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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1917
Page
5
A long, mixed local column reports town visits, thanks for favors, hunting notices, and social events. Names such as Steinverdt, Kinsteon, Owen, and Yount appear among numerous callers at the printery, courthouse, and homes, with mentions of picnics, auctions, and local business ads. It notes a county fair planning and routine medical ads alongside farm notices.
A community hardware store promotes deals on mowers rakes and glass tins. It touts low prices on steel and iron products for windows saddlery harnesses and cream separators claiming to beat competitors with a big run to the line and proposing to help households save money this year.
The readable text shows scattered names, places, and actions from a historical meet. It references competition, participants, and a coach or organizer. Many proper names and details are unclear due to garbled OCR, but the fragment indicates a multi person event with various teams and venues.
An advertisement touts No. 666 as a malaria prescription with five or six doses claimed to break fever and prevent recurrence. It is said to act on the liver better than calomel, causes no gripe, and costs 25 cents.
A garbled OCR style fragment references Mrs Julia Shea, Cape Girard Vives, and multiple local names, events, and places including a Methodist event, a picnic, and a savings or legal notice. It mentions various individuals such as Chesley Rihare and Hubert Wotlé and hints at retirements and community actions, but the text is heavily mixed and partially unreadable, preventing a clear, cohesive report.
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