09 Aug 1917
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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1917
Page
1
A patched collage of era notes reports teens anxious over conscription and food, a rat tragedy at a Marion Wilson cave, Voelker cattle twins, a Webster Grove attack case, tax assessors awaiting new rules, and federal troops sent to the lead belt to quell miner unrest.
Fragmented OCR from a local issue records district war measures and transport notes, a bank check lost to a storm, and obituaries. It mentions Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific history, a July storm in Advance, Missouri, a widow Lulu Reitman, and Herman Reitman born 1888 who died of typhoid after 3S weeks. The piece includes a poem-like tribute and cemetery reference to Fairview.
Southeast Missouri livestock men recall to meet at Farmington August 23 25 for discussions of problems and ways to release and improve livestock. A tour of St Francis county on the final day is planned by the County Farm Bureau and Hereford Breeders association with a free auto trip and visits to purebred stock farms. A Chautauqua program runs the same week and visitors may attend. The Missouri Livestock Producers association backs the event. For program and info write LT Simpson or A L Foard. Cutting Oats Found Check Floy Davis, Route One, near Farmington.
A garbled excerpt speaks of Christ anger and a haunting claim that devotion leads to punishment. The text appears as a rough OCR fragment discussing heavenly judgment and a loving counsel amid warnings of a bleak fate.
Rural gossip records several visits and events including Rosewell Pickett at Jasper Coopers, Avery Pickett and Willa Pickett at Sunday gatherings, and Fthel Virgin improving after illness. Attendees at Cane Creek picnic, Cane onnk, and Marble Hill teacher exclamations are noted along with church attendance at Greenwow and travels to Cape county and St Louis.
A brief notice advises using tartar emetic in a dish of sweetened water to eradicate ants. It warns the substance is poisonous and should be kept out of reach of children.
A humorous exchange from a Boston Transcript item where a man offers to give his daughter in marriage if the suitor will provide support after the union. The suitor quips that it sounds like donating a free public library.
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