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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1916
Page
8
A fragmented notice mentions Mannesini and Candler as publishers at the Marble Dit point office, with Thursday publication cadence implied. The garbled text suggests a press or newspaper arrangement tied to a weekly schedule.
A long, entangled local items column notes ill health, traveling visits, and picnic attendance around Bollinger County. It lists family ties, visits from residents to Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Benton, Advance, Greenbrier, and Verden Bollinger, plus local shop and barber visits. A health column urges hygiene, listing hand washing and disease prevention steps, followed by a Missouri circuit court notice involving Ella G. Deman and Clara E. Lewis dates in September 1916.
A large crowd gathered for the Friday and Saturday picnic here with Langdon of Blytheville in attendance. Abe Bess, Burford's chief clerk, moved to town last week. Master Paul Myrick remains ill with typhoid fever. Mr and Mrs Otto Cole visited from St. Louis for a few days. LT Kinder, county collector, went to St. Louis Sunday to buy a car. Mr and Mrs Wilburn Winters spent Saturday night with T W Francis and family. Everett Francis joined his sister Mrs Loyd Hughes at her home in Fornfelt on Tuesday. Carpenter J L Robertson, now working at Blodgett, spent the weekend with his family here.
Mourners fled in fear when a bolt set fire to a barn during a funeral prayer near Springfield. A bucket brigade formed to battle the blaze as the service halted. the barn burned and the service resumed.
Records show Cape Girardeau hosts a Normal School opening on September 11 1916 with multiple college tracks including four year and three year programs and teacher certification. President Jon W Draewowr announces courses in arts sciences home economics training and music while detailing catalog information.
A poster offers 4 catalogs by return mail from A P F Hendricks, president, inviting students to attend the local school fully accredited with the State University and the Normal School at Cape Girar den. It promises transfer of all earned credits to continue studies at the partner institutions at less expense.
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