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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1897
Page
2
A slice of late 19th century public notice style covers debt notions satire on humor and marriage, steel rails at 17 dollars per ton, and calls for pure foods and harsh penalties for adulteration. It notes back taxes in Kentucky, New York pawnshops, rising English factory pay, cotton imports to Africa, and primitive dress use in Red Sea coastal regions.
Omaha aims to host a national and international Trans Missississippi and International Exposition in 1898. Government exhibits from Smithsonian and other agencies, large stock subscriptions, and a $500 900 tax plan are explored. A silver palace, ethnologic displays, Grand Army of the Republic building, and extensive western wealth showcases are proposed.
In Pearson's Weekly a sensational account notes wild dogs roamed Paris as nobles fled leaving pets behind. National guards battled packs through Champs Elysees and Place Royale, with 3000 dogs dead. Gaspardin then loaded carcasses into gilded coaches for a mock royal procession through the city.
The home where Bishop Clement C. Moore wrote the poem Twas the Night Before Christmas remains on West Twenty second Street, New York, inhabited by a hospitable family keeping alive the cheerful associations tied to the verse written around 1840 for the author’s children.
A fragment from a dated domestic scene shows Witte urged to amuse the family cat with a doll. The exchange contrasts a playful tease with the cat’s immediate howls, reflecting informal household humor in the era.
A partial OCR fragment states that something worn by a card was first used in the year 1245. The unreadable context limits clarity about who wore it or what item it refers to.
William Clement, a Freeport, Illinois commercial traveller, traces long decline to rheumatism and organ trouble. After failed treatments, he used Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He reports quick improvement including kidney function, reduced bloating, relief from rheumatism and heart region pain, and renewed vigor. Pills sold 10 cents a box or six for 25 cents by Dr Williams Medicine Co.
St Louis billiard hall proprietor Maurice H Black plans a women’s public club near Grand Avenue and Olive Street. The facility will include a billiard room, reading room, bowling alley, and a billiard academy run by a female instructor. He aims to spend 15000 on fittings and notes only Vienna has a similar public women’s billiard room.
Advert shows Aunt Rachael Horehound Herb Elecampane Root and Speer’s Use Juice curing consumption with many testimonies. Public speakers use it and druggists sell it. Contains a quip about Jones and Aikin and a remark on straight whiskey making a man walk crooked.
An old newspaper snippet touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy, claiming internal action strengthens the system and destroys the disease’s foundation. It includes marketing language about cure claims and mentions education and poetry sentiments amid stray ad-like text.
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