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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1897
Page
4
The town Herald prints a jumble of notices and ads including sermons at Presbyterian churches, shop sales, currency and tobacco offers, cashmere yardage at low prices, hospital and hotel notes, and updates on residents health. Mentions of Prof Tooters, George Connell, Elfrank warrants, and Farmers Aid meeting appear alongside stationery, cigars, hardware, and school book listings with town commerce and subscriber details.
In a brief notice a dealer praises Swift & Co. Bone Meal for consistent results and urges customers to secure continued supply. The piece mentions Dhostnar brothers and other names in a fragmentary two sentence item, with references to upcoming term dates and a local school event.
Esquire Line in town to visit Monday. Carpenter work for M. H. Williams this week. Mrs. W. K. Chandler and daughter improving. Rev W L Barnhouse moved to Fredericktown to study at Marvin College. Rain breaks dry spell but may not help crops. J A Mestora of Bessville visiting, reader of Tur Press. George K Clark & Son supply javiers with farm machinery at low prices. Prof J L Bowman of Cape Girardeau visits. will teach at Valle Mines. Sam J McMinn of Buchanan to manage large farming interests. brother Andrew to run mercantile and milling at Zalinw. Call for subscribers offers scholarships and railroad excursion deals. Circus outfit arrives, parade seen but failed to impress. advise focusing on slack-wire act. Mrs Elizabeth O McMinn thanks neighbors for sympathy. Mobile & Ohio ticket promotions for Nashville and St Louis trips with low rates and special reader incentives.
Lutesville public school starts next Monday. Townsfolk report visits from John Allen of Flatwoods and Prof. Paul Price of Bonne Terre. W L Dunn and W A Leoftier toured out Castor while Willis Shoemaks’ carving stirred chatter. A carload of Hour from Fredericktown reached town Monday. Many youths attended a Patton picnic. Cleveland Yost Myers returned from Castor. George B. Myers visited his mother near Zalina. Miss Minmia Miles travels to Cape Girardeau to see her mother. Trantwein & Fletcher buy nearly all wheat brought to town. Town notes include court items, road district accounts, and school fund actions.
A long list of names by township and county appears, naming officials, voters, and associates across Whitewater, Union, Crooked Creek, Lorance, Glen Allen, Zalma, Wayne, and Liberty areas. The text includes salary approvals for county officials, settlement orders, a Jackson Cash Book note, and local crime and court items from Southeast Missouri newspapers. It also mentions oil mill machinery incident and a burglary sentencing, plus a fatal fight report near Morley.
A medley of quirky lines notes hats with acoustic value, high taxes on Kentucky’s raw material, and the Safe trust boasting an unbreakable mix. It mentions big tech stories in small fish, a storm attribution to St. Swithin, and social quirks about reasons and liberty. A December start marks the sugar trust’s next session.
The passage debates true human strength and the duty to be a good neighbor. It suggests that moral character, gentleness, and truthfulness matter more than prowess, and ponders how one measures real virtue in daily life. The text reflects uncertain, incomplete phrasing and nonspecific references.
The passage urges slow, principled friendships and self discipline as paths to true living. It contrasts noble aims with mere feelings, notes that persistence and a defined objective drive success, and insists courage sustains people through adversity toward a purposeful life.
Dr. Fred W. D. Evelyn of St. Luke's San Francisco announces fifteen years of experiments claiming a cure for alcoholism and hereditary alcoholism through equisine injections. He describes taking alcohol into a horse, extracting blood, processing it with chloral, and forming plaques applied to the patient's skin for several days and weeks. He asserts success when sedatives or narcotics are not used.
Notice warns all persons not to cut or remove timber from the Tool land in Bollinger county Mixiuwi No and except the owner has authority to will any timber. Persons wishing to purchase any of the land or timber may write to Quincy MM A Poot.
An 19th century circuit court action in Missouri is directed to The Phœnix Insurance Company of Brooklyn against Thome Chinthe amin of Kitty two Dallas and fifty cents and costs. The document references the clerk of the circuit court and a September term 18q7 with a judgment or claim involving property and rents in Hollinger County, Missouri.
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