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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
2
Rural newspapers unite to expose trusts and centralization threats to farmers and country stores. They argue city publishers and railroads push centralized control, urging readers to demand truth and laws protecting independent country commerce and self government.
A cryptic OCR fragment mentions tones and rear seats, offering limited readable context. The line suggests a stage or transport scene but lacks clear event, people, places, or dates to identify a full news item.
A Chicago authority cites InterAmerican commissions on new interstate law limiting railroads from reciprocal ad contracts with newspapers. Kansas City tightens saloon licensing as mayor aims at 400000 population. Missouri updates include a fatal shooting in Harteville, mob trial in Springfield, and a guilty verdict in Vienna for George Bal lance. Other notes cover post office arrests in St Louis, hangings in Mount Vernon, and various local incidents.
A garbled line references about 30 schools in a region called Com aée for indinas and a figure 167.691. The readable elements include place name fragments and a numeric amount without clear context or dates.
The article recounts Captain Joha L. Biy of Company B, 17th OMlo, and his Civil War era kidney ailment. It notes his use of Dean's Kidney Pills since 1901, crediting the remedy with his recovery. It also mentions a deaf women’s farm club in Berlin formed by society women, with over a hundred members using ear trumpets and hand language.
Longtime hand sores tormented a dyehouse worker until Cutleura Soap and Cutleura Ointment were used. Within three days the hands began to peel, soreness disappeared, and hands became smooth again. Mrs. A. B. Maurer of Chicago credits the treatment and notes continued work at the dyehouse. Then a note on chamois skin as explained by Charles C. Driedling of Philadelphia, detailing use, supply limits, and comparisons to ordinary sheep skin.
A gifted writer defends printing a thinly veiled affair for money while a newspaper reader recalls a famous writer. A long testimonial extols Postum as a healthful coffee substitute that steadies nerves and digestion, noting its calm, non stimulant effects and the wife’s encouragement for her husband to switch.
A marauding squirrel tried to steal eggs from a bluebird nest in Independence Square. The mother and father birds attacked, forcing the intruder to retreat twice. on the final attempt the birds’ concerted rush shoved him from the tree, dropping and smashing the egg.
The W L Douglas Shoe Co dedicates a new roving building at Monteiro part of a large manufacturing plant with open house from 1 to 8 pm, a Mace Gay Orchestra, Boston caterer, and 11 000 retail dealer invitations. The two story structure 260 by 60 feet houses jobbing on the lower floor and offices on the upper floor, with ready to ship same day orders and a full stock of shoes and parts. Ex Gov Douglas leads tours with department heads as visitors inspect the plant and its operations.
A miscellany of notes cites a investigator claiming vegetables can induce intoxication in those relying on them for food, with examples of partial intoxication from a vegetable meal. It also promotes Defiance Starch for laundry, noting superior finish, less wear, and non sticking iron effects, and mentions handwriting as an indicator of smoking.
The article notes large pine lands in Honduras signaling future railway construction. It also advertises Defiance Starch and Foot-Ease powder, mentions a 1902 Covent Garden melodrama The Tale of Mystery, Queen Wilhelmina’s amusements, and King Edward's equestrian exercises as royal topics within the periodical.
An educator at a teachers' convention observes how audiences react to new phrases and recalls a hotel parlor scene. A line about Mire, Loraine being happy prompts a Newark joke about ladies and a man’s mood. The exchange hints at social humor and misreadings in everyday language.
In Malay peninsula rubber factory owner uses tigers to scratch tree bark for nap extraction. Labor shortages hinder tapping, so a Scotch proprietor orders bark rubbed with valerian to lure tigers who scratch bark and allow coolies to collect rubber. Also notes Canadians in US business and Who's Who entry counts.
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