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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1889
Page
3
The piece describes fashionable women gossiping and socializing at a Long Brunch with talk of gowns, hats, and the ritual of dressing through multiple hours. It notes attitudes toward carriage choices for women, bathing habits, and the impracticality of certain styles, emphasizing vanity and propriety in high society.
The readable text fragment references a yacht scene with robed figures and ornate clothing. Details are sparse and obscured by OCR errors, but hints include seclusion, whiteness of feet, and mentions of canvas, oaks, and gold. No clear event, date, or proper names emerge.
A fragmentary reminiscence contrasts eighteenth and nineteenth century beauty with modern fashions. It critiques male fashion droles, the pretensions of the “dude,” and the spectacle of low bodices versus genteel display. The speaker muses on beauty, class, and social behavior.
A Hospita piece counsels women to marry between twenty four and thirty six, arguing youth and health peak then and early marriage often harms girls. It contrasts with a San Francisco remark on Mexican peon women who wear plaster crown hair cones, a custom tied to sun protection and evening fashion.
The article warns that milk from cows on fresh grass can become impure if milking follows poor hygiene or abrupt feed changes. It advises milking in well bedded, clean areas away from manure, gradually switching from dry to green feed, and mixing dry fodder to prevent odor contamination. It notes butter quality ties to milk odors and stresses balanced, nutritious feeding and cautious use of brewer’s grains and silage.
A Western Farmer correspondent advocates cottage homes for married men to ease rural overwork by providing neat worker cottages and responsible foreign labor. The piece urges prudent pig feeding, late seeding caution, grape cuttings, and road improvements, plus stock company plans for a slaughter house and lower meat prices, while offering practical notes on orchard, potato, and berry processing and farm management.
Instructions describe layering fruit with syrup without stirring. Set kettle aside overnight then heat until contents are hot, repeat daily without stirring. After cooling, berries are covered with syrup and kept cold. If syrup is thin, boil again and cool then pour over berries.
A poem recalls a mossy knoll with a giant tree that dreamed to be famous. The scene shifts to a cleared landscape where the tree is gone, the brook shrinks, birds vanish, and the once proud landmark becomes a lonely beach, hidden beyond neighbors.
A New York Graphic report quotes a prominent hotelier who details heavy losses from overstaffed centennial crowds. He recalls letting eleven men use one room, renting at 2 a day but supplying beds with cots and bedding, cutting profits and wiping out rent for days. He says only a few kept steady prices and avoided extra costs, salvaging little.
A Washington letter reports the navy's ordnance bureau has completed two ten inch breech loading rifles for the monitor Miantonomah. One awaits trial at Annapolis, the other tested with 2000 ft per second muzzle velocity and an estimated ten mile range. Plans for two 500 ton gunn boats follow with rapid fire six inch caliber guns to be produced at Washington ordnance yard.
AnArkansow Tiravelor humorously notes an Ola Negro’s insistence on spiritual cleanliness over washing. He argues salvation depends on being clean in the fall of life rather than literal washing, highlighting a belief in dew of the new Jerusalem and inner purity over outward acts.
A citizen asks for votes on a city grab bill in exchange for backing a bill creating a third deputy auditor in his county. He complains the current auditor is a relative, the first deputy is related to a local crony, and the second deputy is a relative, arguing for an independent worker to handle the duties.
William G Wallace a Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad conductor story notes he bought a Louisiana Lottery ticket after urging from a station agent. He later found the ticket matched the drawing and won one fortieth of the $1,000,000 capital prize amounting to $15,000 after fees. He remains employed and plans no change in life. He is married with one child and many friends congratulate him.
A fairy tale recounts a woodman guided by a slender thread through trials and a judge’s thread severing at the end. Amid a crowd, a train reads Wisconsin Central. In China the Heavenly Poor Society forms as women in the rebellion area practice bound feet fashion.
An advertisement touts Castoria and The Nerve's Golden Medical Discovery as cures for liver diseases biliousness skin issues scrofula and consumption. It promises refunds if results are not achieved and urges use for sick children and adults alike with endorsements of certainty and assurances.
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