron
Caro District
Kalamazoo
Benton Harbor
James Abram
Farmers'and Mechanics’ Bank
Ann Arbor
Schaeberle
Kirkwood House
Detroit
Adrian College
Chas. Taylor
Grand Rapids
S'unday
Annie Meircher
Chas. Bailey
Wm. Paustle
Hastings
Michigan
Ontonagan
Grand Rapids Fair
Burdick House Bank Foundation
Kalamazoo Telegraph
FF. Roe
Pontiac
Mich. Baptist Association
Henrietta
Jackson County
Three Tigers
Mathew Millard
Ionia
Quin Warn
Croswell
Dasial Goggins
Drake
R. W. Bartlett
Goweu
Muntcalm
Hank Morgan
Frank Chickering
Obas
R. Huuuus
Quincy
Benzie County
Ransom
D. Quiney
Hooker
Mississippi
Will Orate
Lovin County