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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1903
Page
3
A damaged OCR style note appears to request a reply to Apetaine Bt Ann's Ave in New York for an invitation. The fragment hints at a personal address and the phrase Yours truly, suggesting a missed or misaddressed invitation in a historical local notice style.
Fragmentary OCR passage mentions Dr Hale, Thomas Lawson, Lady Carson, Arnold, and a retarding Gowers topic. Lacks coherent story or dates. Characters and places are only partially identifiable, with many garbled phrases.
A Turkish sultan attends a play and hands the comedian original jests. The actor delivers them with full pomposity and they are invariably met with great laughter.
Helena Rath recalls years of anxiety watching her child Charlie suffer a skin disease. After trying various treatments, she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent, leading to a dramatic recovery with Charlie’s skin clearing and health improving. The ad touts Cuticura as a universal skin cure.
A collage of curiosities and anecdotes spans crime, finance, language, and public life. The item references a convict’s sentence, Cephalonia wealth planning, farm values in South Dakota, royal wit at a Cavendish-Bentinck dinner, cruelty prevention in Porto Rico, linguistic quirks, duties evasion by French stationmasters, and Defiance starch ads alongside school prize notes and a joke about appendicitis in a senator’s dinner-table quip.
The Missouri General Assembly debates measures on sheriffs tenure and coroner terms, local tax and debt questions, and road and school funding. Bills authorize county officers, adjust revenue, and set court and probation rules as session adjourns. Major national and regional notes follow, including Kansas wheat prospects and a German display appropriation for the World’s Fair.
The piece outlines several proposed acts and approvals including railroad and telegraph regulations, election penalties, mutual telephone and electric railway moves, town organization, and an amended disbursement for the World's Fair. It notes House Senate reconciliation on appropriation bills and Major Waller’s promotion to Lieutenant Colonel after Pekin relief duties.
In Hamilton Missouri Friday evening a St Joseph jury found Burlington workers Ollie Holmes guilty in a case tied to a double-track line penalty. Holmes faced ten years. Amasonia case raised the penalty to new levels. Unarmed tracklayers organized a union as a Hamilton fair drew crowds. Two trains collided near Austin Texas injuring several passengers.
A reader recounts years of fatigue and weakness from seemingly hidden ailments and credits Perana for substantial relief after trying many medicines. The account mentions a school friend’s recommendation and a notable improvement after using the product.
A French western railway experiment places a whistle and automatic brake device on an engine. If the driver passes a danger signal, the system sounds a continuous whistle and releases air to halt the train, aiming to make most accidents impossible except deliberate acts.
A collage of items mentions Putnam Faceless Dyes for silk, wool, and cotton, Indian prince Le Lavarness attending King Edward’s coronation with an ocean steamer for private use, and coverage of fashion, trades, and forecasts. Also notes a nurse Mother Gray’s powders and a Russian railway tariff change with no passenger fare increases.
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