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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1900
Page
3
A collage of letters and notes recounting health struggles and remedies from 19th to 20th century readers. Includes a woman seeking medical guidance, praise for Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a note about Napoleon in Evergreen, silhouette origins, a brief army anecdote, and a quip about quinine tonics.
A curious clipping touts Monton’s Fine Riding School as the finest military riding school in existence at 660 feet long 146 feet broad and 41 feet high in Moscow. The item then shifts to light commentary about eggs nails and double entendre in a Modern Play note from the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph and Indianapolis Journal.
The passage counts about nine major personages killed by Shakespeare across his works, with many more minor deaths on battles and elsewhere. It lists methods including steel, old age, decapitation, natural causes, and strangling, and ends by noting critics who are deadly to readers.
An account from India describes a small female elephant charged by buffalo. A rifleman fired an explosive shell that struck the elephant’s shoulder, leaving a wound after a year. Despite the gore, the elephant remained unshaken by gunfire afterwards.
The Greenwich clock records Greenwich time used by navigators and railroads. It features three dials for seconds minutes and hours, is a twenty four hour clock without the numeral twenty four, and counts by saying Naught one two as seconds elapse. The first second completes when the numeral 1 is reached.
A London Evening News note praises a new drama at the Princess featuring mechanically produced hypnotism via a revolving crystal globe. The Globe’s focus upstage keeps audiences safe while performers must avert eye contact. Also mentions the mockingbird as a widespread North American bird noted for imitation. The item includes assorted brief notices on medicine, fashion, a breach of promise suit in Dundee involving Piper Findlater and Miss Mary Gallary, and a family scene with wedding cake on stage, plus an ad for washing soup to whiten and freshen clothing.
A brief humorous note about a cold church visit during a cold spell. A girl described it as very cold inside, and when asked about the sermon she said she enjoyed it less because of the cold. The joke centers on a misquoted text about being cold versus frozen.
A writer familiar with life in the Philippines describes Filipino as a person of pure Spanish extraction born in the Philippine islands. He calls mixed-blood individuals Mestizos, Spaniards use Indiana for aborigines, and notes tensions among Luzon Indians, Panay natives, and Mindanao Muslims.
Uanital Le Clerque, a Chicago girl, born in Rochester and raised in India, discovers she has a twin brother she loves as a sister was engaged to marry her foster brother. Adopted as an infant, she lived sixteen years in India before a chance reunion reveals her true mother and her brother. The tale begins with her being offered a private secretary post by Mrs. May Wright Sewall, opposed by her fiancé who fears she may vanish.
In a dramatic tale, Vanital, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. N. Maywood after being found as a child, learns her real mother in Chicago. Foster parents reconcile as Vanital faces a complex love with her foster brother Fred, and a shocking revelation about Willie Le Clerque through a twin connection unfolds.
Prof Frederick E B Starr told anthropology class at University of Chicago that cannibalism is driven by culture hunger and vengeance. He argued natives eat flesh for pleasure and to gain courage while noting traders provoked attacks and deserving death. He claimed Christian civilization did not wholly curb cannibalism and cited New Britain tribes.
A San Francisco Chronicle piece recalls Mrs. Smith recounting two vivid premonitions. In a dream she saw a funeral with a man bearing a nine marked cap and a red scar. months later in Chicago an elevator scare matched the vision, a crash killing occupants and a note about a pine badge and red scar.
A German devised device tests elasticity of balls by placing them on a cylinder top, striking with a uniform force, letting them roll down an inclined plane to impact a surface. Perfect elasticity lets a ball rebound beyond a barrier. imperfect balls fall short and may be rejected.
A damaged description warns that the Borumlaga Desert is advancing from northwest China as the Yellow River overflows repeatedly. The country faces soil loss, depopulation of fertile lands, and the threat of the desert reaching Pekin within a short time.
The excerpt describes the need to examine balls after manufacture to identify faulty items for removal. The process is described as requiring much time, labor, and even careful attention to quality bells, implying thorough inspection before casting aside inferior pieces.
