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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1903
Page
1
Interview with a St. Femile Orphan Asylum physician describes a preventive preparation used by the Sisters of the institution. The liquid extract combines digitalis zinc and water with a standard dose, claimed to prevent illness and supported by years of use and tested efficacy. The sisters insist the preparation aids health and point to a lack of cases under their care.
Our Correspondents report a lively week despite bad weather. Edward Sitkes traveled to Wittewater to speed the same month, Solomon White moved to Fredericktown, and Ephraim Welker bought Sam Bess’s house and lot. The Badie and Minnie Newton attended church at Clabb’s Creek, and J W G Hahn prepares spring stock. Smallpox scare waning, Miss Hattie Hanson visited, and Prooklin Shanks and Sarah Crader wed by Rev. Bishop on March 16.
The primary department started the second month on a Monday with notably good attendance. Several new pupils joined the week while few students took the teachers' examination last week. Mr. Mayfield from Arkansas plans to attend MSA. The Excelsior Literary Society hosts an open session on Saturday featuring a play Cupid's Cepers. Visitors last week included Miss Betty Cameron and Mesdames Ender Shot and Falkerson. The school hopes for more patronage.
Farmers busy sowing and millwork progressing as J. B. Harrold's crew crafts lumber and Larry Deh! prepares a new store front for soon opening. John Deck leaves logging for farming while Mrs Myers returns from Zalma visit. J. Murray shifts from mining to plowing as Doct A. B. Myers and Tobe Mitchell couple appear in weekly notes.
Health good and farmers busy with sod work. J C Galloway visited Stoddard county last week and returned with a wife. Elmer Johnson and Miss Rebecca Fowler were married at the bride’s home, with local attendees present.
Health is good in the locality as Tom Langston and a Hurricane family visit Saturday and Sunday. Rev. Alfred Conrad filled appointments at Plainview church. Jobo O Ridgates hauling rails and building. W H Patton and family visited A Rhodes. G M Denton returning from Salma. A J Lincoln preparing pasture for Angora goats. P B Patton keeps his banjo. Peter Welker busy with annual ring. A wedding may occur soon in the vicinity. Jeffre Kimbaugh works in Cape County. Garden work and oats harvest underway. Marsh Langston, violinist, visited from Hurricane last Thursday. J O Potton cleared and fenced a large new grate this spring. Joex and Jinzx tease.
Wheat looks fine in thin vicinity as Parmere and others plan to work. Oats sowing and harvesting headlines. H B Cole, a bustling merchant, reports brisk trade. A J Lincola finished work on Hamilton Mayfield base recently. Henderson Metre operated near Osk Ridge, Jasper Moses began a term in Bollinger district. Mr and Mrs John Hartle welcomed a baby boy. Robert Estes and family visited D J Brown Sunday. James Teeters of Cedar Branch was in the area Sunday.
Willis Bray president of the M C A notes spring term start on April 7 for teachers seeking higher certificates. The spring term runs through the summer school with classes formed for those entering then. C G Wiley at Reynolds County reports a student dangerously ill with typhoid fever. W C Finney went to Kennett recently. A dozen Norman students visited Jackson Military Academy last week.
Weather and legislative adjournments bring fair skies as farmers sow oats repair fences and plant potatoes. Birette Snider buys Snider’s stock and will move to town, inviting good citizens. Roads improving yet still poor, and readers discuss a bond for rocky principal roads and plans for an iron bridge at a county site.
A fragmented town sheet discusses bridge and road needs, egg trade, wheat and flour prices, and local politics. It mentions figures like Harah bridge, Penturf, Winters, and Roosevelt, plus schooling in W. Beamon’s district, families moving to Shawnee and Oklahoma, and road width concerns. The piece laments neglect of roads and public schools, urging readers to vote and seek better infrastructure and prosperity.
A misread notice from a historic paper describes trusted individuals in every county to oversee business affairs for a long established house of solid finances. It mentions salary payments by check, with weekly disbursements and a director’s role at 140 Canoe Bile, Chicago.
Mrs Mary A Vliet of Newcistle Odd endorses Ballard's Byrop claiming it outperforms other cough medicines and is pleasant to take Her note notes her child would take it even without illness The ad lists prices 250 500 and 100000 for the remedy from C M Winnfer's Marble Hill.
An old advertisement touts One Minute Cough Core as delivering immediate relief for coughs croup and laryngitis by acting at the source rather than passing to the stomach. It claims to draw out inflammation soothe and cure by keeping lungs supplied with pure oxygen and aiding tissue health.
Donkey Home Journal reports increased demand for short stories in its April issue. The five cent magazine adds eight pages, includes special illustrated articles and home department sections, plus a music department, aiming to outdo competition.
A dyspeptic from White Plains Kentucky reports trying many remedies without relief. After using Kodol Dyspepsia Cure she notes improved digestion, weight gain, and renewed strength as she eats normally and feels healthier.
An obscured, fragmentary notice discusses a liniment named Siow Liniment, claimed to relieve pain and used in excess. The text references Dr. C. M. Witmer and mentions claims of performances and a product advertised as a remedy, though with unclear context and many garbled words.
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