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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1898
Page
4
A mixed local page notes portrait studio offerings at Gee and Broderick in Lutesville, Dr. Biggs the druggist stocking many medicines, and Dr. Jaques battling illness at home. It covers protracted Baptist meeting attendance, job solicitations, hardware and millinery ads, river flood damage reports, obituaries, and community updates with multiple local names and places.
A aggregation of brief notices and classifieds: debts to settle for J V Slinkard & Co of Zalma and other businesses. Sam A Martin buys BE O Sandor’s grocery in Burfordville. welcome to Marble Hill for Mr Martin and family. jobs offered by The Dominion Company Chicago and Southwestern Mutual Life agents. a boy named Parka in Lutesville injured by machinery. employment ads in Bollinger County. Missouri Exposition medals for sale to fund Expo building. academic update on Patton and Perryville school events and a lively Moranville school entertainment with praise for teacher and students.
Lutesville News summarizes local happenings including P F Abernathy purchasing the Rider property, residents visiting nearby towns, sick lists, postmaster Reck at Nooly’s landing, bicycle winnings, and a vandalized residence papering update. Community events include a select social honoring Minues Freeman and Hehatte of Egypt Mills, a church sermon, and adjourned court session with various allowances and expenses listed.
County records show approvals for Thomas Allbright and others with sums listed, plus an adjournment to the fourth Monday in April. Market quotations follow for wheat, corn, oats, with cash and futures prices. cattle, hogs, and sheep receipts and prices indicate a strong, active market in the period.
David Ward arrived in the city after a three year prospecting trek in Alaska. He described finding nuggets “as thick as potatoes” and claimed deposits on American soil could make many people millionaires. Ward, accompanied by two natives, recounted a haul along a Yakon tributary before heading to Dawson City arriving in October.
A fragment describes travel from Dawson to mining regions, including a steamer to Seattle, October to November arrival, and mint exchanges for gold. It references a rider’s claim protection, planning to form a company, and notes on riverwise mining and Indian-named creeks such as Hammer Creek.
Albany Evening Journal notes Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia appears well and loyal to the American people. It highlights the Lees as prominent American figures, praising their martial spirit and ongoing service in advancing American interests amid national trouble.
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