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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1895
Page
2
A collection of satirical items from The Marble Hill Press notes writer Cy Warmon will publish only for pleasure, observes unrest over Sundays in Chicago baseball and saloon closures, and mocks police efforts and urban reform. It also mentions a dying patient unable to pay lodging, embalmers, Curtis Nebraska residents repudiating aid appeals, and farmers with new crops.
Conflicts inside Sing Sing prison escalate as convicts vow to harm Inspector McLaughlin, with authorities seeking protective measures. Portage County reunion recalls Benjamin Ellis born in Maine who rode America’s first Boston to Lowell trains as a child. French Senate panel pauses as M Chautemps is rebuked for reading an old colony report.
The Yale College senior class book shows average yearly expenses of 912 for freshmen 943 for sophomores and 42 for juniors and seniors. The figures imply earning capacity of 18 to 20 dollars per week for graduates, and asks how many graduates can secure jobs paying 20 dollars weekly.
The English Liberals insist they were ousted by a snap vote while the electorate may soon decide Parliament's makeup. The piece argues the Liberals should present a case for restoration rather than lament defeat, noting the current regime has produced few tangible reforms and wondering if a Conservative Parliament might advance real liberal aims better than the Liberal Party has.
A child recalls a spring when a father vanished and a mill collapsed into decay. In a vision at the old mill the narrator witnesses a deadly confrontation between the father and his cousin Elbert over a wife, ending with the father killed by the knife-wielding cousin.
A boy recounts a spring night at the old mill beside a swollen river. He recalls his father’s disappearance seven years prior and a violent confrontation between his father and his mother, ending with a fatal stabbing and the killer fleeing into the water. Authorities found no blood or sign of struggle, leaving the tale disputed by neighbors.
A narrator recalls a haunting tale of his father’s disappearance seven years earlier and the day his mother lost hope. In a low water pool beneath the old mill he finds a sand-strewn knife bearing the initials E D carved on the handle, matching Elbert Darcey, his mother’s cousin.
Miss Clara Agnes Middleton and Collins F Huntington wed at noon in St. John's Church Vincennes avenue. After a reception at the bride’s parents’ home, a traveling organist and Carleton Club members staged a midday street quadrille with “Sweet Marie” as the musical backdrop, ending as the couple departed in a white ribboned carriage.
A refined widow offers to lodge and board respectable husbands during summer in exchange for payment. She promises high standards, linen care, and a motherly presence with strict discipline and no latchkeys. No funny business is allowed, and refunds are promised if dissatisfied. The prospectus cites many certificates of the widow’s skill in handling difficult husbands.
The record notes 1884 gem values and 1891 coal output in the United States, with Pennsylvania leading anthracite production worth about 73.9 million dollars. England was the only country surpassing the U S coal output in 1891. It cites 1889 iron dominance by the U S and mentions small emeralds found in Arizona and possibly North Carolina.
A compact quip on pride, wealth, and marriage. It cautions that real modesty isn’t shown by exhibition and urges value in a husband’s reputation. The piece notes how excessive talk or miserliness can harm a man and hints at prudence in advice and spending.
The Portia steamship, with five Peary relief members including Emil Diebitsch and Prof. Rolin D. Salsbury, sails from Brooklyn en route to Greenland to bring home Peary and Hugh J. Lee. The voyage aims to reach Bowdoin Bay to contact Peary and to study geology, glaciers, flora, and fauna with scientific parties aboard.
The vice president was born into one of Kentucky’s oldest and most celebrated families. Admirers boasted his lineage surpassed that of any other state son in public life. He stood out for impressive speech, bearing, and elegance rather than deep intellectual power, more a shaper of style than a builder of institutions.
A poetic fragment ponders friendship and fear as the speaker greets aging and mortality. The tone shifts from dread to calm, noting how time alters perception and softens former foes into mere shadows.
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