The article notes peppercorn rents common in Kingland especially Jensen, Highgate Dorbigh, and King's Brome Warwickaire. It recalls rents paid since 1002, and in Watefeld replacing annual sums with peppercorns for estates. In Carlooats Yorkshire two farms shifted from full rents to peppercorn or minimal yearly payments.
The passage notes that lightning hitting a damp tree in wet conditions often causes little harm, while strikes on dry wood can be severe. It explains how an electric arc travels through damp wood under the bark, causing rapid steam buildup and bark damage.
An item touts It Is Nature's wa Remedy by Maguire and Co as a trusted cure for cholera morbus diarrhea dysentery and similar ailments. It also notes M Janssen’s balloon ascent plans to observe the November star flight from Europe America and Siberia. A cautionary sales column warns against CASCARETS substitutes and promotes CASCARETS boxed tablets with OC stamps.
A linguistics note discusses how the Chinese letter I, represented as Wayne in transliteration, has 146 possible pronunciations each carrying a distinct meaning. It highlights the complexity of Chinese phonetics and tone-based meanings.
The product touts superiority over rival tonics with thoroughly blended ingredients. It promises relief from malaria and puritis while boosting appetite and stomach tolerance, naming several exotic components and claiming a hearty taste.
The article notes global agriculture employs about 280 million men and represents a capital of £4.8 billion with an annual product exceeding £4 billion, highlighting the sector’s vast economic footprint.
An old newspaper fragment advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward offer for incurable cases and lists testimonials from Toledo druggists. It also notes internal use and blood mucous action. A sales pitch for Hall's Family Pills appears, followed by a column listing the weights of various European queens and empresses.
An old health ad promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a natural bowel remedy. It claims to ease pains and headaches, cure illness, and restore health with gentle, regular movements. The copy emphasizes affordability at 10 cents to start.
In southern California a so called left handed club boasts nearly 2000 members across main towns with no skill other than left handedness. Also mentions 460000 miles of railway built in 70 years, mostly by the Brith empire. Includes product plugs for Maple City soap and a curious moral statistic, plus Colorado excursion trains and a perilous prayer note from Aussien ports.
The Washington Post notes that France is shedding vengeance from the 1870 invasion as a new generation grows up. In the war’s aftermath, statues of Metz and Strasbourg mourners on the Place de la Concorde were once adorned with flowers and emblems, but today the figures receive little attention.
Vincennes dispatch reports Mrs. Jane Burke of Decker s is about 33 and called the youngest grandmother in the state if not the nation. Her daughter Bertha, married to John Midkiff, recently had a daughter born this week. The mother is near 15 and the father 19, making three generations span 100 years total.
A mix of brief items notes readers about world affairs and domestic curiosities. It highlights a push to inspect Wisconsin farmland near Morissette County for better home locations, mentions New Caledonia pearl finds and French Austrian fishing prospects, an Egyptian Book of the Dead fragment, grain elevator waste turning to livestock feed, and assorted health and consumer notices.
A colossal 18 foot high bronze bell, 45 foot circumference, hangs in a Canton monastery. Cast in 1400, it bears 8,400 embossed characters telling a Chin ese classic. The bell reportedly produced a wondrous tone because eight men sacrificed their lives in its casting.
Amon Lane of Amides Nevada built a geyser driven clock. The device uses a face hands and lever connected to a geyser that erupts every thirty eight seconds. Each eruption hits a lever and advances the hands by thirty eight seconds, keeping precise time.
Texans shipped their first cargo of cotton for Japan, 12 832 bales loaded on the Japanese steamer Tamba Maru. The vessel, said to be the first to sail from a gulf port to Japan, will route via the Suez Canal to Kobe Yokohama and Nagasaki. English officers command, crew entirely Japanese.
Naturalists debate whether hares drink, believing they obtain moisture from dew and prey. The text surveys topics from population figures in China to piano making and African chiefs’ umbrellas, plus a Britain to American fashion revival of fine china washing at table.
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