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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1903
Page
2
A scattered miscellany from Marble Hill presses notes on the Mad Mullah’s revival tale, Balkan Christian tolls, elopement rumors, and varied chatter on politics health and crime. It catalogs absurdities from cigarette bans to banana-tinged jokes, with European clashes, aviation snafus, and local divergences.
Fragmentary passage refers to a massive sum of 28 million dollars tied to a U S subtreasury in New York and mentions 22 ex-wales arriving in Washington to count it, while San Domingo faces revolt with twenty killed in a recent clash. The text also alludes to West Indian revolutions and references to a Missouri clergyman and a sensepaper in Jefferson City Missouri.
Missouri Governor Alexander Dockery issues a proclamation urging centennial celebration of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase in Paris and its impact on U S expansion. He urges residents to suspend annual routines April 30 1903 as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition plans progress in St Louis with 24 nations invited.
In Granite City Missouri Circuit Court Friday M F Stevens was fined 175 dollars and sentenced to three months in the county jail for assaulting K S Garver editor of the Worth County Times on February 7. Miss Best Won Spelling Medal Browning Mo The annual spelling contest of the Browning public schools grammar department for the B D Bolling gold medal was held at the keepers house Friday night Miss Mabyo Best won the medal. Summer School Position Columbia Mo Miss Jane Zabuski director of the department of household economics at Missouri University has accepted a position as teacher in the summer school of the Chicago University. Penitentiary Chaplain to Lecture Columbia MO The Reverend G J Warren chaplain of the Missouri Penitentiary will deliver a lecture before the students of Missouri Culver City History Present Condition and Needs of Missouri State Penitentiary.
A post office was robbed, the thief opened the safe and took 150 stamps on hand and about 125 in cash. Authorities are investigating the incident, reviewing security footage, and seeking suspects. No injuries reported.
Missouri farmers may receive free pedigreed seed corn for a World’s Fair exhibit contest. Dr H J Waters says standard varieties will be sent free to confirm intention to exhibit. Prizes will be awarded and top entries may be shown without cost to growers. Entries may use 1902 corn grown on the farmer’s land and must note soil and corn color. Beef contracts awarded to Cudahy for one year at 2.99 per unit. bids from Nelson Morris Armour Schwartzchi ly & Sulsberger Swift listed.
Jefferson City reports Gov. Dockery signed a mining bureau bill but will make no appointments due to lack of funding in the act. Stenographers traveling expenses bill for counties under 45,000 passes, payable from county treasury, effective June 1. Burlington telegraph office to be abolished, administration centralized in St. Louis. G M Hohl to retire. Hartville records Miss Laura Judd elected asDouglas county school commissioner.
Nat George, a married father of five, died instantly from a fall of rock at Central Coal and Coke Company's Mine No. 14 in Hich Hil Missouri. The accident occurred Friday afternoon.
A large audience gathered at the Fountain Opera House for Centralia’s commencement exercises. Graduates appeared in cap and gown, marking the town’s traditional ceremony as seven students spoke or were honored in the program.
Dean Waters of State University and D Ward King of Missouri Good Roads Association led a Saturday gathering in Tich Hill Mo to promote road improvements. The event stirred notable local interest in the good roads movement.
William Pitman pled guilty to second degree murder for the Anos McMahan killing in Springheld Missouri and received a lengthy attorney years sentence.
Emma Stagg and nieces Eleanor meet Professor Baldwin at his cluttered New York apartment. They tour his dusty rooms, meet William Struthers the electrician, and hint at hidden inventions while tensions and plans for future visits unfold. The scene combines social maneuvering with a glimpse into scientific curiosity and family dynamics.
In a fragile moment Eleanor seeks advice from Uncle Phineas about marriage rumors while he worries over propriety and his own reluctance toward confiding in women. The siblings plan routine tasks and resist family distractions as a noon interruption brings Delmonico’s invitation and a clash over expected habits.
A fragmentary scene shows characters debating meals and propriety in a boardinghouse dining room. Uncle Phineas proclaims a working class past while a woman questions where others dine, reflecting social roles and casual mischief amid incomplete dialogue.
A Germantown woman took jokes in weekly papers as reality. She believed servant girls played ping pong with policemen and asked for a policeman to keep her company. The Philadelphia Record notes this as an extraordinary result of reading comic papers.
Ex Supreme Court jurist Charlee Donohue reopens practice and counsels an heiress Bridget Cavaugh to adopt the new name Birdie Canary. The Irishwoman, once plain, now parades wealth and fashion as she requests the official writings to formalize the change.
Mr. Graff of Illinois and Mr. Champ Clark of Missouri exchanged remarks about negligence as an excuse for a new trial and whether genius in design poetry or oratory equates to business sense. Clark joked about paying for speeches outside Congress as listeners laughed.
In Salford one year 708020 mineral water bottles 16700 other bottles and ninety seven tons of broken glass were picked from destructor refuse. Bottles returned to makers at 1d per dozen while other glass sold for 150 to be reused. In Glasgow bags collect waste paper from business houses, yielding eighteen tons weekly and about £200 yearly profit. Solder is extracted from old tin cans among the refuse at a fair price.
A Caucasus glacier between Mount Kasbek and Ghim aral Khokh slid into the Barrow valley forming a wedge shaped mass. It broke off in mid July killing thirty-two people as it descended thirteen miles toward the Ghizel Don. A second massive block followed on July 19 after breaking away and rolled eight miles downstream.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a rustic line about an infant named Bay and uncle Jack, with dialect phrases about the moon and a gas bill. The readable portion hints at a rural, humorous or anecdotal item, but lacks clear context, names, dates, or events to ground a fuller summary.
The latest photograph shows Mrs. Chamberlain wife of Britain's colonial secretary. Taken at Cape Town, South Africa, the image accompanies reports of Joseph Chamberlain and his wife returning to London from a South African trip. They remain active in society and court circles as rumors of a new America journey surface.
The Springfield Republican reports Maine’s log season will reach about 800 million feet with over half spruce ground to pulp mills and the rest used for lumber. About 16,000 workers were hired and paid nearly 4 million dollars in wages as drives begin. profits loom but forests risk ruin without conservation.
Sir Oliver Mowat, lieutenant governor of Ontario, died April 19 at Government House in Ottawa at age 83 after a period of feeble health. Born in Kingston in 1820, he served as Ontario premier from 1873 to 1897, the province’s longest continuous term. He was knighted during the Jubilee and had a storied career as lawyer, legislator, and minister of justice.
Ten Boston women wed foreigners and report happiness with married life. Names include Miss Susie, Princess Belacelsky, Mrs Hunt, Miss Grace Kay, Rene De Coa, and others. The report lists titles and social standing, noting continued satisfaction in these unions.
A compilation of fragmented 19th century notes on radium its imagined value from Crookes and its elusive nature. The page also mentions a sculpture by Douglas Tilden and a planned equestrian monument, plus brief items on music conductors, police, and wartime perspectives.
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