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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1902
Page
3
In a terse report a local entity named Hagigal conducts what is described as an operation. Details remain fragmentary but the item notes a sequence beginning with EaurS and moving toward a third stage. No authorities, dates, or outcomes are clearly identified in the readable text.
The article describes cricket fighting as a popular sport in China with crickets kept in bamboo cages and trained with elaborate care. It notes betting, ritual burials for fighting crickets, and a belief that spirits return in new crickets. A separate discovery claims plaster walls harm acoustics, with best results from pure gypsum.
A fragmentary ad claims Vogeler's St Jacoby Village promotes health protection against everyday illnesses. It mentions protection against illness and nervousness and offers a sample bottle sent on application to the proprietors. The readable text is garbled but centers on an insurance style health product.
A user from Goateston claims St Jacobs Oil gave quick relief for a severe right ankle sprain and lumbago, calling it a tested pain reliever and saying it works like magic and is worth its weight in gold. The statement presents anecdotal evidence of the product’s effectiveness.
A misread auction tale recounts Miss Bilan and charity events where a colonel presents a fair-haired boy as his grandson’s birthday gift, prompting withdrawal of debt and a surprising settlement as bidding reaches 100 pounds.
The passage discusses boomerangs among Australian aborigines and compares knowledge across cultures including Egyptians and Indian tribes. It touches on how wind, weapon shape, and throwing method influence return, noting unclear phrasing and partial sentences from an OCR source.
Major Wallace of the Gloucestershire regiment, captured at Nicholson's Nek, is scarcely popular with youths. A nephew at Bornase school in Marlow, amid a reading of the capture, gleefully exclaims that his "old uncle" bagged the scene. Storekeepers note Deflames Starch's extra country and super quality leave no rival for sale.
New York plans a winter trial of applying malt to roadbeds to keep surfaces from freezing and reduce mud. Prof. Borer of Columbia University says salt would lower the surface soil freezing point and absorb moisture, helping prevent mud during thaw.
A fragmented 19th century note extols Putnam Paceless Dyes sold by druggists and praises Boer pioneers. It contrasts modern travel writers with Voortrekkers of the 1830s, asserting lasting endurance and exploration feats as foundational to colonial narratives. The piece lambasts publishers for capitalizing on fame.
A dramatic confrontation ends an engagement. The girl demands he depart, while the young man calmly offers to leave and take his gifts. The passage, part of Stray Stories, is embedded amid assorted items on matches usage in Britain and various clippings. A public interest note discusses Dodd's Kidney Pills, a Paris prize for lifesaving apparatus, and a French artist using petroleum in paints, reflecting a collage of early 20th century curiosities and health remedies.
In Europe attention grows for a novel rangefinder by Prof George Porbes using a folded aluminum tube with four prisms and a binocularized eyepiece. It claims accurate distance measurement to 3000 yards, with steady holding improving precision and best use in seated or prone positions.
Reports from grain threshers across the Territories reveal unusually high yields in Saskatchewan and Alberta with examples like 63 bushels per acre on oats and 72 bushels per acre wheat. The Department of Agriculture plans a crop return system for business forecasting. A separate item describes a New York liquor store fire thwarted by champagne bottles used as improvised grenades. the champagne released carbon dioxide suffocating flames.
C H Matthiensen emerges as head of the core products concern as the Corn Products Company plans to absorb Glucose Sugar Refining Pope Glucose refining and National Starch firms. The 80,000,000 entity will shift its offices to Chicago under new leadership to reduce competition.
In London a few years back the freehold of 54 Cheapside sold at a rate per gore, a tiny ground area likened to a penny postage stamp yielding 6o 1%d., a surprisingly good result for a small parcel. The 10 Cornhill sale five or six years earlier fetched £41,500, equating to about £65 per square foot or £2,462,028 per acre, showing many spots in the city are valuable if they have frontage on a thoroughfare. a twelve by twelve inch plot could tempt even an Irish landlord to part with property.
Dr. B M Gallaudet, president of Gallaudet College in Washington, was guest of honor at a Chicago alumni banquet honoring the 1864 act by Congress establishing a Washington college for the deaf. The event noted Abraham Lincoln argued the act. Gallaudet, son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, leads the college since its founding in 1864 and is touring to discuss deaf education.
Rumor says Leo XIII will leave his personal fortune to five nephews with Count Camillo Perc as a favored heir. Camillo, an officer of noble guards, is beloved in Roman society though he relies on uncles for funds, and he defends his papist principles with pride despite past scandals.
A London property market note reports an unusually high value with land priced at £2,613,600 per acre. The figure illustrates the rarity of such valuations entering the market.
A fragmented passage notes Big Basin in northern San Jose and San Mateo counties, a 2500 acre area preserving primitive forest and giant redwoods. It mentions snuff taking in America and acorporate earnings note, plus a vague reference to supporting a Tasik.
James T. Woodward of Hanover National asks contractor Charles T. Willa if the caissons for the new bank building rest on bed rock. Willa retorts by noting woodward should count every dollar of the bank's ninety four million resources that afternoon.
The piece describes spring Line Gabing in Belkjavik to catch Greenland sharks. Bait includes seal parts, and lines are jerked to excite sharks before hauling them up. The shark is killed with an iron or blade, the carcass typically cut adrift, with possible consumption of remaining parts after hanging.
Dr James M Ludlow, pastor at Main Avenue Presbyterian East Orange NJ, received Theodore Roosevelt into the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church at Forty eighth Street and Fifth Avenue New York on December 5 1874 during his pastorate there.
Oregonian report notes growing demand for hazel wood chips shipped weekly to British Columbia and northwest regions. Clackamas County supplies the largest bodies of hazel chips used to clarify beer, with about 230000 pounds annually to meet rising orders.
Observation notes that red uniforms are most fatal, Austrian gray least fatal, with rifle green brown and gray in between. The data show red 12, rifle green 7, gray 5, and Austrian blue and gray variants following. Also included are ad lines warning against laundering and cheap goods.
A Philadelphia Record report notes the Odeon in Buenos Aires as the first theater worldwide heated by electricity. An American electrical engineer proposed and implemented a practical system, impressing cautious theater managers with its feasibility and success.
An assortment of brief items including a humorous note on three law professors who are equally divided in politics at Cambridge, a remark on Defiance Starch as a preferred cold water starch, and a story of Uncle Henry Bowen who forgave all debts on his deathbed. The column also mentions a nurse, Mother Gray of New York, and a 250 sample offer for Worms medicine.
The story of Rudyard Kipling’s beginnings centers on Mrs. Burton who called him “To the wittiest woman In India.” At a hill station entertainment she urged him to pursue journalism. he doubted writing but attended the show where Burton’s young son, now an officer, supplied him with his first “copy.”
The Atchison Globe praises a large mixed breed dog that smiles and wags at every gesture and shows strong appetite. It notes that a fancy blue ribbon dog may snap at children, while the author would prefer a yellow pup from a local boy if kept.
A garbled excerpt discusses the nutritive value of food and social life, mentioning a person who felt broken and needing medical guidance. The text is incomplete and mixed with journalistic artifacts, hindering clear facts or outcomes.
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