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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1889
Page
2
A garbled miscellany mentions the duke of Devonshire turning 52, a request for a poem about Prince Henry of Battenberg, and reports of Marie aged 101 from Napoleon era, plus odd oblique notes on buttered gossip and minor dignitaries. It includes nonsensical phrases about London matters and a sadly misrendered church salary in Wittsburg.
A jumble of notes recounts Lady Dufferin photographs for Indian hospitals, Captain Naraanmp PanenEt of Maine’s shipboard integrity, James Law’s life risk in a ship collision, and anecdotes from Dr. Evensox’s writings. It also recalls Wentworth’s quip to Dr. Heywood, Jacksonian dignity, Tom Countess de la Torre’s pastoral retreat with goats, and Finch the mule spymaster whose discharge and family relief followed court martial and official intervention.
Rev Dr Talmage preaches on The Bower of Tree Branches at The Hastroxs. He urges building a gospel arbor from olive pine myrtle palm and thick branches to symbolize temporary earthly life and lasting spiritual rest. He invokes peace with God and man and the need for bold, stout faith to endure life’s storms.
A preacher describes an evangelism scene likening salvation to an arbor with olive and palm branches. He recounts guiding listeners from anger to mercy and using a pigeon booth analogy to invite souls to enter the booth and find refuge in the gospel. The passage evokes revival imagery and calls for repentance and acceptance.
A peasant leads goats toward Bagdad with a bell on a mule. Three rogues swap the bell to steal the mule and riches. Distracted by pursuit and a false tale, he helps a supposed poor man by diving for a chest of diamonds, only to be robbed again as the rogue plucks his garments and escapes with the booty.
A traveler recalls meeting a man in a cabin near Chickamauga who claimed to carry battlefield relics including bullets shells bayonets and a so called all seythe blade tied with twine He wrongly asserts General Grant carried it leading to a clash of history and memory between the pair amid a tapestry of fragmented quotes from newspapers.
In a September voyage on the steamer Lady Clare from Southampton to the West Indies, Major Strickland recounts a dramatic tale centered on a beautiful Englishwoman, her secret marriages, and a sudden widowhood. The narrative traces her complex loves, a wealth of husbands, a stepdaughter, and later rumors of foul play and a mysterious death shadowing her life from Jamaica to Trinidad and back to Jamaica.
A tale recalls a wealthy woman who after a murder suicide is lauded for charity and endows a mountain chapel. Her statue, carved in Rome, sits in a niche, but three years later a violent discoloration and a murderer's touch mar the marble, haunting the church and tarnishing the donor's memory. The chapel endures as a stark monument to unmasked crime.
An anxious mother tells her son about a young lady and housework. The boy counters with a wry tale of his uncle who married a wife who saved money on housework and invested in real estate to buy a brownstone palace. His parents live in a rented house with a former servant girl as owner.
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