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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1919
Page
4
A fragmented town column laments high costs and inflation while urging better roads to spur growth. It notes labor disputes nationwide, calls for balanced wages and prices, and highlights wealth and housing shortages. It mentions Carnegie’s fortune and a Lenox death, urging local action to attract residents and investment.
A long list of small town visits and routine events fills the page. Citizens such as Phil Shute, James Griffith, Otto Burk, Notty Liley, and Rev. Robins appear among trips to St Louis, Dongola, Zalma, and Patton. Neighbors report house-building, farming activity, and market errands while weather and fruit-hunting draw searches toward nearby communities.
A town visit on August 6 left families at Mr and Mrs R Htoored and Mr and Mrs BR A fe Wits with sons and a daughter at Loyd Clipperd’s home in France stories. Farmington Timea notes McCarthy family moving to St Louis for public-building work, with wishes for success, while road expert Mr Richardson discusses durable Portland cement and asphalt layers as the ideal road base.
W J Braun of Kennett visited Tuesday and spoke of a two week outing with plans to gather fruit on the farm near Scopus for winter use. HW Steenmen and family of Arab passed through on the way home from Marquand visiting his father. Alma Howard and Mildred Mills of Glen Allen toured Mines Magee Lutes and Sadie Crites spent Wednesday with Probate Judge W C Cole to obtain peaches for winter pies. Barnes buys Moore farm on the Dongola road and plans improvements. Services Sunday were well attended with a change in stewards and salary adjustments for the preacher.
In his office near the Woolworth building in New York, Clifford Richerdeos long served as the federal asphalt expert. The obituary notes his decades of work shaping road materials and standards.
Mason City Globe Gazette reports a farmer west of the city discovered a Manderd gold watch inside a vest pocket buried in a barnyard. The watch, stashed seven years ago, was said to have four minutes remaining when last found, tied to the story of a cow killed nearby. Local readers are invited to submit any further details about the mystery.
A fragmentary passage describes strange lines about breath, growth of fins and scales, and croaking like bull frogs, then shifts to a foretaste of a dry next month. Phrases hint at a humorous or cautionary tableau on weather and air but lack clear event or人物 references.
A saying asserts that it takes years to earn a good reputation but it can be lost in a single day. The remark emphasizes the fragile nature of public trust and the effort required to maintain it.
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